From The Ground Studio

East Sussex art collective From The Ground Studio is offering an open call exhibition of visual art.

Spokesman Orin Johns, from the group, said it featured “a wide range of practices from painting and sculpture to photography and installation from over 25 young artists. Most are local to Sussex; some are coming from around the world. To further build the creative community, members of our collective will run free art workshops in paper folding, badge making and cordage.

“Our aim is to spotlight youth artists and use creativity to build community. We believe that art is the key to inspire the hope and action that will shape the future we want to see.”

The venue is Atrium Gallery, Marine Workshops, Railway Approach, Newhaven, BN9 0ER; open September 9-20, Wednesday to Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 10am-3pm.

“For us, creativity is a form of self-exploration, from which we gain the ability to be in better connection with ourselves and others. While our collective From The Ground tells a broader story, each of the works in our exhibition speaks of how it feels to be a young creative today. Our goal is to create authentic community through art.

“We have 28 artists in total. From The Ground, our collective, is organising the show. The collective is made up of three of us. We then have an additional 25 artists ranging in age from 19 years to mid-30s. Many of the artists are local to Sussex. However, some are coming from around the world – from five countries spanning three continents.”

From The Ground Studio is an open collective formed by the young artists Orin Bird Johns, Rosie Red Souleiman and Matilda Strong.

The other artists are: Konstantin Vorobiev, Ives Long, Henry Jackson, Václav Kargl, Henry Crowther, Ava Bevan, Amélie Puddicombe, Yutong Xu, Alice McCallum, Océana Coco Ennis, Rowan Bradley Scott, Amaani Jehanara Khan, Jingyuan Ma, Rudi Harling, Meadow Ravenhill, Milly Felstead, Bill Redshaw, Maya Dahele, Yul Berlowitz Tamir, Miluo Wang, Callum O'Leary, Zadie Martin-Plin, Theo Trevena, Tiger Taylor and Marzieh Kaviani.

Rosie Red is a multidisciplinary artist currently working in painting, beaded sculpture and stone carving. She is interested in understanding our relationship to women and how the feminine was viewed and cared for in ancestral practices.

Matilda Strong is a painter based between London and Brighton working with oils in portraiture.

Orin Bird Johns is a multi-disciplinary artist based in East Sussex. His work spans from traditional craft to sculpture painting and installation, all with a foundation in nature. Relationship with material is key, with all materials sourced from the earth and eventually given back to it.

Ives Long is an NYC-based artist who primarily works with hair, sculpture and performance. She most recently tied herself into a knot, forming a braid from her head to one of her wearable pieces.

Marzieh Kaviani is an Iranian artist, geometer, and researcher whose work focuses on the intersection of biology and traditional Islamic geometric patterns.

Henry Jackson is a photographer based in Boston. He works with the 19th-century wet-plate collodion process tintype photography.

Alice McCallum is an oil painter studying at UCL Slade.

Rudi Harling is a photographer based in East Sussex whose work explores the beauty of colour and erosion in the urban environment through texture and pattern.

Dylan Gates is a painter and musician. He has collaborated on a large-scale painting that will feature in the show and will be playing music alongside the piece on the private view.

Jingyuan Ma is a printmaker and moving-image artist exploring memory, childhood and queer experience. Through her practice, she hopes to create a space where people can experience love, freedom and a sense of possibility.