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Forming a contemporary exhibition space spanning four floors, CCA Galleries international showcases some of the best contemporary British art including; paintings, limited edition prints and sculpture.

 

CCA International is at the center of cultural life in Jersey; bringing an opportunity to view and purchase work by leading International and local artists and offering educational opportunities for the community.
 


tHE CURRENT SHOW IS:

Artwork by Peter Blake, Tom Phillips, Bruce McLean, Emma Talbot, Yulia Makeeva, Juliette Hart, Marc Medland, Kay Le Seelleur Ara, Lindsay Rutter

Word Play is an exhibition of work by artists who use text as an integral part of their creative process. From collage to sloganism and narratives to graphic design, this collection of artwork explores some of the ways in which artists incorporate words in visual artworks. 

Ever since the cubists collaged newspaper, labels and ticket stubs into their still life paintings at the turn of the 20th century artists have incorporated ‘found’ printed letters into their work. Adding visual interest, texture and a sense of the present in the everyday timestamp of the centuries technological revolution inspired by the printing machine.

Words are ubiquitous in our lives. Reading the streams of online texts, advertising, packing, signs or even the intimate words in a novel or poem most of us forget each letter is a shape and each word its own composition. Using language, artists transform the basic building blocks of contemporary communication, using the alphabet as a tool to create unique provocations.

Language is uniquely malleable and constantly reinvented. Just as artists find new ways to manipulate paint or clay, so too do they find new ways of transforming words into art; pairing words with images, playing with the meaning of words, annotating, redacting, creating comic interjections reducing to the component parts a letter at a time.

 


The PREVIOUS show WAS:




dECEMBER 13 - jANUARy 31




Nineteen Jersey based artists respond to a selection of work by internationally renowned artists in this dynamic group show.

 

Artclash is inspired by the concept of a Soundclash, a radical musical event during which sound artists improvise in response to their fellow players to create situations that spark creativity by clashing or flowing sounds (vinyl records). 
For this dynamic exhibition CCA Galleries International has invited nineteen Jersey based artists, sculptors, poets and dancers and paired them with a selection of artwork(s). The responses can flow with the work or clash with it, bounce off it, interrogate it, delve deeper, respond conceptually, play with it as in the exquisite corpse drawing game or visually combine more than one work - anything but copy it!

 

Gallery Opening Times:  Monday - Friday  12 - 6pm


'GOING HOME UK'
BY SIR PETER BLAKE

 
a signed limited edition of 150 original silkscreen prints

Each print has been hand signed by Sir Peter Blake CBE and will be sold to benefit Teenage Cancer Trust. A US version will be available to purchase at a later date to benefit Teen Cancer America. The print measures: 67cm x 68cm'Going Home UK ', has been printed at Coriander Studio London using 410gsm Somerset radiant white satin paper, with each image having 22 colours screen printed with a selected spot high gloss varnish.
On 15 March 2024, Mark Knopfler will release a new, special recording of his anthemic 'Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)', to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust and its American equivalent Teen Cancer America. 

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Performed by Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes, produced by his longtime collaborator Guy Fletcher (who has edited the contributions into a 9 minute piece), the track features an unprecedented line-up of some of the greatest guitarists in history. 'Legendary' does not begin to cover it - David Gilmour to Ronnie Wood, Slash to Eric Clapton, Sting to Joan Armatrading, Bruce Springsteen to Pete Townshend, Nile Rodgers to Joan Jett, Brian May to Tony Iommi, Sam Fender and many more jaw dropping names.

And, in a great honour, the track opens with Jeff Beck's final recording. 

Roger Daltrey, Teenage Cancer Trust's Honorary Patron and co-founder of Teen Cancer America (with Pete Townshend), added harmonica, and Beatles icon Ringo Starr is on drums along with his son Zak Starkey, their two drum tracks switching from one to the other, revealing an unmistakable family style. Sting completes an extraordinary rhythm section on bass.

With artwork designed by Sir Peter Blake (The Beatles, The Who, Band Aid, Paul Weller etc), this release is a landmark in rock music history.