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Play Interact Explore, is an exhibition developed by Lucy Cran and Bill Leslie, in collaboration with community groups in Eastbourne and Brighton.

The exhibition explores play, collaboration and materials. Featuring large, tactile sculptural objects and colourful assemblages, everything in the space is interactive. Lively, exciting and curiosity-filled, Play Interact Explore is designed to support and encourage taking part in different ways to create sculptures, take photographs, move things around, rock, roll, stack and play.

Inspired by the Brazilian song ‘Um Girassol da Cor de Seu Cabelo’, Claire Fahys’ exhibition ‘Viento Solar, or ‘Solar Wind’, follows a  residency in Mexico City reflecting on the pulsating spirit and light of the city.

In her paintings Fahys pays close attention to colour planes and subdivisions, at the same time, she manipulates space and form by stripping away extraneous details and allowing raw canvas to peer through. This breakdown of edges, opens up her paintings for energy to move freely within them.

The World at Our Command illustrates the importance of intimacy within platonic relationships. Defined by overlapping compositions that echo surrealist photomontages, Bobbie Essers’ fragmented canvases are full of limbs, bodies, clothes and accessories taken from candid photographs of her friends.   The exhibition demonstrates the maturity with which the artist is developing her contemporary portraiture.

For her debut exhibition, Daria Blum’s, Drip Drip Point Warp Spin Buckle Rot, transforms the space into an enveloping, multimedia installation. Immersive video and sound pieces spark an evocative dialogue with the architecture of the gallery itself.  Blum’s artistic practice draws on movement, choreography, and staging.  Regular live performances are complemented by photographs.

Studio Origins, is an exhibition by Lygia Clark (1920 – 1988).  It comprises early works, often smaller scale, which function as studies and proposals for larger paintings and sculptures; many never exhibited before.

The exhibition, Testing the Objects of Affection is an overview of Alison Wilding’s 50-year career, spanning work from 1975 to the present day.  This exhibition provides an insight into the scale at which Wilding works. Small scale-sculptures made from an array of materials including bronze, alabaster, brass, copper, Iranian string, wax, forged iron, wire and a feather are presented on a worktable.  Elsewhere, large-scale floor-based and free-standing works are shown in conversation with intimate wall-based works

Nairy Baghramian makes sculptures that ask you to reconsider your sense of self, space and relation to the object.  Made from materials such as marble, wood, metal and resin, her sculptures often respond to the surrounding environment, engaging with architecture and people. Using a wide range of techniques, they subtly explore connections between art and other creative industries, such as interior design, dance and theatre.  Tumbled Alphabet brings together sculptures from the artist’s Misfits series, disrupting the idea of children’s building toys in which pieces fit together perfectly.

Sikelela Owen RA, in her exhibition, Where My Gaze Falls pays attention to the nature and spirit of communion, particularly the familial and socio-cultural events that underpin and shape our everyday encounters.

Adeela Suleman is known for the social and political commentary underlying her sculptures, which are created out of everyday objects. The recurring motifs in Suleman’s work – organic subjects such as birds and flowers – form detailed, repetitive patterns, which are replete with symbolic meaning.

In Exit the Tiger: Symbols of Valour in Tipu’s India, she reflects on the tumultuous life of Tipu Sultan, his conflicts, resistance and the legacy he left behind.

Carol Douglas paints with acrylic, applying it to the canvas using rollers rather than the traditional paint brush to build the paint up layer after layer, with a warm palette of greys, browns and mustards. Influenced by Outsider Art, Art Brut and Folk Art – terms used to describe art with a naïve and decorative quality – her alluring paintings in Actually I Can, depict recognisable household objects and people in domestic settings, and are inspired by her experiences of everyday life.