Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water
[ Exhibition )
The first major exhibition to celebrate Sussex as a place of inspiration for artists.
Sussex has a unique sense of place. Its distinctive chalk-cliff coastline and the rolling hills of the South Downs have inspired artists for centuries. From some of our greatest landscape artists like Constable and Turner to contemporary artists working in the area today, this exhibition allowed you to discover Sussex as a place of creativity, exploration, retreat and alternative lifestyles.
Whether it’s William Nicholson’s beautiful, sparse paintings of the Downs, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell’s colour-drenched depictions of the pond at Charleston, or Lee Miller’s photographs of the farms around her house, this wide-ranging exhibition, which encompassed print, sculpture, photography and digital works, showed Sussex as you have never seen it before.
★★★★ “Anyone looking for a pick-me-up can find it in West Sussex, just by looking.”
Chloë Ashby, The Times
★★★★ “Fascinating…There’s a lot of really quirky, often surprisingly offbeat work here in a spirit of bohemian experimentation…”
Mark Hudson, Independent
★★★★ “What this fine show proves is that Sussex is more than just a pretty space.”
Alastair Smart, The Mail on Sunday
”…encapsulates everything I love about Sussex…”
Julian Roup, The Guardian
Highlights from the exhibition
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Chichester Canal (c.1828)
John Constable, Seascape Study: Brighton Beach looking west, 1824-28
William Blake, Illustrations to Thornton’s ‘Pastorals of Virgil’, Thenot Remonstrates Colinet
William Nicholson, Whiteways Rottingdean (1909)
Vanessa Bell, The Pond at Charleston, East Sussex (1916)
Ivon Hitchens, Curved Barn (1922)
The exhibition was kindly supported by:
