Open House
Nov. 29th, 2025 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo A bunch of creatives got together in 2008 to celebrate the opening of the Towner Gallery by forming an organisation called Eastbourne Artists. It's still going strong- and promotes (among other things) a twice yearly Open House event- with artists throwing open their houses, galleries, workshops etc to visitors. Earlier this year we discovered in informal conversation that a whole lot of us Quakers were practising arts and crafts on the sly and decided to join in and fill the Meeting House with our stuff and open it on the day.
And the day has come. We were down at the Meeting House yesterday afternoon, making it look as much like an art gallery as we could- and today I- and several others- will be curating the result.
One thing we really want to show off is the wall hanging we commissioned from the women's art collective- Studio 11 +. We gave them the room to work in for free and they gave us the completed work- a sweet deal. I love it when there's mutual gifting and no money changes hands. The work- called Into the Light: The Quaker Way- was completed and installed a week or two back.
I'm showing five of my watercolours. I'd like to have shown some of my AI work- if only because it's more recent- but I'd rather not get into the debate about whether it's art or not.....
And the day has come. We were down at the Meeting House yesterday afternoon, making it look as much like an art gallery as we could- and today I- and several others- will be curating the result.
One thing we really want to show off is the wall hanging we commissioned from the women's art collective- Studio 11 +. We gave them the room to work in for free and they gave us the completed work- a sweet deal. I love it when there's mutual gifting and no money changes hands. The work- called Into the Light: The Quaker Way- was completed and installed a week or two back.
I'm showing five of my watercolours. I'd like to have shown some of my AI work- if only because it's more recent- but I'd rather not get into the debate about whether it's art or not.....
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Date: 2025-11-29 09:49 am (UTC)As ever, we were tempted but had recently spent on art from both Ludlow and the Ironbridge gallery!
It's also next door to the local independent bookshop so multiple temptations!
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Date: 2025-11-30 07:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-11-29 03:14 pm (UTC)Indeed AI art it’s art and who are disagreed then fuck off.
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Date: 2025-11-30 07:21 am (UTC)There were those who said photography wasn't an art- and they were wrong too.
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Date: 2025-11-29 03:39 pm (UTC)How great your watercolors will be shown.
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Date: 2025-11-30 07:22 am (UTC)I'd never shown my watercolours before. One of my friends said they were "terrifying".