ArtHouse Jersey Spring/ Summer 2023

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You have picked up our ArtHouse Jersey Spring/Summer 2023 programme and are about to discover a wealth of arts and cultural events taking place here in the Island over the coming months.

Some intimate events will take place at our HQ at Greve de Lecq Barracks, many exhibitions and performances will take place at our exhibition space in St Helier, ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House, and a handful of artistic surprises will be popping up at unexpected locations around Jersey too.

From British artist Ryan Skelton who’s Cambion exhibition explores ambiguities around sexuality, gender and desire to a creative reimagining of Fort Regent by Will Lakeman, Kay Le Seelleur Ara’s ‘Mrs Magnitude’s Emporium’ and ArtHouse Jersey’s ‘No Place Like Home’ a project centred around the concept of home featuring public art installations across the Island, there’s plenty to get stuck into. We have a lively Pop Up exhibition programme lined up for the Barracks and events programmes within them too. Many of our larger exhibitions have a programme of events within them so be sure to keep an eye on arthousejersey.je for updates and while you’re there why not sign up to our newsletter and be among the first to learn about our cultural happenings on offer.

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ArtHouse Jersey is a charitable arts organisation serving the Island community by supporting artists from Jersey and across the world to create ambitious work to inspire and entertain. The art we support and produce can be seen in galleries, performance venues, schools, carehomes, Parish Halls, online and some less likely spaces too.

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THURSDAY 6 APRIL - SUNDAY 7 MAY

ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House

Cambion by Ryan Skelton

Ryan Skelton is an emerging British artist based in York who has already garnered widespread critical recognition. His work explores a distinct and singular voice to ambiguities around sexuality, gender, desire and self-image with a fascinating and remarkably intuitive understanding of the possibilities and history of photography. For this new solo exhibition commissioned by ArtHouse Jersey and following a residency in Jersey in 2021, Ryan will be presenting a series of studies of the nude figure in landscape created in Jersey, England and Scotland.

This exhibition will be a world premiere of this body of work, which has been in the making for over five years. Featuring works of a nature that are rarely seen in the Island, the work is sophisticated and challenging yet highly relatable.

There will be an artist talk with Ryan Skelton at 11am, Saturday 8 April (see p. 30) and a number of programmed events accompanying the exhibition.

Keep an eye out on our website and Eventbrite page for details.

TUES - SAT 10.30AM - 6PM

SUNDAYS 10.30AM - 5PM

CLOSED MONDAYS Free Entry Contains nudity

ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House

ArtHouse Jersey Pop Up: Robert Allen

SATURDAY 15 & SUNDAY 16 APRIL

10AM - 5PM BOTH DAYS

Grève de Lecq Barracks

‘ArtHouse Jersey Pop Up’ is a series of pop up art exhibitions featuring local artists scattered across the year that take place at our HQ. The project invites people to ‘pop up’ to the Greve de Lecq Barracks to enjoy the work of artists in our unique exhibition space. It also offers visitors the chance to get a better insight into artists’ work and practices and perhaps purchase something special.

Robert Allen’s practice is based around drawing and painting the coastline of Jersey in open air. His aim is to create art that depicts the sensation of a place, as well as exploring more abstract processes. For this exhibition he will present a series of artworks focusing on the coastline and harbours of Jersey. These pieces aim to capture the different colours, forms, textures and changing tidal areas of Jersey’s magical shoreline.

Tickets/Booking Free entry, no booking necessary.

WEDNESDAY 24 MAY - SUNDAY 2 JULY

ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House

Will Lakeman

Playtime

‘Playtime’ recreates the strange hold that childhood spaces have on our adult memories.

Will Lakeman is a photographer who has nurtured an obsessive interest in the Fort Regent leisure centre. He has spent his adult life revisiting weird dreams of this iconic building and its heyday in the early 1990s.

Nostalgia is always unreliable. You cannot photograph a place that has long ceased to exist. Will has responded by using photo manipulation, collage and new technologies of artificial intelligence to recreate the Fort as he remembers it, not as it ever really was. The resulting images try to evoke the odd, fantastical memories we carry of childhoods everywhere. With a custom soundscape, smell and touch, Playtime encourages you to revisit your own dreams.

TUES - SAT 10.30AM - 6PM

SUNDAYS 10.30AM - 5PM

CLOSED MONDAYS Free Entry

Artist Talk

SATURDAY 10

JUNE, 11AM

Join Will Lakeman for an artist’s talk discussing the Playtime exhibition.

There will be a number of special music and performance events set within the Playtime exhibition at Capital House. Learn more and book via arthousejersey.je

FRIDAY 26 & SATURDAY 27 MAY, 7PM

Patricia Allio

Autoportrait à ma Grand-Mère (Self-Portrait to my Grandmother)

ArtHouse Jersey is delighted to present an international premiere of this extraordinary theatre performance by French artist Patricia Allio.

Taking the form of a ‘lecture-performance’, Autoportrait à ma Grand-Mère is a letter written to Julienne Le Breton, Patricia’s grandmother originally from Morbihan in north-west Brittany.

An orphan who became an agricultural worker in the Breton countryside [and Jersey] in the second half of the 20th century, Patricia Allio starts from this ‘tiny life’ to rethink the peripheral status of Brittany on the French map, the relations of class and domination, vulnerability and queer identity. In this sound journey of two voices, between audio archives and a live narrative, the performed monologue takes the form of an open letter to an old woman, vibrant with emotions, politics and eroticism. Here is not the pain and the loss that underlies an autobiographical tribute, but the joy of remembering, of continuing a dialogue, to hear ‘our dead, quite simply’ - Mathilde Walker Billaud.

Performed in French and English with English surtitles.

Running time: 85 mins.

Tickets/Booking: £12 / £15, tickets on Eventbrite.

FRIDAY 2 & SATURDAY 3 JUNE, 7.30PM

ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House

Sound Channels Performances

The ‘Sound Channels Residency’ by the Moving Arts Collective will bring together five musicians in Jersey to collaborate and create. Led by producer Aras Amiri, the project celebrates the power of music as an international language by bringing together Jersey and international musicians, responding to the landscape of the Island.

Musicians include Esther Rose Parkes (singer-songwriter, based in Jersey), Tom Schmidely - guitar, Marin De Nattes - bass guitar, Léo Rodier, drums (based in France), and Omid Amiri (saxophone, based in UK) whose musical backgrounds span Funk, Fusion, Afrobeat, Free-Jazz, Groove, and Folk.

Tickets/Booking: £10, tickets on Eventbrite.

Fort Hiraeth - five impossible moments

SATURDAY 10 & SUNDAY 11 JUNE, 7PM

ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House

Inspired by memories of Fort Regent in its heyday and employing a variety of techniques culled from magicians, con men, card sharks and Bar school, Richard Pedley will present a series of solutions to five impossible questions. Maybe six. Certainly no more than seven. Full disclosure: It’s a show with magic, rather than a magic show.

Tickets/Booking: £10, tickets on Eventbrite.

Double-bill: Samm Anga & Sonia Killman

THURSDAY 15 JUNE, 7PM

ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House

Double-bill: Samm Anga & Sonia Killman

Scottish sonic artists Samm Anga and Sonia Killman will be in residence for two weeks in June as part of a Jersey-Scotland residency exchange and for one night will present a work in progress performance of their upcoming projects.

Based in Aberdeen, Samm Anga explores sonic flirtations with mythology and storytelling, re-contextualising themes of folklore and identity within audiovisual displays. Waxen Figures deals with the theme of reconnection through exploration of the disconnect between older indigenous practices and modern behaviour.

Sonia Killmann is a Glasgow-based composer and multimedia artist from Belgium whose work has been exploring the relationship between sound and environment. Her current project Digital Skies explores the phenomenon of light pollution in cities and the crucial need to preserve the environment by de-lighting the sky.

Tickets/Booking: £5, tickets on Eventbrite.

Rhumba Club (live)

Rhumba Club is the creation of London based, Jersey born musician Tom Falle who since his debut album, ‘Welcome to the Rhumba Club’ in 2021, has been carving out an impressive path across the UK music scene.

Since its inception, Rhumba Club’s mission has been to provide a space where conventions and personal demons are left at the door, whilst queerness and beautiful weirdos hold fort within. This one-off gig at Capital House is a welcome return for one of Jersey’s most inventive pop musicians.

Tickets/Booking: £12.50, tickets on Eventbrite.

Saturday 17 June

ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House

SATURDAY 10 & SUNDAY 11 JUNE

Greve De Lecq Barracks Studios

ArtHouse Jersey Pop Up: June Gould and Ruth Baier Rolls

June Gould is a potter, painter and sculptor who trained at Harrow College of Art and Design and Goldsmiths University of London. Her current ceramic work is an investigation into the qualities of pure porcelain.

Her oil paintings, using a knife, are equally explorative with colour and texture giving a sense of landscape, allowing for interpretation.

Ruth Baier-Rolls trained and worked during her career as a painting restorer. In recent years she changed her focus to ceramics and became a student of June’s.

They will be presenting their work together. Last year Ruth attended an international ceramics course at ‘La Meridiana’ in Italy (International School of Ceramics, Tuscany). Ruth’s pieces are often experimental in approach and execution. They are unique, both functional and nonfunctional.

Tickets/Booking: Free entry, no booking necessary.

Saturday 15 To Sunday 16 July

ArtHouse Jersey Pop Up: Anita Rive, Deborah Brown, Emma Faull, Stephanie

Rondel

This exhibition will involve four artists working in different mediums, exploring the local environment.

Anita Rive paints local scenes and historical sites on Jersey granite. Deborah Brown (Homebytheseaarts) creates pictures using seaglass and shells combined with watercolours or acrylics. Emma Faull is an ornithological artist specialising in endangered species and she will exhibit paintings of Jersey wildlife. Stephanie Rondel is an art teacher and landscape painter who has recently been exploring reflections between land and sky producing both colourful oil paintings and detailed drypoint prints.

Tickets/Booking: Free entry, no booking necessary.

Mrs Magnitude’s Emporium

Kay Le Seelleur Ara is one of Jersey’s leading contemporary artists whose provocative and visionary paintings have won awards over several decades. This installation will create a mesmerising solo exhibition of her recent paintings, curated in collaboration with with her daughter, conceptual artist Rachel Ara taking as a starting point favourite images from Kay’s Instagram followers. This show promises to be a fun and wild journey into the brilliantly inventive, sharp humour and gender politics of this significant artist and her extraordinary body of work.

The show will feature hundreds of original works of art, paintings and drawings, in a unique and inviting setting styled in the theme of one of the Royal Academy of Arts rooms for Academicians. It should inspire a sense of awe and immersion for the viewer entering the space and the surrealist nature of the work makes it playful and unintimidating.

Kay regularly posts her work on Instagram which has gained a diverse and growing audience of followers from around the world, ranging from fans in the Australian outback to world-class New York painters and critics. Her Instagram statistics have been analysed and the most engaged users have been asked to select and comment on their favourite work, bringing the painting back from the virtual into reality.

Free entry

WEDNESDAY 19 JULY - SUNDAY 20 AUGUST

TUES - SAT 10.30AM - 6PM

SUNDAYS 10.30AM - 5PM

CLOSED MONDAYS

ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House

SATURDAY 19 & SUNDAY 20 AUGUST

Greve De Lecq Barracks Studios

ArtHouse Jersey Pop Up: Shan O’Donnell and Nicole Sheppard

This show will present the work of two recently graduated artists based in Jersey.

Nicole Sheppard is a multimedia practitioner who aims to challenge human sensory reception in a playful and exciting way. A key part of the work she is currently developing is in response to reconnecting with life in Jersey. The pieces that she will be presenting examine flexibility, scale and adaptability.

Shan studied BA Documentary Photography at USW Cardiff. Through a combination of documentary and performative approach, their practice explores the gendered experience, both personal and within contemporary and historical capitalist Britain.

Shan’s practice is informed by photographs, text, audio, moving stills and archival research.

Tickets/Booking: Free entry, no booking necessary.