insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 18 - August 2016 | Page 12

NEWS JANE IREDALE TO HOST MAKEUP MASTERCLASS AT THE GRAND HOTEL The Grand Hotel in Eastbourne is welcoming skincare and makeup brand, jane iredale, to host a day of makeup masterclasses on Friday 5th August. The 30-minute sessions will offer top tips from experts at jane iredale on the best products to suit your skin and the best ways to apply makeup to enhance your natural beauty. The health club and spa at the luxury, five-star hotel will be hosting the masterclasses, with pre-booked appointments available between 10am and 5pm. Founded in 1994, jane iredale was the first brand to produce mineral makeup with skin care benefits. Inspired by working in the entertainment industry, where Jane herself saw actresses and models developing skin problems because of their makeup, she created a mineral powder that was a foundation, powder, concealer and sunscreen all rolled into one that wouldn’t cause problems for the skin. The 30-minute makeup masterclasses require a £20 deposit per person to book, which is redeemable against a full range of jane iredale products on the day. For more information and to book a jane iredale makeup masterclass, contact The Grand’s health club on 01323 435025, or email [email protected]. Jane’s goal is to make products that look good, feel good and are good for the skin, as well as being easy to apply, so women can be at their best in the shortest amount of time. LAURA FORD PRESENTS BEAUTY IN THE BEAST AT THE PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY This summer, Pallant House Gallery presents an installation of bronze sculptures by British sculptor, Laura Ford, featuring the uncanny, imagined creatures for which she is recognised. Using Jean Cocteau’s film, Beauty and the Beast, as a starting point, the installation creates a link with the gallery’s major exhibition on Christopher Wood, to whom Jean Cocteau was a close friend and influence. This is the latest in a series of outdoor sculpture exhibitions in the gallery’s courtyard garden, designed by Christopher Bradley-Hole, and comes as Ford establishes a new studio in West Sussex. A related indoor display of Ford’s drawings and smaller ceramics will run in the Garden Gallery until October 2016. the boundaries between animal and human expression: girls that turn into espaliered trees; animals and birds displaying human frailties and characteristics. Through these imagined and sometimes nightmarish creatures, she comments on the human condition, as well as social and political issues, drawing on the influence of folk and ‘remembered and misremembered’ fairytales. The use of creatures in her work is also intended to make the works more approachable, making sometimes uncomfortable feelings more palatable and engaging. Laura Ford will be exhibiting in the courtyard garden and Garden Gallery at the Pallant House Gallery until October 2nd 2016. The sculptures in the garden will remain on show until May 2017. Ford will be ‘in conversation’ with Stephen Feeke, director of the New Art Centre, on Thursday 29th September at 6pm. Born in Cardiff in 1961, Ford studied at the Bath Academy of Art and the Chelsea College of Art. She is known for the playful quality of her work in which she creates characters that have a dark edge and blur 12