Eric Ravilious, Lighthouses at Newhaven, 1935
Charlie Prodger , Vision Machines (Cliff), 2023
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Eric Ravilious, Lighthouses at Newhaven, 1935
Lighthouses at Newhaven was painted by Eric Ravilious in 1935. It depicts a scene from Newhaven port harbour which still operates a cross channel ferry today. Ravilious often made paintings of this area of East Sussex when staying nearby with artist and friend Peggy Angus. He was drawn to Newhaven for its busy port, ships, and industrial machinery, nestled in the South Downs. All of the Ravilious paintings featured on the trail are in the collection of Towner Eastbourne, along with a large number of Ravilious’s other paintings, ceramics, wood engravings and archive items.
During a later Newhaven visit, in 1940, he made six paintings of this coastal town, now heavily fortified due to its targeting as part of Operation Sea Lion, the planned invasion of Britain by German forces. Climbing up to the fort, he painted its ditches and retaining walls perched on the cliffs and overlooking the beach scattered with barbed wire and harbour with military ships and long searchlight beams. A number of these Coastal Defence works are now held in the collections of the Imperial War Museum and Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Artworks at Dacre Road Car Park photo:© Rob Harris
About Charlie Prodger
Vision Machines (Cliff), 2023
Charlie Prodger (b. 1974, United Kingdom) is a Glasgow-based artist working with moving image, writing, sculpture and printmaking. She was the winner of the 2018 Turner Prize and represented Scotland at the 2019 Venice Biennale. She received the 2017 Paul Hamlyn Award and 2014 Margaret Tait Award.
She is one of this year’s David and Roberta Logie Fellows for Art at Harvard Radcliffe Institute where her research will explore specialist practices of conservation and preservation through the prism of queer subjectivity.
Photo of Charlie Prodger by Matthew Arthur Williams. Courtesy the Artist and Hollybush Gardens, London
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MORE ABOUT NEWHAVEN
The Sidings also hosts an exhibition by Seahaven Academy students, Jake Beaumont, Jacob Marsh, Nicolas Graczyk, Ben Rickards, and Sam Turnbull in response to the Ravilious paintings. The mixed media prints combine an essence of the Ravilious pieces studied in workshops with printmaker Emma Taylor, capturing the modern day working neighbourhood that the students know and love.
Check social media and the website for a range of events and activities associated with the trail, at the Hillcrest Centre, the Hope Inn, Marine Workshops, and an exhibition of the trail Ravilious paintings at Towner Eastbourne.
TRAVEL AND ACCESSIBILITY
Newhaven train and bus stations are next to the Sidings. There is free parking at the Sidings, Denton Island, and at Dacre Road car park. Only pub patrons are allowed to use the Hope Car Park. The viewing points for all artworks are fully accessible. Please be aware of a short stretch of Fort Road that does not have pavement.
FOOD AND DRINK
The Sidings Bistro and The Hope Inn both have excellent food and drink menus.
MORE TO DO IN NEWHAVEN
Visit Newhaven Art Space for contemporary art at 24 High Street, @newhavenartprojects
Celebrate coast, culture & community in September with @newhavenfestival
Visit artists and makers across East Sussex in September at @artwavefestival
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