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ROSA Magazine, Lewes House, 32 High Street, Lewes (2025)

04/08/2025

It was an emotional opening of ‘Greenpeace International in Lewes' on Friday night.

The exhibition, at Star Brewery Gallery, celebrates the work and archive of John May, former director of Greenpeace Books.

Lewes was the HQ of Greenpeace International from 1982 to 1989, and there were many veterans of Greenpeace’s Lewes era there to raise a glass to John, who gave a moving speech.

The archive material tells the fascinating story of Greenpeace through campaign literature, photos, press cuttings, books, poster art, merchandise… and Paula the polar bear!

It’s open until August 10. More info

29/07/2025

It was a day packed with art last Friday. After visiting Henry Bond (see previous post) we headed to the ubiquitous Norman Road (with a stop for an excellent lunch: modern European, local produce) for the opening of ‘Tandem: Maria Glyka – Vassilis Vlastaras’ at Project 78.

Greek artists Glyka and Vlastaras are partners. This exhibition is a reflection of how they live and work, together and separately.

“They don’t aim to merge into one voice. Rather, their practices run parallel – sometimes close, sometimes apart – but always aware of each other.”

“Their work is shaped by life, by the blur between the studio and the kitchen table,” offering playful nods to geometric abstraction, colourful observations of the mundane, and a Gustonesque wit.

We enjoyed working out which painting was by which artist, and which were collaborations.

The show is on until Aug 23, Weds-Sat 11am-5pm

10/07/2025

Love bagging a gorgeous bargain at the auctions?

The next Gorringes ‘Jewellery, Silver & Watches’ sale has some beautiful and rare pieces.

Some of the things that caught our eye were an unusual Victorian ‘Mr Punch’ silver mustard pot, a couple of mid-century Danish enamel beakers, and a stunning turn-of-the-century green nephrite and seed pearl bracelet.

But there’s lots, lots more…

The auction takes place on July 15 at 10am, and there are viewings on:

Friday 11 July: 8.30am-5pm
Saturday 12 July: 9am-1pm
Monday 14 July: 8am-5pm
Tuesday 15 July: 8am-10am

Go to the link in our bio for the online catalogue ⬆️

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Go to the link in our bio for the online catalogue.

More info

18/06/2025

Yesterday we went to see Rye’s own Edward Burra at Tate Britain. The Roaring Twenties clattered and sparkled across navy blue walls and it was a thrill to see all that dancing and boozing and flirting up close in such colourful detail: bosoms, bums and more bums, bruise-y eye make-up, sharp crimson lips, and all those teeth! 👄🫦👀

We were less familiar with his war works that filled the second part of the show. Here, Burra’s earlier experiments with surrealism guve him a route in to explore the depraved depths of the human psyche. He shows us blasted masonry housing a chaos of body parts and haunted by mythological creatures – the underlying erotic charge is a powerful recognition of the force of human desire.

Other rooms are devoted to his inventive stage and costume designs, and to his post-war landscapes, where a changing England is mourned while commerce and motorways are carving up the old world.

🎟 A ticket for the Burra show also gets you into the Ithell Colquhoun exhibition next door. You may remember the article on her painting in the spring issue of ROSA. It’s the first major show of the visionary artist and really worth seeing.

Tate describes her as: “One of the most radical artists of her generation, [she] was an important figure in British Surrealism during the 1930s and 1940s. An innovative writer and practicing occultist, Colquhoun charted her own course, investigating surrealist methods of unconscious picture-making and fearlessly delving into the realms of myth and magic.”

This is your chance to study writings, drawings and paintings that have never been seen before.

🏭 We finished our day at the private view of the Richard Rogers exhibition at the Soane Museum, with a talk by Rogers’ son. Recommended for fans of architecture, it gives a fascinating overview of his career, with highlights being the original model for the Pompidou Centre and the model for his groundbreaking Zip-Up House from the 1960s.

❗️NB: You can always see Burra works and read all about his sketchbooks in ROSA online (link in bio ⬆️)

17/06/2025

Have you always wanted to try screenprinting? Or maybe you’re an artist who needs access to a print studio? Then Process Club is for you!

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We were delighted to collaborate with Clare Somerville-Perkins on the certificates for the Sussex Craft Awards winners

Clare is a graphic artist living in Eastbourne and she creates her work at Process Club her printmaking studio in Hastings.

Process Club is a letterpress and screenprinting studio that offers open access for other artisits to create their work. She also offers one-day courses introducing these processes to people who want to brush up their printmaking skills, or who have never stepped foot in a printmaking studio before.

For more information on studio access and workshops just visit her website processclub.co.uk or follow her at

17/06/2025

Have you always wanted to try screenprinting? Or maybe you’re an artist who needs access to a print studio? Then Process Club is for you!

🟣 ⚫️ 🔴

We were delighted to collaborate with Clare Somerville-Perkins on the certificates for the Sussex Craft Awards winners

Clare is a graphic artist living in Eastbourne and she creates her work at Process Club, her printmaking studio in Hastings.

Process Club is a letterpress and screenprinting studio that offers open access for other artisits to create their work. She also offers one-day courses introducing these processes to people who want to brush up their printmaking skills, or who have never stepped foot in a printmaking studio before.

For more information on studio access and workshops just visit her website processclub.co.uk or follow her at

08/06/2025

📣 Announcing the finalists for the Sussex Craft Awards 2025!

The 12 finalists represent a range of crafts, including furniture, ceramics, jewellery, stone carving, wood carving, textiles and basketry. Over the next few days we are announcing them one by one, in no particular order.

📣 Our twelfth finalist is: Fergus Davidson

Fergus Davidson has been designing and lettercutting in stone for over ten years, progressing from a hobby to full-time work in 2019. He studied first under Helen Mary Skelton, then under master lettercarver Chris Elsey. He now works in Wivelsfield, alongside Thomas Sargeant, designing and carving memorials and other commissions in stone and wood. He has exhibited his own nature-inspired pieces at The Secret Garden Kemptown and with the Lettering Arts Trust. On the work titled Connected Habitat he explains:

‘It is a fragment of a much longer list of woodland, hedgerow and field plant species native to the UK that create vital areas of connected habitat, and which help to sustain UK wildlife populations as they allow freer, wider movement for hunting, genetic diversity and seed dispersal. As we humans spread out, our housing, transport links and farmed land interrupt the corridors that connect patches of habitat.’ .davidson

The finalists will be exhibited .house.gallery during 14-22 June, 11am-4pm. FREE entrance

Three prizes will be announced at the private view:
🏆 Sussex Craft Award 2025
🏅 Highweald Wine Heritage Craft Award
🎖 ROSA Award

The finalists were selected from the public nominations by our panel of judges: Tim Bolton, Head of Art Dr Loucia Manopoulou, Gallery Director .house.gallery Jon Tutton, CEO Corina Fletcher, Director

Sussex Craft Week is in partnership with West Dean College. The Sussex Craft Awards are Sponsored by Newlands House Gallery, and The Makers Directory

04/06/2025

📣 Announcing the finalists for the Sussex Craft Awards 2025!

The 12 finalists represent a range of crafts, including furniture, ceramics, jewellery, stone carving, wood carving, textiles and basketry. Over the next few days we are announcing them one by one, in no particular order.

📣 Our eleventh finalist is: Jason Mosseri

Jason Mosseri makes contemporary Windsor chairs and furniture under the name Hopespringschairs. His emphasis is on finely balanced sculptural form and a strong silhouette grounded in the aesthetic of historic chair making. Mosseri has always been a visual artist/maker, working in the decorative arts, and, for many years, as a successful tattoo artist. In 2012, having become interested in Windsor chairs and the bodger tradition, he started making pieces for private commissions. In 2016, as a QEST Scholar, he went to Tennessee to study under master chair maker Curtis Buchanan. His ‘log to chair’ courses take place at his woodland workshop, and in 2021 won a Sussex Countryside Award. Mosseri's work was featured in Craft Britain: Why Making Matters (2022), and his book, The Art of Chairmaking, will be published later this year.

“I enjoy the discipline of working within an established form, that is defined by its practicality and comfort. The challenge is to find ways to express creativity and vision, in ways that enhance the tradition.”

The finalists will be exhibited .house.gallery during 14-22 June, 11am-4pm. FREE entrance

Three prizes will be announced at the private view:
🏆 Sussex Craft Award 2025
🏅 Highweald Wine Heritage Craft Award
🎖 ROSA Award

The finalists were selected from the public nominations by our panel of judges: Tim Bolton, Head of Art Dr Loucia Manopoulou, Gallery Director .house.gallery Jon Tutton, CEO Corina Fletcher, Director

Sussex Craft Week is in partnership with West Dean College. The Sussex Craft Awards are Sponsored by Newlands House Gallery, and The Makers Directory

Photo by Alun Callender

03/06/2025

📣 Announcing the finalists for the Sussex Craft Awards 2025!

The 12 finalists represent a range of crafts, including furniture, ceramics, jewellery, stone carving, wood carving, textiles and basketry. Over the next few days we are announcing them one by one, in no particular order.

📣 Our tenth finalist is: Amy Leake

Amy Leake whittled sticks as a child and turned out gifts for family using her treadle jigsaw. As an adult, her interest was reignited when she gathered firewood and wondered about the different qualities of trees. She found working with hand tools the best way to learn about wood’s individual characteristics and continues to be fascinated by the endless subtle design variations they produce. Leake’s pieces are made from wood sourced from local tree surgeons or coppiced woodland. Spoons aren't sanded, they are finished with the skilled use of sharp knives to leave a smooth surface showing the final cuts. Bowls are made on a pole lathe, showing tool marks our ancestors would have known.

"What continues to pull me in is the love of using handmade items in my everyday life; the simple pleasures of using a hand-thrown mug, a turned wooden bowl and a handmade wooden spoon for breakfast makes my heart sing. These objects transmit the energy and care the maker put into them.”

The finalists will be exhibited .house.gallery during 14-22 June, 11am-4pm. FREE entrance

Three prizes will be announced at the private view:
🏆 Sussex Craft Award 2025
🏅 Highweald Wine Heritage Craft Award
🎖 ROSA Award

The finalists were selected from the public nominations by our panel of judges: Tim Bolton, Head of Art Dr Loucia Manopoulou, Gallery Director .house.gallery Jon Tutton, CEO Corina Fletcher, Director

Sussex Craft Week is in partnership with West Dean College. The Sussex Craft Awards are Sponsored by Newlands House Gallery, and The Makers Directory

02/06/2025

📣 Announcing the finalists for the Sussex Craft Awards 2025!

The 12 finalists represent a range of crafts, including furniture, ceramics, jewellery, stone carving, wood carving, textiles and basketry. Over the next few days we are announcing them one by one, in no particular order.

📣 Our ninth finalist is: Marc Fish

Marc Fish creates sculptural pieces that push the limits of contemporary furniture making, blurring the boundaries between design, sculpture and furniture. Fish’s studio is world renowned for the use of veneer as its sole raw material, and his work demonstrates an extensive mastery of the most refined practices in micro stack-lamination. Each piece uses the finest veneers and natural finishes, from gold to squid ink. Initially inspired by the curvilinear forms of Art Nouveau, more recently he has explored the Victorian obsession with natural history. Fish has exhibited worldwide, and created works for international collectors, private clients and interior designers.

“I have a passion for creating one-off pieces, or short series, drawing on my knowledge of craftsmanship and modern design processes. My works possess a timelessness that enables them to sit comfortably in the most contemporary of settings and the more traditional.”

The finalists will be exhibited .house.gallery during 14-22 June, 11am-4pm. FREE entrance

Three prizes will be announced at the private view:
🏆 Sussex Craft Award 2025
🏅 Highweald Wine Heritage Craft Award
🎖 ROSA Award

The finalists were selected from the public nominations by our panel of judges: Tim Bolton, Head of Art Dr Loucia Manopoulou, Gallery Director .house.gallery Jon Tutton, CEO Corina Fletcher, Director

Sussex Craft Week is in partnership with West Dean College. The Sussex Craft Awards are Sponsored by Newlands House Gallery, and The Makers Directory

Photos by Simon Eldon

01/06/2025

Handle and get up close to some gorgeous antique textiles!

If you have a passion for textiles, then you are in for a real treat. This is a chance to enjoy a private viewing with a talk by Gorringes textiles specialist Annie Hartnett ahead of a special sale of heritage and antique textiles on June 9.

Many are of museum quality, and guided by the expertise and enthusiasm of Annie, you’ll have the opportunity to handle and get close to exquisite examples of hand embroidery and lace, historic petit point, quilts and early samplers, as well as 1920s beaded dresses that foxtrot in front of your eyes!

Highlights include: a 17th-century petit point-embroidered panel; a 19th-century silk ‘tumbling blocks’ hand-sewn patchwork quilt; a 1920s red georgette beaded evening dress, and an unusual late 19th/early 20th-century Chinese silk embroidered robe.

Heritage Craft Textiles: Private View & Talk
Friday, June 6, 11am-12pm

The event is FREE, but book tickets online via link in bio ⬆️

Note: You can bid for these items in the sale on the following Monday. Staff will be on hand to take you through the process. You can also view them by yourself during the public viewings.

Sale info: Public viewing on June 6, 8.30am-4.30pm and June 7, 9am-1pm. Sale on Monday, June 9, 8am-9.30pm

31/05/2025

📣 Announcing the finalists for the Sussex Craft Awards 2025!

The 12 finalists represent a range of crafts, including furniture, ceramics, jewellery, stone carving, wood carving, textiles and basketry. Over the next few days, we are announcing them one by one, in no particular order.

📣 Our eighth finalist is: Kathie Murphy

Kathie Murphy is a master of colour who is known for her non-precious jewellery and vases. She has specialised in working in polyester resin since 1992 and continues to explore its possibilities with the ethic that plastic is precious. She has control of all aspects of the process, from making the masters and moulds through to the hand-tinting. Her work is in the collections of the Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, Aberdeen City Art Gallery and National Museum of Scotland. Her books Resin Jewellery (2002) and Design & Make Non-precious Jewellery (2009) are published by Bloomsbury.

“I mix and hand-colour small quantities of liquid resin at a time, using a palette of pastes and pigments – it means that each piece is quite individual. Resin is a warm material, making it tactile and very wearable.”

The finalists will be exhibited .house.gallery during 14-22 June, 11am-4pm. FREE entrance

Three prizes will be announced at the private view:
🏆 Sussex Craft Award 2025
🏅 Highweald Wine Heritage Craft Award
🎖 ROSA Award

The finalists were selected from the public nominations by our panel of judges: Tim Bolton, Head of Art Dr Loucia Manopoulou, Gallery Director .house.gallery Jon Tutton, CEO Corina Fletcher, Director

Sussex Craft Week is in partnership with West Dean College. The Sussex Craft Awards are Sponsored by Newlands House Gallery, and The Makers Directory

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