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Tom Art & Walker About Snooker What’s on in in the <strong>Lewes</strong>’ FrameGalleries this month (cont) Our cover artist Peter Messer will joining 40 or so others in an exciting exhibition in the Star Gallery (Castle Ditch Lane) which runs from October 30th to November 17th. Curator Hayley Mills has close links with India, and she devised the show having fallen in love with Indian miniature art. She decided to invite a number of artists she has contact with, from Sussex and from London as well as select graduates from the University of Brighton, to produce original art works for the show, which is Local artist Tom Walker loves entitled ‘Stardust’. The only limits playing and watching snooker, she gave them was that the works and he decided to mix his two had to be slightly smaller than passions by painting a series of A4 size. As well as Peter Messer, frames which make references to artists such as Marguerite Horner, the sport, which is to be exhibited Hamish Black, Harold Mockford, at the Star Gallery from January. Tom Walker, Julian Bell, Caroline The BBC picked up on Tom’s work Trant, Charles Williams, Richard during their fi lming of the World Sorrell and Charles Gilvan Championship in December, and Cartwright (pictured right) will made a short feature about him. be represented. From the 25th “They played it three times in the gallery will also be holding all, which I didn’t expect,” says its annual Star Crafts Christmas Tom. “I sat down to watch the Show showing work ranging fi nal and they showed the feature from pottery to jewellery via between frames, which was great metal works and trugs. (A trug publicity, and a pleasant surprise.” is a medieval gardening basket The television coverage, not to particular to Sussex). forget the intriguing nature of the project, has generated a great <strong>Lewes</strong>’ latest gallery space, Four deal of interest in the exhibition. Square Fine Arts (Mount Place) “It will be interesting to see how has been set up by art consultant far people come,” says Tom. “The Sonia Crivello, who has vast Masters Tournament is on at experience in selling at art fairs Wembley during the fi rst week of and has a number of nationally the exhibition, so we’re expecting renowned artists on her books a number of people to come down who she is going to exhibit in from that.” The pictures are brilliant – you can see them all on his website listed below. “I use pastels as my medium,” continues, “which means that one false mark and the painting’s ruined. It’s very like snooker, when you can lose a game through a bad stroke.” The way he alludes to the sport in his pictures is very clever. Sometimes the reference is oblique (there’s a still life of snooker-ball-coloured vegetables and a blue cube of chalk) sometimes they are more direct (a picture of an evening session at a snooker hall). One, the bright new gallery space. with melting balls, pays homage She will also use the space for to Salvador Dali. Our favourite is community projects. First up, one we have used to illustrate this an exhibition of three different feature. It’s called ‘Breaking Off’. artists, ‘Contrasting Elements’ The red balls are represented by until the 11th November, which a group of marching soldiers, features a ceramicist, an artist, the white one by a bride who is and a painter. Ceramicist Sotis attacking one of the men. “He Fillipides fell in love with this is the groom, who hasn’t turned country after discovering a type up to the wedding, and she is of clay in Stoke which is usually breaking off the engagement,” used for stone sculpture, but he explains Tom. WWW.VIVALEWES.COM fashions into delicate-looking pots: the clay is peppered with silica which sparkles in the light. Manja Scott is an award-winning printer who makes primitivist lino cuts which recall her many years in ‘Tom Africa; Walker Sally – Snooker McGill in paints the landscapes Frame’ will with run a difference: in the they Star are Gallery viewed (Castle from Ditch above, Lane) abstract- from looking January 15th and in – February pastel shades 3rd. of turquoise and blue. V ART & ABOUT ART Three of Tom Walker’s snooker-related pictures: (left to right) Club; Breaking off; Brass Band The exhibition will be a breath of fresh air in a quiet month on the <strong>Lewes</strong> art scene. There will be a third-sized snooker table in the gallery for much of the time the paintings are up. Tom will be there, too. “I’ll be ready to take on all comers,” he says. To preview the pictures go to www.tomwalker.co.uk. V 711
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