BLUE MONKEY NETWORK EVENTS

Towner,  College Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4JJ.

Bluemonkeynet is an artist network run by artists for artists, in partnership with Towner, Eastbourne.

Bluemonkeynet aims to provide opportunities for professional and creative development for East Sussex artists.  They want to help make there arts community strong and vibrant, sustainable and productive.

Bluemonkeynet runs regular monthly events aimed at promoting the exchange of ideas, information, skills and knowledge between artists, curators and arts organisers.

As well as networking, they offer:

• talks by visiting artists and arts professionals
• visits to galleries and other arts events
• special sessions tailored to the specific needs and requests of members –
  such as peer review, reading groups and presentations of work.

Upcoming Events:


OPENINGS
Thursday 13th October, 6 - 8pm.
All welcome.
FREE to Blue Monkey Network members; £5 non-members

Please feel free to bring a bottle


Discussion topics for OPENINGS
Open submission exhibitions good, bad, local, national, win a prize, get a show....... a waste of time and money, or a chance to showcase ambitious work and an investment in your future?

East Sussex artists and Blue Monkey Network members discuss their experiences of selection and rejection - at Open exhibitions across the country (and beyond).

ARTISTS' PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY WITH MATT ROBERTS
Sunday 20 November 2011 Day and Evening.
All Welcome
FREE to Members of Blue Monkey Network and Matt Roberts Arts. Non-members £5.

Blue Monkey Network is very pleased to welcome Matt Roberts of London-based arts organisation, Matt Roberts Arts, to Towner for an artists' professional development day. Matt Roberts Arts is a dynamic not-for-profit organisation founded in 2006 to create opportunities for artists in new locations and contexts. www.mattroberts.org.uk/

The day will include 1-2-1 PORTFOLIO REVIEWS with Matt available by appointment throughout the day.

Matt will also give an evening talk:
HOW TO APPLY TO OPEN SUBMISSION PRIZES AND AWARDS. 6.30 - 8pm.

Threadneedle Prize 2011

HENRIETTA SIMSON Wins £25,000 Threadneedle Prize 2011

Seven of the artworks were shortlisted for this year’s £25,000 Threadneedle Prize.  The winner chosen by the selectors was announced by Clemency Burton-Hill at an awards ceremony on Wednesday 5 October.  The runner-ups each received £1,000. The exhibition will be on display at the Mall Galleries until 8 October 2011. A further £10,000 Visitors’ Choice prize was awarded to the work that received the highest number of public votes during the exhibition. This was awarded to Nicholas McLeod. In a departure from previous years, all 52 works on display, including the shortlist, was  eligible to win this public prize.The Threadneedle Prize is the UK’s leading showcase for contemporary paintings and sculptures that promote the practice of representational art, but challenge its language and assumptions.  All works in the exhibition are sourced through open submission and this year the selectors reviewed a record of 4,350 entries, more than double the number received in previous years.Selectors for this year’s prize-winner and exhibition are: Julie Lomax, London Head of Visual Arts, Arts Council England, Lisa Milroy, Artist and Head of Graduate Painting, Slade School of Fine Art and Godfrey Worsdale, Director of BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.  Godfrey Worsdale is also a juror for the 2011 Turner Prize.Six of the seven shortlisted artists were women, following an unbroken streak of female winners since the Prize began in 2008.  All seven artists are aged 40 or under.

The seven shortlisted works were:
Open Lid  by Georgina Amos,  White Burka  by Howard Dyke ,Everything in its Right Place  by Sarah R Key, Anon Series (4)  by Nadine Mahoney, Bad Government (After Lorenzetti)  by Henrietta Simson,  Knife  by Laura Smith

The Prizes
"In essence they are career launchers and they give the finance to produce a large body of work."

Paul Cummings, 2010 Finalist for The Threadneedle Prize Three selectors have decided the winner of the £25,000 Threadneedle Prize from a shortlist of seven works submitted through the open submission. Each of the six runners up received £1,000. The £10,000 Visitors' Choice Prize was awarded by the general public and all 2011 exhibiting Threadneedle Prize artists were eligible to win. Voting for the Visitors' Choice Prize ended at 12pm on Monday, 3 October 2011.

The Threadneedle Prize: £25,000

The Visitors’ Choice: £10,000

Finalists (6 awarded): each £1,000

In addition to the prizes outlined above, the Threadneedle Prize provides artists: The opportunity to display work in an open submission to respected artists and curators . A three-week exhibition of selected artist works at Mall Galleries in central London.Online exhibition of selected artist works on the Threadneedle Prize website. Invites to events and opportunities to speak about your work with potential collectorMedia coverage of the Prize and occasional press photos.

HENRIETTA SIMSON  Winner

Bad Government (After Lorenzetti)

My "work not only explores the pre-perspectival spatial construction of the frescoes, but also the relationship between art and politics, questioning contemporary art's ability to challenge political systems."

Henrietta Simson selects early Renaissance depictions of space; landscapes that provided the setting for a scene or story. She changes the format and scale, and removes all narrative elements, freeing the spaces from their historical context and translating them into a contemporary framework.

This painting is taken from Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s frescoes in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, an allegorical scene (with its partner painting in this show) describing The Effects of Good and Bad Government painted between 1337-40.

Simson, who was the only artist in the exhibition to have three works exhibited, won the award for her painting Bad Government (After Lorenzetti). She accepted the award presented by Threadneedle Executive Chairman, Simon Davies.

Henrietta Simson was born in 1971 in Crawley. She lives and works in London and studied MA Painting at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and currently studying there for a practice-related PhD.

Pure Arts Group October 2011 Newsletter

BATTLE ART FAIR 2011 Contemporary Fine Art The PowderMills Hotel, PowderMill Lane, Battle TN33 0SP What more can we say apart from a huge Thank you. Thank you to our Hosts, Julie Cowpland, Adrian Calder-Reade and all the staff at the beautiful PowderMills Hotel and thank you to all those who exhibited, visited and purchased artwork. Without you this event simply would not have been the amazing success it was. Visitor numbers and sales exceeded all of our expectations by some margin and the immensely positive visitor & artist feedback really made all the hard work worthwhile. Visitor comments included; "A Triumph!" "The best exhibition I've visited in quite sometime, including those I've been to in London!" "Incredible show, beautifully curated" "Wonderfully warm welcome, I'm coming back and will bring my friends"....and she did! .....and because it went so well, we plan do do another exhibition in November, just in time for Christmas! PURE WINTER ART FAIR 2011 Contemporary Fine Art The PowderMills Hotel. PowderMill Lane, Battle TN33 0SP Fri 25 - TUE 29 NOVEMBER 2011 Open daily 10am - 6pm Admission Free This Winter exhibition will be a showcase of small works. Ideal Christmas Gifts for yourself and loved ones alike. Prices will start from £65.         Piano copyright: Ali Stump                                           FOR MORE INFORMATION: PUREARTSGROUP.CO.UK   DIRECTIONS:POWDERMILLSHOTEL.COM BLOG: PUREARTSGROUP.BLOGSPOT.COM RECEIVING CHARITY: MERU.ORG.UK

JERWOOD/FILM AND VIDEO UMBRELLA AWARDS ARTISTS ANNOUNCED

	We are delighted to announce the four artists selected for the Jerwood/ Film and Video Umbrella Awards: Ed AtkinsEmma HartNaheed RazaCorin Sworn The Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards are major new awards for moving-image artists with a bursary and commissioning fund totalling £56,000. Each of the artists has been awarded a £4,000 bursary, along with six-months support and mentoring from Film and Video Umbrella, to develop pre-production proposals for significant new works, which will be exhibited as part of the JVA programme at Jerwood Space from 14 March – 22 April 2012. The exhibition, entitled Tomorrow Never Knows, will consider the artists’ own individual ‘projects for the future’ against the larger theme of ‘futures past’, offering reminders of the fleeting nature or the untapped potential of earlier manifestations of the future, whilst also reflecting on the uncertainties of futurology. During the exhibition, two of the artists will be selected to receive a £20,000 commission and support from Film and Video Umbrella to develop their ideas into finished works. The final works will premiere at JVA at Jerwood Space in 2013. tomorrowneverknows.org.uk Jerwood Visual Arts is a major initiative of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation 171 Union Street, Bankside | London | SE1 0LN

BATTLE ART FAIR 2011 at The PowderMills Hotel, Battle Fri 17 - Fri 23 September

OPEN EVERY DAY 10AM - 6PM
ADMISSION FREE
www.pureartsgroup.co.uk

Jerwood Drawing Prize Winners Announced

	Jerwood Visual Arts and Drawing Projects UK are delighted to announce that Gary Lawrence has been awarded the First Prize of £6,000 in the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011. He describes his winning drawing Homage to Anonymous, a large scale drawing made in ballpoint pen on the back of discarded posters, as ‘a tribute to all the anonymous artists through history who made work but are unrecognised’ A Second Prize of £3,000 was awarded to Jessie Brennan for her 5-metre long pencil drawing, The Cut. Two Student Awards of £1,000 each went to Nicki Rolls for Sketch and Kristian Fletcher for Lake. All the works selected for this year's Jerwood Drawing Prize are on display at Jerwood Space from 14 September - 30 October. Image: Gary Lawrence, Homage to Anonymous (detail), 2011. Courtesy the artist Jerwood Visual Arts is a major initiative of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation 171 Union Street, Bankside | London | SE1 0LN