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James Stewart

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Curator at Zimmer Stewart Gallery based in Arundel, UK. In favour of closer ties with EU, worried about naive acceptance of AI, lowering of UK’s food standards and a compromised NHS.

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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Latest post from Instagram, on Picasso, Miro, Dali - Unbound at MFA, Boston www.instagram.com/reel/Ddj6Ijj...
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Zimmer Stewart on Instagram: "Just been to see ‘Picasso, Miro and Dali - Unbound’ at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. This a a great exhibition on great Livre d’Artiste - deluxe limited edition ar...
15 likes, 1 comments - zimmerstewart on September 21, 2026: "Just been to see ‘Picasso, Miro and Dali - Unbound’ at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. This a a great exhibition on great Livre d’Arti...
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Colour Theory explained through the paintings of Nick Bodimeade www.zimmerstewart.co.uk/post/colour-...
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Colour Theory Explained Through the Paintings of Nick Bodimeade
Colour is the first thing we feel in a painting, but it is rarely the first thing a painter solves. Good colour depends on relationships: warm against cool, light against dark, intense against muted, ...
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Here’s our latest blog post Colour theory explained through the paintings of Nick Bodimeade. www.zimmerstewart.co.uk/post/colour-...
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Colour Theory Explained Through the Paintings of Nick Bodimeade
Colour is the first thing we feel in a painting, but it is rarely the first thing a painter solves. Good colour depends on relationships: warm against cool, light against dark, intense against muted, one hue pushing another into life.That is why the paintings of Nick Bodimeade make such useful examples. His work often begins with familiar subjects, beaches, trees and roads. Yet the subject is not the whole point. The real charge comes from colour decisions that look direct, even simple, but carr
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
See our blog post on the Arundel Gallery Trail, coinciding with Arundel Festival of the Arts from 22-31 August. www.tarrantgallery.co.uk/post/the-aru...
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Focus on The Arundel Gallery Trail
A short history of the Arundel Gallery Trail
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
See the Sussex World article on Tarrant Gallery, just opened by James Stewart, Zimmer Stewart in Arundel www.sussexexpress.co.uk/travel/trave...
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Inside new Arundel art gallery
The Tarrant Gallery
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We have just received our commissioned pair of console tables for Tarrant Gallery from sculptor, Johnny Woodford. www.tarrantgallery.co.uk/post/tarrant...
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Tarrant Gallery Pair of Tables by Johnny Woodford
We are pleased to present the Tarrant Gallery pair of tables in reclaimed Brighton elm by Johnny Woodford.These organic looking but functional tables have been created especially for the Tarrant Galle...
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I wrote a short background to Zimmer Stewart Gallery for the Blog page on Tarrant Gallery website: www.tarrantgallery.co.uk/post/zimmer-...
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Zimmer Stewart Gallery
Background  Zimmer Stewart Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in the picturesque town of Arundel, West Sussex, England. Tarrant Gallery is there base for a programme of exhibitions.Establis...
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
See details of our current exhibition at Tarrant Gallery, Arundel See our website or reply. www.artrabbit.com/events/nick-...
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Nick Bodimeade and Christopher Marvell - Exhibition at Tarrant Gallery in Arundel
Zimmer Stewart presents an exhibition of paintings by Nick Bodimeade with bronze sculptures by Christopher Marvell. ​
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I was pleased to be a judge for the 2026 Sussex Craft Awards. Congratulations to the three winners and shortlisted makers. They represent the best in contemporary craft today. www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/winners...
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Winners of the Sussex Craft Awards 2026 announced
Festival success
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 13/07/2026
Vote for Count Binface. 🐻
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I did the Britmonkey quiz and I’m closest to Pope Leo! britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Read about Sussex Craft Week and our exhibition Woven in Arundel showing hand woven tapestry by master weavers Caron Penney and Katharine Swailes from their studio Atelier Weftfaced. Full details on our website. www.selvedge.org/blogs/selved...
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Sussex Craft Week: From the South Downs to the Seafront
Sussex Craft Week 2026 (20-28 June) brings textile exhibitions, open studios and workshops to towns across East and West Sussex and Brighton & Hove, from Arundel's tapestry shows to coastal makers' fa...
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Zimmer Stewart Gallery and Artist News
Sussex Craft Week - June 2026
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Woven by Weftfaced
An exhibition of contemporary hand woven tapestry by Caron Penney & Katharine Swailes.
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I was pleased to be a judge for the 2026 Sussex Craft Awards. The shortlist will be announced shortly & the winner on 2 July at Newlands Gallery, Petworth. Our exhibition Woven by Caron Penney & Katharine Swailes runs from 20-28 June in Arundel. See web. www.sussexexpress.co.uk/your-world/t...
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Twelve outstanding Sussex makers shortlisted for the Sussex Craft Awards 2026
See the latest news from Your World at https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/your-world
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Love this: AI “visual art” should be called “Computer Rendered Artificial Pictures” (CRAP).
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
See the invitation to Atelier Weftfaced Open Studio and Private View for Woven by Weftfaced exhibition at Zimmer Stewart Gallery, both on 21 June. Showing work by master weavers Caron Penney & Katharine Swailes from 21-28 June. www.zimmerstewart.co.uk
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Link to petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
See our News post on Sussex Craft Week, Craft Town Arundel. We are exhibiting mast weavers: Caron Penney & Katharine Swailes. The whole town becomes a venue for crafts with seven exhibitions, 25 venues across the town featuring makers in their shop windows. www.zimmerstewart.co.uk/post/sussex-...
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Sussex Craft Week - Craft Town Arundel
Visit Arundel during Sussex Craft Week and explore a town shaped by craftResidents and visitors are invited to spend time in Arundel this June as the town becomes a Craft Town as part of Sussex Craft ...
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 13/05/2026
This is the year of Marcel Duchamp, with major exhibitions at MoMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ is perhaps the most famous artwork of the 20th century, but its creator’s intentions are still endlessly debated, writes Nicole Rudick
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How Marcel Duchamp invented modern art
‘Fountain’ is perhaps the most famous artwork of the 20th century, but its creator’s intentions are still endlessly debated, writes Nicole Rudick
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 10/05/2026
Marcel Duchamp is one of the 20th century’s best-known artists, yet his work is often misunderstood, writes Nicole Rudick. Now, a major US retrospective seeks to show the philosophy behind his provocative readymades.
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How Marcel Duchamp invented modern art
‘Fountain’ is perhaps the most famous artwork of the 20th century, but its creator’s intentions are still endlessly debated, writes Nicole Rudick
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/05/2026
‘We’re not Lady Gaga and Elton John’: unmasking Angine de Poitrine, the year’s buzziest, dottiest band
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‘We’re not Lady Gaga and Elton John’: unmasking Angine de Poitrine, the year’s buzziest, dottiest band
Their microtonal rock has been a huge viral hit – but are they really 333-year-old aliens inspired by Borneo monkeys? The Quebecois duo tell all
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Arts Junction is back this Monday, 13 April, with a smorgasbord of poetry, music, art & theatre at the Victoria Institute, Arundel from 7.30. This month there are two poets, Rebecca Zeman & Christopher Horton. Mike Carey will provide musical interludes and I will talk on the subject of AI in Art.
Arts Junction is back this Monday, 13 April, with a smorgasbord of poetry, music, art & theatre at the Victoria Institute, Arundel from 7.30.

This month there are two poets, Rebecca Zeman & Christopher Horton. 

Mike Carey will provide musical interludes and I will talk on the subject of AI in Art.
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Today I discussed AI in art and literature with, author, Helen Fields as part of the Arundel Literary Festival. Our conversation started with a definition of art as the expression of human creative skill and imagination. Once you take out the human element in full or in part what is left?
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I’m talking about AI in art and literature tomorrow as part of the Arundel Literary Festival on a panel discussion with author, Helen Fields. See my AI News post on our website: www.zimmerstewart.co.uk/post/ai-arti...
Arundel Literary Festival 20 to 22 March 2026
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
AI in art & craft I have just published two articles on our website, one written solely by AI and the other written solely by me (researching articles online and from my experience). Both attempt to address the same question - Can AI replace craftsmanship in art? Both come to the same conclusion.
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Happy St David’s Day: Celebrate Welsh culture, identity & heritage; remember his life as a monk known for wisdom, kindness & miracles His final words: “Brothers be ye constant. The yoke which with single mind ye have taken, bear ye to the end; whatsoever ye have seen with me & heard, keep & fulfil”
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Our latest newsletter is now out with details of our upcoming exhibitions, and with Tracey Emin’s Tate retrospective, A Second Life, opening tomorrow we provide details of her available editions on our website. mailchi.mp/5f611c01fd4c...
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Zimmer Stewart Gallery - latest exhibition and artist news
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
“With or without anger, with or without sadness or depression, I have always been an artist. That’s the constant”, the artist Tracey Emin tells Fi Churchman in a wide-ranging discussion of art, illness, sex and love artreview.com/the-intervie...
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The Interview: Tracey Emin
“With or without anger, with or without sadness or depression, I have always been an artist. That’s the constant”
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 14/02/2026
‘Emin has so fully re-established herself as a painter that it’s now a shock to recall the diversity of media in which she has worked over the course of her career.’ Hettie Judah on the artist’s recovery from her crisis of faith about painting.
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Tracey Emin’s faith in art
Devotion, in its many different senses, has always been at the heart of the artist’s work, writes Hettie Judah
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Robert Burns was a fan of William Wallace and supported both the French and American Revolutions. In 1794 he wrote Ode for George Washington’s Birthday, saying that people in Scotland wanted the same freedoms that Americans had…………. It might be the other way around now. Here’s the poem:
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This afternoon I’m going to the London Art Fair, let me know if you are too!
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
’No Time for Love’ (2020) by Tracey Emin, one a few editions by this artist available on our website now. The text in red reads: “You went away and you knew the truth. There is no time left here - no time for love or surrender” www.zimmerstewart.co.uk/product-page...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/01/2026
Crossing into Darkness review – Tracey Emin takes her heroes on a descent to the gates of hell
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Crossing into Darkness review – Tracey Emin takes her heroes on a descent to the gates of hell
Munch, Bourgeois, Gormley and Baselitz go shoulder to shoulder with up-and-coming artists in an exhibition that revels in its stygian gloom
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/01/2026
‘I’m the product of a smashed-up family’: how Sean Scully became the greatest abstract painter alive
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‘I’m the product of a smashed-up family’: how Sean Scully became the greatest abstract painter alive
He has survived loss, breakdown and schooling by ‘scary nuns’, but the anguish is still there in his art. As his new show thrills Paris, the US-based, Irish-born artist talks about the pain that drives him
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is just one incident of contaminated chicken in the US, 4 people died. 19,000 people are hospitalised & 450 die each year in the US from bad poultry. The Labour Party needs to maintain UK food standards and refuse US chlorinated chicken. nypost.com/2025/09/29/b...
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US issues urgent warning about Trader Joe’s, Walmart in possible link to listeria outbreak that killed 4
At least 20 people across 15 states have been sickened by the bacteria, with all but one of those cases resulting in a hospitalization.
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to all our followers and others from Zimmer Stewart Gallery!!
Merry Christmas from Zimmer Stewart Gallery
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Forget Black Friday & beat the Budget with our Christmas Cracker Discounts on contemporary art! 10% off Prints 15% off Ceramics 25% off Books Established Artists include Emin, Blake, Caulfield, Dine, Frost, Hodgkin, Hirst, Paolozzi, Rego, Riley and Walker. www.zimmerstewart.co.uk
Christmas Cracker Discounts on contemporary art!
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Our poster for Terry Frost and Tom Hammick at the Arundel Festival & Gallery Trail 2025. Full details on our website, link in bio. DM or contact us with any questions. www.zimmerstewart.co.uk
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Terry Frost and Tom Hammick Editions - Exhibition at Zimmer Stewart Gallery in Arundel
This year for the Arundel Festival and Gallery Trail we are exhibiting two great painter/printmakers Terry Frost and award winning painter and printmaker Tom Hammick.
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The RA Summer Exhibition is great fun! Evening Standard gives it just *** & wonders where art is going. Jonathan Jones from the Guardian gives it **** due to the big names: Emin, Sherman, Parker, Scully. I think it’s just art reflecting life in all its glory & whatever the opposite of glory is.
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Last day today for our Productive Land exhibition at South Stoke Barn. See our website or this article for more details. www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/major-s...
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Major Sussex art exhibition celebrates our Productive Land
Arundel’s Zimmer Stewart Gallery is offering Productive Land, a contemporary landscape exhibition at South Stoke running from June 12-16.
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Our Productive Land exhibition is now hung, 22 Sussex artists have submitted their representation on the role of farming today. Artists hold a mirror to society & raise awareness. See more with a list of the artists taking part on our website now. www.zimmerstewart.co.uk #contemporaryart
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Our Productive Land exhibition next weekend is part of Arundel’s Great Big Green Week. 22 Sussex artists submitted works on the role of farming today, at South Stoke Barn from 12-16 June. See website for details. #contemporaryart www.zimmerstewart.co.uk/post/product...
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Art and Agriculture: Productive Land
A Contemporary Landscape Exhibition at South Stoke 12 to 16 June 2025.IntroductionIn May 2024 Zimmer Stewart Gallery presented Art and Agriculture – South Stoke Idyll, in conjunction with Ryan Haydon,...
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
See our online flip book exhibition catalogue for Productive Land at South Stoke Barn, near Arundel, from 12-16 June. See our website for full details See you there! www.zimmerstewart.co.uk/exhibitionca... #contemporaryart
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Productive Land catalogue | Zimmer Stewart
Zimmer Stewart gallery contemporary art exhibition catalogue for Productive Land exhibition at South Stoke near Arundel in June 2025. 22 Sussex artists submitted paintings in response to the brief 't...
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Productive Land - an exhibition of contemporary landscape paintings and an installation by 22 Sussex artists is at South Stoke Barn, near Arundel from 12-16 June. See our website for full details Zimmerstewart.co.uk #contemporaryart
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Our May newsletter is out with full details of our June Productive Land exhibition at South Stoke Barn, near Arundel from 12 to 16 June. Also links to the Sussex Snowdrop Trust for tickets to the talk event on Friday 13 June led by farmer Ryan Haydon. mailchi.mp/e96ae9e61645... #contemporaryart
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
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Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts
The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Farmer, Ryan Haydon talks about how farmers affect the landscape, with an emphasis on food Production. This is the theme for our Productive Land exhibition in June 2025, where 22 Sussex artists have been asked to submit works in response to the theme. Full details online youtu.be/cwtOklUD0tA
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Ryan Haydon on Productive Land and Artists representation of the landscape
YouTube video by Zimmer Stewart
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James Stewart @zimmerstewart.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
See our April Gallery newsletter with details of our forthcoming exhibition: Productive Land at South Stoke, near Arundel from 12-6 June 2025. Exhibition features paintings by 22 Sussex artists responding to the brief ‘Productive Land’. mailchi.mp/8a014e529a53...
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Zimmer Stewart Gallery - April News
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