I am very grateful to be invited back to exhibit at Glyndebourne Opera House for Fair Ground, their annual exhibition of contemporary art in Sussex.  Glyndebourne have been such a fantastic supporter of me and my work so I am delighted to return, alongside so many excellent and well regarded Sussex artists.

“Fair Ground is our annual exhibition of contemporary art in Sussex, a celebration of talent on our doorstep. The title is taken from a musical stanza in Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem Sussex, in which he describes the county as ‘beloved over all’. A hymn to the beauty of place, Kipling saw his enchantment with Sussex as deeply rooted in an understanding of locality, a belief that the cottages, hedgerows, green rolling hills, seafronts, hidden coves and woodlands were all integral part of connecting real people to their historical pasts. Each of the selected works in Fair Ground speak to this idea of myth and memory, continuing to mark Sussex as a place of visual poetry.

This year we present affordable paintings, drawings, prints and textile works by more than 20 artists from across the county: Dawn Aldridge, Julie Annis, Faye Bridgwater, Julian Brown, Joseph Dilnot, Linda Felcey, The Baron Gilvan, Chris Hagan, Fergus Hare, Victoria Homewood, Gabriel Langlands, Janie Longmore, Nancy Martin, Tessa Moldan, Jason Munro, Joe Packer, Dion Salvador Lloyd, Jayne Sandys Renton, Tom Scotcher, Kate Sherman, Agnes Treherne, Thomas Treherne and twofolde. Works for sale from £230.

Fair Ground is on view for all ticket holders and by appointment on view in our downstairs gallery and our historic Old Green Room*.

All purchases support our ongoing work #NoOrdinaryOpera.

For any enquiries, please contact our Curator – nerissa.taysom@glyndebourne.com.

*The Old Green Room will be open pre-performance for 17, 24, 26 & 29 November and 1, 2, 9, 10 & 16 December and all intervals.”