Unique Brighton News – Catwalk stars sought

Ladies, do you think you have what it takes to glide down the catwalk with the professionals? To find out if you have star quality enter our competition and grab the chance to win a moment of glory on the catwalk on 9th April from 2pm at the Thistle Hotel, Brighton.

All entrants must be between 16 and 24.

All you need to do is send a picture of yourself along with your measurements (height/bust/waist/hips) and details of any modelling or dance experience to jbusby@uniquebrighton.com.

The closing date for entries is 25 March 2011. The winner will be informed in early April and will be invited for a fitting and rehearsal (date to be confirmed) and then to the Thistle to join the models for a day on 9th April.

The winner will also get a free makeover from Zena McCarthy and haircut from Ciscos Karma.

Two runners up will win a meal for two at the Thistle and all entrants will have the opportunity to be selected for the Face of Sussex pageant.

www.uniquebrighton.com

‘Laluna’ at the Hop Gallery

Brighton artists Christina Fedyk, Irene Marot and Christina Reading feature in an exhibition at the Hop Gallery, Lewes entitled “Laluna“. In this show, the artists challenge their preferences and paint a world which is populated by the memories and images of their own histories.

Opening hours  Tuesday – Saturday 10.30am-5pm, Sunday 12noon – 5pm

Closed on Mondays.

Raise money for The Martlets by knitting!

Cocoon Knits in Hove has launched an appeal to raise money for the Martlets by yarn bombing an open top Brighton double decker bus – so get knitting.

Cocoon are calling on experienced, beginners or just curious knitters to pick up their needles and help. Each participant will collect sponsors and knit a minimum of three 15cm x 15cm squares. Knit any colour or combination of pattern you wish.

To celebrate the end of the project The Woolly Bus  will be driven along Brighton seafront on the 20th August with contributors and guests aboard. After the event all blankets will be broken down and sent to Africa with the help of Knit a Square charity to help keep AIDS orphans warm.

The aim is to raise over £40,000 for the Martlets Hospice.

For a sponsorship pack please either collect a form from any Martlets shop or Cocoon, 10 George Street, Hove or email your name, address and email to: hayley@cocoonknits.co.uk

All aplicants do need to register first.

www.cocoonknits.co.uk/pages/the-woolly-bus/6862

Ruins – Lara Viana, A Permanent Project at The Regency Town House

RUINS ~ Lara Viana, a Permament Project at the Regency Townhouse, Hove

“Allegories are, in the realm of thoughts, what ruins are in the realm of things”

Walter Benjamin [1]

Working at the cusp between abstraction and figuration, found objects and images are most frequently the starting point for many of Viana’s paintings. With thinly applied brushstrokes Viana breaks up the image and reconstructs what she sees allowing the paint to uncover a new image lost from its original source, now transformed into a relic of what it once was. Painterly gestures become tools to obfuscate obvious imagery or subject matter.

(Lara Viana’s works) “… radiate a peculiar energy that sits somewhere between the fuzzy warmth of recollection and the alchemical mystery of the re-dimensionalised subject. Viana appears at home within the representational hall of mirrors that connects the world of painting with that of imaging, drawing one’s attention to the innate human desire to render things realistically and the ways that new technologies fracture our understanding of reality.” Rebecca Geldard 2009

Lara Viana was born and brought up in Salvador, Brazil. She graduated from the Painting Department at the Royal College of Art in 2007, she was selected for New Contemporaries in 2008, Whitechapel Gallery’s ‘East End Academy – The Painting Edition’ in 2009 and Studio Voltaire ‘SV10 Members Show’ in 2010. Her work was included in ‘Psychic Geography’ at Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, 2010. Forthcoming shows in 2011 include solo exhibitions at Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf in June followed by Galerie De-Expeditie, Amsterdam in September. Lara Viana is represented by Domo Baal.

Lara Viana has won a São Paulo Biennial Foundation Award for 2011. A publication has been produced for this exhibition with a new essay on Viana’s work by Laura McLean-Ferris, designed by Alex Rich.

The Regency Town House is a restoration project on Brunswick Square, in Hove, an early 19th century housing development by Charles Busby. In between the periods in which restoration work is carried out the Town House hosts exhibitions and events.

Permanent is a not-for-profit organisation that supports artists to realise experimental exhibitions and projects across Brighton & Hove. For more information see: www.permanentgallery.com

This exhibition is kindly supported by the São Paulo Biennial Foundation, DOMOBAAL Gallery and The Regency Town House.

Exhibition Talk

Saturday 19 March, 2011, 3pm

The Regency Town House, Free

Jonathan Miles (Fine Art Critical & Historical Studies Tutor, Royal College of Art) will respond to the exhibition and be in conversation with the artist.

[1] Walter Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, (London/New York: Verso, 1998) p.178

Image: Untitled (chair), Lara Viana, oil on board, 30 x 25cm, 2010, photograph Andy Keate, Courtesy DOMOBAAL

A Permanent Project at The Regency Town House

13 Brunswick Square, Hove

Open: Saturdays & Sundays, 11.00am – 6.00pm

www.permanentgallery.com

‘MY SHOT’ Photographic Competition by Corridor

If you are a keen photographer and aged between 5 to 16 years old enter the ‘MY SHOT’ Phototgraphic Competition.  Corridor is looking to work with you to create a series of photos capturing sporting activity for the new Brighton and Hove Albion Football Stadium.

We are looking for keen photographers to win a truly amazing prize. We will choose 10 lucky winners to work with a celebrated photographer to capture a series of stunning photos, one of which will be placed within the new East Stand concourse.

Each winner will receive a new digital camera as a prize for being chosen to take part in a weekend to be mentored by the photographer, and to capture a series of sporting events through out the city.

To enter send us a photo you have taken of a sporting activity in and around the Brighton and Hove area within the last year. It must include a short description of less than 50 words, of what you like about the photo and why you took it.

Competition deadline is Sunday 27 March 2011

All entrants will be required to attend the photography weekend with a parent or guardian.

Please send your images and description to myshot@seecorridor.com