Aldeburgh ART 2012
The Visual Art Festival
Saturday 2nd - Tuesday 5th June
Diamond Bank Holiday
The Big Picture
The Eye, The Idea and The Emotion
Buy your festival ticket now!
Festival VIP tickets (all six key events) are £30 each which includes free fish n chip art chats on 4th & 5th June. Festival VIP tickets also allow entry to several free events over the four days including a film projection of Chris Newson's The Storm onto Maggi Hambling's Scallop on Aldeburgh Beach, The Festival Party, private art openings and much more.
Single events are £10 each at the door.
Exhibitions, performances, talks, fish n chip art chats, plays, parties and more.
In its second year, Aldeburgh ART attracts some of the art world’s most erudite personalities, as well as showcasing Suffolk’s vibrant art scene with pop up events all around Aldeburgh.
Daily Installations at the South Lookout (2nd to 5th June)
Click here to see the Gut Club
Click here to see Gar Bar Amotz
Saturday 2nd June
LOOKOUT 1st Installation on the theme of Nude Descending a Staircase (Marcel Duchamp's 1912 iconoclastic work of art).
11.00 am The Mayor launches Aldeburgh ART
11.30 am Fringe artists exhibit at The Lounge, White Lion Hotel
12 - 2 pm Roger Hardy opening courtesy of James & Stephanie Powell. (open to VIP festival ticket holders only.
4.00 pm White Spirit Arts. Private View at The Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh
5.00 pm Roger Hilton & Cedar Lewisohn Drawing Exhibition at The Art House, 31 Crag Path
10 am - 5 pm Kim Edwards 2D & 3D mixed media and printmaking workshop at Eastways, Back Road, Middleton, IP17 3NY. Tel 01728 648181
10 am - 5 pm White Spirit Arts exhibit at The Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery, 51 High Street, Aldeburghh
10 am - 5 pm Drew Whitemore, Drill Works exhibits at Write The Blurb, 179 High Street, Aldeburgh
Purple Snail at OC Butchers, 129 High Street, Aldeburgh
6.00 - 8.00 pm Festival Party at the Lookout. (Open to VIP festival ticket holders only)
10.00 pm Son et Lumiere on Aldeburgh Beach. Chris Newson projects his film The Storm onto Maggi Hambling's Scallop.
Sunday 3rd June
LOOKOUT 2nd installation on the theme of Nude Descending a Staircase (Marcel Duchamp's 1912 iconoclastic work of art).
10.00 am Anna Toppin Opening (Open to VIP festival ticket holders only)
11.00 am Kate Giles at St Peter and St Paul's Parish Church, Aldeburgh courtesy of Rev Celia Cooke
3.30 - 5.30 pm Sculpture at Glemham Hall courtesy of Major Philip and Mrs Hope-Cobbold
7.30 - 10.30 pm Proms on the Beach (White Lion Hotel)
10 am - 5 pm White Spirit Arts at The Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery, 51 HIgh Street, Aldeburgh
10 am - 5 pm Drew Whitemore exhibits at Write The Blurb, 179 High Street, Aldeburgh courtesy of Lucy Foppa
Purple Snail at OC Butchers, 129 High Street, Aldeburgh courtesy of James Sta
Monday 4th June at The Jubilee Hall
LOOKOUT 3rd installation on the theme of Nude Descending a Staircase (Marcel Duchamp's 1912 iconoclastic work of art).
10.30 am The Idea: Razia Iqbal introduces Aldeburgh ART, the theme of the Big Picture, the Eye, the Idea and the Emotion and Simon Wilson, former TATE curator.
12 noon The Eye: Martin Gayford, Art Historian talks on David Hockney
1.30 pm Fish n Chip Art Chat (free to all VIP festival ticket holders only)
3.30 pm The Emotion: Razia Iqbal introduces discussion on Roger Hilton
7.30 pm The Emotion: Botallack O'Clock, the highly acclaimed play written by Eddie Elkes and starring Danny Frost about the last days of the painter Roger Hilton.
Tuesday 5th June at the Jubilee Hall
LOOKOUT 4th installation on the theme of Nude Descending a Staircase (Marcel Duchamp's 1912 iconoclastic work of art).
11.30 am The Idea: Cedar Lewisohn presents the legacy of Duchamp, conceptual art now.
1.00 pm Fish n Chip Art Chat (free to all VIP Festival ticket holders only)
3.00 pm The Eye: Razia Iqbal in conversation with the painter, Sargy Mann who despite losing his sight continues to paint. Film, conversation and book signing.
Contact Caroline Wiseman or Candida Crockett Aldeburgh ART .
T: 01728 452754 E: caroline@carolinewiseman.com
www.carolinewiseman.com / www.aldeburghart.com
To see exhibition page please click here
The artistic philosophies of David Hockney (The Eye) and of Marcel Duchamp (The Idea) are reevaluated by Aldeburgh ART with art historian, Martin Gayford and former Tate curator, Simon Wilson with BBC Arts Correspondent, Razia Iqbal.
This Spring, David Hockney's show in London heralds a re-awakening of the timeless value of looking and 2012 is 100 years since Duchamp's first iconoclastic art works. These most famously 'the urinal', emphasised the importance of idea, led directly to conceptualism, (the dominant 'ism' of the contemporary art world) and Duchamp's reputation as the most influential artist arguably still now in the 21st century.
Serious art discussion is lightened with fish n chip art chats. The four days devoted to visual art are jam packed with exhibitions, performances, plays, installations, parties and a vibrant fringe with pop up art events all around Aldeburgh. Other artists under the spotlight include the important modernist painter Roger Hilton and the Suffolk based blind painter, Sargy Mann.
If you are a volunteer and would like to be involved in AldeburghART please email us on caroline@carolinewiseman.com or telephone 0207 622 2500 / 01728 452754.
To see the film from Aldeburgh ART 2011 please click here.
Image: Peter Blake RA, A Walk Along Aldeburgh Beach, Screenprint, 2011.