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Henry Moore Land and Sea is a multi-faceted education and exhibition project. Organised by Sculpture Exhibitions Limited in collaboration with the Château Musée de Dieppe, the project directly involves Lewes District and Town Councils; Charleston Gallery, Firle; Sussex Downs College; The Lycée-Émulation Dieppoise; both Thebes and Crypt Galleries in Lewes and Seaford respectively; and The Henry Moore Foundation.

Building on the warm relationship that exists between Lewes District and Dieppe , the project has been made possible through a grant from Interreg and from the generous support of local businesses, including Brewers and Elephant House. Southern (formerly South Central) are mounting a poster campaign for the exhibition throughout its region, and ticket holders visiting the exhibition on the day of travel will benefit from the price of two for one admission.

Henry Moore has been acclaimed as Britain 's greatest sculptor of the twentieth Century. His international reputation grew through the profound humanity he expressed in his sculpture and the way it has
spoken to communities across the globe. The exhibitions Henry Moore Land and Sea examines his sculpture and works on paper that have both direct and indirect reference to landscape and to the sea. The over-arching educational projects also take these themes and are developed with reference to Moore 's life and work.

Why Lewes and Dieppe ? The Château Musée de Dieppe partnered the application to Interreg in 1999, which enabled Rodin in Lewes to take place. In 2001/02 the Château Musée participated in A Sculptor's
Development: Anthony Caro, taking the exhibition and developing its educational potential with the Lycée-Émulation Dieppoise. On this occasion further collaborations have been fostered, not only with the
museum with which Lewes now has a well-developed working relationship, but also with Sussex Downs College , which broadens the scope and includes more young people in Anglo-French exchanges and direct collaboration.

Why Land and Sea? Henry Moore loved to see his sculpture placed in the landscape. He equally sought to draw parallels between human form and the shapes found in the landscape – rolling hills, craggy rocks and crevices, flints and stones, bones, cliff-faces, shells and drift-wood for example. This is just one way of engaging with the work of Moore, but one which is fitting for Lewes, surrounded by the rolling landscape of the South Downs, with its chalky terrain and flint inclusions; and Dieppe, as it is by the sea, its landscape bears similarities to that of East Sussex, and the collections of the Château Musée de Dieppe are based on objects and paintings with maritime themes.

Why Henry Moore? These occasional exhibitions held in Lewes Town Hall have featured major artists, and Henry Moore, like Rodin and Caro also referred to Classical art in some of his work. Moore admired Rodin and owned some of his small sculptures of dancers. There is also evidence of some correspondence between them. Anthony Caro was Henry Moore's assistant for a time in the 1950s, and was greatly encouraged by Moore as a young artist. One of Moore 's early figure carvings was owned by Roland Penrose and stood in his garden in East Sussex for many years, and may be seen at The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds . Moreover, it seemed timely to look at Moore 's work afresh, and to question how younger
audiences relate to his work, especially as he had no apparently direct following within successive generations.

Programme
Henry Moore Land and Sea
Henry Moore Land
Lewes Town Hall 3 July – 31 August
Henry Moore Land (graphics)
Charleston 4 July – 29 August
Henry Moore Sea
Château Musée de Dieppe 10 July – 3 October

Processes Post Moore
Sonic Forms, David Carter and Jo Watson
Crypt, Seaford, July
Processes Post Moore
Digital Prints, Isabel Estrada-Albiol
Thebes Gallery, Lewes, August

Education
Sussex Downs College and the Lycée-Émulation Dieppoise are collaborating on an arts project based on Henry Moore Land and Sea. Outcomes will be a website built by the students, which will be used as a collaborative, creative tool, and sculptures made as the result of working together.

An Education specialist, Christine Hall, has been appointed and she is working to encourage school visits to the exhibition. Contact: christinehall@solutionsinc.co.uk

Workshops
Sculpture workshops led by the sculptor Hamish Black will be held in Lewes Grange Gardens . Best works from the workshops will be shown in the newly restored Knot Garden . To book workshops, telephone Lewes Town Hall on 01273 471469

Contact Jane Zara on 07979853559

Or janezara@aol.com for more details