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Katie Glass dons her cowboy boots and rodeos way out west with photographer Poppy de Villeneuve

If the stereotypes are to be believed then the Mexican border of the Lone Star State is not a place you go to make art.

Traditionally, the no-man’s-land where the Texas border meets Mexico is more likely to evoke images of redneck cowboys, trailer parks and J.R. from Dallas, than of creative and political communities, ripe with artistic inspiration.

But for her first solo show – ‘This is a story of hope and we are all characters in it’, displayed earlier this year at London’s Paradise Row Gallery – Poppy de Villeneuve ventured beyond the cowboys and cattle to discover a collection of people as interesting as they are diverse. And as unique and surprising as the area they represent.

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Boxbird starts a revolution

Harwood King by Fiona Hewitt

Brighton’s creative industries are booming with the award winning Fringe Festival, the Open House scheme and a pool of extraordinary talent it is no surprise that print enthusiast Alice Teague would choose Brighton to open her new print gallery Boxbird, alongside print maker Graham Carter’s new screen printing studio.

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The 70s birthed a new generation of surfers, with a new language, new attitude and – with the advent of the short board – a new way of surfing. Staff photographer with Surfer magazine, Jeff Divine made 35 trips to the North Shore, documenting the decade of hippies, long hair, Mexican wedding shirts, bell-bottoms, Santana, Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, hallucinogenic drugs, free love, post-Vietnam disillusioned youth, and garage-made surfboards – the pride and joy of these surfers.

Divine used the wonderfully saturated and warm Kodachrome slide film to capture the era before it dived headlong into the mainstream.

Jeff Divine: Surfing’s Golden Age: The 70s Kodachromes
Crane Kalman, until 29 July

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BRAG (British Rock Artists Group) play host to the Firehouse Kustom Rockart Company from San Francisco on the Brighton leg of their incendiary UK Rock Poster Explosion Tour. This exhibition features some of the finest screenprinted poster work coming out of the UK, by some of the UK’s most talented and prolific artists alongside posters from some of the legends of the American poster art scene.

The UK has been experiencing an explosion of rock poster art hitting the streets from screen printing studios that seem to be springing up in all sorts of various garages, warehouses and basements.

UK Rock Poster Explosion Tour with BRAG, 20–22 June
The Basement, 24 Kensington Street, Brighton.

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