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A new interactive exhibition launching this week is set to explore the ways in which people connect and form relationships across multiple venues and art forms.
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On Thursday 3 November, ArtHouse Jersey is launching an interactive, multi-media and multi-site exhibition that explores how people connect.
Entitled 'Skipton Big Ideas: Human Connections', it is spread across three venues where visitors will encounter sculptures, film, installations, interactive technology, theatre, filmed portraits and a laboratory.
Through "passing glimpses of unknown figures to skin cell DNA, ceremonial practices and invisible transactions of love", this exhibition is set to explore human "depths and complexities, both intimate and collective".
The key attractions on offer as part of Human Connections include:
'People We Love' is a gallery exhibition held at Capital House from 3 November to 17 December, between 10:30 and 18:00 each day.
Organisers explained: “Earlier in the year, islanders were invited to take part in the artwork where they were filmed gazing at a picture of someone they love.
“Visitors will be met with the penetrating gaze of the artwork’s subjects, inviting them to feel each unspoken story as the faces tell the tale of someone they love.
“People We Love explores the invisible transaction between a person, a piece of art and that emotion which bonds us all: love.”
This interactive installation will be installed at the Maritime Museum, running every day from 10:30 to 16:00 between 3 November to 17 December.
'Totem' was created by a London-based creative studio specialising in performance arts and interactive technology,
Organisers explained: “Totem is an immersive ritualistic experience that invites audiences to explore human connectedness through a techno-reinvention of an ancestral spirit being, a sacred object, and a symbolic representation of tribal cohesion and harmony - The Totem.
“Although its beliefs and functions vary between cultures, a common purpose of this symbol is connection. The Totem was believed to strengthen the group's unity and maintain ties to ancestors, consciousness and the community."
This performance and artistic ceremony will be held at Capital House from 12 to 18 November.
Artist Fred Martin immerses participants’ faces in a bath of clay to create an expressive cast. The casts are then used to create plaster copies of the faces of the people who participate in this ceremonial practice and finally brought together to create a magnificent communal artwork.
Organised explained: "The masks do not conceal but rather reveal the most minute and intimate details of a face, in an authentic experience based on sharing and bringing people together.”
You can book a slot HERE.
This participatory performance experience will be held at The Yard from 3 November to 16 December on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
'Etiquette' is a half-hour experience for two people in a public space.
Organisers said: “There is no-one watching, no ‘audience’ as such - other people in the cafe are not particularly aware of it happening. You wear headphones which tell you what to say to each other, or to use one of the objects positioned on the table. There is a kind of magic involved - for it to work you just need to listen and respond accordingly.
“It offers the fantasy of speaking with someone without having to plan what you say and the resulting thrill of disowning responsibility in a performance situation. Conversation is shown to be a kind of theatre whereby 'audience' and 'actor' roles are imperceptibly assumed and exchanged.
“Etiquette exposes human communication at both its rawest and most delicate and explores the difficulty of turning our thoughts into words we can trust. A young girl and an old man lead the participants into several micro-situations, often borrowed from film or theatre, wherein the private worlds shared between two people split and reform incessantly.”
You can book a slot HERE.
Other upcoming exhibitions and events across the island include:
Local artists Kathy Rondel and Michele Snape draw inspiration from their natural surroundings in their new exhibition, 'Believe in Magic'.
Kathy said: “I am a collector of the small, seemingly insignificant things that others might overlook and with an ever growing collection of leaves, seeds, shells, stones and suchlike.”
Their showcase is inspired by the words of Ronald Dahl: “Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are aways hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
The exhibition commences with a drinks preview on 3 November from 17:00 and 19:00, open to all.
It will run daily between the 4 and 25 November, from 10:00 until 16:00, excluding Sundays, at The Merchants House.
ArtHouse Jersey will be hosting a pop-up sea-inspired art exhibition series this weekend, featuring underwater photographs by Nicola Miskin and paintings by Annabel Godfray, inspired by the sea.
Islanders are invited to visit Greve de Lecq Barracks on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 October between 10:00 and 17:00 where both artists will be present to talk about their works.
Nicola Miskin said: “Swimming in the sea all year round and photographing underwater opened my eyes to a beautiful world. The ever-changing sea is a studio of colours, patterns and reflections. The sea brought back my photographic creativity which had laid dormant for many years.
“We are both excited to be exhibiting at the Barracks. Greve de Lecq is one of our favourite places to swim and it will be very special to be able to show our work near the sea where our inspiration came from."
Annabel Godfray said “Beginning to dip all year around forced my artistic hand to put brush, pencil and cocktail stick to paper and canvas.
"I delight in using colour, sometimes with surprising results, allowing the work to dictate where it wants to lead me.”
More information can be found HERE.
The weekly 'Men-Ships' event at the Harbour Gallery aims to combat the rising issue of depression and social isolation among men by offering engaging activities every Thursday throughout November.
Inspired by the UK's Men's Sheds program, it provides a platform for men to learn new skills, make friends, and improve their mental well-being.
Priced at £10 per session or £40 for a five-session package, each session includes a drink and an activity. Activities include cooking, quick-fire chess, music, photography, and Lego building.
Pat Robson, who is organising the event, encouraged men to come along.
“We are really friendly, very inviting, and love having a good laugh – don't feel awkward about coming!” she said.
To book a place, you can email info@theharbourgalleryjersey.com or call 01534 743044.
This weekend is your last chance to see an exhibition that showcases body casts from 15 islanders affected by breast cancer.
‘This is Me’, which runs until 30 October, encourages islanders to 'Touch, Look, Check’ their breasts for lumps, swelling or rashes which could be a sign of cancer.
Sponsored by Marks and Spencer, the casts will be featured in their King Street shop windows and the store's lingerie department and fitting rooms.
The exhibition marks 'Pink Month' or Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and is organised by ABC Jersey – a local charity building 'A Brighter Community' for islanders living with the disease.
CCA Galleries has announced a new exhibition at the gallery featuring a new series of paintings and etchings by artist Tim Le Breuilly, a recipient of the 2022 Jersey Summer Exhibition Prize.
Taking inspiration from real, imagined or local places, Tim's new works assimilate human emotion, memory and personal experience into landscapes and seascapes.
The compositions he portrays may be drawn from the real world, harkening back to familiar locations or distant travel destinations, or they might be born from the depths of his imagination, materialised into existence to encapsulate the essence of a feeling.
Regardless of their origin, these landscapes become a blank canvas for the viewer's own imagination, allowing them to wander through the artist's emotional terrain.
The show opened yesterday and will continue until Friday 17 November. Find out more HERE.
St Martin’s Bonfire is set to return this year with fire jugglers, sparklers, music, food and drink.
The lighting of the bonfire promises to be “spectacular”, according to organiser Danny Wherry, although the theme remains a secret.
The event will take place on Saturday 4 November on the green opposite St Martin’s Public Hall.
Gates open at 18:00, the bonfire is lit at 18:30, and the firework display starts at 20:30.
Entry costs £6 for adults and £3 for children, with proceeds going to Jersey Child Care Trust.
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