Festival month at KMA Gallery

To celebrate Festival month in Brighton, KMA Gallery is exhibiting two new painting collections this month by artists Carl Chapple and Dawn Stacey, alongside a mix of prints, sculptures and other ceramics by our roster of artists.

New to the gallery, Carl Chapple takes inspiration from classical and Renaissance painting and sculpture in his own gestural paintings of dancers. As the artist in residence at Ballet Cymru in Wales, Carl centres his works around collaborations with dancers and performers, combining elements of both figure painting and portraiture, exploring mood, narrative, and other themes.

Dawn Stacey’s illustrative paintings evolve from walks in gardens, her allotment, woodlands and lakes. Her layering techniques hark back to her textile background, whereas the influence of her illustration course tells of the journeying narrative in her paintings. So highly detailed are her paintings there will always be something new to discover within the depictions of cherry blossoms, lily pads and other flora.

Also on view are the sculptures by Mary Jones, prints by Kellie Miller of often-overlooked natural details, countryside landscape vessels by Isabel Merrick, and geometric landscape paintings by Adam Bracey, among many others.

These artworks are on view curated across two floors at Kellie Miller Arts, 20 Market Street.