Weald Exhibitions
Find out more about our current and upcoming programme of exhibitions
Joseph Dilnot & David Surman // LIFE
In LIFE Joseph Dilnot and David Surman tenderly reveal the dynamic closeness between humanity and nature, exploring the precarious state shared by all life on our rapidly changing planet. Solitary animals and dense landscapes populated by journeying figures are the subject of works that create allegories for the contemporary human experience pointing us to connection rather than separation, community rather than isolation.
Helen Baines & Mirja Oksanen // EMBERS
Deeply rooted in natural world, Embers explores themes of transcendence and emotional geography. Helen Baines and Mirja Oksanen entwine narratives of history and memory seeking to articulate the passage of time through light and shadow, breathing life into stillness and mystery to the familiar.
Leigh Curtis, Benjamin Prosser and Ben Westley Clarke // Modern Mud
In this exhibition we present the work of three cutting edge contemporary artists, Leigh Curtis, Benjamin Prosser, and Ben Westley Clarke.
The collective works within this exhibition blend observation, memory, and imagination, resulting in works that exist at the intersection of documentary and fiction—presenting life as a kind of illusion. Modern experiences are depicted in images with a uniquely compressed, energy, often accentuated with skewed angles and perspectives, adding to a sense of chaotic rhythm.
John Harmer // Terrain
Weald Contemporary @The Mill Studio, Ford
John Harmers new paintings extend his exploration of surface texture and colour, alongside his ongoing experiments with the range of effects that are possible using his chosen materials.
Harmer is clearly fascinated by the relationship between landscape and architecture; how they are depicted in disparate media, and broadened to how natural forms and buildings co-exist in an immediate environment.
Alice Macdonald & Jessica Jane Charleston // Looking Glass
Weald Contemporary @The Mill Studio, Ford,
Thursday- Saturday 10am-3pm, Sunday 10am-1pm
Alice Macdonald and Jessica Jane Charleston have been drawing together since 2016 when they first met at The Royal Drawing School in London. In the upcoming exhibition, Looking Glass, at Weald Contemporary we see them deepen this connection, by spending time exploring the self-portrait and the intimacy of really looking at another person.
Whether gazing through a window or into a mirror, we are confronted with our own image and, by extension, our place in the world. Glass thus becomes a metaphor for introspection and contemplation, inviting us to consider our relationship to the world around us and one another. The connection between glass and the act of looking is intrinsic. A mirror is a glass made into a tool for looking at oneself, or around corners. We use a glass prism to reveal the colours of light. Eyeglasses, telescopes, microscopes, or binoculars, these are all tools for seeing more than our eyes can see on their own.
Similarly, the process of drawing can also be used as a tool for seeing and looking. A way of revealing more than what is literally there.
You can view interviews with Alice Macdonald and Jessica Jane Charleston via our In Conversation feature page
Open: Thursday - Saturday, 10am - 3pm
Sunday 10-1pm
The Mill Studio
New House Farm Barns,
Ford Lane,
Arundel,
BN18 0EF
You can also view an interactive virtual tour of the Exhibition here
Private view: Alice Macdonald & Jessica Jane Charleston // Looking Glass
Join us for the Private view of our latest duo exhibition Alice Macdonald & Jessica Jane Charleston // Looking Glass
6pm-8pm Friday 17th May, The Mill Studio Arundel, BN18 0EF
Find out more about the exhibition here
All welcome no need to RSVP.
Louise Bristow - Constructed Environments Workshop
Inspired by the first stage of her painting process, you will create your own diorama from card and collage materials with the artist Louise Bristow. Explore a non-linear way of looking at objects, events and time, creating a unique work to take home.
Louise Bristow & Coco Crampton // Plans for Living
In Plans for Living, Louise Bristow and Coco Crampton explore the idea that form follows function and encourage us to look more closely at the structure symbolism and conventions of human life.
Private View- Louise Bristow & Coco Crampton // Plans for Living
Join us for the private view of the Exhibition Plans for Living featuring Louise Bristow & Coco Crampton.
Catherine Knight and Lucinda Oestreicher // A Moment In Time
Please Join us for Cathrine and Lucinda’s Private View on Friday 23rd February
The concept of time in relation to nature seems to reach down through the whole superstructure of life. In this exhibition Catherine Knight and Lucinda Oestreicher expose unseen organic objects and spellbinding landscapes for their elusive and ephemeral-selves.
Josephine Birch // Heat & Light Toscana
Join us for Josephines Private View : 19 Jan 2024 6-8pm
In September 2023 Josephine Birch was awarded the Mortitz-Heyman Residency at Borgo Pignano, creating a vast body of works inspiring this solo exhibition with Weald Contemporary.
In Josephines new collection of drawings, prints and paintings we are drawn into the heat and light of Tuscany. The Images work in series; zooming in and out of details, some left floating as though merely glanced at, some brought into sharp focus though through the artists eye. In her drawings hours pass, and the sun burns through the back of our shirts as we gaze into landscapes we could almost step into.
Edward Liddle // Fade Resistant
Inspired by his extensive archive of domestic motifs, the large scale painting works of Edward Liddle encourage viewers to think about the relationship between art, craft, design and the hierarchy of display.
Andrew Churchill // Dark Was The Night
Join us for our PV on Saturday 28th October 6-8pm
Dark Was The Night, the title of this exhibition, is taken from a Blues song written by Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night (Cold Was The Ground). These words imply certainty, facts that can’t be denied. Night brings darkness and yet the night remains full of colour despite - or perhaps because of - the dark, and we are forced to examine the night closely for differences in the blue pigments that make up this complex landscape form.
The majority of these paintings were made in West Sussex. Their subjects are the view from the artist’s garden (increasingly encroached on by new houses); and of Northern Ireland, where he visited often before moving permanently this year.
Daisy Harcourt // Women and Word
From Mrs Dalloway to Jo Sweeting, Women & Word is a celebration of the lives of female writers and literary characters.
John Harmer // Lumen
Each of John Harmer's works holds a story, his latest body of work portrays a compelling narrative with scenes created partly in response to a world mediated through film and screen.
Mothshell Ambit
We invite you to come and experience the visceral work of four Sussex based artists; Jennifer Davis, Joseph Dilnot, Daniella Norton, Jasper Thims.
Agnes Treherne // Ferry
In a new body of work by Agnes Treherne, Ferry sees the artist turn her attention to new landscapes including scenes from around Scotland and Ireland.