New Blue Monkey member Carrie Stanley has developed an individual, intuitive and often movement-based practice as a way of transforming the self through difficult personal experiences of loss. Working with oil paint, recycled fabrics, raw pigment and natural materials, she makes work that is directly responsive to memory both physical and mental. She will talk us through her processes; connection to colours and textures, dismissal of conventional boundaries and edges, the importance of drawing to life sized scale and in the moment, and the importance of being true to self.

Arguably there is no one with a better grasp of what is happening in the Sussex arts scene than Alex Leith, editor of ROSA magazine – the quarterly Review of Sussex Arts. For our November meeting, we are fortunate to welcome Alex who will be giving us an exclusive insight into how the title quickly developed from an initial concept to the first issue in 2022 and has become one of the country’s leading regional arts magazines. Many Blue Monkeys are avid readers and will recall that member Jennifer Binnie was featured in last year’s Autumn issue.