The Near Far Pool.

Worthing Museum and Art Gallery has teamed up for the first time with Creative Future, charity working with marginalised artists and writers in Sussex to present a special exhibition in the Studio gallery, entitled The Near Far Pool.  

The artists and writers featured are all highly talented, and many have been published or exhibited before.  Most artists’ careers are hard enough without the added difficulties of homelessness, mental ill health or physical disability.  Prejudice, and the social exclusion that can follow, adds to these difficulties. The organisation Creative Future was set up three years ago to facilitate and promote artistic development amongst talented individuals who find themselves excluded for reasons that are often beyond their control.

The Near Far Pool showcases some 30 contemporary paintings, prints, photographs and creative written work, by a wide range of artists based throughout East and West Sussex. All the works on show are for sale at affordable prices.  

Simon Powell, Project Director for Creative Future said:

“What is striking about this exhibition is not that the artists and writers exhibiting have challenged severe limitations, but that the quality of the art work is so high. It is most often lack of resources and opportunity rather than lack of genuine talent that prevents excluded artists and writers from gaining wider audiences. Creative Future would like to thank Worthing Museum and Art Gallery for bringing the far pool a little nearer…”
 

The Near Far Pool runs from 27 March – 26 June 2010. For further details about Creative Future contact Simon Powell, simonpowell@freeuk.com, 07795 691 579