Art Exhibition

The Art Exhibition from local vegan artists is taking place in the Downstairs Foyer. Entitled Chronic Synthesis, the exhibition is the brainchild of Kay Johns and the Lethal Concoction collective. Be inspired....! Lethal Concoction is an eclectic mix of Sculptors from the Sussex Coast that have joined forces to present an exhibition entitled Chronic Synthesis. Together they offer a wide range of sculpture techniques that employ a variety of different materials and processes. They initially met at Northbrook College in West Sussex, while studying a Fine Art Sculpture Degree and have since become good friends due to their fascination and dedication to sculpture.

Their work explores a collection of concerns within society. Ethical issues such as the experimentation between humans/ animals and machines are a topic for two sculptors. Here another sculptor expresses the beauty of nature, and the unease at our relationship with the natural world, while two others explore personal spaces, divisions and segregation through Architecture. Lethal Concoction are: Kay Johns, Stuart Slade, Sally Colledge, Jacque Jermyn, and Alan Crouch.

Lethal Concoction - Chronic Synthesis

Lethal Concoction are a eclectic mix of Sculptors from the Sussex Coast that have joined forces to present an exhibition entitled Chronic Synthesis. Together they offer a wide range of sculpture techniques that employ a variety of different materials and processes. They initially met at Northbrook College in West Sussex, while studying a Fine Art Sculpture Degree and have since become good friends due to their fascination and dedication to sculpture. Their work explores a collection of concerns within society. Ethical issues such as the experimentation between humans/ animals and machines are a topic for two sculptors. Here another sculptor expresses the beauty of nature, and the unease at our relationship with the natural wor! ld, while two others explore personal spaces, divisions and segregation through Architecture.Lethal Concoction are: Kay Johns, Stuart Slade, Sally Colledge, Jacque Jermyn, and Alan Crouch

Kay Johns - Personal Statement

Kay's sculptures are intended to portray a humorous interplay between the hybridisation of the biological and the technological, by exploring a combination of kinetics and clashing materials, objects and forms. This eclectic concoction often suggests metaphors and analogies regarding expressions of uncertainty and contradictions. My approach to sculpture is very experimental I enjoy playing with materials and exploring their associations. While childlike humour and dynamics can be found at the forefront of my work, running parallel looms a slightly menacing, unnerving emotion.

Kay has been a vegan for over 20 years and in the past has made a collection of various costumes for animal charities. She is now currently studying her final year of a Fine Art Sculpture degree at Northbrook College, W Sussex.

Kinetic Sculpture, titled: Twitter

Dimensions: 10ft x 5ft

Mixed Media

Website: www.kayjohns.net

Contact Details: info@kayjohns.net

Currently working on a kinetic piece tiled Twitter which will be ready for the Brighton Vegan Fayre.

There will be 100 plant-like kinetic sculptures growing from an area of compost approx 10ft x 5ft. This photo is just the beginning so if you want to see it finished you will have to come along.

Stuart Slade - Personal Statement

My work is about the relationships that humans have with machines and how humans have become reliant on these machines to help live their lives. I am interested in the human condition and merging this with crude and pointless machines. The sculptures look as if they belong in a dystopian future where their form and function is ambiguous and uncertain. The work is also an expression of my own inner feelings of fear, paranoia, humour and confusion. I like to combine fun and the fantastic to create sculptures with a darkly surreal edge, which sometimes displays a strong sci fi aesthetic.

I enjoy experimenting with different materials ranging from metal, wood, plaster, man-made and natural found objects or anything I might find in a junk-shop or skip. This process of experimentation allows my ideas to develop, taking me on numerous journeys before deciding on a finished piece. I am currently in my final year studying for a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art - Sculpture at Northbrook College, Worthing, West Sussex.

Title: Scuttlehead.

Dimension: 1m x 2m

Materials: Steel and cold cast resin

Website: www.stuartslade.co.uk

Contact Details: email stuart@stuartslade.co.uk

Sally Colledge - Personal Statement

Sally makes ephemeral sculptures and installations that explore themes of transparency, transience and fragility. The artist's work is intended to be beautiful yet slightly unsettling to reflect our uneasy relationship with the natural world, which is capable of simultaneously invoking feelings of awe and disquiet. Sally uses labour-intensive methods and repetitive processes to create her sculptures. The materials she uses, and the space in which the installation is made or displayed, play a part in determining the final form of the work. Sally is a mature student studying the final year of her Fine Art degree at Northbrook College, Worthing.

Title: Growth

Dimensions (approx): 5ft x 5ft.

Materials: Latex and dried spaghetti.

Contact details: www.sally-colledge.webeden.co.uk

Email: Sal777@tiscali.co.uk

Alan Crouch - Personal Statement

My work is related to use of space and control of human behaviour through architecture. I largely work on wood which has been previously used where possible. "Cupboard2House" was made from an old whitewood cupboard and reflects in some ways how simple used materials can provide a home for some".I graduate in a few months time after studying a BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture degree at Northbrook College, West Sussex.

Title: Cupboard2House

Material: Old whitewood cupboard

Dimensions: ht. 170cm, width. 138cm, depth. 90cm.

Email: aduralan@yahoo.co.uk

Jacqueline Jermyn - Personal Statement

Jacqueline's intention is to challenge the viewer to think about the individual in relation to the collective, the human behind the architecture, to imagine where they fit and to place themselves in ‘The Grid'. We all have a door behind which we retreat, we close it and in doing so, enter a space which reflects us, either individually or as part of a nuclear ‘family'. Her work is intended to generate ideas about others, behind their doors, about taste, design and the individual in relation to the many. It contains the personal human interest of other people's lives and it encourages the viewer to imaginatively enter domestic spaces and be affected by what they find. ‘The Grid' provides a means of showing both similarity and difference as well as referencing architecture on both an individual, and, collectively, on a community wide, scale. Jacqueline's plaster sculptures create a large space on a small scale enabling a further conversation about status, authority and power in society. Her work is intended to convey architectural fantasies, spaces or buildings we can imagine ourselves being in, spaces in which the fantasies are not just architectural but reflect our fantasies, or perhaps our aspirations. The geometric lines and clean delineation between materials used in modern architecture have inspired her work. She uses almost draughtsman - like detail in her drawings; which are the templates for the painting and sculpture which form her work.Jacqueline is in her the final year of her Fine Art degree at Brighton University.

Title: UntitledMaterial: Plaster

Dimensions (approx) 5ft x 5ft.

Contact details: jacqueline.jermyn@hotmail.co.uk