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82-year-old Kay Le Seelleur Ara has launched her first ever solo exhibition this week featuring hundreds of original works of art, paintings and drawings in a unique and inviting setting styled in the theme of one of the Royal Academy of Arts rooms for Academicians.
Every weekend, Express presents a selection of exhibitions, performances, workshops, events and other historic, creative and delicious content to help islanders get their weekly dose of culture.
An exhibition by one of Jersey’s leading contemporary artists, Kay Le Seelleur Ara aka ‘Mrs Magnitude', has opened this week.
'Mrs Magnitude’s Emporium' will feature hundreds of original works of art, paintings and drawings that Kay has made since a life changing moment in 2019, and promises to be a fun and wild journey into the brilliantly inventive, sharp humour and gender politics of Kay's extraordinary body of work.
Kay Le Seelleur Ara regularly posts her work on Instagram and has gained a diverse and growing audience of followers from around the world, ranging from fans in the Australian outback to world-class New York painters and critics.
Her work can be explored via her three Instagram handles; @kay_leseelleur, @kays_telly_doodles and @mrs_magnitude.
'Mrs Magnitude’s Emporium' will run at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House until 20 August 2023.
Nao Victoria replaces the previously announced planned visit of El Galeón, a replica of a 17th century Spanish merchant ship which suffered mechanical issues and had to be confined to port in Saint Malo.
The ship, which was built in 1991, is be open to the public until Sunday, with tickets available from a stall on the Albert Pier.
The Spanish food festival, which was planned to coincide with the arrival of El Galeón, will still be going ahead, from 12:00 to 20:00 from Friday to Sunday.
Complementing the food offered by Classic Catering and Mr Churros, there will be live music between 16:00 and 20:00 across the three days.
The live music line-up is as follows:
Friday: 16:00 - Wici band; 17:00: Alfie Butel; 18:00: Acoustic Shock.
Saturday: 16:00 - Wici band; 17:00: Colin Lever; 18:00: Acoustic Shock.
Sunday: 16:00 - Kacey Godfrey; 17:00 - Cindy Marques; 18:00: Nic Dinnie.
The Harbour Gallery's summer exhibition 'Art by the Harbourside' opened this week, featuring an array of work by over 70 local artists.
Located at The Harbour Gallery at 19 The Quay, Commercial Buildings, the exhibition is open 7 days a week from 09:30-17:30.
Richard Pedley is gearing up to perform his one-man-show ‘The Shipwrecked Magician’ at the Arts Centre on Saturday 22 July at 14:00 and 19:00, a show which asks: ‘What would happen if a magician found himself marooned on an island inhabited by a real-life witch?’
Inspired by the Greek myth of Odysseus, who unwittingly found himself on the island of Aiaia, the home of sorceress Circe, Richard’s latest show grapples with how far you can rely on your senses, performing on a desert island, and how to deal a sorceress who may not be so keen on modern day company...
Blending comedy and illusion, this show puts an exciting twist on the normal power dynamics of magic shows; rather than the performer always being in control, in this show the audience will often see more of what’s going on than he will.
Tickets are available via the Arts Centre Box Office by calling 01534 700444 or online.
Artists Susanne Kudielka and Esther Rose Parkes Heinrichs will be running two lullaby-writing workshops on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 July at Grève de Lecq Barracks.
These sessions are open to anyone wishing to write a lullaby and no previous writing or musical experience is necessary.
The Lullaby Project is an initiative that hopes to create a diverse portrait of Jersey's lullabies by capturing the many much-loved bedtime songs that are sung around Island homes.
The workshops will look at the traditional lullaby song form and explore different ways of writing a lullaby for a special person using prompts, objects and musical instruments to support the creative process.
The aim is to leave the five-hour workshop with a completed lullaby at the end of the workshop and participants will receive an audio recording after the session.
Attendees are asked to bring a minimum of one meaningful object to the workshop; everything else will be provided.
Suggested ticket price, including lunch, is between £5-10.
Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Channel Islands Pride has announced the first in a series of 'pride'-themed events taking place in September, including brunch, bingo, and a make-up masterclass.
This show will present the work of two recently graduated artists on Sunday 19 and Sunday 20 August at Greve De Lecq Barracks Studios.
Shan O'Donnell studied BA Documentary Photography at USW Cardiff. Shan's practice is informed by photographs, text, audio, moving stills and archival research.
Nicolle Sheppard is a multimedia practitioner. The pieces that she will be presenting examine flexibility, scale and adaptability.
Robert Allen has been making and exhibiting art for over 20 years in Jersey, the UK and Italy.
He studied sculpture and drawing at Falmouth College of Art in Cornwall, and this is where he discovered the abstract expressionist artists of St Ives such as Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. He has always loved the combination of their abstract visual language that had roots in the landscapes and seascapes around them.
During university, he also studied in Milan where he had a very different urban environment and stimuli to react against with his work. The thought and art-making processes that he learnt in both these places are the foundation of how he works today.
The use of his immediate landscape as inspiration for my work has been a constantly evolving subject. His aim is to create artwork that describes not just the physical aspects of a place but the sensation of being there.
You can view some of Robert's work at the Link Gallery, Jersey Museum until 29 July 2023.
There is also the opportunity to meet the artist and see more of his work at Le Hocq Tower, St Clement Coast Road on Saturday 22 and Saturday 29 July, from 12:00-18:00 both days.
Next month, Capital House will play host to an ambitious multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring the work of acclaimed UK, international and Jersey-based artists that explores the concept of 'home' in the 21st century.
The exhibition also sees ArtHouse Jersey extending far beyond its gallery walls, with intriguing, playful and participatory artworks around the island.
We may all yearn for a home, but this can be changed with political, social and economic realities. Histories and territorial borders fracture and shift, rules change, ecological and climate changes and mass migration can all impact on the intimate and incredibly fragile idea of what we call home.
Curated by Rosalind Davis and Laura Hudson, 'No Place Like Home' brings both existing and newly commissioned works by artists including Rachel Ara, George Bolster, Sasha Bowles, Justin Hibbs, Ana Cvorovic, Peter Liversidge, Lindsay Rutter, Will Romeril and Lisa Traxier.
This timely, island-wide show invites you to rethink our encounter with 'Home' on a subtle and cosmic journey across Jersey and beyond.
It will take place on Tuesday 5 September – Sunday 15 October.
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