Rest, Observe and Listen
By Gareth Stevens Many would forgive Nancy Odufona for politely declining the opportunity to prepare a one person show at BlackShed Gallery. After a tough academic year, she recently landed her first teaching job at a local college and, as…
What you see is what you see
Gareth Stevens reviews the work of photographer Chris Daly. Our daily exposure to thousands of TV and internet images has led to the notion of ‘truth’ becoming a “function of crowd dynamics, transformed into a commodity without a fixed universal…
Hastings Open 2020
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery (HMAG) is back celebrating some of the South East’s best artistic talent, alongside national and international work, in the inaugural Hastings Open. The exhibition will run from 27th August 2020, when the Museum reopens, until…
Arts Diary In The Time Of COVID-19
BFI Player and funding for the Screen Sector On 24th March BFI announced a new partnership with The Film and TV Charity to create a new COVID-19 Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund. Established with a £1m donation from Netflix,…
Moon and Sea
By Gareth Stevens All paintings go beyond words. If what is communicated through painting could be better expressed through language then it would be. In her upcoming exhibition at BlackShed gallery, Claudia De Grandi further distills this self evident truth…
Schneider’s Awkward Objects
Gareth Stevens reviews an exhibition of sculptures at The BlackShed Gallery Schneider’s work sets a heady spirallic mix of intertwining themes against a more quiet calm air of completion and resolution and it leaves the viewer with a dissonant sense…
He Said, She Said
By Gareth Stevens Many artists stand back from the subject that fascinates them to view it in its entirety and to best record what they see and feel from a discrete vantage point. However, a few landscape artists have taken…
Painting a Different Story
By Gareth Stevens When the Lord was dishing out one-pointedness she missed a few of us and gave the motherload to Siobhan Stanley. Amongst other things in her time, she has been a successful TV and theatre actor, a soloist…
‘Shrouds’ by Robert Sample
Reviewed by Gareth Stevens Robert is a gentle and humble man with a pronounced sense of fun. However this belies the fact that his work is both profound and challenging. Although only partially figurative, most of his works feature monochromatic…
Danny Pockets and Shuby at the St Leonards
Celebrated artists Danny Pockets and Shuby have worked together at the Artist Led Collective Compendium Studios in St Leonards for six years. A new exhibition at The St Leonards on London Road shows previously unseen work from both of these…