The 2021 Newhaven Open Call built on previous Open Calls and the programme of work that we do with local communities throughout the year. The event saw over 100 artists taking part.
The Newhaven Open Call differs from others because it is shows something by everyone who has submitted. In this sense, the exhibition mounts up to a democratic survey of art.
Boundaries between ‘professional’, ‘amateur’, ‘artist’ and ‘non-artist’ have been blurred by our impulse to overturn the imposed forms of classification and distinction. Additionally, we have found value in affording some art a level of visibility that it might not have attained otherwise.
Newhaven High Street has welcomed our project without hesitation or obvious judgement and we see this as an opportunity to help develop spaces for the community to work, think, experiment and contemplate.
As well as the exhibition in The Ship Hotel, there was a continuation of the show in an empty shop in Newhaven Square; ‘Bits and Pieces’. This repurposed space comprised work made by the Wellbeing Group that we have been lucky enough to work with throughout the Covid pandemic. Artist Ian Dawson was invited to lead the group in curating their own art alongside the Open Call and invited artists Alice Wilson, Nicky Hirst, Louisa Minkin, Alex Schady and Laura White. We thank all of these artists and Ian for their generosity and commitment to our project.
We would also like to thank Kerry, the manager of The Ship Hotel, and Mike Stimpson too. Without these two people we would have had nowhere to present this work.
Participating artists: David J.Batchelor, Lucy Finchett-Maddock, Joe Gilling, Brian Cheeswright, John Leach, Lisa Jones, Liza Morton, Jane Hicks, John Alden, Andrei Precup, Eva Voutsaki, Amanda Jobson, Di Drummond, Lewie Reed, Jacqui Parker, Ian Dawson, Kate Rossini, Lizzie Lower, Graham Carter, Helene McCarthy, William Wyndham, Anne Conell, Rachel Adams, Ian McKillop, Lucy Newman, Christina Baldwin, Jonathan Ridley, Michael Richards, Irene Burns, Hilary Musk, Angela Smith, Fenya Sharkey, Sue Collins, Elin Karlssen, Ram Samocha, Lucia Fyre, Barbara Stevens, Pippa Johnson, Caoimhe McDonnell, Sara Grisewood, Tracey Robinson, Llewellyn Watkins, Mary Hooper, Shirley Archibald, Helen Bashford, Kathleen Dawson, Jake Stanford, Louisa Minkin, Justin Weeks, Jane Merfield, Laura Asselborn, Nadine Feinson, Nick Marsh, Nick Bush, Charles Koning, Patrick Goff, Abigail Blanshard, Albani Anca, Indie, Rob Hellen, June Nelson, Sophie Clare Wilson, Holly Birtles, Hannah Morris, Tom Hammick, Max, Julian Le Bas, Craig Cotton, Scott, James Currie, Samuel James Shaw, Eli Delbaere, Laura Ford, Helen Turner, Patricia Thorton, Emma West, Mel Zeki, Emily Jolley, Rodolph De Salis, Stephen Cogger, Mikey Cuddihy, Maja Jones, Isobel Smith, Clive Jarman, Melissa Shatto, Mike Stoakes, Ian Boutell, Deborah Lerner, Laura Mustoe, Nick Chumley, Phillip Reeves, Zara Idelson, Caroline Pick, Lucy Farrant, Alison Bettles, Abigail Lock, Bob Dixon, Crina Dragomirescu, Jayne Crow, Kate, Herbert Roche, Stella Clifford, Janet Roland, Sharon Hall, Robert Littleford, Florence Morley, Daniel MacCarthy, Jeremy Sales, Hayley Johnson, Dagmara Rudkin, Jason Williams, Alice Wilson, Alex Schady, Nicky Hirst, Laura White and Lydia Le Bas
Newhaven Open Call 2021 is supported by Arts Council England and Sussex Community Foundation
