John Dashwood

John Dashwood in his studio, November 2009

Katarzyna Coleman

Kate in her studio, 23.11.09

Culture in Great Yarmouth

Have you got any views as to what 'culture' signifies? What are you views about culture in Great Yarmouth? What events/activities do you participate in or what would you like to see being offered? How do you get to know about what is going on? What sort of things do you know about but do not attend/visit/join in and why? We would like to see discussion amongst the grassroots arts community via the interactive website www.eastcoastnet.org.

Exhibition at Mandell's Gallery, Norwich

Black Moon by John Kiki, 2009

15th October - 14th November, 2009
Exhibition of work by John Kiki, with some sculpture by Bridget Heriz, at Mandell's Gallery, Elm Hill, Norwich (www.mandellsgallery.co.uk).

AGM

Please note that the ARC AGM will take place at 145 Southtown Road, Great Yarmouth on 29th October, 2009, 7.30pm.

TOM & MURIEL MALLIN MEMORIAL EXHIBITION, HALESWORTH

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A MEMORIAL EXHIBITION OF TOM & MURIEL MALLIN'S WORK at THE HALESWORTH GALLERY, STEEPLE END, HALESWORTH, SUFFOLK
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH TO WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16TH
11AM TO 5PM DAILY (SUNDAYS, 2PM TO 5PM)
Also showing: work by David Thompson - one time Times Critic and Director of the ICA.

You are also invited to the Private View - Friday September 4th from 6.30pm - RSVP 07775 870392

YOU ARE ALSO INVITED TO ATTEND
AN EVENING OF POETRY & MUSIC
WITH GERALD NASON, RUPERT MALLIN & ANDREW OSBORN
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH FROM 8.30PM
TICKETS £4 - INCLUDING REFRESHMENTS - PHONE JAN MARTIN ON 01986 872409

Ip-Art Festival

Bridget Heriz is exhibiting a number of her recent constructions in card and wire at the Robert Cross Hall, Corn Exchange, Ipswich as part of the 7th Ip-Art Festival taking place in Ipswich this July. She is exhibiting with Young Blood - a group of artists, printmakers and sculptors that if not young now, were in the 1980s when Andrew Casey first began organising shows of their work in Ipswich. As part of the reunion, Andrew has also organised a small twin exhibition in Woodbridge at the recently opened RE+new gallery in the Thoroughfare. The RE+new exhibition runs from Saturday 4th to Saturday 18th July and the Ip-Art exhibition runs from 27th June to 11th July 2009. For more information about the Ip-Art Festival go to www.ip-art.com.

The Novus Centre

Derek Jackson and Katarzyna Coleman, both members of ARC, have been amongst the first to exhibit at the new Novus Centre venue on the Conge in Great Yarmouth. Both exhibitions featured images of Great Yarmouth, Derek's of the outer harbour construction and Katarzyna's of the industrial scene along the inner harbour.

John Dashwood

John has published a book of forty-eight poems called "The Giro Years" and is making sales around town!

EastCoastNet

EastCoastNet is now up and running. http://www.eastcoastnet.org/.

Toby from NeonTube delivered a training session at the Priory Centre on Friday 12th June, to which we invited some of the groups who had expressed interested during the trial of the site-build. Quill Writing Group came along, Great Yarmouth and District Photographic Society, Dragons Stage School and others.

Next ARC meeting

The next ARC meeting will be on 14th May at 8.00 p.m., at the Internet Cafe, 2 Broad Row, Great Yarmouth. Harry Harold will be attending to demonstrate EastCoastNet and to get feedback. For anybody who wants to meet for a drink prior to this we are gathering at the Star at 7.30 p.m.

Katarzyna will be exhibiting at Norwich Theatre Royal from the 13th May 2009.

Click on the image to read information.

Exhibiting Space at the Novus Centre

Derek Jackson is showing a set of photographs of the outer harbour at the Novus Centre from the 29th May, 2009. The gallery space is to the left of reception and visitors are welcome.

The new Novus Centre on The Conge, Great Yarmouth, has wall space in the spacious lobby to show contemporary artworks -a hanging system has been installed and insurance is provided. If you are interested, contact Sue Warnes at GY Enterprise on 0800 458 0146 or email info@enterpriseGY.co.uk.

EastCoastNet

ARC has been offered a grant from Community Builder (Neighbourhood Renewal Fund) to create an interactive internet site as a resource for all artists and arts groups and organisations in and around the Borough of Great Yarmouth. Watch this space! The site is being designed and built at the moment so now is a good time to make any suggestions or to put together a wish list for what the site might offer. Email suggestions to b.herizsmith@btinternet.com.

GYPFilm

Manuel has asked for these links to be posted to the blog:
http://gypfilm.blogspot.com/2009/04/out-there-international-arts-festival.html
http://gypfilm.blogspot.com/2009/04/link.html
http://gypfilm.blogspot.com/2009/04/links-update.html

Jason Parr

Jason has created a film which is being shown at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich on the 18th March at the Late Junction which is free to get in and starts 7pm till 9pm with various acts, artists, also poetry. Jason will be downstairs in the studio showing the 9 minute film which was edited from a 9 hour performance on the 9th September working on nine different things - writing, drawing, guitar, wood carving, painting, stone carving, conversation, piano and reading. Jason showed the film at our last meeting - it's good!

Anything new?

I have been leant some back issues of Studio which have made really interesting reading. An article by Alexander Watt in the March 1960 issue comments on interviews held with six foreign artists working in Paris. One, Christoforou, born in London in 1921 of Greek parents, decided to move to Paris in 1957 because "In England I had the good fortune to have had the support of a few private individuals, but otherwise ..... the official art world, controlled as it is by a few pompous chauvinists, has turned art into an instrument of national prestige in a crude and prejudiced sense." Another, Grimm, complained that "Art is no longer a matter of creating: it has become a mass production."

ARC MEETING, FEB 12, 2009

ARC MEETING, GT YARMOUTH, THURSDAY, FEB 12 (AT BRIDGET'S)

Those attending: Bridget, Mark S, Kate, John D, Jason, Darren, Lou, Rupert and Shirley

1.BOROUGH-WIDE COMMUNITY ARTS/ARTISTS WEBSITE

Bridget outlined the idea again and went through a email exchanges she's had with Harry Harold, a website builder, discussing the pros and cons of blogs and sites and costs.

Darren suggested the proposed site should be a 'forum' website rather than a blog – a site that could be both accessible to the visitor and user friendly to all those who post to it – both ARC members and members of GY organisations, together with other artists in the vicinity. Darren further suggested his work could be viewed at the following:-
www.thesunrisecoast.co.uk
www.thegreatunsigned.com
www.urbanshadow.net

There was much discussion about the purpose and nature of such a website. For registering a name and hosting it was felt vital that one person takes charge of this. It was unanimously decided that Bridget would take charge of this project.

Choosing a name for the site was the most difficult task. Should it have Great Yarmouth in the title, wholly focussed on its locality but, perhaps, limiting its appeal via the internet?
Here are ideas and possible words we came up with which might (or might not) be helpful in finding an appropriate title:-
HAVEN – HARBOUR – THREE RIVERS – THREE RIVERS DANCE – ARK – TIDE – SURGE – EAST COAST – ARTS- HUB – COMMUNITY – COMMUNE – CULTURE – CULTURE SHOCK – COLLECTIVE – CONFERENCE – YARE – YEAH...

As time was pressing it was decided to a) thoroughly look at Darren's sites and b) each chew over a name for our next meeting. ANY suggests for a name can be sent to me in the mean time rupertmallin@supanet.com
Note: publicity for the site, funding, costs, etc, will be fully discussed at the next meeting.

ARC 2009 PHOTO/FILM/ART EXHIBITION/EVENT
After considering all possible venues (see below) it was agreed that this exhibition could be run over a long weekend as “an exhibition as an event” as there will not only be photos on walls but film showings of artists' work too.

It was agreed that the event would have a wider artistic remit than ARC itself, though centred on the group itself.

With the library out of action, a suitable venue is a priority. We considered Christchurch, the Town Hall, a club (Zen), Ferry House, Gorleston Library, Ocean Rooms, the Toll House, Community Centres, Brett's Warehouse and The Arcade. With the closure of Woolworths and Curry's it was felt that we should contact agents for these properties. Kate suggested a long weekend in summer and this was agreed.

Action: Mark will establish contact with Woolies, and Rupert and Mark will meet to look at venues before the next meeting (in two weeks' time).

A big thankyou to Bridget for coffee, tea, biscuits and generous hospitality!

Forthcoming exhibition

BRIDGET HERIZ

Chalk Hill Gallery, Guildford, 6th - 22nd March 2009

http://www.chalkhill.co.uk/

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all in ARC (and readers here). My Rupert's Blog is four years old today! Not only will you find over 1,000 entries but a links list of over 100, connecting to art and culture websites and blogs all over the shop!

Here is one of scores of monoprints I'm working on titled The Wall.

Best wishes, Rupert