18 August - 2 September 2018 Artists & Makers Trails across Lewes, Newhaven, Seaford and the surrounding villages Celebrating 25 years artwavefestival.org 1 Footer Title Contents Headline Sponsors 1 Introduction 2 Colour in Nature Walks 3 Colourful Kids Activities 4 A Brief History of Colour Talk 4 - 7 Three Colours Film Trilogy 8 Visitor and Travel Information Sponsors and Supporters 8 - 9 Rural Map 10 - 28 Rural Trails: Ditchling / Falmer / Swanborough Iford / Isfield / Barcombe / Cooksbridge Offham / Hamsey / Ringmer / Laughton East Hoathly / Chiddingly / Glynde Firle / Alciston / Wilmington / Alfriston Litlington / Cuckmere Haven / Jevington 31 Seaford Map SPECT OUNTY A e Premier Luxury LifestyleC Magazine since 1989 www.aspect-county.co.uk 32 - 35 Seaford Trail 37 Newhaven Map 38 - 42 Newhaven Trail 44 - 45 Newhaven Festival 46 - 47 Lewes Map 48 - 61 Lewes Trail D Disabled access T Accessible by public transport Key R Refreshments available P Free / off street parking G Garden open E Associated event or workshop - see C Credit card facility www.artwavefestival.org for details Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this brochure was correct at the time of going to print. We cannot be held responsible for any variations, errors or omissions. Visitors are advised to confirm opening times of individual venues in advance. No recommendation is implied in any of the listings. Lewes District Council will incur no liability for any loss, dam- age or injury sustained by any member of the public in relation to any Artwave venue or event. Members of public act at their own risk. “Fill a space in a beautiful way” Georgia O’Keeffe Artist (1887 – 1986) his year Artwave Festival is celebrating In celebration of our 25th Anniversary T 25 colourful years of providing a platform we have also programmed some special for independent artists and makers. colour themed events, including Family Experience the creative and beautiful Workshops, Art in Nature walks and Art spaces of over 150 established and up and and Film Three Colour Trilogy. coming artists across Lewes, Newhaven, Seaford and the surrounding villages. Use this brochure, with trails mapped across our towns and beautiful rural There are wonderful exhibitions, areas, to plan your visit and make a participatory workshops and events taking fantastic day or weekend out. place over three weekends. In artists’ Experience creative Sussex, take in the homes; in studios; large and small galleries; art and countryside views, dip your toe in open gardens and churches, pubs and in the sea and taste the food that we village greens and lots of other places. All have to offer. Start or add to your own venues are free to visit, making it a truly art collection and visit parts of Sussex inclusive event. you’ve never been to before. Meet and buy direct from photographers, Artwave is run by Lewes District Council, bespoke jewellers; landscape, abstract and but it wouldn’t be possible without the portrait painters; sculptors of metal, wood generosity of our funders and sponsors, and stone; woodcut and linocut printers; the participating artists and makers, bookbinders and designers; ceramicists venues and volunteers who together and all sorts of creators - not forgetting have made this year’s 25th festival our home bakers. possible - thank you! Keep up to date with all the latest Artwave news by joining our email newsletter at www.artwavefestival.org Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @artwavefestival or email [email protected] Front cover artist: www.oliviawaller.co.uk Introduction 1 Colour in Nature: Walk, See, Find and Create No experience is necessary. Everyone is welcome to these FREE events, however they are more suitable for adults and accompanied children over age 10. Come and visit two of our beautiful nature reserves seen through the eyes and knowledge of our Lewes District Council ranger and local artist, Jacky Misson www.jackymisson.com. During the morning the emphasis will be on looking at colours and shapes in nature, will include individual note taking and sketching plus a group collecting and collage or sculpture piece. Some materials will be provided, but do bring your own sketchbooks, pencils and paints. Tuesday 21 August: Bollens Bush Nature Reserve, Newhaven 10:00 - 12:30 “Art and nature intertwine - my theme as Wednesday 29 August: Chair is to encourage and affirm wildlife Lewes Railway Land conservation both on land and in the 10:00 - 12:30 marine environment. By extension, this includes support for art and creativity. I am delighted to support the Colour in Booking is necessary Nature walks and hope that many of you as places are limited. will join us.” www.artwavefestival.org Cllr Stephen Gauntlett, Chair of Lewes District Council 2 Colour in Nature Colourful Kids: Get Creative at our Family Events Artwave wants to inspire the next generation of artists with FREE family FREE workshops this summer. All children must be accompanied by a parent/carer. EVENT Colour, Cut and Collage • 19 August With Deborah Manson Depot, Pinwell Road, Lewes, BN7 2JS 11:00 - 15:00 Drop in • Limited numbers at any one time www.deborahmanson.co.uk Create paper cut-out collage inspired by the colour blue, using hand painted and patterned papers prepared especially for this workshop. Play with composition and balance to create your own collage masterpiece. All ages welcome. Colour the Town • 25 August With Madeleine McClellan and Melanie Crawshaw Meet by the Library, 36-38 High Street, Newhaven, BN9 9PD 10:00 - 13:00 Drop in • Event is weather dependant Part of www.newhavenfestival.co.uk Chalk up the town! Come and add some colour to Newhaven town centre. Get creative and chalk the pavements to make your colourful mark. All ages welcome. Colour the Coast • 1 and 2 September With SCIP (Seaford Contemporary Illustrators & Printmakers) Mercread Youth Centre, Mercread Road, Seaford, BN25 1AB 10:30 - 11:30 • Quiet Zone Art Workshop 12:30 - 17:00 • Children’s Art Workshops Book in advance at www.wearescip.co.uk Join SCIP for a weekend of family workshops designing your own Seaford beach hut or a cheeky seagull! Get creative and add to the giant mural of the Seaford beach front. Suitable for ages 3+ with quiet zone sessions available each morning for children with learning disabilities. Colourful Kids 3 Art and Film Spinning the Colour Wheel: Three Colours A Brief History of Colour Trilogy FREE Depot, Pinwell Road, EVENT Lewes, BN7 2JS www.lewesdepot.org Saturday 18 August • 17:00 Our Art and Film strand is opened by Alexandra Loske, who will provide a brief illustrated talk on the history of colour: how humans have been creating pigments and paints since pre-historic times, the impact of Isaac Newton unravelling the rainbow, Take this rare opportunity to and how new ideas about our emotional responses see Krzysztof Kieslowski’s 1990s to colour emerged in the Romantic Age. Alexandra arthouse classic Three Colours will also talk about our special relationship with the colour blue to precede the screening of Krzysztof Trilogy on the big screen in Kieślowski’s film Three Colours: Blue. Lewes, Newhaven and Eastbourne over three Alexandra will present a shorter introduction about consecutive Saturdays during the colour white before Three Colours: White (1994) Artwave Festival. See just one, at the Hillcrest Centre in Newhaven on 25 August. or better still come to all three. ‘…a gigantic, puzzling three-part installation, resplendent with its own self-confident strangeness and beauty. Just to watch one single film deprives you of the flavour.’ Peter Bradshaw, Guardian. Dr Alexandra Loske is an art historian, curator at the Royal Pavilion, editor of the book Languages of Colour (2012) and author of a major forthcoming book on colour, to be published in Spring 2019. She has lectured extensively on colour history and colour theory and has appeared on national and international TV and Radio. 4 Art and Film Three Colours: Blue Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski Saturday 18 August 1993 | 98 min | 15 Doors open 18:00 French with English subtitles www.lewesdepot.org In the devastating first film of the Three Colours Trilogy, Juliette Depot, Pinwell Road, Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman Lewes, BN7 2JS reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. ‘Excellent cinema - wonderful But Blue is more than just a blistering study of grief; it’s also a staff and atmosphere, good tale of liberation, as Julie attempts to free herself from the past selection of vegan food.’ while confronting truths about the life of her late husband, a composer. Shot in sapphire tones by Sławomir Idziak, and set to Restaurant, café and bar an extraordinary operatic score by Zbigniew Preisner, Blue is an open all day overwhelming sensory experience. £9.00 / £4.00 concessions 5Art andFooter Film Title • Three Colours: Blue 5 Three Colours: White Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski Saturday 25 August 1994 | 91 min | 15 Café and doors 17:30 French & Polish Advanced bookings online at Film at 18:45 with English subtitles www.hillcrestcentre.co.uk Introduction by Alexandra Loske Hillcrest Centre, Bayview Road, Newhaven, BN9 9EA The most playful and also the grittiest of Kieślowski’s Three Colours films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew ‘Beautiful, homely, creative… Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless delicious home cooked hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his food lovingly prepared… wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce (her reason: their marriage great community space and was never consummated) and then frames him for arson after cinema…a hidden gem of setting her own salon ablaze. White, which goes on to chronicle Newhaven.’ Karol Karol’s elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a sublime reverie about twisted love.