Viva Brighton Issue #59 January 2018

ART
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ART & ABOUT
Out of town...
There’s just a few weeks left to see A Green and
Pleasant Land at Towner Gallery: this primarily
photographic exhibition features the work of more
than 50 artists who have shaped our understanding
of the British landscape since the 1970s. It ends on
the 21st and is followed by We stared at the Moon
from the centre of the Sun by Haroon Mirza, an
artist who works with video, sculpture, light and
sound to create large scale installations. For this
exhibition he will be selecting works from the Arts
Council Collection, as well as from the Towner
Collection, and incorporating them into a unique
display amongst new works of his own.
The show of figurative drawings and paintings
by Lindy Dunbar and prints by Rachel Clark
continues at Pelham House in Lewes until
the 23rd of January and is followed on the 24th
by the annual Open Art Exhibition of paintings,
drawings, prints, photography and works in
ink. Previous shows have included pieces by
upwards of 60 Sussex-based artists – both
established and emerging – and this year looks
set to be just as busy. Continues until the 6th
of March.
Working drawing for paper, c1950s
The Friedlander Archive, UCC
‘Sculpture in a Landscape, 1966’ by Patrick Caulfield
Arts Council Collection ©The Estate of Patrick Caulfield
‘Fishermen’ by Rachel Clark
The artist, designer and typographer Elizabeth Friedlander, creator of the Bauer Type Foundry typeface
‘Elizabeth’, escaped Nazi Germany and found safety and employment in London thanks to her friend
and sponsor, the poet Francis Meynell. During the war she worked with the black propaganda unit and
went on the create some of the most recognisable mid-century design, including book covers for Penguin.
An exhibition of her work - co-curated by Katharine Meynell, grand-daughter of Francis Meynell - is at
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft from the 6th.
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