One Beautiful World

One Beautiful World: An exhibition of space art by Jackie E. Burns 26 April – 23 July 2023 St Andrew’s Church , 11 London Road, Wickford SS12 0AN Jackie E. Burns is a Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists and seeks to foster the inquisitive joy of art and astronomy while inspiring people to the awe and beauty of space and astronomy. New Town, New Collection: Tales from George Morl’s private art collection   12 – 14 May 2023, St Andrew’s Church, 11 London Road, Wickford SS12 0AN This exhibition brings together works acquired by artist and curator George Morl . Through founding a collection which reflects on the communal legacies of New Towns, Plotlands, and the possibility of human connections across the virtual world, it visions a future art collection centring support. New Town, New Collection features works by contemporary artists such as Grayson Perry , Elsa James , Madge Gill , Rosie Hastings & Hannah Quinlan , Uma Breakdown , as well as by Morl. ...

TIMOTHY HARROLD The Art of the Diorama St Catherine’s Church, Wickford 12-24 May 2023, part of the One Beautiful World Arts Festival What is this? An exhibition of miniature dioramas in boxes and drawers using the assemblage of found objects to create visual parables. Who is Tim? Tim was born in London in 1960. In the 1980s, he did a Foundation Course at Thurrock Tech and then a degree in Expressive Arts at Brighton Poly, during which time he co-founded the Theatre of the Bleeding Obelisk performance art group. His degree show included dioramas and assemblages using natural materials. Tim went on to teach art in secondary and further education, later working as a detached church youth worker. With his wife Vera, he created crossdenominational interactive prayer spaces and led creative workshops at national gatherings. Tim has shown his dioramas in a number of group exhibitions, notably with commission4mission in London and the Thurrock Art Trail. He has had solo shows: The Perceptual E...

'The Art of the Diorama' is the forthcoming solo art show by Tim Harrold , as part of the 'One Beautiful World' Arts Festival, Friday 12 – Friday 26 May, St Catherine’s Church , 120 Southend Road, Wickford SS11 8EB. Tim will be exhibiting a selection of dioramas constructed over the past decade, some of which have never been seen publicly before, and some entirely new ones. He see these miniature ‘worlds in boxes’ as visual parables, lost objects with forgotten stories found and reimagined into new tales of meaning and significance. Tim Harrold is an artist who works with bric à brac, flotsam and jetsam, the discarded or misplaced along the journey of life. He finds lost objects and gives them new meaning through his three-dimensional assemblage style which brings together found and sourced elements into visual parables. Tim will be speaking about the exhibition on BBC Radio Essex at 8.30 pm on Thursday 30 March. Tim Harrold is also a poet who creates images of profoun...