Art at WRAP
OPEN CALL now live: Tide and Place
A space that breathes…
From textiles and photography, to painting and prints, we pride ourselves in providing a free exhibition space to local artists in our Business Centre.
Reciprocity is where it’s at with art at WRAP! By providing free space to exhibit work, WRAP’s spaces are brought to life with the varied and vibrant work of local artists. In turn, the artists’ work - which would otherwise be taking up much needed space in their studios - can be seen and sold in between proper exhibitions, shows, and sales.
We look for work to fill our spaces for around 6 months at a time, and the work can be sold through WRAP.
Want to buy? Want to exhibit? Want to host a panel talk? Get in touch!
SALES
All sales are conducted directly with the artist. Please refer to contact details next to the artworks or send an email to hello@wrap.space
Sponsored & Supported by Sussex Bay and WRAPOPEN CALL
Sussex Bay Creates: Tide and place
January 26th - February 27th
Sussex Bay has partnered up with emerging and established artists under the banner ‘Sussex Bay Creates’ to ‘demonstrate the ability of art to bring us together to learn, explore and experience’ resulting in a programme of curated exhibitions and responses. Following the success of the first instalment ‘Living Seas’, held at Colonnade House in Worthing last October, WRAP is proudly hosting the second edition of the programme under the theme ‘Tide and Place’. From January 26th until February 27th, artists from all backgrounds and stages of their career are invited to submit work under the theme ‘Tide and Place’. Reflecting a shift in climate consciousness, our relationship with the sea and its incredibly complex biome is changing. How do we interact, inhabit, narrate and think of the marine environment, both individually and on a collective scale? In the middle of the Anthropocene crisis, how can we reinforce our position as part of nature, rather than apart from it? As an act of rebellion against an often cynical attitude towards the future, we want to embrace a spirit of radical optimism as a driving force for change.
Submissions
We encourage submissions reflecting a variety of mediums (painting, sculptures, photography, moving image, sound work, creative writing) and voices. Please send submissions to hello@wrap.space with the subject ‘Tide and Place: Open Call’ and include project description (if applicable) and artist bio. Maximum artwork dimensions: 190 cm width and 300 cm height Submissions close Friday February 27th 6 PMNow Showing: ‘Views in Transition’
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Tania Rutland
Tania was Born in 1967, London. She now lives Brighton, where she moved to after graduating from the Royal College of Art. She has had her studio there for over twenty-five years. Rutland has exhibited her work in numerous galleries. She has exhibited extensively both in the UK and internationally. She has also completed many commissions for both commercial projects and private collections.
She specialises in semi abstract landscapes of Sussex and the beautiful South Downs.
countryside.
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![Person hanging laundry on a clothesline with a mountainous landscape in the background.]()
Cecilia Volpi
Cecilia Volpi is an Italian photographer based in Edinburgh, who completed her studies at Edinburgh Napier University with a Bachelor degree of Photography.
She shoots a diverse range of subjects, focusing on film unit stills, behind the scenes, event photography and portraiture. Her personal work is characterised by a cinematic style and a love for experimental lighting and neon aesthetics.
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![Abstract painting with a large beige area, a smaller purple square, some small patches of blue, and a gray rectangle along the bottom right edge.]()
Daniel J. G.
Daniel J.G. is a self taught artist making work about his experience as a Deaf Sign Language user living with poor mental health. Inspired by the beauty of the natural world and the positive impact being in nature can have on mental health, Daniel has spent countless hours studying the colours, shapes, textures and lighting of landscapes. He draws on all these visual references and the emotions they evoke to produce colourful abstract paintings rich in meaning. Through his paintings Daniel aims to share his story and connect with people through the visual language of art rather than spoken words.
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![Minimalist artwork with vertical and horizontal lines creating rectangular shapes, framed and mounted on a white wall.]()
Philip Cole
Philip's journey to painting and making is via the sciences. At the University of Brighton, he first encountered polyester resin and over the last 20 years has been experimenting with its possibilities. Philip has an ongoing interest in the printing registration marks and the packaging in which we find the things we buy because we need to, and we want to. These things may be peripheral, but their importance lies in what clues they give about the way life is at the moment in this Anthropocene age.
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![Abstract colorful fluid art with pink, red, yellow, green, blue, and black inks flowing and blending together.]()
Nina Garstang
Nina’s practice currently has two strands: traditional oil paints onto canvas or panel and enamel style paints on to glass. Her work contemplates the middle ground between what is real and what is not, pushing the view of the objects she paints to the point where they lose their identity, thus revealing an altered view, that could be looking to the universe or travelling deep inside the body.
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![Abstract art piece featuring five large, textured circular shapes in white, black, yellow, red, and dark gray, arranged on a black and dark gray background.]()
Ian Boutell
Ian Boutell is a hard edge abstract artist, trained originally as an architect where he worked on Trellick Tower, now a listed brutalist building. Currently a painter based the Phoenix Artspace in Brighton where with colleagues he has co-curated two H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G exhibitions. Boutell also curates #cottage_of~moden_art an Instagram and Facebook gallery that show a single artwork at a time to best interest the audience and concentrate the mind
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![Abstract painting of four figures, two women and two men, in a lush green outdoor setting with trees and foliage.]()
Geoff Hands
Geoff Hands was born in London although he spent much of his childhood in Shropshire where he attended Shrewsbury School of Art. He graduated from West Surrey College of Art & Design with a BA (Hons) degree in Painting in 1979. He then spent a year in Wales before settling in Brighton in 1981 and establishing a teaching career in FE and HE in Eastbourne, Horsham and Worthing. More recently he has contributed to the short course programme at West Dean College near Chichester.
Geoff Hands’ practice involves both en plein air and studio work in painting and drawing media, augmented by collage and printmaking
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![White laundry hung on a clothesline outside under a bright blue sky with some clouds, shadows of the laundry visible on the fabric.]()
Abigail Downey
Photography is a deeply personal creative outlet and a way for me to connect and hold onto the fleeting moments of passing time. Only pursued as a hobby, I capture everyday, mundane, intimate, personal moments of nature and people. Snapshots that happen by chance, are spontaneous and not-posed.
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![A drawing of a butterfly made of collage-style paper pieces with handwritten text that says 'welcome home', butterflies, hearts, stars, and flowers, floating above a cityscape at night with clouds and a starry sky.]()
Michael Boyd
Michael Boyd’s imagination is occupied by magical creatures and far-away lands. Through a combination of observational drawing and detailed rendering of these mystical places and beings, he builds a visual landscape that is eerily familiar.
Collaging from various natural imagery and an archive of whimsical daydreams collected since his childhood, Michael creates drawings that emerge as postcards from a world not too distant from our own.
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![Abstract colorful painting with overlapping shapes and strokes in red, yellow, green, orange, blue, white, and black.]()
Riley Wallis
Riley is a Canadian abstract painter and designer currently based in London. She creates vibrant and playful abstract paintings that celebrate the magic in the everyday. Her paintings are intuitive translations of experiences; impressions of what it means to be human through an abstract lens. The paintings often illustrate a sense of movement to mimic the fluidity of experience, with bold brushstrokes to strike balance between control and chaos.
