Exhibition

The crucifixion and other popular stories

22 Apr 2017 – 6 May 2017

Event times

Opens Saturday 22 April 2 - 5pm 
Refreshments provided, free parking, everyone welcome
Exhibition continues until 6 May
Open Wednesday - Saturday, 11 - 3pm and by appointment

Cost of entry

Free entry

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Rye Creative Centre

Rye, United Kingdom

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  • From Hastings: Aprox 50 minutes. Depart Hastings Station, Bay F, Bus Number 100 (Hastings-Camber-Lydd) Arrive Rye, Freda Gardham School stop. (Right outside The School). Service Run by Stagecoach. From Tenterden: Aprox 45 minutes. Depart Tenterden (opp The Vine) Bus 312 (Tenterden – Rye), Arrive Rye Railway Station (stop D). Service run by Coastal Coaches.
  • Rye Rail Station is 10 minutes walk. Ashford: 25 minute journey time. Hastings: Aprox 20 minutes. London approx 2hours and 30 minutes with changes
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The crucifixion and other popular stories is a two person show featuring new work by two East Sussex; painters Luke Hannam and Paco de Quesada.

About

Luke Hannam relocated from London to Rye in 2010 with the sole aim of developing his painting practice alongside his musical career as the bass player in cult, punk funk band GRAMME. Hannam cites his influences as lying equally between The Fall, James White & the Contortions and Picasso. For Hannam, art making is an attitude and cannot be contained by mediums.
 
Luke graduated from Canterbury College of Art in 1987 and attributes this experience as fundamental in the development of his life long obsession with drawing. Hannam produces over 100 drawings a week. Religious imagery and fairy stories such as Hansel and Gretel and Goldilocks are recurring themes, alongside many drawings of the East Sussex countryside, which he makes whilst walking his poodle Darwin.  For Hannam, the everyday experience sits next to the profound and must be investigated with equal importance.

Paco de Quesada, is a Spanish artist living and working in Bexhill. Since completing his BA Fine Art at the Universidad de Sevilla in 1998, he has exhibited in group an solo shows across Spain, UK and Germany.
For Paco art must be a personal challenge; must take you out of your comfort zone, to the edge, where fear lives. His large scale, graphic paintings are influenced by his work as a graphic designer and reflect his interest in the immediacy and simplicity of commercial art. Graffiti and outsider art also resonate particularly the street art of his native Seville.     


For this exhibition Paco brings religious iconography face to face with contemporary culture with all its flashy imagery and infinite clichés, acting as a mirror held up to our lives, society, and our very human nature.

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Paula MacArthur

Paula MacArthur

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Paco de Quesada

Luke Hannam

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