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occasionnale

artist-led project space in

East Sussex exploring dialogues between painting and sculpture

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21st November

Come celebrate the opening of our new space with its first show figure and ground, a conversation between painting and sculpture, featuring works by Sarah Pager and Louisa Mahony.

The concept of the space is to provide a conversation platform where the language applied to painting and sculpture can be freely exchanged the point of departure is that each artist should bring a painting or a sculpture, free from initial association to open and explore areas of each practice without constraint judgement or latent ideologies.

The space will retain its shape as a language forum. We look forward to many fruitful discussions and hope you will be part of it.

To celebrate this new space, The Occasionnale has invited writer, theatre director and poet Fiona O’Connor to perform a reading as a conduit for language and open the discussion.

We are interested in proposals which explore these ideas and will welcome applications from next year. Please watch this space for future call outs.

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salons and talks

21st November:

Fiona O'Conner, published writer, poet and playwright will be reading from her work on 21st November. O'Connor's writing has won awards including a Hennessy Short Story Prize. Installations include Lone Women at Sanctuary, Galloway Forest, 2021. Radio broadcasts: Keywords RTE, 2023, Hair Model, monologue for new writing, RTE Short Story Competition, 2024, Chambermaid, https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-crzmu-2287e9c4