Blindart present Touching Art Touching You

Until 5 September, Hove Museum & Art Gallery, 19 New Church Road, Hove, East Sussex

Touching Art Touching You, a fresh and unique concept in the visual arts comes to Hove Museum & Art Gallery on 12 June.  The exhibition breaks traditional barriers by actively encouraging visitors to experience and explore the art on display through touch and other senses. The experience challenges the notion that sight is essential for creating and enjoying exceptional art. 

The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures and installations, including sound, drawn from the permanent collection of BlindArt. BlindArt is a charity which promotes contemporary works by visually impaired and sighted artists, showcasing them side by side and challenging the public to tell the difference.

Touching Art Touching You appeals to a wide ranging audience, including visually impaired visitors as well as children and families who can enjoy the freedom to explore the art through touch.
Phone: 03000 290900
Fax: 01273 292827
visitor.services@brighton-hove.gov.uk
www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk/Museums/hovemuseum/Pages/home.aspx
 

Outside In at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery

Touring Exhibition in partnership with Pallant House Gallery

Until 12 September, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Johns Place, Bohemia Road, Hastings

Outside In is a groundbreaking project which invites debate on Outsider Art. It provides a platform for artists who are marginalised due to health, disability or other social circumstances.

This exhibition brings together the work and talent of a wide variety of artists who have had little or no contact with the institutions of hte mainstream art world, and who have rarely received any formal recognition or training despite producing art of a high quality that is both highly personal and idiosyncratic.
Phone: 01424 451052
Fax: 01424 451165
museum@hastings.gov.uk
www.hmag.org.uk
www.outsidein.org.uk

Image above: Untitled painting by Adrian Mundy

David Dixon presents Entangled Practice

Until 4 September, Art Jericho, 6 King Street, Oxford, OX2 6DF
Open: Wed - Sat 10am - 5pm.

David Dixon is a nationally exhibiting installation artist, currently based in the South of England. Uncertainty, impermanence and the active role of subjectivity are central to his work, which refers to modern physics and cognitive science.

More recently, this work has been evolving into an increasingly process-oriented exploration, often expressing itself through the use of particle-based materials such as dyed rice-flour and quartz powder.

He uses the impermanency of the unfixed dust, and it's potential to be damaged, in order to frame the work as a process rather than a discrete object.

The use of books is also an important element in his work. As well as being multi-facetted cultural devices, rich with associations of history, knowledge, identity and memory, he also uses them in a sculptural way, emphasising their phenomenological aspects.
The installations he builds grow organically, usually starting from a set of initial conditions. These conditions can be an environmental or contextual element, such as the architecture of the room. They regularly stem from a particular scientific model that he is working with at the time.
artjericho@hotmail.co.uk
www.artjericho.com

Intoart book launch: See the Revolutionary Art Exhibit

Thursday 16 September Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1
Time: 7pm

For this special event, Intoart will discuss their new book 'See The Revolutionary Art Exhibit' recalling their exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, earlier this year.

Artists from Intoart will be opening the pages of the book through live readings, conversation and performance alongside contributors to the book including: Malcolm Bull, Lenka Clayton, Daniel Lehan, Harold Offeh, Rob Tufnell and Ashley Whitfield.

Everyone is welcome to take part in the conversations and we welcome people to share responses to our exhibition and to the book. While there will be scheduled readings during the evening, there will also be time to talk and to investigate what Intoart do.
Places are limited. You will need to book your place for this event in advance by contacting Intoart
Mobile: 07951 165567
info@intoart.org.uk
www.intoart.org.uk

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