Panel discussion: What does it mean to be together?

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£8 Concessions (Full time Students, 18 – 25 year olds, Disability PIP/Universal Credit, Pension Credit)

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Hope Wolf will host this panel discussion thinking through collective working and how artists approach work by other artists, either through direct collaboration or retrospectively through archives and collections.   

Focuses include artwork by A T Kabe Wilson created in engagement with the 20th-century Bloomsbury Group, sculptures, designs and photographs from the pacifist camping and hiking organisation the Kibbo Kift Kindred and painted panels from The Eastbourne Mural by the Art Workers Co-operative: Michael Jones, Christopher Robinson and Simon Barber. 

Carol Mills  

Carol moved to Eastbourne 24 years ago, having fallen in love on a day trip. Carol founded the Engels in Eastbourne Campaign in 2019 with the aim of celebrating and making accessible Eastbourne's radical history. The story of the 89 foot "Long March of Labour" mural, parts of which can be seen in Sussex Modernism, and its artistic depiction of international trade unionism, is an important part of this history. 

Annebella Pollen  

Annebella Pollen is Professor of Visual and Material Culture at University of Brighton and the author of five books including The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians (2015), Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th-Century Britain (2021) and Art without Frontiers: The Story of the British Council, Visual Arts and a Changing World (2023). 

A T Kabe Wilson  

A T Kabe Wilson is an artist and archival scholar who regularly works at the intersection between art and literature. Sussex Modernism includes his 2020 painting Newhaven Lighthouse (inspired by a Vanessa Bell work of the same title), which now adorns the cover of the Norton edition of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

Hope Wolf 

Hope Wolf is an Associate Professor in Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Sussex. She is curator of Sussex Modernism, and author of a book of the same name published by Yale University Press in April 2025. 

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