Newhaven Art Space Project Space
Contemporary artists working in Newhaven Art Space, exploring a new location, experimenting and making new work. Please join us in Newhaven for each Open Studio day to meet the artists and see their work !
Saturday 22 March – NICK MARSH
Nick is a Newhaven based artist and co-founder of Newhaven Art Projects, Newhaven Open Call, and our High Street gallery space. He has had an intensive time in the studio making new paintings and prints with an emphasis on evolving ideas and experimenting with new imagery.
Saturday 15 March – HELEN TURNER
Helen has worked in Newhaven for over a decade and is co-founder of Newhaven Art Space in the High Street. She makes art across disciplines of painting and sculpture, often employing everyday materials. She runs mentoring programmes for artists and facilitates art workshops with local community groups.
Saturday 8 March – KAT TWEG & RUBY CAMPION
Kat Tweg and Ruby Campion are recent graduates from the Fine Art undergraduate programmes at the University of Brighton and it is important to us to continue supporting young artists taking the next steps in what can be a precarious world.
Kat works playfully with themes of mundanity, care and childhood. They use everyday materials and foraged objects to celebrate often overlooked instances of play, kindness and creativity which occur in our day to day experiences. Often interactive, Kat’s work aims to be generous, inviting you to explore and contribute to the piece whilst exploring how art might be embedded within your everyday life.
Ruby works within sculpture, installation and performance. They approach making art as a social, community and spiritual practice with an interest in exploring storytelling and engaging with objects and artefacts to question conventional hierarchies of usefulness whilst also embracing materials that are subject to change and decay over time.
Saturday 1 March – HELEN GOODWIN
Helen Goodwin’s practice is largely site-responsive, sometimes performative, often working in remote locations and with an emphasis on impermanence. Particular localities, both people and places, provide materials that feed into her work, often using and combining material culture and the found geology of place. Her work might last only for the duration of an installation before it is washed, cut, or swept away.
Helen has wide ranging experience throughout the UK, Europe and parts of Asia delivering arts related projects as well as being a freelance community engagement and wellbeing arts worker.
Saturday 22 February – LOUISA MAHONY
Louisa Mahony lives and works between London and somewhere rural, mostly Wales and Ireland. Traveling between these locations allows an immersion in landscape; an exploration of being embedded within the subject. Through painting and sculpture her work examines the narratives that we hold and impose upon the natural world.
She has exhibited her work in London and internationally including Solstice Art Centre County Meath, Lewisham Art House London, Royal Academy Summer Show London.