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updated 16th September 2024

Autumn 2024 Exhibition Season 

Exhibition: Expression
Portraits of Artists by Richard Boll

Fri 4th - Sun 13th October, ground floor
Tuesday - Friday: 11:00am - 4:00pm, (closed on Monday)
Saturday & Sunday: 11:00am - 5:00pm
Admission free

Artist's talk: 3:00pm - 4:00pm Sat 12th October

The show Expression presents a series of portraits of celebrated contemporary artists, taken by the photographer Richard Boll.

The artist Rana Begum, © Richard Boll

The exhibition explores notions of artistry and identity, celebrating the individuality of the artists through traditional and contemporary approaches to portraiture. Featured artists include Yarli Allison, Rana Begum, Gordon Cheung, Adam Chodzko, Ann Christopher, Bruce McLean, Cornelia Parker, and Gavin Turk as well as Sussex-based Stig Evans, Richard Graville, James William Murray, and Jake Wood-Evans.

The artist Gavin Turk, © Richard Boll

The ongoing project commenced in 2022. Some of the portraits contain elements of collaboration between the photographer and the subject, creating a blend of two people's creative input.

Richard Boll (b. Kenya,1977) has garnered acclaim for his blend of commercial and fine art photography, winning international competitions including the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. He has a commissioned portrait of Sir David Attenborough in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery and has recently exhibited in the RA Summer Exhibition.

The artist Adam Chodzco, © Richard Boll

A sought-after commercial photographer, Richard has worked with high-profile clients including Sony, Emirates, Zeiss, Land Rover, and American Express. He graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art in 1999 and gained an MA with distinction from the University of Brighton in 2016. He lives in Hove.

Instagram: richard_boll

Website: richardbollphotography.com

Print sales: richardboll.art

Exhibition: This place is not a passive landscape

Fri 4th - Sun 13th October, first floor
11:00am - 4:00pm, (closed on Monday)
Admission free

Show of work by Pippa Healy & Mandy Williams

Artist's talk: 3:00pm - 4:00pm Sat 5th October

The exhibition unites two artists who animate and transform their experience of place to create emotional and metaphorical landscapes.

In Pippa Healy’s photographs different strata of memory, emotion and loss are experienced in the landscapes but are transformed into mysterious and enigmatic places that seek to transcend time and space.

Photograph © Pippa Healy

Pippa Healy's series, 'All the places we will never see', was inspired by her father's pocket atlas. The only object she wanted to keep after he died was his atlas which had been given to him as a child. It charted all the places he had been as an Irish teenager and beyond.

Since his death there have been places that she would have liked to have taken him too. Places that they would never see together. This series is shot on 35mm film. The permanence of the image is important.

In Mandy Williams’ photographs the innocence of the land is questioned. Political narratives combine with the geology of the coastal chalk landscape, creating pathways of dislocation and disruption.

Photograph © Mandy Williams

Mandy Williams' black and white photography series, Disrupted Landscapes (2020 - ), comment on the exclusionary politics of contemporary England through the metaphor of the English landscape. It distorts and displaces images of the white cliffs of Dover and Kent coastal landscape to suggest the fracturing of the idealisation of the English landscape and the increasingly hostile environment of a country divided by class, geography, and wealth in the post-Brexit age.

More about This place is not a passive landscape: 

Click here for Press Release

Pippa Healy: www.pippahealy.com

Mandy Williams: www.mandywilliams.com

Exhibition: Passing Through

Wed 16th - Sun 20th October, ground floor
11:00am - 5:00pm
Admission free

Brian McClave, Olive Carr-McClave, Lucy Carr-McClave, Gavin Peacock, Tom Wichelow

Passing Through explores the intricate relationship between humanity and the landscapes we inhabit, tracing how our interactions with the environment have evolved across time.

The photographic dialogue between the artists offers views into how the natural world both shapes and is shaped by time and our presence, offering a contemplative journey through the layers of our environment's enduring narrative.

Brian McClave is an experimental filmmaker and photographer, making work that investigates the intersection between landscape, seasons and human history.

Photograph © Brian McClave: Woodland II, Sussex 2024

Olive Carr-McClave is a photographer based in Falmouth. Her work primarily consists of analogue imagery using a medium format camera. A common theme throughout her work is portraiture of both people and places; focusing on smaller details and characteristics that differentiate them from any other place.

Photograph © Olive Carr-McClave: Untitled, Papay 2023

Lucy Carr-McClave is an MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology graduate who has recently moved away from conventional media work to pursue her own creative practice in more experimental filmmaking and photography.

Her interests surround the artistic interpretation of archaeological theory and practice as well as the ways in which more experimental perspectives can add to our engagement and interpretation of the past. Often looking at the process of excavation and research as a focal point for this work within its own right. 

Photograph © Lucy Carr-McClave: Untitled, Orkney 2024

Since the early 1990s Gavin Peacock has exhibited painting, sculpture, interactive artworks, photography and video works including collaborations with McClave and Wichelow for public art projects and film festivals. However for the last decade he has ridden his bike far more than made things.

He will be showing photographs that are part of a larger body of recent work incorporating writing, photography, screen and relief printworks based on a series of long distance bicycle rides in France. The photographs shot on 35mm film, using a half-frame camera creating diptychs, often one handed whilst still pedalling are glimpses, literally snapshots, into journeys through landscapes.

Photograph © Gavin Peacock: D59, Cantal, France 2023

After studying photography at Brighton University Tom Wichelow worked as a photographer and educator for 20 years. His calling was always to try to document with his camera and in another life he might have been an archivist.

He completed a post graduate degree in documentary film making in 2018 and has helped produce several successful documentary films. He currently teaches A-Level photography and is retraining as a therapeutic counsellor.

Photograph © Tom Wichelow, Staten Island Ferry, Nov 1993, from American Journey

Websites/instagram

Gavin Peacock: @themanfromicon / www.themanfromicon.net

Lucy Carr-McClave: @lucycm.archaeology.art

Tom Wichelow: www.tomwichelow.com

Art Exhibition
Navigations

Wed 16th - Sun 20th October, first floor
11:00am - 5:00pm
Admission free

The narrative process of three artists Carol Wagstaff, Caroline Darke and Kate Scott.

This is where their methods cross over, traversing subject matters that respond to a sense of place, the environment, the current world and lived experience, viewed and expressed through their own perspectives.

Chaos and Hope, installation by Carol Wagstaff

All three artists work to discover and uncover through their process, welcoming flux, and embracing the unexpected.

Sussex-based visual artist Carol Wagstaff is an international award-winning multi-media artist, whose work over the past two decades has centred on humanitarian and environmental issues.

For her, the process of making is a deeply reflective one. Themes of impermanence, the interconnectedness of nature and humanity, and the passage of time are woven into her work. Carol's work can be found in private and corporate collections globally.

Cessation, mixed media on canvas, by Carol Wagstaff

Caroline Darke is a multi-media landscape artist living and working in West Sussex. She is drawn to landscapes both at home and abroad and the enormous changes to her subject made by the weather, the seasons and man.

By using layers, colour, collage and texture to re-enact the changes to the landscape or seascape – she gives the same energy to her work as those changes give in the natural world.

Caroline exhibits regularly in St Ives, as well as locally here in Sussex. She has work in collections both here and abroad.

Stream Through the Trees, by Caroline Darke

Kate Scott's work explores her experiences, memories, her personal joy in nature, and music, through gesture and paint - there is rarely a plan and each piece takes on and communicates its own meaning and resonance, seeking to connect from there. As she says: "I know I have finished something when the conversations stops and the words start flooding in for a title".

Kate has a studio in Hove and exhibits regularly in Brighton’s Open Houses, various group exhibitions and, recently, at the Rogue Gallery, St Leonards.

Crossing Over, acrylic on canvas by Kate Scott

Carol Wagstaff: www.carolwagstaff.co.uk

Caroline Darke: www.carolinedarke.com

Kate Scott: www.katescottpaintings.com

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Exhibition: Photographic Studies - Land, History and the Imagination

Wed 23rd - Sun 27th October, ground floor
11:00am - 4:00pm
Admission free

Show of work by Costanza Santilli, Ryan Smith & Tim Auty

Costanza Santilli is an Italian artist living and working in the UK. Costanza holds a degree in Art History from the University of Bologna, a Master's degree in Modern and Contemporary Art from the University of Glasgow and is a PhD candidate in Photography at the University of Brighton.

Photograph © Costanza Santilli 

Costanza's ongoing long-term project explores the English rural landscape, aiming to investigate the dynamics that shape our relationship with place and our sense of belonging. Not having received any formal photographic training prior to her PhD studies, she considers herself a self-taught photographer.

Ryan Smith lives in Brighton where he conducts his photographic practice. Ryan studied an MA in Photography at the University of Brighton and a BA (hons) at Sheffield Hallam University.

Danebury, photograph © Ryan Smith

Ryan's most recent exhibitions include: Earthworks, Tichborne Gallery, Brighton; Balancing Bird, Royal Over-Seas League, London; (Un)real, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton Photo Fringe; and MA Photography Show, curated by Fergus Heron, UOB, Edward Street. He previously exhibited in Northern Light Proximity and Distance, Yorkshire Art Space; and Cherry Bomb, Sheffield Institute of Arts.

Tim Auty is a visual artist working with traditional and contemporary photographic methodologies. Tim holds a degree in Photography for the University of Norwich and completed an MA in Photography with Distinction at the University of Brighton, where he continues to balance creative and educational roles. Recurring themes in his work relate to the photographic index, visual truth, materiality, memory, experience and loss.

Photograph © Tim Auty

Tim exhibited at The Royal West of England Academy, The Centre of Design History and Gallery 8. He was shortlisted for the RPS International Photography Exhibition 165, longlisted for the Photoworks Photography+ Graduate Issue and was awarded the Richard and Siobhan Coward Analogue Photography Grant and holds a D&AD Yellow Pencil Award for his work with Roundel.

CostanzaSantilli: instagram.com/costanza_santilli

Ryan Smith: instagram.com/ryan_smithphoto

Tim Auty: instagram.com/tim_auty

Art Exhibition:
Shared Stories - Time, Place, Memory

Thur 24th - Sun 27th October, first floor
11:00am - 4:00pm
Admission free

Rachel Brooks Read, Gail Gibson Tait, Nancy Petley Jones, Simone Riley

Four artists collaborate to bring together a body of work, reflecting their individual interests and the visual language of their practice, to convey a sense of time, place and memory.

The Regency Town House has provided a starting point and inspiration for some of the work, while allowing for personal interpretation and the exploration of ideas. The result provides a visual conversation between different voices, embracing the breadth of the theme and celebrating a joint purpose.

Rachel Brooks Read enjoys utilising a range of materials to explore a wide range of themes in her work, which reveals an interest in illustrative narratives as well as being rooted in working from direct observation.

Italian Interior, acrylic on paper, by Rachel Brooks Read

The work for ‘Shared Stories’ explores the contents of shelves, cupboards and spaces within The Regency Town House, as well as imaginatively interpreting the atmosphere of hidden corners and stairwells.

Rachel has exhibited at The Affordable Art Fair, Brighton Art Fair, and at the Society of Women Artists; her work has been shown this year in the Atelier Open and Brighton Art Fair.

www.rachelbrooksread.com

Instagram, @rachelbrooksread

Gail Gibson Tait originally trained as a sculptor, BA Hons in Fine Art at Portsmouth. She worked in fine art publishing and galleries, then trained as a garden designer, and returned to painting full time in 2011.

Inspired by vast wild places and the tiny details of nature. The changing light and colour of land and sea, field and flower. She uses a variety of media to create different textures, colour, atmosphere and marks, finding ways to recreate that original excitement that sparked off the idea for the painting.

Ascending Kingston Ridge, mixed media by Gail Gibson Tait

The paintings are a mixture of memory, direct observation and imagination.

Gail has exhibited in London and Sussex including the Brighton Art Fair, ING Discerning Eye and Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.

www.gailgibsontait.co.uk

Instagram: @gailgibsontait

Nancy Petley Jones is a painter in oils focusing on landscapes, London townscapes, and more recently small scale interiors.

Her current work is inspired by visits to The Regency Town House, exploring the subtle effects of light and shadow and changing hues to convey still, quiet moments in a unique setting.

The Regency Kitchen, oil on board, by Nancy Petley Jones

Nancy exhibited with the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery in London from 2010 until it’s closure in 2018 and has had many works selected by the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal society of Marine Artists at the Mall Galleries for their annual exhibitions.

Instagram: @nancypetleyjones

Simone Riley is a digital photomontage artist, combining elements from her own digital photographs to create original digital fine art prints. Her artwork always involves multiple layers and textures, and often includes images of old worn or decaying surfaces.

White Bottles, photomontage © Simone Riley

Although originally trained in graphic design, Simone later attained a BA(Hons) degree in 3D design. Collage and Assemblage regularly featured in her earlier work, which contributed to the development of the ‘digital’ equivalent now seen in her photomontage images. Simone’s work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition, the RE: Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Galley, London, and in galleries and art shows in the South East.

www.simoneriley.co.uk

Instagram: @simoneriley22

Art Exhibition:
No Grit, No Pearl
Paintings of the sea and sky created from a place of love and loss

Thurs 31st Oct - Sun 3rd Nov, ground and first floor
11:00am - 5:00pm
Admission free

Sophie Abbott

A journey through joyous life-affirming paintings, made over the last two years, since the sudden loss of her mother.

No Grit, No Pearl dives into life’s most profound challenges, exploring the beauty that can emerge from the toughest of circumstances. Each ‘painted memory’ demonstrates Abbott’s connection to the natural world, and its role in her healing journey.

No Grit, No Pearl, painting by Sophie Abbott

The exhibition will be split across two floors, the first showcasing a series of paintings of vibrant pink skies. This immersive colour-field has been curated to promote feelings of calm, love and healing in the observer. Speaking of the inspiration behind these works:

“On my last holiday with my Mum we had these amazing pink skies. After she died, I couldn’t control it - these skies were all I wanted to paint, which seemed the complete opposite of what I was feeling emotionally at the time. What was emerging in the painting was this desire to create something beautiful out of something really challenging.”

Low Tide Supermoon Sunset, work in progress, by Sophie Abbott

Complemented by sea views from The Regency Town House, the second floor of the exhibition will feature paintings created after immersing herself in the sea, the island of Menorca, and witnessing the waterways of Venice. These works evoke Abbott’s ritual of returning to the water for clarity, inspiration and connecting to life.

“I go to the sea to immerse myself in nature, to recalibrate my brain, to be in the moment. In the sea you experience pleasure and discomfort, but nothing else matters. It’s when I feel the most alive. These paintings celebrate the power of nature and the glimmers of hope, through their luminous and layered colourfields.”

Sophie Abbott is a prolific Brighton-based artist known for abstract paintings inspired by the natural landscape. Rather than specific views or locations, each ‘painted memory’ tells the story of a life in communion with nature. Via a joyous use of colour, energetic mark-making and her distinctive approach to texture and perspective, each artwork immerses us in beauty, embodying how our senses are activated by the natural environment.

Sophie in her studio, preparing for the show

“My work always comes back to the sea, land and sky. I live by the sea. It’s a big part of my life, and a significant inspiration. These landscapes are the places I go on repeat to find peace, to reset, to have fun. They change minute-by-minute, in ways I’m lucky enough to witness, and that’s what I try to capture.”

Abbott’s work can be found in homes, galleries and collections around the world. Her paintings have featured in several TV shows, on packaging for an international drinks brand, and on a limited-edition rug created in collaboration with HABITAT.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophieabbottartist

Art Exhibition:
Heartland and Hinterland
Navigating a path through inner and outer landscapes

Thurs 7th - Sun 10th November 2024, first floor
Thurs, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Fri - Sun, 11:00am - 5:00pm
Admission free

Laura Darling, Ingrid Boucher, Juliet Milward

Heartland and Hinterland brings the work of three artists showing together for the first time. The innate silence of Laura Darling’s spacious landscapes broaden the tangled inner worlds of Juliet Milward’s dynamic paintings, are viewed and transformed by the play of light and shade of Ingrid Boucher’s exquisite sculptures.

The rhythmic qualities in each work convey sinuous lines, shapes that echo throughout, lacunae that encourage us to find a path, make our way, glimpse the lands beyond.

Laura Darling is an artist and writer from Brighton, Sussex. She works in oils with marks made in charcoal and pencil to capture atmosphere, space and silence. Favouring a dryish, chalky palette, she looks for lines of light, slivers of colour that draw the eye and pull the viewer into the scene, whether landscape or still life.

She has exhibited with the RSBA and was shortlisted for the Jacksons Art Prize after graduating from the Art Academy in London where she studied painting.
www.lauradarlingart.co.uk
@lauradarlingart

Ingrid Boucher is a sculptor based in Brighton whose plaster forms emerge from a process both spontaneous and chaotic, yet tempered by a meditative response to creating the finished piece. The ever-changing play of light casts shadows that create non-static pieces with intriguing hidden interior spaces; sometimes subtle, often striking.

Ingrid trained in Fine Arts at the University of East London.
www.ingridboucher.co.uk
@ingridboucher

Juliet Milward is an artist from Brighton. She creates ephemeral figures in dream-like scenes exploring memory, emotion and the psyche. She paints in oils pushing the boundary between figuration and abstraction.

Juliet studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art, completing both the Portrait Diploma and the Diploma in Figurative Painting.
@julietmilward

Art Exhibition:
Cameron Contemporary, Winter Show
featuring various artists

Wed 20th Nov - Sun 1st Dec, first floor
11:00am - 5:00pm
Admission free

The Winter Show has always been one of the most important exhibitions in Cameron Contemporary's calendar. This will be our 12th Winter Show but our first on the stunning surroundings of The Regency Town House and will include gallery regulars and some exciting newcomers.

Artists currently include;
Amy Dury
Victoria Kiff
Kirsty Wither
Kevin Hendley
Graham Dean
David Storey
Victoria Graimes
Mark Johnston
Luella Martin
Dean Patman
Ulla Mead
…with more to follow

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