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Have you visited The Vault Brighton Contemporary Art Salon yet? This new space is now officially open and is listed as  ...
21/11/2025

Have you visited The Vault Brighton Contemporary Art Salon yet? This new space is now officially open and is listed as   on the Artists Open Houses Winter Festival trail.

aims to encourage creative conversations connecting early-career, emerging, and established local artists with new patrons and collectors. 

It’s built on the belief that what we see matters, and that uplifting local talent strengthens the whole community. 

Currently Showing: ROOTS & ROUTES 

Running until 14 Dec, the exhibition brings together a juried selection of artworks across sculpture, 3D work, fine art prints, and collectable smaller pieces, to create an immersive experience in an atmospheric vaulted gallery.

✨️ Discover affordable works
✨️ Meet artists, curators, patrons, and friends

📍 THE VAULT, 42–43 Kings Road Arches, BN1 2LN (near the Upside-Down House on Brighton seafront)

🕜 Thursday to Monday, 11–5 PM, until 14 Dec

Go to for brochure + booking link in bio – drinks on us!🍷

Plan your visit in advance to avoid disappointment; the season is already gathering momentum.

Featuring work by: Carla E. Reyes, Fiona Szabo, Heather Curren, Jane Savage, John Lymer, Katie Tara Nicholls, Lisa Lloyd, Luc(e) Raesmith, Lucia Babjakova, Lucinda Button, Marije Brom, Natalia Joffe, Rachel Benjamin-Haque, Rachel Cohen, Rikki Tarascas, Sally Ward, Sam Williams, Sarah Tarbuck, Vlad Cohen. Guest Artists: Rachel Cohen (Phoenix), Lisa Lloyd, Jon-Paul Kaiser

Just popped into on a rainy evening on London Road in St Leonards... ☔️🌧 Great to see so much talent at the PhotoHastin...
01/11/2025

Just popped into on a rainy evening on London Road in St Leonards... ☔️🌧 Great to see so much talent at the PhotoHastings Open 25.

Alongside a large-scale work by our current cover artist things that caught our eye included pieces by and plus a fascinating extended shot of a train in India.

🏃🏃‍♀️ Last day tomorrow!



📚 This 1st edition of William Nicholson’s ‘An Alphabet’ caught our eye among the lots at Gorringe’s forthcoming book sal...
03/10/2025

📚 This 1st edition of William Nicholson’s ‘An Alphabet’ caught our eye among the lots at Gorringe’s forthcoming book sale.

Nicholson’s vivid woodcut characters come alive over the 26 coloured lithograph plates that personify each letter of the alphabet. They span eras and classes to encompass a lively cross-section of British society: from a beggar to an Earl, a lady to a villain, an artist to a zoologist.

He made the prints in 1897, at the age of 25, and the book, published by Heinemann in 1898, established his reputation as an artist. ('A was an Artist' is a self-portrait.) After 1900, he concentrated on painting the stunning portraits, landscapes and still lifes that he’s still revered for. 

This book (Lot 1273) will be auctioned, among many other fascinating titles, on Monday October 6 at 9.30am.

There are viewings on: 
Friday 3rd October: 8.30am-5pm
Saturday 4th September: 9am-1pm
Monday 6th September: 8am-9.30am

More info:

Charleston buys back a rare painting at Lewes auction house, Gorringe’s! 💐A rare collaborative work by Duncan Grant (188...
23/09/2025

Charleston buys back a rare painting at Lewes auction house, Gorringe’s! 💐

A rare collaborative work by Duncan Grant (1885-1978) and his lover, the Russian-American artist George Bergen (1903-84), has sold at auction to Charleston, the East Sussex farmhouse where the painting was created.

Estimated at £4,000-6,000, it sold for £32,000!

Charleston bought the work as part of a campaign to restore the artist’s studio a century after it was built. It is aiming to raise £250,000 for repairs and upgrades to bring the studio back to life ahead of the collection forming the centrepiece of a major Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant exhibition at Tate Britain in November 2026 - April 2027.

Only 10 higher prices for a Grant still life are recorded on Artprice.com. Part of the reason for the high sum was the fact that it was one of only a very few known works in which Grant created the painting collaboratively with another artist.

You can read all about the painting in the current issue of ROSA Magazine via link in bio ⬆️

“For 18 months or so, as Grant’s biographer Frances Spalding wrote, ‘Duncan’s emotional life hinged on this man’s existence’. The relationship was an acute source of anxiety for Bell, and ruffled feathers within the Bloomsbury inner circle, with Virginia Woolf describing Bergen as ‘sheep headed, bird witted, and not nice…” read more online



Last few tickets left for the opening of ‘Berneray’ tonight with a special chamber performance of ‘The Eagle Concerto’ b...
11/09/2025

Last few tickets left for the opening of ‘Berneray’ tonight with a special chamber performance of ‘The Eagle Concerto’ by Piers Adams.
 
A new collection of paintings by Susie Monnington inspired by her Hebridean beach wanderings is showing at Mulberries.

To celebrate the private view of the exhibition, on Thursday 11, there will be a performance of the Eagle Concerto and other pieces composed by Howard Moody, performed by Piers Adams, and inspired by the same landscape.

Private View drinks at 5.30pm 

Performance 6-6.45pm
Email [email protected] for tickets (cost £20)



‘Berneray’ is open:
Fri 12, Sat 13, Sun 14
Fri 19, Sat 20, Sun 21
11am-5pm
Mulberries, Cuilfail, Lewes, BN7 2BE. By foot only. Please park in town and walk up Cuilfail. First house on left. Weekday viewings with parking by appointment. Artwave Venue 116

10/09/2025

The Autumn issue of ROSA out now! 🍂This season the magazine looks through all things lens-based, with a film+photography theme

🎬 Cult film director Ben Wheatley (High Rise, A Field in England, Bulk) talks storyboarding
📸 Top photographer Simon Roberts tries capturing the uncapturable
🎶 Hugh Philpott listens to Sussex movie soundtracks
📷 We look at the celebrity portraits of Observer legend Jane Bown at Newlands House Gallery, curated by Dr Loucia Manopolou
✈️ See Sussex from the sky through the lens of John Holloway
🎥 Discover the illusory world of pioneer filmmaker George Albert Smith
🎨 Artist, collector, photographer and original YBA Henry Bond tells us about his Sussex

There’s also an exclusive interview with painter, writer and Bloomsbury scion, Julian Bell 🎨 Plus, Lulah Ellender visits Goodwood Art Foundation and chats to garden designer Dan Pearson about his new landscaping project at the renowned sculpture park 🌿 Dominic Buckwell looks at how climate change is affecting wine 🍷 our secret collector gives us the heads up on collecting photography, and we explore what to do and where to go in Shoreham 👣

Plus lots more, including poetry, reviews, cartoons, studio visits and columns.

📷 Buy your copy from one of our stockists: https://rosamagazine.co.uk/stockists/ or better still take out a membership for all the extra benefits too: https://rosamagazine.co.uk/subscribe/ ⬆️

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It was an emotional opening of ‘Greenpeace International in Lewes' on Friday night. The exhibition, at Star Brewery Gall...
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

It was a day packed with art last Friday. After visiting Henry Bond (see previous post) we headed to the ubiquitous Norm...
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



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