ArtHouse Jersey Spring/ Summer 2025
Bouônjour et séyiz les beinv’nus!
Welcome to ArtHouse Jersey’s Spring/ Summer 2025 programme! We are delighted to share with you extraordinary creativity from across our Island community and outstanding artists from around the world who will be presenting their work in Jersey over the coming months.
As part of Jersey’s Liberation 80 Anniversary programme, Structures & Memory (a place called Wurzach) features artworks created by Jersey artists responding to the legacy of the Occupation alongside international perspectives from artists whose work reflects on the contemporary legacies of political conflict.
This summer also sees the opening of the second Butterfield Public Art Series with the delightfully vibrant Bubbletecture created by Atelier Sisu from Australia. Keep an eye on arthousejersey.je for a series of events that will be animating Bubbletecture when it lands this August!
ArtHouse Jersey is dedicated to placing art at the heart of our Island community. From Art in the Arches at Elizabeth Marina and Kupala, a one-day summer festival celebrating Jersey’s diverse cultural heritage through food, crafts, song and dance, to Paper Worlds created by school students through our innovative MAPS programme, there is so much to see, as well as opportunities to get involved. Sign up to our newsletter and be among the first to learn about our exhibition openings, performances and events!
Team ArtHouse Jersey
Cover Image: Bubbletecture by Atelier Sisu
Collins Pop Up Exhibition Series: Shân Murton and Liz Adams
Paper Worlds
Projects we support: Chrome Yellow, She Rose
Orbits by Birds of Paradise
Structures & Memory (a place called Wurzach)
Collins Pop Up Exhibition Series: Lee White and Demeter Dykes
Saturday Art School Weekend Exhibition
Music @ Capital House
Cake & Cabaret
Collins Pop Up Exhibition Series: Marc Medland, Celina Borfiga, Graham Tovey and Sharon Champion
Art
Lullaby
Abundant
Butterfield Public Art Series: Bubbletecture by Atelier Sisu
Inside Out 17
Collins Pop Up Exhibition Series: Sapphire de la Haye, Pippa Simpson and Alastair Best
Dementia Jersey: One Day
by the Women’s Research Wānanga
Raise Your Voice, Jersey! Public
SATURDAY 1 & SUNDAY 2 MARCH, 10AM - 5PM
ArtHouse Jersey’s HQ at Greve de Lecq Barracks
Pop Up Exhibition Series: Shân Murton and Liz Adams
The Collins Pop Up Exhibition Series is a programme of intimate weekend exhibitions featured across the year at ArtHouse Jersey’s HQ at the historic Greve de Lecq Barracks studios.
Shân Murton completed a degree in graphic design and has worked for a number of design agencies in the UK. Since moving to Jersey she has come to appreciate the beauty of nature and the structure, complexity and uniqueness of plants, flowers and insects. After having a number of X-rays, Shân became fascinated by images of the ‘inner me’, which inspired her to produce photographs of plant life in a similar manner, showing their make-up, their inner beauty and delicacy in detail.
Liz Adams studied languages at university and then worked in the youth justice system before beginning painting in her late forties. She mainly paints in acrylics, incorporating elements of collage to create texture and movement. Her work is abstract, aiming to express an emotional response to the world around her.
Tickets/Booking: Free entry, no booking required.
Shân Murton
Liz Adams
TUESDAY 25SUNDAY 30 MARCH
12PM – 6PM
ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House
Tickets/Booking: Free entry, no booking required.
Paper Worlds
As part of Making Art Partnerships in Schools (MAPS)
The value of art in schools cannot be underestimated. It supports imagination and confidence while encouraging young people to think differently and make their own unique mark in the world. ArtHouse Jersey’s education programme nurtures the creative development of young people in the Island, placing value and importance on art in the classroom, helping to contribute to the development of a happy, healthy and culturally engaged society.
Paper Worlds is an exhibition created by Jersey’s school children across all ages, using paper as their core creative material. The project took inspiration from the work of Layla May Arthur, a Jersey born paper artist who handcrafts every detail of her intricate sculptures and installations. Exploring paper as a key material encouraged educators to be innovative in their teaching with simple supplies.
As part of our Making Art Partnerships in Schools project, eight professional artists were commissioned to work in partnership with local schools during 2024, to share skills, knowledge and a passion for the visual arts in various classrooms across Jersey. This exhibition is the culmination of the collaborative journey between artist and educator. It celebrates the diverse creative artwork made by many young people.
On display will be a selection of work including photography, mixed media sculpture, weavings, painting, analogue, animation, printmaking, illustrations and collage, with most pieces having paper at their heart. The projects include elements of both individual experimentation and collaboration.
FRIDAY 14 & SATURDAY 15 MARCH, 7.30PM
Jersey Arts Centre, Phillips Street, St Helier
Chrome Yellow by Wayne Stewart
Aspiring nihilist Wayne Stewart wrestles with meaning and purpose as he tries to understand exactly why he walked 650 miles across France alone in July 2021, and is left battling with a spiritual awakening that’s imbued him with a peculiar obsession with yellow.
In this personal and philosophical one man show chronicling his journey from Saint-Malo in Brittany to Argeles-Sur-Mer on the Mediterranean, Wayne delves into themes of existentialism, personal reflection, and the search for purpose. On a quest for new-found freedom while drawing on memories of his past, Wayne attempts to understand what brought him to the point of making the journey in the first place. Peppered by entries from his travel journal with the hope to understand what it all meant, if in fact it meant anything at all.
A Jersey Arts Centre residency production, supported by ArtHouse Jersey. Tickets/Booking: Available via artscentre.je
FRIDAY 2 MAY, 6PM
On the square by Cyril Le Marquand Court
SATURDAY 3 MAY, 3PM Le Pinacle
She Rose by Sioned Huws
She Rose celebrates the connection between body, language, and landscape. It welcomes everyone, with or without a background in dance, to weave a thread, by way of their bodies, with Jèrriais. Breton dance serves as both a guide and a metaphor—a thread that holds together the edges of landscape, language, and the body.
The choreography is not predetermined; instead, it emerges from the collective spirit of those who respond to the invitation, weaving and unweaving its own form. Little fingers link one person to another, embodying the limitless possibilities of a living language.
She Rose invites Jersey residents to join Sioned Huws, an internationally renowned Welsh dancer, along with the singing bodies of two Breton singers Sterenn Diridollou and Marine Lavigne, and Lena Kersual, a Breton dancer, in creating a collective dance.
These events are free, and participants and audience members are welcome. However please do book your place for Le Pinacle via Eventbrite, as capacity for this event is limited.
Produced by Moving Arts Collective, following two artist residences hosted by ArtHouse Jersey. Supported by Creative Island Partnership.
Tickets/Booking: Free via tickets on Eventbrite
She Rose
THURSDAY 3 - SUNDAY 13 APRIL
12PM - 6PM, TUESDAY TO SUNDAY
ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House
Orbits by Birds of Paradise
Orbits (2023) is a forty-minute film created by Scotland’s leading disabled theatre company Birds of Paradise that features the astonishing Portuguese disabled dancer Diana Neipce. The film embodies the company’s vision where disabled artists are recognised for the excellence of their work and celebrated for the stories they bring to the stage. Orbits is a film about how we feel and what we experience when we lose something that we have been in a relationship with, that orbits us. It considers how this can affect our experience of ourselves. When we lose someone, how far will we go to feel ‘in their orbit’ again and what fragmentation occurs in this out-of-relation place – is it just loneliness, this dislocation from the other, or an awakening to life?
Created with choreographer Rachel Drazek, Orbits was filmed by Hugo Glendinning and features an evocative soundtrack by Scottish composer Scott Twynholm.
Orbits does not have any spoken dialogue and will be presented on a loop across gallery opening hours. It is accompanied by an audio description version for blind or visually impaired viewers.
Tickets/Booking:
Free entry, no booking necessary.
THURSDAY 1 MAY - SUNDAY 8 JUNE
12PM - 6PM, TUESDAY TO SUNDAY
ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House
Structures & Memory (a place called Wurzach)
Structures & Memory (a place called Wurzach) and its accompanying programme of events forms part of Jersey’s Liberation 80 anniversary programme. It begins with the memories and experiences of the Jersey deportees who were sent to a prison camp in a small town called Wurzach (now Bad Wurzach) in southern Germany during World War II. It zooms out to reflect on wider contemporary global contexts that explore stories and experiences of displacement and enduring legacies of conflict, occupation and reconciliation, both from Jersey and internationally.
The exhibition features the work of four Jersey artists - composer Emily de Gruchy, documentary photographer Shannon O’Donnell, sculptural and performance artists Oliver Le Gresley and Nicole Sheppard - alongside archival materials collected by the families of deportees to Bad Wurzach during the war. The exhibition will also include a major new artwork created by Jersey school children as part of ArtHouse Jersey’s Gem of the Sea project, focusing on this 80th anniversary of Jersey’s liberation.
Presented in association with the St Helier Bad Wurzach Partnerschaft as part of Liberation 80.
Tickets/Booking: All event tickets available via Eventbrite.
Structures & Memories (a place called Wurzach)
Image credits: L: Courtesy of the Channel Islands Occupation Society (Jersey); R: Shannon O’Donnell
THURSDAY 8 MAY, 6PM
Jersey Museum & Art Gallery
Artist talk with: Miroslaw Balka
In a special co-presentation with Jersey Heritage, internationally acclaimed Polish artist Miroslaw Balka, known for his extraordinary sculptural installation work, such as How It Is (2009, Tate Modern), will present a talk about his work as he visits Jersey towards the development of a new public artwork remembering the experiences of forced and slave workers in Jersey during the Occupation.
Tickets/Booking:
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite.
TUESDAY 13 MAY, 6.30PM
ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House
Artist talk with:
Ivana Ivkovic
Serbian artist Ivana Ivkovic is known internationally for her confronting sculptural and performance installation pieces. Her work reflects on Balkan life and the hierarchies of a society still recovering from the aftermath of the devastating war of the 1990s. It explores how gender remains a carrier of societal values, expectations and potential. As part of a short residency Ivana is undertaking with ArtHouse Jersey she will present her work and its contexts at a time of renewed social upheaval in Serbia.
Tickets/Booking:
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite.
Image credit: “Winterreise / Bambi”, video, 2003
© Miroslaw Balka and CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa
FRIDAY 30 & SATURDAY 31 MAY, 7.30PM
ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House
SKIN
by Teddy Ngema
What happens when a person moves from one place to another, one state of being to another? Is it possible each time to shed one’s skin and start anew? What are the stories we carry and that shape our world? This new work written and performed by Jersey-based Teddy Ngema is a reflection on life and history between Kenya and Jersey.
Tickets/Booking:
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite.
This concert will feature two arrangements of well-known wartime songs alongside the world premiere of a new symphonic work by Jerseybased composer Emily de Gruchy, commissioned by ArtHouse Jersey. This new composition is a narrative exploration of the experience of Wurzach by those forcibly deported British-born Channel Islanders (and their families) to German internment camps from 1942-1945, an experience often underrepresented in the narrative of the Occupation. For 618 British people,
FRIDAY 23 MAY, 7.30PM St Helier Methodist Centre
Four Seasons of Displacement by Emily de Gruchy
two-and-a-half years behind barbed wire was a reality. This composition depicts this period, using the written accounts of those who lived it. Many musicians of Jersey, British and European descent will come together to perform the work, and the premiere will be a symbolic event celebrating perspectives of the past and present.
Tickets/Booking:
£15 via Eventbrite. £10 concessions, limited pay-what-you-can tickets available. Running time approximately 75 minutes.
ArtHouse Jersey
Structures & Memories (a place called Wurzach)
THURSDAY 29 MAY, 6.30PM
ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House
Artist talk with:
Einat Weizman
How do we begin to talk about Israel and Palestine in relation to questions of liberation or occupation, and how do we begin to understand the layers of history and the contemporary realities of a conflict that continues to pull so much focus in the world’s media? The Tel Aviv-based playwright and director provided her own answer by writing stage and video
works that give witness to Palestinian narratives. As part of an artist residency in Jersey, Einat will present a talk about her work and a current project that more widely explores lived experiences and contexts of incarceration globally.
Tickets/Booking:
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite.
SATURDAY 10 & SUNDAY 11 MAY, 10AM - 5PM
ArtHouse Jersey’s HQ at Greve de Lecq Barracks
Pop Up Exhibition Series: Lee White and Demeter Dykes
Lee White has been practising and sharing crafts internationally for over twenty years. He practices various art making techniques with a focus on sculpture and mask creation. In this exhibition he will be providing a window into the intricate world of Commedia dell’arte craftsmanship, presenting leather masks made in the traditional Italian artisan technique formulated in the early 1500s.
Demeter Dykes is currently pursuing a professional doctorate in fine art at the University of East London. Her research practice plays with the notion of being seen as a mature woman, and sets out to challenge expected norms using celebratory, provocative and powerful imagery. Humour and transgression are an important aspect of this work which takes the form of photographs, animations, object making and live performances.
Tickets/Booking: Free entry, no booking necessary.
Lee White
Demeter Dykes
Collins
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Lee White and
Demeter Dykes
SATURDAY 24 & SUNDAY 25 MAY, 10AM - 5PM
ArtHouse Jersey’s HQ at Greve de Lecq Barracks
Saturday Art School Weekend Exhibition
This exhibition celebrates the work made by students from the ArtHouse Jersey Saturday Art School. A selection of sculpture, drawing, painting, textile and mixed media work will be on display.
Saturday Art School is a series of free extracurricular workshops available to secondary school students across the Island. The sessions are facilitated by a team of artist educators who collaborate to deliver dynamic, skills development sessions. The young people who take part are supported to create new work and curate their own exhibition, offering an artistic autonomy that they likely wouldn’t ordinarily encounter.
The course is experimental, using mixed media techniques and supports young artists to explore their own creative journey. They’re relaxed and sociable, giving the opportunity for young people from different schools to come together, make new friends and form a new community. The activities planned incorporate both individual and collaborative tasks to encourage new ways of working.
Tickets/Booking:
Free entry, no booking necessary
Image credits: Various Artists
Music @ Capital House
This June we’re bringing in the speakers and filling our gallery with music with an eclectic mix of underground and ambient club sounds, intimate blues and electronic experimentation!
Book all your tickets for Music @ Capital House events via Eventbrite.
Alex Smoke & Veronica Petukhov / Curlew
An immersive blend of sound and live visuals awaits with this welcome return of Scotland’s Cryptic as part of an ongoing exchange with ArtHouse Jersey.
Alex Smoke is a musician and composer working across various fields of sound, including electronic production, sound installation and instrumental composition. His work focuses on creating immersive experiences that engage the listener’s consciousness. Veronica Petukhov is an Italo-Ukrainian digital artist and VJ. Their collaborative work will be a meditative concert experience blending sound and visuals to evoke a deep connection with the environment.
Curlew is the moniker of multiinstrumentalist and songwriter Gill Higgins. Curlew’s solo work is often
FRIDAY 20 JUNE, 7PM
ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House
inspired by themes relating to her training as a surgeon and scientist, blending sounds of the ancient and modern, through looped vocal harmony, field recordings, synthesiser and harmonium drones. A keen wild swimmer, Curlew’s research in Jersey delves into the folklore and superstitions surrounding the sea across the British Isles which she will present in a live multimedia performance.
Established in 1994, Cryptic is Scotland’s internationally renowned home of audiovisual art and experimentation, and presents and promotes the most dynamic talents of today and tomorrow as they explore new dimensions in live music, visual and sonic arts and performance.
Tickets/Booking: £15 via Eventbrite.
SATURDAY 21 JUNE, 6PM - 9PM
ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House
Awake in the Dreamtime by Duncan Forbes and Jonathan Hill
A launch event for the summer solstice, Awake in the Dreamtime is a new album by Jersey based composer and DJ, Duncan Forbes with internationally acclaimed violinist Jonathan Hill. Recorded over the space of a year at Duncan’s studio in Jersey the album is a blend of beautiful atmospheric electronica combined with analogue sonics, treated piano and live strings Each track is accompanied by an abstract film created in Jersey by Matthew Le Maistre Smith. This album launch and first ever live screening and listening session of the music and films is designed to be an immersive experience with floor seating, bean bags and deck chairs.
Duncan Forbes has been at the forefront of the electronic music scene since the early 1990’s as one half the pioneering
UK production duo, Spooky. He has DJ’d and toured live all over the world, scored various movie soundtracks and worked alongside and remixed some of the greatest names in electronic music including remixes for Sasha, William Orbit, Sven Vath, Depeche Mode, Apparat, Ladytron, Lush, Thom Yorke, M83, Telefon Telaviv, Natasha Atlas, Roger Eno.
Before and after the screening of the film there will be local DJ’s playing a selection of laidback ambient, dub and electronica.
Tickets/Booking: £15 via Eventbrite.
WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE, 7.30PM
ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House
Up Close with the Blues starring Giles Robson
The intimate smash hit sell-out Edinburgh Fringe Show starring Giles Robson is a night of beautiful, powerful, emotional and timeless blues with a deep groove and laden with intense feeling. Widely considered one of the world’s greatest blues harmonica virtuosos, and one of only three UK blues artists (alongside Eric Clapton and Peter Green) to win a coveted Blues Award in Memphis, Giles plays in his own accomplished and distinct style that captures audience’s hearts and imaginations with his mixture of superb technique, rhythmic power, tonal control and sensitive emotional expressiveness. Witnessing Giles Robson live is a dazzling and unforgettable experience as audiences around the world constantly discover.
“I’ve been listening to you and you sound GREAT!” - Sir Mick Jagger
“When you come across a true maestro, it is worth cherishing.” - Music News
Tickets/Booking: Tickets £25 via Eventbrite.
SATURDAY 28 JUNE, 7PM
ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House
Shamica Ruddock: Drum Language
Grace MacDonald: A Ghost Holding Me
A double-bill of two artists making waves across the European electronic / sound scene. London-based Shamica Ruddock presents her live sound work Drum Language, which is an ongoing sonic enquiry exploring Maroon sound cultures and African-Caribbean folk drumming practices. The name Maroon, given to groups of free Black peoples, or formerly enslaved fugitives, who, from the 16th century onwards, created autonomous self-governing settlements in inaccessible landscapes across several countries, remains a byword for resistance. With Drum Language, Ruddock creates a reverberant listening space where the drumming patterns and the meanings they encode are broken down and undercut by interruptions, breaks and ruptures across an underlying funk.
Zürich-based Jersey composer Grace MacDonald writes music dedicated to low-resolution memories, fantasy and playful folktronica. Working with hybrid electro-acoustic music, her live performances, such as her recent multi-award-winning duo project, Knowing The Oak Tree, combine the natural sounds of voice and saxophone with their processed counterpart on a backdrop of a pixelated synth polyphony. A Ghost Holding Me is a thirtyminute solo song cycle dedicated to the peaceful loneliness found traversing familiar spaces, now empty. Imagine a quiet train carriage or an empty video game lobby. There is comfort in the familiar, well travelled paths of our memories, but they are not real, only ghosts.
Tickets/Booking: Tickets £10 via Eventbrite.
Cake & Cabaret
APRIL TO NOVEMBER
A series of events at Parish Halls across the Island
At ArtHouse Jersey we believe that every parishioner deserves quality nourishment, engaging entertainment and meaningful social experiences. With Cake & Cabaret our mission is to enrich the lives of elderly residents across Jersey by transforming parish halls into vibrant hubs of music, movement, community spirit, and tea and cake (of course).
In collaboration with each parish in a setting that will feel familiar to many, we create welcoming and inclusive environments where attendees can socialise with friendly faces as well as make new connections, to strengthen community bonds. We centre the hyper-local to remove travel barriers and ensure we reach those who may not be as independent as they once were. We hope the make-up of attendees will support the rich cultural tapestry of each parish, with many a story shared over sandwiches, tea, and cake.
We invite our elders to be a part of these special occasions, to dress up, enjoy the entertainment, and connect with fellow community members. Together, we can create lasting memories and a stronger, more connected Jersey.
Information on the upcoming programme will be announced online at arthousejersey.je. In the meantime you can email robyn@arts.je to register
Supported by Jersey Freemasons
SATURDAY 5 & SUNDAY 6 JULY, 10AM - 5PM
ArtHouse Jersey’s HQ at Greve de Lecq Barracks
Pop Up Exhibition Series: Marc Medland, Celina Borfiga, Graham Tovey and Sharon Champion
The theme of this exhibition is the interpretation of landscape in painting by four very different artists who are creating new work specifically for this Pop Up. Following a career in architecture, Marc Medland is now an artist, illustrator and filmmaker. He is currently exploring a freer form of working than the technical work which dominates his portfolio. Celina Borfiga is a self taught, prize-winning artist and is building on her existing, highly successful abstract landscape work. Graham Tovey has exhibited widely in London, Margate, Canterbury, Cannes, Nice, St Paul de Vence and Jersey. Following a series of strokes, Graham has moved into working in acrylics in a simpler, more abstract way. Sharon Champion is a self taught painter who is keen to take her exciting abstract interior work into the landscape.
Tickets/Booking: Free entry, no booking necessary.
Collins Pop Up Exhibition Series: Marc Medland, Celina Borfiga, Graham Tovey and Sharon Champion
Graham Tovey Sharon Champion
Marc Medland Celina Borfiga
JUNE - SEPTEMBER
OPENING CELEBRATION THURSDAY 18 SEPTEMBER
Elizabeth Marina, St Helier
Art in the Arches: Out of the Blue
Following on from the success of last year’s mural commissions at St Helier’s Elizabeth Marina, ArtHouse Jersey is pleased to be bringing Art in The Arches into its second iteration. With curation from Jacqueline Rutter, a variety of murals will be produced under the arches, responding to the theme, Out of the Blue. Contributing artists will be a selection of local artists, community groups and school children, bringing colour and vibrancy to the iconic setting.
Over the summer, a program of school workshops will take place feeding into the existing school curriculum and leading directly into the design of the school murals. This year’s project will draw together and display work from a diverse community of participants, giving a platform both for student voices and local creative visions through the making of public art.
SATURDAY 12 JULY
Venue to be announced
The Lullaby Choir Concert and online archive launch
In 2022 The Lullaby Project was created by artists Esther Rose Parkes and Susanne Kudielka to craft a portrait of Jersey through the intimate lullabies sung to its children. Now 70 lullabies in over 16 languages have been recorded and to launch an online archive of this extraordinary project. The Lullaby Choir will present a final performance of their beautiful and specially commissioned arrangements of Jersey’s lullabies sung in languages including Urdu, Dutch, Māori and English by composers Beth Allen, Janet Swan, Carol Donaldson, Thabo Mkwananzi, Katie Rose Bennett and Esther Rose Parkes.
Co-commissioned by ArtHouse Jersey; produced by the Moving Arts Collective with support from the ConnectMe Connecting our Communities grant, the One Foundation, and The Jersey Community Foundation with funds from the Jersey Lottery.
Tickets/Booking:
Tickets via Eventbrite.
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Fallowfield by Clare Ormsby
THURSDAY 17 JULY - SUNDAY 24 AUGUST,
12PM - 6PM, TUESDAY - SUNDAY
ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House.
“I began this project on a whim back in 2022 when I purchased a dollhouse. After I built it and modified it, I decorated it and then re-decorated it in various colour palettes and styles to create the impression of the house changing through time. Then it was left outside to face the elements. I photographed and filmed the birds moving in and nature taking over. A real abandoned house – only one twelfth the size. In autumn 2024, having survived all the seasons the house succumbed to fire.
The destruction of the house led to the birth of this exhibition.
Fallowfield is the story of the life and demise of this abandoned house told in a variety of ways – through installation, photography, film projection, craft, transformed furniture and a carefully curated collection of vintage curios. The miniature made life-sized and brought back to life.”
Clare Ormsby is a Jersey based abstract artist and 2006 winner of the Fox International Art Prize who has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Jersey, Portugal and France.
Commissioned by ArtHouse Jersey.
Tickets/Booking: Free entry, no booking necessary.
Abundant Futures
Abundant Futures is a long-term, socially engaged project led by Dana Olărescu and commissioned by ArtHouse Jersey. In collaboration with contributing artists, academics, and organisations including William Bock, Fozia Ismail, Kaajal Modi, Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira, Olha Pryymak, and Counterpoints, the project explores issues of food justice.
By using food as a catalyst, the project honours the diverse knowledge and skills people bring from their homelands to Jersey’s migrant and native communities. Following its inaugural year in 2024, with the generous sponsorship of Spoor & Fisher Jersey, this year the project’s theme is ‘Community Medicine’. Through workshops and public sessions, Dana invites you to reflect on what this means to you.
Kupala Festival is a traditional pre-Christian Slavic celebration marking the summer harvest. This summer, the festival brings its vibrant traditions to Jersey for the first time. Curated and led by Ukrainian-born painter and participatory
artist Olha Pryymak, the festival has fostered collaborations with the UK’s growing population of displaced Ukrainians. Expect familyfriendly activities, entertainment, and nourishment celebrating the abundant harvest of midsummer featuring traditional floral crownmaking, craft activities, fire-side singing and dancing, Eastern European food, and installations by Abundant Futures artists celebrating Jersey’s diverse community and rich cultural heritage.
Further details to be announced at arthousejersey.je, and if you would like to learn more please get in touch with Scott at scott@arts.je
Sponsored by
Abundant Futures
THURSDAY 28 AUGUST - SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER
JDC’s International Finance Centre 2, St Helier
Butterfield Public Art Series: Bubbletecture by Atelier Sisu
ArtHouse Jersey presents Bubbletecture, a playful, family-fun experience in the form of a large-scale installation of iridescent, inflatable sculptures. The collection of eight metre high spheres, otherwise known as Evanescent, were designed by the Sydney based, award-winning artist duo Atelier Sisu, and will appear at IFC2 in St Helier set amongst a new, specially designed environment accompanied by a bespoke soundtrack and lighting sequence.
Artists Renzo B. Larriviere and Zara Pasfield work with a multidisciplinary team to create experiential environments, installations and sculptures that playfully explore the intersection between art and architecture. Bubbletecture in Jersey will see a programme of arts events take place in and around the installation, including music, dance and family friendly activities.
Sponsored by
This project forms part of the Butterfield Public Art Series, a succession of artworks across three years in Jersey’s public realm sponsored by Butterfield. This project is also presented in partnership with the Jersey Development Company.
Bubbletecture is suitable for all ages and abilities.
Image credits: Atelier Sisu
Butterfield Public
Art Series: Bubbletecture by Atelier Sisu
THURSDAY 4 - SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER
12PM - 6PM, TUESDAY - SUNDAY
ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House.
Inside Out 17
Tickets/Booking: Free entry, no booking necessary.
For a second year at Capital House, The States of Jersey Prison Service is proud to present Inside Out 17, an annual showcase featuring a collection of art created by Prisoners from HM La Moye Prison.
There is a wide evidence base to support the importance of arts in prisons in helping prisoners improve their resilience, develop skills, confidence, expression and wellbeing. This has proven to have a therapeutic effect and assists with greater emotional self-regulation.
The prisoners at La Moye are producing between 100 to 150 artworks. Each piece tells a story, offering glimpses into personal journeys, emotions, and reflections of the artists. The work ranges from paintings, to drawings, poetry, ceramics, and woodwork. Inside / Out is a rare opportunity to witness the creativity that can arise from adversity and the transformative power of art within prisons.
The exhibition aims to spark meaningful conversations, challenge perceptions, and promote understanding and empathy within our community. Inside / Out invites you to consider themes of rehabilitation, and the potential for personal growth. Considering the power of art as a transformative tool for healing and self-expression, ultimately empowering individuals to rebuild their lives and contribute positively to society.
SATURDAY 20 AND SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER, 10AM - 5PM BOTH DAYS
ArtHouse Jersey HQ at Greve de Lecq Barracks
Pop Up Exhibition Series: Sapphire de la Haye, Pippa Simpson and Alastair Best
Sapphire de la Haye is a qualified therapeutic art practitioner with the British Association for Art Therapists, combining her passion for art with mental health advocacy. Her work primarily uses acrylics, oils, and mixed glazes to explore the landscapes of the mind, focusing on how meditation fosters presence and visualization. Pippa Simpson uses glass as her canvas to deliver a wonderful translucent 3D world. She uses the medium as inspiration to explore themes of mythical worlds and beasts. Alastair Best explains that looking back from the age of 84, he wishes that he’d started painting ten or fifteen years earlier. The themes of his work include the Jersey coastline particularly the low water lunar landscape of our South East coast.
Tickets/Booking: Free entry, no booking necessary.
ArtHouse
Collins Pop Up Exhibition Series:
Sapphire de la Haye, Pippa Simpson and Alastair Best
Alastair Best
Sapphire de la Haye
Pippa Simpson
SATURDAY 27 & SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER, 10AM - 5PM
ArtHouse Jersey’s HQ at Greve de Lecq Barracks
Dementia Jersey: One Day
Dementia Jersey proudly exhibits artworks created by their Art Exploration groups inspired by and reflecting on One Day... A day that has been, that is now or that will be.
The exhibition will showcase work from the Dementia Jersey weekly art sessions run by art teacher Lucy Blackmore. Art exploration provides an invaluable creative and social outlet for those living with dementia. The group gives participants the opportunity to use art as a visual language, which can give freedom to expression and an increase in confidence. As a charity, Dementia Jersey’s aim is to help and support people to live well with dementia. The exhibition coincides with the charity’s 2025 campaign for International Alzheimer’s Awareness month in September and will include a pop up tea room to raise funds via donations.
Tickets/Booking: Free entry, no booking necessary.
THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER - SUNDAY 30 NOVEMBER
12PM - 6PM, TUESDAY TO SUNDAY
ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House
CONSUMED
by the Women’s Research Wānanga:
Imagecredit: LindsayRutter
This autumn ArtHouse Jersey presents a new transdisciplinary exhibition that places women’s experiences front and centre. Through paintings, sculptural works, projections and installation, CONSUMED examines difficult and disobedient bodies and minds. Bodies that refuse to take it. Bodies that refuse to prioritise the moral imperative of happiness. Bodies and minds that wilfully defy social conventions of respectability. Working collectively, CONSUMED examines emotions, materialities, physical and psychological states of becoming and being consumed by and through a range of social, material, emotional and psychological forces.
CONSUMED has been produced by a group of Jersey and international artists working collaboratively as the Women’s Research Wānanga, a group founded by the Māori / Jèrriais artist, Rychèl Thérin Scott. The exhibition features work created by Emma D. McGuire, Dr Nina Rodin, Lindsay Rutter, Dr Caitlin Shepherd and Rychèl Thérin Scott with invited guests following two ArtHouse Jersey residencies in 2024 and 2025.
Tickets/Booking: Free entry, no booking necessary.
Raise Your Voice, Jersey!
ArtHouse Jersey continues its collaboration with Jersey-born opera singer Georgia Mae Bishop to produce a brand new opera with, by, and for the Island. This isn’t your traditional approach to opera - we’re creating something fresh, fun, and uniquely Jersey! Central to this project is storytelling, using singing and drama to rediscover opera as an art form that belongs to everyone.
Georgia, in her role as Creative Director and Librettist, brings together a stellar creative team who will gather with a group of Jersey-based young adults aged 18-30 to co-create the opera through two intensive writing weekends held at Greve de Lecq Barracks in April 2025.
Developed and presented in partnership with Jersey Opera House, the resulting production will be performed by a chorus of local performers alongside a cast of seasoned professionals in March 2026. This unique project offers an opportunity for our Island community to connect creatively, and directly contribute to what is performed on-stage.
If you would like to know more about this project or to get involved, please contact Producer Robyn Cabaret by e-mail at robyn@arts.je, or visit arthousejersey.je.
FROM APRIL
Central Market, Halkett Place
Fish WishPaîsson d’Pâssion
Residency & Public Artwork
Over 12 weeks artists Esther Rose Parkes and Karen Le Roy Harris transformed a unit at the Fish Market into a creative studio and community space as part of The Jersey Markets Residency. Their vision was to celebrate the Central and Fish Markets as spaces of shared memories, vibrant connections, and future hopes.
At the heart of the project is a gathering of wishes from the market’s diverse community. Market stallholders’ wishes were woven into a song, arranged for a special choir made up of the stallholders themselves. Visitors also participated through writing wishes, knotting wishes into rope and creating paper fish, all contributing to the final installation.
The residency culminates with a large-scale public artwork around the Central Market’s fountain. The artists hope that the installation allows the fountain to once again become a place of hope and wishes for the future, and we invite you to visit and contribute your wish.
This residency and artwork were made possible through a partnership between ArtHouse Jersey, Jersey Markets, and Creative Island Partnership. Special thanks to CRY for their support in kind.
Esther Rose Parkes (left) & Karen Le Roy Harris (right)
JANUARY - DECEMBER
Cyril Le Marquand Court, Philips Street, St Helier
The Stoodio
by Hayley Gibaut & Sophie Harris
In partnership with Andium Homes
Local artists Hayley Gibaut and Sophie Harris have taken up residence in a creative studio space at Cyril Le Marquand Court, dubbed ‘The Stoodio’ for 2025.
The space was made available to them free of charge, thanks to a partnership between ArtHouse Jersey and Andium Homes and in return they deliver community driven arts activities for the public that are free and accessible, while providing a chance for people to enjoy creative pursuits or develop new skills, without it being necessary for them to have any aspiration to become an artist.
Opening days and times are Monday to Wednesday from 10am6pm, Thursday and Friday from 12pm-6pm and Saturday from 2pm-6pm (closed from 2pm-3.30pm on weekdays). People are welcome to pop into the space at any time during these hours and speak directly with the artists about taking part.
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Hayley Gibault (left) & Sophie Harris (right)
Funding for Artists
ArtHouse Jersey Development Grants provide financial assistance to local artists and artists linked to Jersey who are seeking to pursue a career in the arts in any discipline. The artists we support are seeking funding to either support the development of a new project or the development of their artistic skills. The quarterly deadlines are 1 February, 1 May, 1 August and 1 November. The guidelines and application form can be found on our website. Some recent awards include:
Heather Barette: Onggi pottery
skills development
Heather Barette is a studio potter and artist educator who was awarded a Development Grant as a contribution towards undertaking an artist residency in Korea to immerse herself in the traditional technique of Onggi pottery, expand her artistic skills and learn from a master of this unique craft.
Henry Lambert: Cabaret double-act
show
Henry Lambert’s work is a cross-over between clown, character comedy, performance art, magic and experimental fashion. He works with Christina Holmbek to devise performances for theatre and cabaret spaces. He was awarded funding to support the development of their first full-length show, ‘HÔLY-PÔLY’.
Cleo Leather: Feature film ‘Project Cola’
Cleo Leather is a photographer and filmmaker who received a Development Grant towards the creation of a feature length coming-of-age film called ‘Project Cola’ which will explore the complexities of youth and addiction.
Heather Barette
Henry Lambert
Cleo Leather
Education:
Saturday Art School, Summer Art School, Gem of the Sea
Our ArtHouse Jersey Education Programme works collaboratively with teachers and young people across the Island, supporting schools, students and educators in Jersey throughout the year by providing engaging events, workshops, gallery visits and CPD workshops. Last year alone our work reached over 5,000 students and delivered 13,000 hours of engagement. We supported and trained professional artists to create art experiences that enrich the curriculum as well as provided opportunities to access art outside of school. These projects are delivered through different partnerships including Making Art Partnerships in Schools (MAPS), Saturday Art School and the recently launched environmental series Gem of the Sea with specific support from the Creative Island Partnership.
Nurturing the development of young people from primary school level has a long term impact on the value and importance we place on art and creativity in society and on developing a happy, healthy and culturally engaged island community.
For more details about any of our education related content email Education Officer Anna Shipley at anna@arts.je and/or visit arthousejersey.je for details and bookings.
AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT 2025
ArtHouse Jersey HQ at Greve de Lecq Barracks
Creative Courses
ArtHouse Jersey has teamed up with talented local and international tutors to offer an exciting series of drawing, painting, movement and textile courses.
These varied courses, responding to the drama and inspiration found in coastal landscapes, are held at the historic studios of Greve de Lecq Barracks. They cater to all abilities from curious beginners dipping a toe to established artists honing their craft. All are welcome!
Tickets/Booking: Prices vary, please see www.arthousejersey. je/short-courses for details and to book:
Visit. Donate. Sponsor.
Whether you visit, donate or sponsor you can help us create magical creative moments for everyone in 2025 and beyond. Here is a reminder of the three ways in which you can continue to support the arts the Jersey and the work we do for the community:
Visit.
Bring friends and family to our free exhibitions and events! Your engagement makes all the difference and as you can see, much of our exciting public programme in 2025 is free to attend.
Donate.
ArtHouse Jersey is a charity. Even a small gift can make a big impact:
£20 enables an older person to enjoy a Cake & Cabaret event
£50 buys art materials for a child to attend weekend creative workshops
£100 gives an Islander in need a day of creativity
£1,000 provides a grant for an emerging artist to develop their career
£5,000 contributes to the production of an impressive large-scale public artwork
Sponsor.
Businesses can partner with us to transform lives through art in 2025. Our sponsorship opportunities are a great way to inspire staff through creative activities while supporting well publicised, cultural initiatives that make a lasting impact across the Island. Please see www.arthousejersey.je/partnerships for detail