�At the base of the back wall, between the skirting-board and the floor, the corner of something was poking out. It was pure fluke that she noticed it, because the skirting-board and the floor were both white, and the poking-out corner was white too. She crouched down and slid it free.

It was like the back of a white credit-card, with a black magnetic band running across it. She turned it over. It was like an identity-card, except that there was no writing. At the left-hand end there was a picture of someone's face. Rather a disconcerting face: pale, white-bearded, with mournful, haunted eyes. People always look bad in identity-card photographs, but this face was especially ghoulish-looking. And she had the odd feeling that she'd seen it somewhere before.�

Creative Junction wishes to contract up to ten visual artists to work in partnership with ten different schools across the South East Region on the SEGRO Young Artists Project 2009.

SEGRO (a pan-European property development and investment company) are collaborating with Creative Junction to lead on a programme of partnerships between SEGRO, schools and artists to inspire young people, develop talent and celebrate art.

Secondary schools from across the South East Region have been invited to apply to become a SEGRO Young Artist School for 2009.

We would like to hear from visual artists interested in becoming involved in this exciting programme.

Textile artist Sarah Sherry exhibits new work at Sudbury's Quay Gallery this November.

Sarah Sherry has worked the last 14 years as a Textile designer for Silk Mill Stephen Walters in Sudbury, Suffolk. She studied Art at college in Merseyside then went on to gain a 1st class hons degree in Textile Design specialising in weave at the University of Derby. Now Creative Manager of a busy design studio, she still has time to work on her own creations - having in the past exhibited in Galleries across the country and previously at the Quay Gallery Sudbury.

Nearly a year ago, 5000 tons of timber hit Worthing Beach overnight � and Worthing Arts Council is commissioning three pieces of art to mark the first anniversary of the event in January 09.

On 14th January 08, the Greek-registered ship Ice Prince sank about 35 miles off the Start Point, Devon and  shed most of its load of 5,260 tonnes of timber. On Tuesday 18th January the wood started to wash ashore along the Sussex coast; overnight, the bulk of the timber hit Worthing beach and on the morning of Wednesday 19th January Worthing awoke to find the beach up to 10 metres deep in thousands of tons of timber. Worthing beach was subsequently closed to the public, and the public were not allowed to remove any timber. The clear-up operation took around two months.

And the event has inspired Worthing Arts Council to announce its first large-scale commissions, which any of the group's members can bid for. Members can put together a proposal, and a panel will select three groups to receive up to �1000 each to complete the artwork

Sarah Pickering's Incident series was produced while she worked as Artist in Residence at the UK Fire Service College from 2006-8.  The set of photographs in black and white document the spaces that are used to simulate emergencies in training exercises.

The images are of purpose-built environments that have been set on fire for Fire Officers to extinguish.  The blackened spaces reveal traces of human presence � marks where fingers have dragged across surfaces and bodies have rubbed past objects.  Rather than the charred piles of debris expected to be seen in a burned out building, these locations are strangely pristine. Objects are schematic and approximate as they are designed to be repeatedly burned, and have to retain a distinguishable form.

Amelia Shepherd's forthcoming exhibition silent voice is a project about an asylum seeker in Brighton. Over the past year, one man�s story and experiences have been gathered to produce the accompanying book � silent voice. Combining his narrative with a documentary approach a personal history is revealed which would usually be left undocumented.

An asylum seeker�s story- all too frequently misrepresented in the media- is laid before us and his story becomes a touching collaborative journey for Shepherd and 'Momo'. silent voice critically deals with issues of asylum and exile whilst tenderly and compellingly exposes one man�s struggle to survive his current isolation and his tormenting past. Having fled from a despotic regime in Algeria where the rights of the indigenous Berbers were eroded, he faces hostility within the UK. �Momo� finds that he is still faced with the challenges which surround race, culture and identity.

Brighton Art Fair has returned to its home at the city's Corn Exchange � and the 2008 show might just be the best one yet.

The finest artists in an eclectic collection are painters.

Natalie Martin has produced a stunning series of tightly cropped paintings of interiors, almost photo-realistic but with just enough painterly ambiguity to be truly enjoyable. Photo-realism gives away its secrets too easily, but these dark, mysterious paintings of forgotten corners and lost places would be constantly engaging.

Christopher Noulton pulls off a similar trick. His series of paintings are reminiscent of Thomas The Tank Engine illustrations, or the pages of old Ladybird books. They feature art deco architecture, 1950s vehicles and a cast of odd characters, and many allude to paganism, with the Green Man, Whicker Man and straw dollies all appearing. A certain sell-out.

Worthing artist Maggie Tredwell would sit well alongside either of these artists, with her series of very neat, almost architectural paintings of ordinary places; shops, cafes, burger bars and Airstream caravans.

There are of course plenty of much looser, abstract or expressionist painters.

Highly acclaimed singer-songwriters Rob Halligan and Gareth Davies-Jones visit Worthing as part of their autumn tour on 9 October.

The folk roots specialists will be playing The Projectionist's Bar upstairs at The Dome Cinema, Worthing showcasing their new album ... Try This At Home, and with the tour in support of fairtrade campaigning organisation Traidcraft tickets are expected to sell quickly.

The West Sussex Art Society makes a return to Worthing Museum and Art Gallery this autumn with its exhibition, Journeys of the Imagination.

Worthing�s oldest art club has shown members� work here since the 1940s, although it was founded in 1929.

The Society�s membership is made up of professional and amateur artists, and features established and new names living and working across West Sussex.

Blatchington Mill School Community Arts are recruiting artists to work on half-termly Performing Arts Holiday Clubs for children aged 7 - 12 years.

The group are looking for tutors with experience in drama, dance, circus arts, and visual arts.