the latest from the Jersey art community

During the summer of 2012, I will be living on my boat in Sark, sketching the coastline.  I will be artist in residence at Stocks Hotel in May 2012 - you are very welcome to visit me there.  I would like to organize a Channel Island touring exhibition in 2013. 

LOCAL ARTIST EXHIBITS WORKS INSPIRED BY 50 YEARS OF ISLAND LIFE

Local artist Peter Carnegie is exhibiting a selection artwork from a 50-year career spent chronicling Jersey’s seascapes and landscapes on canvas.  The exhibition, which will take place at the White Space Gallery, Jersey Potteries between 18th - 31st October, is a tribute to Jersey’s coastal scenery from...

JERSEY’S ARTISTS OPEN THEIR DOORS TO SHOW YOU THE PLACE WHERE IT ALL HAPPENS.

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Open Studios 2011 celebrates the wealth of talented artists and makers producing work in Jersey. Now in its fourth year, this event gives you a chance to discover the diversity in the visual arts....

Known for his contemporary drama and published poetry, Tiziano Fratus has, in recent years, dedicated his passion to the appreciation and enhancement of the heritage and secular trees in his region, the Piedmont in Italy, and in the world. This exhibition is a collection of his findings, based on his book: Homo Radix. Appunti per un cercatore di alberi (Root Man. Notes for a Tree Seeker).

He collects stories about arboreal literature (tales, novels, poems, essays, diaries) and tells histories
about the age of scientists and botanists travelling around the world, talking about the first Europeans who have discovered, described and introduced extra continental species in our gardens and landscapes.

“I began to wander across streets, the parks, the expansive avenues of cities, looking at the beauty of the trees you can find anywhere, trying to recognise their species, their age, the forms of the leaves, the proportions and geometries of the trunks, of the...