The Vote with Mark Walker – Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft, Museum Director Stephanie Fuller

Latest TV’s News Editor, Mark Walker, speaks to Stephanie Fuller, Director at Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft. This museum reopened on Thursday 16th July, one of the first museums to be back in business in the region. Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft will present an exhibition of John Newling, spanning the past 40 years of the artist’s career and featuring new works created during the coronavirus lockdown, as well as three new commissions – a site-specific sculpture for Ditchling’s village green, a community project, and a musical performance. Newling’s socially engaged practice explores the relationship between nature and culture, and the transformative power of incorporating the natural world into everyday life. His oeuvre intends to elicit an emotional response that prompts viewers into action against climate change and Newling will present new works inspired by the history of Ditchling village and its craftspeople, the surrounding landscape and society’s need to evolve in the face of the climate emergency. Mark finds out more.