Eastwood Events: Art Exhibition 'Female Expressions'

Eastwood Events are hosting their first Art exhibition in Gallery 19a, free to the public from 5-12th July and a Launch Party on Friday 4th July with the Artists. Exhibiting 7 local female artists, showcasing various mediums (ceramics, painting, textiles) for 8 days over a two week period. Demonstrating and celebrating the diverse female expressions through visual creative arts.

About our acts...

Tamara Kluver: 'My work follows the mantra of "making a political persona". I use myself and other subjects to examine lived experience and try to relate them to the audience. Incorporating multiple mediums like collage, painting and performance, I am influenced by retro pop imagery and my Latin American heritage.'

Loose Lines: 'Loose Lines is a Brighton based illustrator and printmaker specialising in surrealist dark nature art and symbolism. With an interest in the uncanny, she uses a combination of traditional methods such as pen & ink and linoprint to create work that aims to evoke introspection, thoughts on humanity, the cycle of life and our relationship to nature.'

Clementine Eastwood: 'Clementine Eastwood is a multi-disciplinary artist who graduated with first class honours studying Fine Art Painting at Brighton University. Clementine's art practice has a strong focus on the act of making and uses the medium of tufting. Her subject matter varies, she explores female figuration while also taking inspiration from her abstract watercolour paintings. She expresses herself through her symbolical imagery and her medium. Feminine subjectivity and experience is her main focus in her current experimental practice in textiles. She creates intuitive colourful pieces. Her work takes different shapes and forms from rugs, wallhangings, handbags, cushions, mirrors and wearable art.'

Emma Wallace: 'A focus of my practice is experimenting with the idea of bringing historical themes and practices into the contemporary, an example being Anglo-Saxon and Medieval manuscript paintings, along with Folk and Naïve art. I am continually adding to my own focused library of source material that supports the generation of new ideas. By researching the connotations of certain motifs historically, I'm discovering their importance to our ancestors and why they chose to create artwork around them. This adds a layer of historicity which ties my work to the land in which it is painted, and by extension deepens my connection to the landscape and culture of which I'm from.'

Pollyanna Doyle: 'Pollyanna Doyle is a Brighton-based painter and ceramicist, whose work revives the unconventional spirit of Surrealism through the contemporary, female gaze. After moving to Brighton aged 22, she earned a BA in Fine Art Painting from the University of Brighton, where she began developing her signature style: vibrant canvases inhabited by uncanny, dreamlike figures. Doyle's practice celebrates overlooked women artists--such as Evelyn De Morgan and Leonor Fini--while weaving fragments of folktales and myths, (such as the writings of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés) into her narratives. Her paintings offer intimate glimpses into the private lives of fictional yet symbolic beings, exploring themes of identity, relationships, and possibility. Ceramics are a huge part of Pollyanna's practice. Through this medium, she creates unusual objects that appear to have been plucked from the surreal imagined world. By melding the real with the imagined, Doyle invites viewers to reconsider what is forgotten, what is possible, and the complexity of the human psyche.'

Jazz Page: ''In my current body of work, I focus on the spiritual bond between the mind and body. The internal and the external. By exploring the divine feminine and indulging in connections with others, I can portray a relationship that intertwines and grows. In essence my artwork voices a dialogue about embracing your evolving body and healing your inner child through spirituality and connection. I like to portray the body as a vessel for the mind and how it morphs and evolves through self expression. I explore static moments of intuition by using sources of light as a motif within my work. It is important to me for my art to connect with the viewers own feelings of intuition and self. My primary medium is acrylic paint, I often tap into my subconscious when painting, feeling the paint push back against the brush and back into myself. This cyclical flow of energy keeps my work feeling energetic, allowing for pops of colour and texture to emerge.'

Gina Boyle: 'Gina Boyle (b.2000) is a British artist currently based in Brighton. She received her BA in Fine Arts from University of Arts Brighton in 2022. Boyle’s practice orbits the notions of home, body, and memory. She works across a range of disciplines with textile, painting and sculpture at the core of her practice. Using mark-making to reflect the physical and emotional layers of her subjects, Boyle explores relationships between materials and the bodily tension arising from their interaction. Often incorporating elements of found and natural materials, her work evokes a tactile connection to the past while reimagining new, whimsical narratives.'