SUPERB SEAFRONT RETAIL OPPORTUNITY

SEVEN (7) NEWLY CONSTRUCTED KIOSKS
THE COLONNADE, BEXHILL-ON-SEA, EAST SUSSEX

UNIQUE RETAIL SEAFRONT LOCATION IN THE NEWLY REFURBISHED KING GEORGE V
COLONNADE, BEXHILL-ON-SEA, 
Rother District Council has recently completed a major Seafront Regeneration Scheme in Bexhill-on-Sea,
which has formed part of a £5 million project to completely regenerate Bexhill’s popular seafront & promenade,
including the Grade II Listed King George V Colonnade.

Seven kiosks have been constructed which will complement the main Colonnade space from which a
restaurant will operate in the New Year.The Kiosks vary in size from 7 sqm to 8 sqm. Prospective tenants
are invited to submit proposals in writing to the Council detailing their rental offer, together with a description
of the product range to be sold and any other supporting information as necessary in support of their application.
If successful, tenants will be allocated a Kiosk by the Council however it is not possible to specify which Kiosk
prospective tenants would prefer.

CLOSING DATE FOR ALL PROPOSALS TO BE RECEIVED BY – FRIDAY 10TH FEBRUARY 2012.
The terms are as set out below:-
RENT Best Offers are invited in excess of £2,000 pa + VAT. Rent to be payable monthly in advance.
TERM 12 Months with effect from 19th March 2012.
OUTGOINGS Tenant to be responsible for payment of business rates, and all utilities
(utilities will be recharged by Rother District Council via check meter)
Rateable Value To follow – estimated to be between 900 & 1400
Rates payable for 2011/2012 vary from £389.70pa to £606.20pa
Attached herewith is a brief giving further details of the proposed leases & terms.

All written proposals to be submitted to:-
Estates Manager
Rother District Council
Town Hall
Bexhill-on-Sea
East Sussex. TN39 3JX
Email : tina.holman@rother.gov.uk
Telephone  01424-787870

Weekender Magazine WInter/Spring 2012

Click on Link to view and read.

http://issuu.com/the-weekender.net/docs/issue2/1

American photographer Eve Arnold dies aged 99

Eve Arnold, the Magnum photographer famous for portraits of Marilyn Monroe and the Queen, has died.

Eve Arnold at Edinburgh's Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1999 Photo: PA

By Florence Waters

4:13PM GMT 05 Jan 2012

The  Telegraph

Eve Arnold, one of the most revered photographers of the last century, died peacefully Wednesday in a London nursing home, a Magnum photo agency spokeswoman has said. She would have turned 100 in April.

She was best known for her intimate and lively collection of photographs of Hollywood film star Marilyn Monroe, as well as for capturing Queen Elizabeth II with her guard down, smiling up at the English sky on a particularly grim day. But she was also an intrepid photojournalist, travelling all over the world during the Seventies and Eighties and publishing colourful and influential books on China, Russia and America.

Her subjects ranged from bartenders and cowboys to Jacqueline Kennedy and Malcolm X. She was the first female photographer to make images for the Magnum Photography Agency, according to her London gallery Halcyon.

Arnold's most famous portraits of Monroe were taken on the set of the last film the star made before she died, The Misfits. Among the images to have come off that set is a romantic shot of Arthur Miller with Monroe the year before they were divorced. Miller, who wrote The Misfits, is said to be describing the way his father used to "Skip-to-my-lou", a rustic dance from middle America, for a scene in the film.

"What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph," Arnold once said. She made many portraits of Monroe throughout the 1950s, and knew her more intimately, perhaps, than any other photographer of the day. Her best photographs are collected in "Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation."

Born in Philadelphia in 1912 to Russian immigrant parents, her interest in photography did not begin until she was in her 30s, working at a photo-finishing plant in New York City. Arnold worked for publications including Life magazine and joined the Magnum collective in the Fifties'.

She moved to England in the early 1960s, with her son Frank, and begun working for The Sunday Times. Her career spanned more than half a century, but, in 2009, when asked by the actress Angelica Houston if she was still taking photographs, she replied, "That's over. I can't hold a camera anymore." In 2010 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sony World Photography Awards in Cannes.

Cubic kite takes flight in Jersey

Published: Wednesday, 4 January 2012 by www.Phaidon.com blog

Sash Reading and Heather & Ivan Morison's 'Three Cubes Collide' 

gets a final helping hand before it flies above the Jersey Beach

It's not unusual to see a kite flying on a beach, but Sash Reading and Heather & Ivan Morison's Three Cubes Colliding doesn't look like your average kite. As if defying the laws of gravity this cube, made of a dense mesh of carbon fibre rods and aerospace fabric held together with 1,700 3-dimensionally-printed connectors, floats above a beach on the Channel island of Jersey. There is no sign of a gas filled interior or any engine keeping it airborne.

This success of the work came as no surprise once we found out that Reading is a World Sport Kite Champion and while studying at The Bartlett Architecture College she specialised in lightweight structural design.

Three Cubes Colliding is derived from Alexander Graham Bell's tetrahedral kite which he developed between 1895 and 1910. Reading and the Morrison's somewhat more complex version of Bell's kite is a progression from a previous work by the trio entitled Meteor Kite Mark 1 - in collaboration with Kite Related Design.

The tetrahedral kite Alexander Graham Bell developed between 1895 and 1910

Meteor Kite Mark 1 was inspired by "the movement of a meteorite through the atmosphere, where the velocity causes matter to deteriorate, thus forming a shape that is larger at the nose and lighter at the tail" Reading says. "This process is replicated in the 3D environment using particle dynamics and animation. In the case of theBlack Meteor Kite, a solid cube with the front and back panels removed is assigned to a particle emitter, and the particles are emitted in a random formation. The animation is paused and the arrangement is reflected to ensure even flight, then rationalised into a sail layout for cutting.”

Meteor Kite Mark 1 at the Royal Academy in 2009

Heather & Ivan Morison are perhaps best known for their series of text postcards sent from around the world, a project they began in 2001. From the Carpathian Mountains, Transylvania they sent a card which read: "Heather Morison is dreadfully afraid." Another simply related a list of fungi spotted one summer in New Zealand. More recently in 2007 the pair explored the commercial flower industry creating The Land of Cockaigne, an installation of tens of thousands of individual flower stems at Bloomberg SPACE, London. Last year they toured the less-travelled roads of rural Tasmania with a sculptural artwork in the form of a puppet theatre, Mr Clevver.

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2012

RA Summer Exhibition 2012

The 2012 exhibition will open on 4 June and run until 12 August 2012.

How to enter the Summer Exhibition 2012

An artist is entitled to submit a maximum of two works for a handling fee of £25.00 per entry (which is non-refundable and includes VAT).

The Entry Form will be available in the online shop from Monday 9 January – Friday 9 March 2012 (for artists outside of the UK, please refer to the FAQs).

Summer Exhibition Co-ordinator 2012
Tess Jaray

Selection and Hanging Committee
Peter Freeth, Eva Jiricna, Humphrey Ocean, Chris Orr, Barbara Rae, Alison Wilding, Chris Wilkinson

Delivery Days
Glazed works: Monday 26 March, Tuesday 27 March
Unglazed works: Wednesday 28 March, Thursday 29 March
Sculpture:* Wednesday 25 April
Architecture: Thursday 26 April

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/summerexhibition/

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National Portrait Gallery, London announces Call For Entries for the BP Portrait Award 2012

Holly by Louis Smith © Louis Smith [2nd prize].

LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery announces the Call for Entries for the BP Portrait Award 2012, the world’s most prestigious open competition for portrait painting. The Portrait Award, now in its thirty-third year at the National Portrait Gallery and twenty-third year of sponsorship by BP, is an annual event aimed at encouraging artists to focus upon and develop portraiture in their work. The BP Portrait Award 2012 exhibition will run at the National Portrait Gallery from 21 June to 23 September 2012. The BP Portrait Award is open to all artists over the age of 18, and provides an important platform for portrait painters. In 2011, 2,372 artists submitted their work and the exhibition, featured 55 paintings. Seen by over 340,000 people, the BP Portrait Award 2011 had the highest ever visitor figures for an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. A cash award of £25,000 will go to the First Prize winner who will receive, at the judges’ discretion, a commission worth £4,000 (to be agreed between the National Portrait Gallery and the artist). Recent National Portrait Gallery commissions by BP Portrait Award first-prize-winning artists include novelist V. S. Naipaul by Paul Emsley (BP Portrait Award 2007 winner), and Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh by Dean Marsh (BP Portrait Award 2005 winner). Many artists who have had their work exhibited have gained commissions as a result of the considerable interest in the BP Portrait Award and the resulting exhibition. The prize winners and exhibition will be selected by a judging panel chaired by Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery. All 2012 exhibitors will be eligible to submit a proposal for the BP Travel Award. The aim of the Award is to provide the opportunity for an artist to experience working in a different environment, in Britain or abroad, on a project related to portraiture.  Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London , says: ‘The quality of the entries and the range of styles in 2011 was outstanding. I look forward to the BP Portrait Award 2012, and thank BP for their continuing support.’ Des Violaris, Director, UK Arts and Culture, BP, says: “We are delighted to continue our support of the BP Portrait Award, and look forward to what we expect to be another year of fantastic entries.” http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/bp-portrait-award-2012.php Closes 13 February 2012