Viva Brighton Issue #65 July 2018
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ART<br />
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Out of town (cont)...<br />
Corita Kent was an extraordinary artist, charismatic educator and<br />
a Roman Catholic nun based in Los Angeles during the 1960s. She<br />
believed in the power of art as a vehicle for social change and created<br />
bright, bold banners and posters that confronted issues of poverty, racism<br />
and war. A remarkable exhibition - Corita Kent: Get With The Action -<br />
continues at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft until October. Channel<br />
your inner Corita and join Sarah Corbett, founder of the Craftivist<br />
Collective, for How to be a Craftivist in the Art of Gentle Protest on Friday 20th <strong>July</strong> (7pm, £12.30).<br />
Corita (c1965) Image courtesy of the<br />
Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart<br />
Community, LA<br />
power up (1965) Image courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles, CA. Private Loan<br />
Edward Stott, Ploughing, Early Spring, 1890 © Touchstones<br />
Rochdale, Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service<br />
As ever, there are plenty of reasons to visit Towner in<br />
Eastbourne this month. Edward Stott: A Master of Colour and<br />
Atmosphere marks the centenary of the death of the ‘poet painter<br />
of the twilight’, bringing together a large body of paintings from<br />
throughout his career; At Altitude, which draws from both the<br />
Towner and Arts Council Collections, explores how artists have<br />
used advancements in technology to take an aerial perspective<br />
on the world; The Sussex Open <strong>2018</strong> will be in the downstairs<br />
gallery from the 21st, revealing the winner of the first Sussex<br />
Open Commission Award, and with their smart auditorium now officially opened, Towner Film presents<br />
a summer programme that celebrates women in film. Mustang, Persepolis, The Piano and Bombshell: The Hedy<br />
Lamar Story all feature, and many more besides.<br />
“It’s the sea, isn’t it?’ writes leading UK sculptor and Royal<br />
Academician, Alison Wilding, of the De La Warr Pavilion and<br />
the selection process for her major exhibition there. ‘In the gallery<br />
you instinctively want to face the windows and look out to sea.<br />
With this in mind we have selected some sculptures that relish the<br />
light and the proximity of the sea, together with others which veer<br />
towards the shadows.’ Right Here and Out There, an exhibition of her<br />
new and existing sculptures (including two made especially for the<br />
site) continues at the gallery until the 16th of September.<br />
Alison Wilding, Cuckoo 2, 2015. Courtesy of the Artist<br />
and Karsten Schubert Gallery, London<br />
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