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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 exhibition IS:

LABYRINTH
BY
WILL LAKEMAN

 

24th October – 21st November

Private View Thursday 23rd October 5:00 – 7:30pm

CCA Galleries International is pleased to present Labyrinth, an exhibition of new work by Will Lakeman.


Have you ever been haunted by a strange dream long after waking? Many people hold onto nocturnal memories that seem so real yet somehow impossible to describe. In a series of colourful visions that show Jersey in a new light, strange images and pieces of text are woven together into a fragmented narrative. The viewer is given these pieces of information in a puzzling order and invited to believe their own account of what is taking place.


Made through a process of meditation, deliberate misremembering and lucid dreaming, these images explore the idea that the uncanny places we visit in our unconscious might have their own life. They represent an island that is familiar enough to be recognisable, but skewed in ways that hint at something different. In this half-remembered world subterranean passages run beneath our feet and vast buildings hide forgotten monuments. The sky is full of stars, but shining in the wrong places. Familiar locations seen from crooked angles hint at rituals carried out by figures who always remain just out of sight. At the edge of your vision a second island will appear, a warped reflection where cryptic signs are everywhere and any dark corner could open into a mysterious doorway. There is much to explore, but if you stray from the path you may find yourself lost amongst the trees, or set adrift on deep waters that flow below the surface. Inspired by cult movies, impossible architecture and night-time wanderings, these pictures are an attempt to transport the viewer into another place beyond our own.
Will Lakeman won the Summer Prize at the Jersey Summer Exhibition 2021 and has spent the subsequent years creating new work for his first solo show here at CCA.
He is a writer, image maker and photographer from Jersey. He has autism and makes images to try and understand his intense sensory experiences and how they relate to his many recurrent dreams.


 

 

 

The previous exhibition was:

EQUUS: ART OF THE HORSE

 

19 sEPTEMBER - 17 OCTOBER

EQUUS: Art of the Horse, an extraordinary exhibition set to coincide with the highly anticipated 2025 Jersey Horse of the Year Show, creating a perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of equestrian artistry.
 
This exhibition is a celebration of all things horse and equestrian life and brings together a stunning selection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, collages, poetry and sculpture by an exceptional lineup of artists, including: Nic Fiddian Green, Carol Ann Sutherland, Raewyn Riva, Kay Le Seelleur Ara, Elizabeth Armstrong, David Ormsby, Madalin Spataru, Jason Butler, Pierre Benjamin, Peter Blake, Barbara Pustelnik, Rosemary Blackmore, Juliet St John Nicolle, Catherine Hamilton, Sharon Champion, Leo Wilding, Janine Graham, Alice Leng and Nick Romeril.

This will be the first time that CCA Galleries International presents an exhibition focussing on the horse and we have sought to select works across multiple disciplines, from sculpture to poetry, and from artists who use different approaches and styles to depicting the horse. 

World renowned equestrian sculptor Nic Fiddian Green has worked with CCA for many years and we are pleased to have three of his lithographic prints demonstrating the dramatic elegance of his iconic horse's heads. Nic loves to draw, and the lithographic process is a natural transition to print. 

Three of Jersey’s best known artists Nick Romeril, Jason Butler and Kay Le Seelleur Ara are each playing to their strengths; Nick has created an etching edition specifically for the exhibition and presents two new paintings, while Kay will be showing some of her quirky galloping nudes or cats, and Jason presents two paintings of a lone male figure on horseback.  Raewyn Riva presents horse heads sculpted in paper, while Leo Wilding presents beautifully delicate horse forms in wire alongside David Ormsby’s more weighty stone sculpture.  Barbara Pustelnik and Madalin Spataru are the photographic specialists in the show. Barbara Pustelnik has a background as a horse trainer and is making a name for herself internationally as an equestrian photographer while Jersey based photographer, Madalin Spataru, presents a personal series of photographs of the late Amber, a horse whose spirit touched everyone who knew her.  

Of the wonderful visual artists Alice Leng is the youngest at 24. Alice was this year's winner of both the Jersey Summer Exhibition / RBC Emerging Artist Prize and the Audience Choice Award, and we are delighted to have a body of new drawings and portraits in oil of her family’s own horses. Rosemary Blackmore is perhaps better known for her pictures of the Jersey cow, but is also a very keen exponent of artistic representations of horses. Catherine Hamilton is well known for her commissions of military and royal horses and is also showing more personal work of her own horse. Artist Carol Ann Sutherland has a unique and captivating style that has the image of the horse at its very core. Elizabeth Armstrong is the artist in residence at Windsor & Newbury Racecourse, best known for her paintings of racehorses and race meetings she is also creating a new tapestry for the exhibition. French artist Pierre Benjamin depicts race goers and polo players with a wonderfully paired down pallet and stylised form. Juliet St John Nicolle has created a uniquely individual new work made up of hundreds of brightly hand cut horses alongside the godfather of Pop Sir Peter Blake and his iconic collages. Finally we have local poet Sharon Champion with her ode to a Horse at Water.

These artists bring their unique perspectives to a shared passion for the equine form and this promises to be a super exhibition with something for everyone.

 

 

the previous exhibition was:




20 JUNE - 30 JULY

 

CCA Galleries International invites visual artists to apply to take part in the Jersey Summer Exhibition 2025. The exhibition is based on the model at the Royal Academy Summer Show each year. Exhibits are selected by a panel of professional artists and shown in a group exhibition. All artwork is for sale.
Now in its 9th year, the Jersey Summer Exhibition continues to be the highlight of the cultural calendar in Jersey and drives the standard of artwork being made. Having work exhibited at CCA Galleries International has helped launch the careers of promising Jersey artists, as well as enforcing that of those already established.
The exhibition is open to emerging and established artists alike and the gallery encourages applications from artists in every stage in their career. All visual art forms are welcome, including paintings, printmaking, drawings, design, sculpture, film and photography. CCAI accept applications from artists with links to the island who may be working elsewhere as well as Channel Island artists.
The Jersey Summer Exhibition offers several prizes each year. Every artwork accepted into the exhibition is automatically considered for a prize and presentations take place in July at the Summer Prize awards night.

 

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is the principal sponsor for the Jersey Summer Exhibition 2025.

 

As well as providing a showcase for the best art being produced on the Island, the Jersey Summer Exhibition is an opportunity to award the best of the best with prizes to acknowledge the quality of their work.

 

The Summer Prize + Emerging Artist Prize is sponsored by RBC. The RURAL Country Life prizes are sponsored by BCRLaw, with support from Jersey Heritage.  Inspired by the Sea prizes are sponsored by Madhatter Surf Shop, and the Design & Illustration prize is sponsored by Gallery Magazine Jersey.

Click below for the Jersey Summer Exhibition Catalogue 2025


Exhibition Catalogue 

 


THE previous EXHIBITION was:



CCA Galleries International Presents “Good Vibrations featuring works from Enter gallery.  brings together a bold and eclectic lineup of leading contemporary artists whose works radiate joy, vibrancy, and cultural commentary. With such a great line up including: Grayson Perry, Slim Aarons, Marc Quinn, Michael Craig-Martin, Marcelina Amelia, Peter Blake, Harland Miller, Elizabeth Waggett, Gavin Turk, Gary Hume, Maria Rivans, Juliet St John Nicolle, Richard Berner, Magnus Gjoen, Sara Pope, and Dave White this promises to be an exhibition full of the joys of life. Good vibrations indeed.


tHE PREVIOUS EXHIBITION WAS:

Participating Artists: CD Lewis, Ashley Holmes, Pavel Isupov, Nikki Foster, Polly Tomlinson, Sebastián Espejo, Nick Ivins, Carlo Formisano, Cynthia Harrison Orr, Elaine Quinlan, Sylvia Hill, George Badescu, Julie Annis, Fiona Richmond, Jarrod Becker, Tim Dodds, Emma Loizides, Amanda Horwood, Tim Le Breuilly and Belma Kratovic.
Painting is an ancient medium; fluid, dirty, slippery.  Each iterative mark is a measure of the moment of its appearance and as such it is the perfect medium to express the messiness, volatility and fleetingness of our human experience. What these painters have in common is the desire to use the medium of paint to act as a conduit or witness for the human condition. To confer the minutiae of daily life onto canvas, to shed light on the invisible and to articulate the very personal by way of a shared experience.

Tim Le Breuilly shares his thoughts on the exhibition.

‘Shifting Sands’ could describe an active, chaotic, living landscape.  The act of looking, itself creates an even more complex dialogue as we encounter geology and flora occupying space with the overwhelming, pervasive murmuration of light.  Catching fleeting scenes of natural processes whilst heavy slabs of rock emerge from the sea and jut out to meet the sky.  The rocks, cousins of the finer particles demonstrating the ebb and flow of the shoreline.  ‘Shifting Sands’ could also refer to painting and its chimeric qualities; a practice that constantly evolves, straddling increasingly complex systems as a way to navigate human experience.  The medium's primal smears and daubs allow the painter extension into the world around them whilst also clumsily keeping accurate recording just out of reach.
Whether the subject matter is a collection of objects, landscape or other humans these artists give gravity to their materials and subjects with some creating a window into reverie.
Most of the painters in this show have become associates through the ‘Turps Banana’ alternative schooling program which has a particularly egalitarian ethos.  We’d like to invite you to come and contemplate the various works in this, far from exhaustive, survey of an inherently ponderous medium."
 


tHE PREVIOUS exhibition WAS:

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 exhibition 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!

Art Clash | 12 December 2024 - 31 January 2025 - Installation Views | CCA Galleries International
 
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. 

CLICK HERE TO VIEW AND PURCHASE
 
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.