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Winter Light: Colour and Culture Across Sussex
Art
Now's the perfect time to step indoors and explore themes of memory, identity and transformation across Sussex's galleries.
Artwave
Out and about on the Sussex art trail.
You’ve heard of Artists’ Open Houses during the Brighton Festival, for example? Well, this more like an Artists’ Open County, with more than 800 Sussex artists showing their work in studios and galleries – as well as some rather more unusual locations – around the Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven areas. Pick up a map, join the trail and you’ll be able to meet the artists and buy their work direct from them.
September // Sussex-wide
Mohamed Hamid in pottery Lewes. Credit Alun Callender
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Long Man of Wilmington
Landscape
Britain’s tallest chalk hill figure. There is no firm evidence about who he is, or why he is there. The figure is cut into the steep slopes of Windover Hill, and is 235 feet high.
The Port Hotel Insider’s Guide To Eastbourne
News
You may have noticed a bit of a buzz around Eastbourne recently. The Guardian noted it as a ‘seaside town on the up’ in a recent article, Conde Nast Traveller dedicated the town a four-page spread in their September issue and ELLE Decoration spoke of a British seaside revival been buoyed by the pandemic.
Vineyard hopping in the Sussex Winelands
Wine
Author of New British Wine Abbie Moulton heads westwards to the lands of cathedrals and wildflower hills, to discover some of the best English wines being produced here on Sussex soil.
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
Landscape
Sussex Wildlife Trust’s nature reserve is a 465 hectares mosaic of coastal habitats – shingle, saltmarsh, saline lagoons, coastal grazing marsh, freshwater ditches and gravel pits, and reedbeds. It is home to 4,500 species of plants and animals of which more than 300 are nationally rare or endangered.
“Tillingham is starting to resemble what a farm once was”
Wine
Ben Walgate is at the vanguard of regenerative farming in Sussex. His dynamic vineyard and winery, Tillingham— in Peasmarsh near Rye— is the antidote to large-scale winemaking. We meet him at the farm on an autumn day to find out what brought him here—and where Tillingham is going.
Nathan Coley: Tentative Words Change Everything
News | Art | Landscape | Wine
Until 29 August, discover six works by Turner Prize-shortlisted Nathan Coley presented in extraordinary places throughout the Sussex landscape.
Knepp: Wilding, from the weald to the waves
Landscape
Holly Tuppen sits down with Isabella Tree to learn more about the Knepp Estate’s rewilding journey, the latest visitor attractions, and a new venture linking nature restoration across Sussex.
Out in the Weald: A Land of Renewal
Story | Art | Landscape | Wine
Away from the coast and the broad reach of the downs there’s another Sussex. An ancient High Weald landscape of woods, farms and villages steeped in history.
