The Sun Also Rises

Date: October 2022
Exhibition/Show Type: Group
Media: Drawing, Film, Installation, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture, Other

Exhibition Description

The Sun Also Rises was a solar themed contemporary art exhibition curated by Sarah Lowndes and featuring work by Roger Ackling, Howard Sooley and Mary Redmond.

The Sun Also Rises was a solar themed contemporary art exhibition curated by Sarah Lowndes and featuring works by Roger Ackling made using sunlight in East Anglia, recent photographs by Howard Sooley, and new site specific sculpture by Mary Redmond, in The Malt Room Gallery.

See the individual artist’s pages for further information and links.

In The Cut Cafe/concourse gallery there was a diaply of ‘solar themed’ ephemera which is listed as

List of Works in The Cut, café space
Clockwise from left of box office:

1.Pro Arts, Teardrop Peace Sign blacklight poster (Ohio: Kent State, 1969).
2.Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) reproduction (London: 2008) of Easter 1961 poster, limited edition to mark the 50th anniversary of CND.
3.Collection of 9 Nuclear Power No Thanks badges in different languages, (London: CND, various dates). Top row, left to right: Occitan, Walloon, Luxembourg. Middle row, left to right: Venetian, Friesan, Galician. Bottom row, left to right: Romansch, Lithuanian, Brazilian.
4.Nuclear Power No Thanks!!? LP (UK: The Plane Label, 1981) produced by Martin Carthy and featuring Leon Rosselson, Chris Foster, Alison McMorland, Frankie Armstrong, Roy Bailey, Geoff Pearson, Roger Williams, Martin Carthy, Howard Evans, Sandra Kerr and Ron Elliott.
5.Left: front cover of Waveney Clarion Vol. 12, No. 2, Lowestoft, February 1984. Contributors: Anne Clarke, Emma Bunn, Don Mathew, Mick Sparksman. Designed by Lesley and Ivan Bunn. A ‘Mysteries’ special issue. Collection of Jack Crampton. Right: back cover of Waveney Clarion Vol. 11, No. 9, Lowestoft, September 1983. Contributors: Anne Clarke, John Ellerby, Don Mathew, Mick Sparksman. Design: Carol Smith. Centrefold of this brown print issue is a review Richard Barnes’ bookThe Sun in the East, also advertised on the back cover. Collection of Jack Crampton.
6.Reproduction (Huntington, Cambridgeshire: Fairs Archive: 2015) of Stour Valley Fire Fair poster (1979), artist unknown.
7.Barsham Faire 1975 poster, designed by Paul Tucker (1975). Collection of Jack Crampton.
8.Reproduction (Huntington, Cambridgeshire: Fairs Archive, 2015) of Albion Sun Fair poster (1980), designed by C. Fielder and P. Siree.
9.Reproduction (Huntington, Cambridgeshire: Fairs Archive, 2013) of Barsham Faire Ariel Fair poster (1975), artist unknown.
10.Front cover of Waveney Clarion Vol. 12, No.5, Lowestoft, May 1984. Contributors: Don Mathew, Mick Sparksman, Ivan Bunn and John Ellerby. Designed by Lesley Bunn. Reproduction Boris van Loon’s famous March 1979 ‘Harmony or Destruction’ illustration on the front cover. Collection of Jack Crampton.
11.Left: Front cover of Waveney Clarion Vol. 10, No.9, Lowestoft, September 1982. Featuring Rougham Tree Fair, Castle Fair at New Buckenham and the Pure Energy Fair at Westleton, Suffolk. Right: front cover of Waveney Clarion Vol. 9, No.5, Lowestoft, May 1981. Lead story marks 10th birthday of Friends of the Earth. Editor John Ellerby secures a lengthy interview with Norwich City star Justin Fashanu. Collection of John Ellerby.
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14.I Believe, black light poster (Synthetic Trips: San Diego, California: 1970), designed by V. McCully and S. McCully.
15.Four black and white photographs by Nick White of Sun Ra and his band, performing at The Venue, London, 13 October 1983 (1983).
16.Reproduction of Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra in concert with the MC5 at Second Band: Wayne State University, June 1, 1967 poster designed by Gary Grimshaw (Wayne State University: Detroit, Michigan, 1967).
17.Reproduction of “Flash, Doors, Lothar & the Hand People, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, September 29 – 30, 1601 West Evans Street, Denver poster, designed by Bob Schnepf (Family Dog: San Francisco, 1967).

The Cut Archive has no visual materials of this display at this time.
The embedded links are from recent searches and may or may not be accurate.

The exhibition was accompanied by a programme of free sun-themed activities including
film screenings of
Sun Tunnels (1978) about American land artist Nancy Holt and
A Joyful Noise (1980) about African American musician Sun Ra

a browsing library of solar themed books
a display of solar art and activism posters

and free creative activities including
a Sun Salutation yoga workshop led by Trish Dent
a Cyanolumen art workshop led by Holly Sandiford
and a creative writing workshop led by Lígia Macedo

see also East Anglia Art Fund entry

See the individual artist’s pages for further information and links.

Collaborating Artists