Weekends 3/4 and 10/11 September at Rose Cottage, Gotham Alley, Claremont, Hastings. Behind the library, entrance through Printworks gates.
Not open 3rd September due to illness.
Coastal Currents Open Studios 2022
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“Dark was the day…
…for Childe Rolandine the artist When she went to work as a secretary-typist” and mangled her website all by herself…
Currently exhibiting
Society of Wood Engravers 79th annual exhibition at North Wall Gallery Oxford,
9 November – 2 December
Creative Christmas at Hastings Arts Forum,
1-23 December
Creative Christmas is a curated show, exhibitors are selected based on the quality and uniqueness of their work, ensuring a broad range of beautiful, high quality artefacts.
Drawings made for the Women’s Peace Crusade film by Ali Ronan and the Clapham Film Unit. Next screening Tue 28 February 2017.
Linocuts for a pamphlet, Four Poems from Saying it with Flowers makes imaginative connections between lives of plants and human actions.The poems, in settings of fear and danger, inspired the composer David Loxley-Blounts’s compostion DuoSet, four pieces for organ and solo instruments. The first performances took place at St Lawrence Jewry, in the City of London, as part of a series of concerts in October 2016. Pamphlet available from Hearing Eye.
“Emily Johns’ linocut illustration is as powerful and expansive as the texts that follow.” Joan Michelson, review in London Grip
Extended until 2 October
A letter to the paper
Currently I have work in the East Sussex Open at the Towner, Eastbourne. Budapest, Northern Ireland, Essex. Jews, gypsies, migrants. ‘A letter to the paper from my father’ was made to mark the eviction of Dale Farm.
Emily Johns: The Politics of Print
Print Festival Scotland 2016
Roseangle Arts Cafe Gallery
17 Roseangle
Dundee
DD1 4LP
Monday 30th May to Saturday 2nd July
open 10am to 4pm Monday to Saturday
Artists talk evening of Thursday 30th June.
Politics of Print
This set of prints spans 20 years with their roots in my involvement with direct action against the first Gulf War. They come from practical political action intertwined with the practical work of cutting and scratching and inking of surfaces. Printmaking has always been the art form that belongs to political movements: images that need to communicate strong thoughts and feelings; images that can be reproduced quickly and easily; images that can assert again and again that we think through pictures when we are reaching for humanity and poetry. Controlling the printing press is like controlling the megaphone.
Drawn to Witness
16-29 May
Memorial Art Gallery
7 Cambridge Rd, Hastings TN34 1DJ
I have been drawing the changes in Hollington Valley nature reserve over the last year, from the end of one winter to the end of the next, as a struggle takes place between Seachange Sussex, Hastings Council and environmental campaigners about the building of another road. Not your idyllic Spring Watch in a Sussex bluebell wood but an observation of the processes that drive out protected species to prepare the land for tarmac. The drawing is a record of place, an act of witness of a heavy footprint, a capturing of spirit; it bears an imprint of conversations with local walkers, security guards, and residents of Emmaus.
See news report in Hastings Observer of how to draw surrounded by security guards