Arts PREVIEW: Contemporary art exhibition at Rottingdean Windmill Future Evolutionary Arts Turbine (F.E.A.T) is an art/heritage organisation showcasing 14 contemporary artist’s work to coincide with Brighton Fringe Festival. It promises a dynamic show of innovative ideas and artwork in an inspiring and challenging space presenting a diverse range of mediums includ By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Open House with Robyn Rainbow Robyn Rainbow is holding an Open House in May as part of the Brighton Artist’s Open House Festival. As well as painting local scenes of Brighton and nature, Robyn paints art with a gay/lesbian content. 10% of art sales made during the Open House in May will be donated to The Rainbow Fund who make gr By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: ‘Body Language II’ an exhibition by Nicole Roumelioti Nicole Roumelioti, a young artist from Greece, showcases life on canvas through the purity and beauty of the male and female body. Her work Temptation was awarded first prize out of 3,500 entries at the Saatchi Online Showdown Scope International Competition in 2011. Her exhibition Body Langauage I By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Keith Vaughan exhibition and events at Brighton Museum There are a variety of events exploring the work of Keith Vaughan at Brighton Museum this summer. What: Keith Vaughan – A Volatile Medium When: June 10 – November 9 2014, Where: Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Prints & Drawings Gallery Cost: Free admission This display explores the British artist Kei By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Sir Dermot Turing at Bletchley Park 2014 marks the 60th anniversary of Alan Turing’s mysterious death. During his short life, Turing pioneered thought in a wide variety of fields including computing, artificial intelligence and morphogenesis, as well as making a major contribution to the breaking of German codes at Bletchley Park. Sir By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Future of local gallery at risk ONCA Gallery, the UK’s only public gallery dedicated to exhibiting work that raises awareness of climate change and conservation issues launch a Kickstarter campaign. ONCA the only inner-city art gallery raising issues of climate change and biodiversity loss, could close without public support. Desp By Besi • 3 min read
Arts Speaking Volumes go live! The Speaking Volumes project hosted a successful launch event at the Jubilee Library in Brighton on Monday, April 7. Speaking Volumes is a storytelling project that is working with HIV positive people from Sussex to enable them to share their stories and experiences of living with the virus. It is h By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Artists Open Houses 2014 Festival reveal 2014 cover artist Award-winning illustrator Jonny Hannah has been announced as the cover artist for the 2014 Artists Open Houses festival brochure. A new exhibition of Jonny’s work, entitled The Road to Darktown, will be exhibited at The Old Market in Hove as part of the Artists Open Houses festival 2014. The Road to By Besi • 3 min read
Exhibitions Scottish charity gives voice to Commonwealth LGBT people during the Glasgow Games Later this year Glasgow will host the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The Equality Network will be working with the Scottish Government and LGBT groups across the Commonwealth to highlight the challenges many LGBT people continue to face all over the world. An exhibition called LGBT people of the Commonwea By Besi • 3 min read
Exhibitions Volunteers needed to model for charity posters Jamie McCartney to produce new posters to raise money for Breast Cancer UK. Following the launch of his bras and boobs posters which he created to raise money for Breast Cancer UK (25% of sales will go to the charity), local artist Jamie McCartney is now working on his next piece and needs people in By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Pride Arts and Film Season 2014: First event announced After the success of the ‘ICONS’ exhibition last year, artists from the LGBT sector (and their supporters) will return to the Jubilee Library this summer for another creative extravaganza. The event will bring together a collective of artistic talent to raise funds for Pride and the Rainbow Fund who By Besi • 2 min read
Exhibitions FEMME: An Exhibition for International Women’s Day 2014 As part of this year’s International Women’s Day celebrations, Brighton-based Thirteen Art Productions have organised a group-art exhibition featuring over 20 female artists from the South East. FEMME is showing at Velvet Tattoo in Norfolk Square, Brighton which is an all female run cooperative offe By Besi • 2 min read
