May 2022
The Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach merges elements of the Chelsea Arts Club and Gertrude Stein’s Arts Salon. Our 280 or so members are amongst the most exciting and influential arts people in Suffolk.
MEMBERS’ BULLETIN
Here are this month’s Members’ Notices. All are also displayed on the website. New work can also be viewed if you visit the online shop.
MONTHLY ARTS CLUB LUNCH
Monthly Arts Club Lunch, Wednesday 4th May, 1pm @ The Lookout
The monthly Arts Club lunch is always on the first Wednesday in the month, so please diarise. It is often in the Lookout or sometimes in a member's house or studio. Please let me know if you would like to host a lunch - everyone brings food and drink to share! It's a good way for us all to visit members' studios and view their work.
TUSCANY TRIP
Tuscany Trip!
Nearly every year the Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach sets off around the world on an arts exploration. First, we went to Cyprus and stayed at the famous Cyprus Arts School where Victor Pasmore, Terry Frost and other eminent artists had been before us. Then 100 of us went to Venice where we took over a beautiful Palazzo and exhibited at the Venice Biennale. Then we went to the extremest point of Western Ireland as artists in residence of the renowned Cill Rialaig arts programme. We stayed in famine cottages and made art together and had fun! Now we are setting off for the hills of Tuscany!!! This trip is fully booked but watch out for furture years and join us for art and fun!
Derek Nice in Aldeburgh
Five beautiful sculptures of boats, made from reclaimed boats, by the acclaimed and well loved artist Derek Nice have been donated to the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout to support its arts programme. They are on exhibition at the Lookout during May. Head over to our online shop to view, or email me to arrange an appointment at the Art House.
ARTS CLUB BEACH BALL: DRESS AS A WORK OF ART
Arts Club Beach Ball, Saturday 4th June
To celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Saturday 4th June just turn up anytime between 12 noon and 12 midnight!
Admission free - please bring food and drink to share.
Dress as a work of Art - Prize for the winning entry!
You could come as Dega’s Ballerina or Warhol’s Marilyn! This is just an example, you can of course choose whichever work of art you would like to be!
https://www.aldeburghbeachlookout.com/whats-on/arts-club-aldeburgh-beach-ball
MEMBERS’ NEWS
Perienne Christian
5 Week Course, Suitable for all abilities, online on zoom.
Mondays 2nd May - 30th May, 6-9pm.
Collage provides an exciting way of radically changing an image as well as an alternative way of creating a painting or drawing. During this course, we will look at how collage can be an addition to a drawing or painting, or a unique way of image making in itself. You will experiment with adding collage to drawings you have made as well as practicing different techniques over the whole surface.
Click here to find out more!
Ballroom Arts
If you would like to show your work in one or both of our beautiful galleries. Please see our website www.ballroomarts.org for full details.
Derek Wyatt, Platinum Queen
Arts Club member Derek Wyatt's book Platinum Queen is being published on 5th May. You can order it from Aldeburgh Bookshop or he will be signing copies over the Jubillee weekend at the Lookout.
Click here to buy online!
The Alde Valley Spring Festival: Melanie Comber
As we move into the fullness of spring, we are delighted to announce the launch and grand opening of a wonderful new Galloper-Sands residency exhibition for Spring 2022:
From this Land : The Walks Land Residency with Melanie Comber
Grand Opening with Spring Cordials, Hedgerow Salads, Breads and Vegetable Curry
Saturday 7th May : 11am - 5pm
Please contact us to book a place or to receive a digital catalogue : enquiries@galloper-sands.co.uk
Aldeburgh Literary Festival
The Aldeburgh Literary Festival was started in 2002 by John and Mary James of The Aldeburgh Bookshop. It has featured an extraordinary variety of talks, from the local to the global, the serious to the hilarious, the scientific to the philosophical. The Festival is proud to be located in Aldeburgh at the Jubilee Hall and we are delighted that our audience fills the streets of Aldeburgh with visitors and conversation in a winter weekend. The intimate atmosphere makes it very special. We are also proud that this is a completely independent Literary Festival receiving no grants or sponsorship.
View the programme here.
Suffolk Poetry Society
Our 8th Festival of Suffolk Poetry takes place (online and live) 13/14 May. Tickets available from the Suffolk Poetry Society website.
Potton Hall
Sculpture in the Valley 2022 is the flagship event of Waveney & Blyth Arts’ (W&BA) annual ‘Celebrate’ programme, which uses the arts to connect people to their time and place in the coastal areas, market towns and rural hinterland of the Waveney and Blyth river valleys. Our multi-arts programme offers a lens through which to experience the physical and cultural environment, and in particular to explore what it is that attracts people to a region that is steeped in history, and embraces modernity. For this Call-Out, we are seeking 3-dimensional works that respond in ways that reach and engage with new and wide audiences.
Printroom Studio: Graham Crowley
Workplaces, Friday to Sunday 11am - 5pm. Head over to our website to find out more!
Theronda Hoffman: Art for Cure
Art for cure celebrate raising a £Million for breast cancer research and support services. A unique exhibition of over 75 artists ceramics and sculptors
www.artforcure.org.uk
Aldeburgh Studio Trail Preview Show
33 artists / makers at the Courtyard Gallery from 10 - 15th May. Head over to our website to find out more.
Timberyard Opening
Place-based Creativity - NETTUS Self-catering Organic Retreat
Explore and restore your creativity within a nature-based experience at NETTUS bungalow located at Timberyard in Great Glemham. This self-catering organic retreat offers a sanctuary space to nourish body, mind and soul and is available for short or long stays. NETTUS can be rented either as 1) as a self-contained cottage with 1 double bedroom or 2) as a whole bungalow with 3 bedrooms that can accommodate six people. NETTUS is a dwelling with an open plan layout of kitchen, living room with wood-stove, and dining room. It overlooks an organic meadow on which sits a historic Dovecote thriving with doves. A library of diverse books on ecology, art, food and culture, as well as field walks provide further inspiration. Enjoy an organic hamper on arrival and supplement your organic larder with a pre-ordered organic delivery of vegetable and fruit from local suppliers or visit the local organic farmshops. Nearby sites includes Snape Estuary and Maltings, Aldeburgh and other Suffolk market towns.
Abbey Hall
SUBMITTING A NOTICE
Don't forget to send me an image of yourself and a paragraph about you for the ARTS CLUB MEMBERS page of the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout website. The easiest way to submit a notice is to send it to caroline@carolinewiseman.com.
PETER BLAKE RA, HUMPHREY BURTON, LIZ CALDER,
EILEEN COOPER RA, PETER DICKINSON, RYAN GANDER, JILL GREEN, MAGGI HAMBLING, MICHAEL & PATTY HOPKINS, ANTHONY HOROWITZ, EAMONN MCCABE, IAN MCMILLAN, BLAKE MORRISON, BEN PRESTON, LIBBY PURVES,DIANA QUICK, JANICE TURNER, ALISON WILDING RA, ROGER WRIGHT, HELEN ATKINSON WOOD, DEREK WYATT
