insideKENT Magazine Issue 46 - January 2016 | Page 25

EVENTS

Ramsgate Blitz Walk // 3 Jan

Rose Wylie // 12 Jan – 31 Mar

A guided walk around the heaviest bombed seaside town in the UK. Relive
the dark days of WW2, hear stories of ordinary people on the front line and
visit the places connected with those stories.
Reliving the dark days of WW2 hear the stories and visit the places.
Walks take 2-2.5 hours and are free, but donations welcome. Private walks
can be arranged.
10am. Price: Free
Ramsgate Library, Guildford Lawns CT11 9AY
www.summerof40.webeden.co.uk / 01843 599755

Wylie’s bold, large-scale figurative paintings draw on ancient and folk art,
such as Mexican street art and contemporary Egyptian Hajj painting, as
well as art history and film. Their deliberate awkwardness, closer to the
unselfconscious art of children, includes a collage-like approach in which
mistakes are simply covered up with patches of cut-up canvas or paper.
This display – the first time the Sunley gallery has been used for painting
– will focus on recent works from her ongoing Film Notes, a series of
paintings inspired by remembered images from contemporary films.
Rose Wylie was born in Kent, where she still lives and works. She
studied at Folkestone and Dover School of Art (1952-6) and the Royal
College of Art, London (1979-81) and now, in her early eighties, is enjoying
renewed interest in her work in the UK and internationally with recent
exhibitions at the Jerwood, Hastings (2012) and Tate Britain (BP Spotlight,
2013), as well as winning the prestigious John Moores Z[