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ROSA Magazine Review of Sussex Arts
The Arts & Culture Magazine for Sussex. Organisers of Sussex Craft Week 20-28 June 2026 and ROSA Botanical Art Fair 1-4 May 2026.

Bids are open! 📣 Gorringe’s charity auction has work by top artists, unique experiences donated by the likes of Soho Hou...
27/05/2026

Bids are open! 📣 Gorringe’s charity auction has work by top artists, unique experiences donated by the likes of Soho House, Charleston, The Star Alfriston and Goodwood Festival of Speed, special items from Nigella Lawson and Tag Heuer, plus many many more.

To browse the full auction catalogue go to our link in bio ⬆️ There’s lots of very tempting stuff!

The auction takes place on Wednesday June 3 and every penny raised goes directly to Princess Alice Hospice and Team Domenica 😇

If you haven't bid at auction before and don't want to create an account with the-saleroom.com, you are welcome to DM, WhatsApp or email Gorringe's with your bid 

Please bid generously: every penny goes directly to these two important charities ✨

     

Review by Sonya Smith: Crone Alone Liz Aggiss The Dance Space, Brighton Festival ‘‘Is it worth it?’’ she asks. Liz Aggis...
07/05/2026

Review by Sonya Smith: Crone Alone 
Liz Aggiss 
The Dance Space, Brighton Festival 

‘‘Is it worth it?’’ she asks. Liz Aggiss, dubbed ‘the grande dame of anarchic dance’ says she has been called many things. This show proves that one of those things has to be ‘genius’. A term bandied around with abandon, but in this case, it’s something you as an audience member can feel. In fact, I was close to shouting it out to her, mid-performance. Which, I believe, she would have welcomed. This is performance art in it’s most delicious form, basted in almost five decades of experience and exploration, skewered by piercing talent. My companions and I certainly gobbled it up and let it drip down our grinning chins, fully sated.  

Liz Aggiss is exquisitely controlled in her wild movement. Her body, her face and her eyes hook the audience. She understands costume and how it is character, deserving close attention in its treatment. Every move related to it is deliberate, enthralling. She knows how to balance the whole space and everyone in it, having us teeter, laugh, hold our breath, squirm, celebrate, all the while being expertly and warmly held throughout.  

Her script, which of course she wrote, because this show is all her own and herself on a silver platter, is clever and witty but also inviting; an exploration of performer/audience relationship that involves the audience without forcing any kind of butt-clenching ‘participation’. We listened closely. What is value? What is worth? What does it mean to be a woman? Keep asking questions, Elizabeth, because yes, it is worth it.  

02/05/2026

Join us this Bank Holiday weekend 1-4 May at West Dean, Chichester for ROSA Botanical Art Fair. Open daily 10am-5pm. botanicalartfair.co.uk

25/04/2026

Great talks at Cement Studios last night by:







Cement run great courses for both beginners and experienced artists. See what they do

Soft launch · Friday 24 April, 6–9pm🙃 The Vault, seafront, by the upside down house.🍷 An intimate one: drinks with Flow ...
23/04/2026

Soft launch · Friday 24 April, 6–9pm

🙃 The Vault, seafront, by the upside down house.

🍷 An intimate one: drinks with Flow Mode artists, volunteers, partners, friends.

🎶 Good people. Good energy. DJ Adrian Isaac on sunset.

🌱 A small moment before May opens up.

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️Art needs you, not just your money. Step in.





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Cement Studios Talk and Walk24 Apr 3:30 PM – 8:00 PM To celebrate ROSA’s Spring issue featuring cover artist Julian Wild...
22/04/2026

Cement Studios Talk and Walk

24 Apr 3:30 PM – 8:00 PM

To celebrate ROSA’s Spring issue featuring cover artist Julian Wild, ROSA and Cement invite you to an evening in Newhaven on Friday 24th April. A unique opportunity to hear Cement studio artists The Baron Gilvan, Isobel Smith, Vicki Painting, Alison Hand and Julian Wild talk about their work.

5.30-8pm. Talks start at 6pm. (drinks served) at Cement studios and Art School, Unit 10 Quarry Road Industrial Estate, Newhaven, BN9 9DD. Nearest station is Newhaven Town. Parking is limited so please park on Quarry Road or Fort Road.

In advance of the event, artist Elspeth Penfold will be creating her performance walk ‘Lets’s Walk to 3 Corners’ taking visitors from Cement’s exhibition at The Marine Workshops to Cement Studios. Meet at BN9 Studio (above Mamoush) at 3.30pm on Friday 24th April. 

Both events are FREE. Please reserve your place via link in bio ⬆️



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13/04/2026

Get the full film programme

As we approach the 10th Eastbourne International Film Festival, a question that has shaped the festival from the beginning feels even more present:

What if a film festival wasn’t just an event, but a way of building independence?

What if a coastal town could become a global cinema stage – even just for 10 days, weeks or more? A stage created from local stories to international screens, from a small town to a global audience.

For a decade, Crossing The Screen has explored what happens when culture is shaped not from the top down, but from within a community.

Built by volunteers, young people, and local audiences, the festival creates space for independent cinema to live and grow – while opening up real educational pathways, including its Talent Accelerator programme and digital accreditation opportunities for emerging creatives.

In a coastal town where opportunities can be harder to access, the festival has become a creative tool for regeneration—connecting local talent with international voices, and turning participation into possibility.

Because independence in the arts is never created alone.

It is built – collectively.

Celebrate a decade of cinema and discover screenings, workshops, and seminars across Cavendish Hotel, Eastbourne & Hailsham Pavilion Cinema from 2–9 May.

St Leonards-based artist Jack Milroy opens a new exhibition ‘Bibliophilia’  London, on 15 AprilFor Bibliophilia, Jack ha...
13/04/2026

St Leonards-based artist Jack Milroy opens a new exhibition ‘Bibliophilia’  
London, on 15 April

For Bibliophilia, Jack has selected illustrated books – depicting flowers, animals and costumes – transforming them into intricate 3D book-works. The exhibition also includes pieces made from his now famous sardine piccanti tins, recalling an early series for which the artist famously ate sardines every day for lunch for 100 days!

📚 “Upstairs at Shapero Rare Books, you will be able to see the display of first editions and beautifully illustrated folio editions, carefully presented in pristine condition. These books can be read but they are also meant for collecting and display. Downstairs in the Shapero Modern Gallery, my exhibition shows books that have been vandalised, disembowelled and dismembered volumes, presented in crisp acrylic showcases. These books are not meant to be read but are for collecting and reflecting – perhaps on the demise of the book as a purveyor of information and knowledge.” Jack Milroy 📚

Over a career spanning 6 decades, his work has been acquired by major institutions including the V&A, Imperial War Museum, the British Library, Great Ormond Street hospital, the UK Government Art Collection, the Kit Kemp Collection and the Caldic Collection in the Netherlands. His work is also held in significant private and corporate collections in the UK and internationally, including BA, De Beers, Fidelity, Seagrams, Bank of America, Nat West, Firmdale Hotels, University of Wisconsin, Queen Mary University, London, and others.
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11/04/2026

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