Surrey Artists Open Studios: Discover the diversity and creativity of Surrey artists, 1-23 June 2024 https://surreyopenstudios.org.uk Connect, Create, Grow ● Connect and meet exciting artists across Surrey ● Buy original artworks at competitive prices ● Acquire new skills Artists open their doors over 23 days in June, explore, meet and enjoy! From 1-23 June Surrey artists will be welcoming the public into their studios for the annual Surrey Artists Open Studios (SAOS) event taking place right across the county. This year there will be over 250 artists taking part in 165 studios with a fantastic array of artworks and disciplines on show to browse and to buy. As well as a chance to meet and talk to artists in their place of work, the summer open studios event offers visitors the opportunity to view demonstrations, buy artwork, enter a free prize draw and even get involved in creative workshops. Studio locations are throughout Surrey and its borders. The SAOS launch weekend takes place on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 June https://surreyopenstudios.org.uk/events/category/launch-events/ with artists offering an array of activities exclusively for first weekend visitors to this popular county-wide event. There will be taster workshops with different materials across the arts and crafts, scheduled specially for the opening weekend. SAOS has been running for 24 years representing the best in the county’s creativity and shining a light on makers, artists and creatives producing everything from ceramics and jewellery to paintings and sculpture. Visitors can find information about which studios and artists are taking part via our website: https://surreyopenstudios.org.uk/open-studios/ Brochures are available from early May in libraries, key galleries and at artists’ studios. SAOS Manager, Caitlin Heffernan says: “SAOS is a wonderful opportunity to discover the county’s creativity on your doorstep. Not only will you uncover a vast range of artworks made by a truly impressive array of hundreds of individual artists, you will also find some unique pieces to take home with you. This year there is an impressive range of workshops to learn new techniques delivered by highly experienced artists. Whatever you taste or budget, SAOS artists offer unique artworks across virtually every discipline from ceramics and sculpture to paintings and jewellery.” See the website for full details including bookings for workshops and details of open studios and artist’s work. As well as being available at key libraries and at tourist information centres across the county, artists will also have brochures in their studios, but check the SAOS website first: https://surreyopenstudios.org.uk/open-studios/ to locate a studio and brochure pick up point, or use your mobile phone with the mobile-friendly website to plan your visits.
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Lost Boys @ The Art Fund Prize Gallery, The Lightbox Museum, Woking, Surrey
Opening on the 6th of November to the 19th!
" Fusing irony with allegory, Paul Chisholm creates works layered with allusions to his personal history and emotional state, subtly criticising social and political circumstances. Utilising his own experience as a springboard, he has built a distinctive visual language, imbued with poetic nuances of the often contradictory and disconcerting feelings related to the human condition.”Ana Bambic Kostov Art Historian 2018
Chisholm’s artistic practice revolves around conceptual explorations of identity, gender and politics, and it incorporates works completed in different media including painting, photography, installation and objects. Regardless of the material, his works possess a strong communicative quality, bearing messages garnished with both humour and pain. The confluence of bright colours and bold puns unveils the double entendre behind every visual.
The lost, the lonely, the disposed and the depressed, life is a parade, a journey and the lights must go on, it is a world of contradictory emotions and parodies, a place of hell and a place of heaven, of need and neglect, distraction, abundance and failure.
Paul Chisholm will present a body of paintings and sculptures from his Lost Boys series which is inspired by the boys lost to the HIV epidemic throughout the decades and related suicide. It also points to the stigma faced by those boys affected by HIV within modern day society.
Paul Chisholm (1983) born in Canterbury, England and brought up in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. He studied at Nottingham Trent University (2004) before doing his MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art in London (2020. Recent exhibitions include The Tronie’s of Croydon-Oh at Turf Projects, Croydon, London (2022), Mc Hope at The Brewery Tap Project Space, University of Creative Arts, Folkestone, Kent (2023) and The Queer Britain Art award, Queer Britain Museum, Kings Cross, London (2023
SOAS OPEN STUDIOS
I’m pleased to say I will be opening my studio as a part of The Surrey Artists Open Studios 3rd-18th June 2023 come and take a look…..
SOLO SHOW @ THE LIGHTBOX MUSEUM, WOKING, SURREY
I’m pleased to say later this year in November I will be having my first museum show at The Lightbox Museum in Woking, Surrey in their Art Fund Prize Gallery. More info to follow soon :)
