5 X 5: Five Sussex artists talk about their work for 5 minutes e

Image: Julia Andrews-Clifford, Dogtooth.

This popular event provides an opportunity for our five artist-presenters to brush up on their presentation skills, as well as a chance for Sussex artists to get to know each other better and explore the breadth and diversity of artistic practice in the region. The five artists will each talk for five minutes and show 15 images of, or relating to their work in these short and snappy Pecha Kucha style presentations.

The talks will be followed by time for discussion, chat and a glass of wine.

This month’s 5x5 event has been curated and organised for Blue Monkey Network by artist Nikki Davidson-Bowman. The five presenters work across a diverse range of media and disciplines and represent all stages of career development, from early career to established artists. The five are:

Jill Tattersall

Jill’s work is mostly semi-abstract. Each painting begins with a specific idea but has its own life. She experiments with materials and techniques, combining found elements with more costly or conventional ones. Many of her paintings are on handmade paper, each sheet unique. On this seductive, unpredictable surface she builds up layers of intense but subtle colour using paints, inks, pigments and dyes. Jill has shown work all over the UK in solo exhibitions, workshops, projects and commissions. She is now based at the Wolf at the Door, Hove. Recent exhibitions: Sense and Serendipity; Tattersall & Greco; Telling Tales (solo); the Affordable Art Fair.
www.jilltattersall.co.uk

Kristina Veasey
Kristina is drawn to patterns and beauty in the mundane. She flips negatives to positives and likes to include humour or surprise in her work. Her solo projects The School Run, and Beyond the Torch Run were funded by ACE; the latter was included in the SE Cultural Olympiad programme and awarded the Inspire Mark.

Her recent work has been digital including animation, film, photography and projection. Recent commissions include a digital timeline for The Keep and stop-frame animation for Full Circle Arts. Kristina is currently working to develop My Dirty Secret, a psychedelic domestic furnishings project based on household dirt.

http://kristinamichelleveasey.tumblr.com/

Julia Hilton

Julia is returning to ceramics, after 8 years spent working as a landscape architect. The work is developing from a drawing practice of close scrutiny of the body and the idea of resistance and release within and around it, taking that into working with the clay but examined within the constraint of function. The process of making and folding, reaching out with the makers hands has to be clear. The work should invite being picked up, filled with food, drunk out of, but the pieces are also an opportunity to express the awkwardness, humour and delight of being in a body.

www.juliahilton.co.uk www.greendreams.org.uk

Julia Andrews-Clifford

Julia Andrews-Clifford is a Hastings photomontage artist. She worked at the British Film Institute for 10 years before studying Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Having worked in film, her visual language is graphic and cinematic. She rips images and text from old advertising and magazines and uses negative space with dynamic composition to create surrealist portraits and narratives. Inspired by feminism, her work flips between the personal and the political, and explores some of the shifting tensions between anonymity, celebrity and personal identity in real and imagined women’s lives.

www.freightcollective.co.uk

In a slight departure from the 5x5 norm, this month Nikki has invited a gallerist as our 5th presenter: Joe Nguyen, Director of Murmurations Gallery, Bexhill. Joe is launching a new commercial exhibiting contemporary art gallery in Bexhill and is coming to share information about the space, shows, memberships and exhibition opportunities for the forthcoming year. Created for local and regional artists and art groups to both showcase and sell artwork, the new venture builds on the success of Starlings for crafts and designers, also in Bexhill.

http://www.murmurationsgallery.co.uk/

Wednesday 18 November, 6 – 8pm
Towner, Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4JJ
Artists - all welcome
FREE to Blue Monkey Network members; £5 non-members

Refreshments will be available (contributions welcome) or please feel free to bring a bottle.

For more information visit http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/event/blue-monkey-network-event-5x5/