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Mayor thanks Pride organisers

The Mayor and Mayoress of Brighton & Hove, Cllr Brian and Mrs Nora Fitch hosted a reception at the Mayor’s parlour this evening to show their support for Brighton Pride.

Dulcie Weaver, Paul Kemp, Mayor of Brighton & Hove Cllr Brian Fitch, Inspector Tony Lumb & Superintendent Nev Kemp
Pride directors, Dulcie Weaver & Paul Kemp, Mayor of Brighton & Hove, Inspector Tony Lumb & Superintendent Nev Kemp

The purpose of the event was to thank this years Pride organisers and show they had the full support of the City Council and Sussex Police.

In his speech the Mayor thanked Pride Directors, Paul Kemp and Dulcie Weaver for delivering the City’s largest event for the second year running, making special mention of their decision to help the police and council make the St James Street Village Party a safer experience for both residents and visitors alike this year.

Representatives from each of the political parties attended the event along with Chief Superintendent Nev Kemp from Sussex Police, Paul Elgood Chair of the Rainbow Fund and representatives from Tran*Pride.

Refreshments were provide courtesy of Moshimo.

Wake-up to carers needs after new stats released

Teens today face decade of caring according to new stats obtained by the Charity Carers UK.

Career UK

Teenage girls can expect to provide over nine years unpaid care through their lives for disabled, ill, or older loved ones, whereas boys can expect to provide just over 7.

Carers UK says these figures should be seen as a wake-up call that our ageing population means caring will affect us all.

Heléna Herklots, Chief Executive of Carers UK, said: “Our ageing population means that future generations will see caring for loved ones have an even greater impact on their lives. Today’s teenagers will face almost a decade of caring throughout their lives. These figures should be a wake-up call – showing that our ageing population means we will all care at some point in our lives. But currently families are not getting enough support to care for older parents or ill relatives – too many are forced to give up work, risking financial hardship and exhaustion as they care without the help they need.”

Duty of care to an older or disabled loved one is most likely to happen during our 50s and 60s. Carers Uk says that the new figures show we will all spend a signicant proportion of our lives and retirement caring for another.

According to the new ONS figures on ‘unpaid care expectancies’, women aged 50 can expect to provide almost six years of the rest of their lives caring, and men just under five years.

Ms Herklots added: “This radical shift in family life necessitates a shift in the support provided by care services and workplaces. Just as the last generation fought for a step-change in how young parents are supported with childcare – we must now see a shift in how employers and social care services support families to combine caring for older or disabled loved ones.”

Carers UK has called for a new settlement for social care funding over concerns that the number of older and disabled people receiving care is falling at a time of rising demand. The group also calls for employers to provide additional flexibility for the 1 in 9 workers combining work and caring responsibilites through a new right that would allow for 5-10 days of paid care live.

 

PREVIEW: A review of Sir Terry Frost’s work

Zimmer Stewart Gallery to exhibit the work of Sir Terry Frost during Arundel Festival.

Terry Frost: See Cyclists, Battersea (1947)
Terry Frost: See Cyclists, Battersea (1947)

As part of the Arundel Festival and Gallery Trail exhibition the Zimmer Stewart Gallery will be presenting a review of work by Sir Terry Frost, RA (1915-2003).

In collaboration with his estate, the gallery will show paintings using oil, goache and watercolour as well as works on paper and prints.

James Stewart, gallery director, says: “We have worked with Anthony Frost for a number of years, and now also Luke Frost, so it made sense to look back at the work of Terry Frost for the Arundel Festival and review his work in this context and close the centenary of his birth.”

“We have had unique access to select works which have not been seen for some time, and also pieces which people may not immediately associate with Sir Terry Frost, RA.”

With a career lasting over 60 years, Terry Frost is recognised as one of the UK’s foremost abstract painters, exhibiting regularly in London and throughout the world.

Having attended evening art classes from the age of 16, Terry Frost’s interest in painting started seriously when interned as a prisoner of war in Germany in 1943 with Adrian Heath. After the war he moved to St Ives and studied under Leonard Fuller at Camberwell school, or art under Passmore and Coldstream. In 1951 he worked as an assistant to Barbara Hepworth.

Terry Frost has held many teaching positions including Bath Academy, Leeds University, Leeds College of Art before becoming Artist in Residence at the department of Fine Art Reading University in 1965, later he was appointed the University’s Professor of Painting.

The owners of Badcock’s Gallery, in Sir Terry’s home town of Newlyn, said: “His unique ability to allow the joy of life to emanate from his work reduces the formal qualities of painting to a simplicity that is the unforgettable trade mark of this remarkable man.”

Printmaking always played a key role in his work. For Terry Frost painting and printing were inseparable, with one medium creating ideas for the other.

Elected a Royal Academician in 1992, he was knighted in 1998. He exhibited extensively in Britain and the United States, and his work is held in museums and galleries worldwide, including Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert and the British Museum.

In 2000 the Royal Academy staged a major retrospective of Frost’s work to coincide with his 85th birthday.

In 2013 Terry Frost: A Painter’s Life was published to mark ten years since Terry Frost’s death. The author Roger Bristow has written the first full-length biography of the artist. The Zimmer Stewart Gallery will have signed copies available during the exhibition.

In early 2015 Tate St Ives will exhibit works by Terry Frost to mark the centenary of his birth.

For more imformation about the gallery, CLICK HERE: 

What: A review of the work of Sir Terry Frost

Where: Zimmer Stewart Gallery, 29 Tarrant Street, Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 9DG

When: August 1 – August 25

 

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