Viva Brighton Issue #61 March 2018

ART
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ART & ABOUT
Out of town (cont)
20 Years of Penguin Essentials Vitrine Display (detail) Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
Photo by Sam Moore
Alongside the excellent Elizabeth
Friedlander exhibition at Ditchling
Museum of Art + Craft, you’ll find a
display of the innovative and diverse covers
that have adorned the Penguin Essentials
series, which began in 1998 under the
guidance of Art Director John Hamilton.
In this display, Hamilton selects 100 of his
favourite, ground-breaking designs, with
an additional selection from the publisher’s
archives that includes several Friedlander
book covers.
Patrick Caulfield, Dining Recess, 1972, Arts Council Collection
© Estate of Patrick Caulfield, all rights reserved DACS 2017
Take a trip to
Towner Gallery
this month and
you’ll get an insight
into the mind of
the extraordinary
Haroon Mirza; an
artist who considers
his main medium to
be electricity. Used
to working with
video, sculpture, light and sound to create large
scale installations, Mirza has selected works from
the Arts Council Collection, as well as Towner’s
Collection, and incorporated them into a unique
display. We stared at the Moon from the centre of the
Sun is an exhibition that you’ll want to experience
for yourself. An
accompanying
season of classic
occult and sci-fi
films is screened
in Towner’s
plush new
auditorium.
Lis Rhodes, Dresden Dynamo, 1971-2
Arts Council Collection © the artist
If you think
Hastings’
arrival on the
arts map is a
new thing, then
you’d better
think again.
Gus Cummins
- Royal
Academician and long-standing member of
The London Group - has been living and
working in the town for 40 years. Despite
having recently celebrated his 75th birthday,
he’s only now having his first major UK
solo show. In Off the Wall Jerwood Gallery
presents a major retrospective of his work,
tracing Cummins’ diminutive early works to
his recent, monumental pieces created in his
signature ‘two and a half D’. Explaining his
penchant for creating works that stand out
from the canvas, Cummins says “I like the idea
of playing with perspective and manipulating
events - interventions with reality if you like.”
It’s been a long time coming, but Cummins’
time is now.
Off The Wall © Gus Cummins
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