Bexhill and Brighton
We now have the full details of free events and exhibition visits, we have lined up for the Brighton Photo Biennial on the weekend of 6 and 7 November.
On Saturday 6 November, meet Photography Course Leader Jose Navarro and myself at the De La Warr Pavillion in Bexhill to visit the Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South Exhibition. The visit will include a lecture by Richard Gray who will be talking about what makes the American South different, special and even strange. He will be placing the photographs on display in the exhibition in the contexts of Southern history and mythology and, in particular, in the context of Southern literature – how writers from the region have created a place that seems to exist somewhere between the actual and the imagined.
Richard Gray is a Professor of Literature at the University of Essex, and the first specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy. This visit is likely to be of interest to OCA creative writing students as well as our photographers. There will be plenty of time to see the exhibition and to discuss how photography at the OCA is developing.
The following day, in Brighton, Jose and I have a plan of attack for the many exhibitions that are on as part of the Brighton Photo Biennial. This will include a visit to a fringe exhibition on Street Photography – a subject much of the moment – and to Strange and Familiar Many of you will have picked up from the media that one of the featured photographers, Alec Soth, was unable to work in the UK because of visa restrictions, so set his daughter to work with the camera. here’s an interesting piece of video on the theme of strange and familiar:
So that’s Brighton on Sunday 7 November. There is plenty to see and we aim to see as much as possible, but it will not be the photo equivalent of speed dating – there will be time for reflection and cups of tea.
It is the usual arrangements for exhibitions – it is all free, including the cups of tea. Email enquiries@oca-uk.com to secure a place and get more information.
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What about the Robert Mapplethorpe at the Towner in Eastbourne ?
See below:
ARTIST ROOMS : Robert Mapplethorpe
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25 September – 21 November
Entry Free
Provocateur. Innovator. Icon. This autumn, Towner plays host to the South Coast’s first ever exhibition of work by one of the most significant photographers of the 20th Century, Robert Mapplethorpe, as part of ARTIST ROOMS.
The exhibition features over 60 of Mapplethorpe’s most defining photographs from the 1970s and 1980s, including iconic images of Andy Warhol and Patti Smith – as well as a selection of Mapplethorpe’s sculpture never before shown in a UK public gallery. The exhibition runs alongside Brighton Photo Biennial 2010.
This exhibition contains some work of an adult nature. Please use your discretion when visiting with children.
ARTIST ROOMS is jointly owned by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland and was established through The d’Offay Donation in 2008, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund and the Scottish and British Governments. ARTIST ROOMS is being shared with galleries and museums throughout the UK thanks to the support of independent charity, the Art Fund and, within Scotland, The Scottish Government.
It is a good exhibition Richard
(I saw it when it was in Sheffield last Christmas – I think we got it early because Anthony d’Offay is from Sheffield originally)
The warning is worth heeding – anyone familiar with Mapplethorpe’s images of flowers and of Patti Smith, but unfamiliar with his other work needs to be aware that they still have the power to shock many years after first being exhibited.
Hi Folks
Andrea Norrington, OCA photography tutor here.
Just to let you know that I will be at the Light and Land Discovery Day near Reading on 5 December, details here
If you are an OCA student and you are going, drop an email to enquiries@oca-uk.com and the office will let me know and we can meet up.
So wish I could have joined you all on this weekend, it sounds a real treat. Will look out for how it went. Very jealous…
Just pushing this event into everyone’s view again – not because I’m going but because I spent last weekend in Bexhill & Brighton and I want to encourage anyone who hasn’t visited the Photo Biennial to get along there, if they can. I’ve just ‘totted up’ and have managed to see the work of 23 different photographers in about a day and a half (those a bit fitter and better organised could probably do even better!!!).
‘Myth, manners and memory’ is excellent and, fortunately, there was a walk round on Saturday afternoon led by the two curators, which made it even better. Those attending on this Saturday 6th are in for a treat, I’m sure.
In Brighton do make sure you get to the Old Co-op Building on London Road, where the ‘New Ways of Looking’ exhibitions are on.
Enjoy the week-end … feel I am missing something here … but shall be away photographing in distant lands!
Chrz
Amano