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Contemporary Art Auction Catalogue Available Now

The Toovey’s Contemporary Art Auction catalogue for the 2012 sale is available now. £6 at our Spring Gardens auction rooms (£8 by post available only from our offices – 01903 891955).

The catalogue will also be available at Horsham Museum and Art Gallery from 1st June to 7th July – throughout their exhibition Off The Wall. Every penny of the £6 catalogue sales at the exhibition will be donated to Horsham Museum and Art Gallery.

In addition to what you will be able to see in the free online catalogue, the printed version carries an additional question-and-answer feature with each of the 50 participating artists. All 150 lots are illustrated and reproduced in colour. Note: cover image ‘White Heart Dish’ by Claire Palastanga (Lot 110).

Toovey’s featured in All About Horsham magazine

Rupert Toovey on the rostrum — One of the photographs taken by Toby Phillips

Toovey’s were recently featured in the magazine All About Horsham (or AAH). It is an interesting outsider perspective of Toovey’s written by the editor, Ben Morris, after an interview with many of the team of specialists at Toovey’s. You can view this feature and many other interesting articles about the Horsham District on the All About Horsham (AAH) website here. Photographs were taken by Toby Phillips, including this one of Rupert Toovey on the rostrum. Toby is holding an exhibition at Horsham Museum and Art Gallery between 5th January until 10th March 2012, showing his photography of the Sussex Downs and Horsham rugby club players, whom he shot for a charity calendar.

September Issue of Sussex Life Out Now

Nicholas Toovey writes an article for Sussex Life magazine every month on contemporary Sussex artists. He was approached because of his contacts within the art world that he has formed from hosting the annual Contemporary Art Auctions at TOOVEY’S. It enables Nicholas to further promote artists and the arts in Sussex, an area he is particularly passionate about. His first article published in the March issue was on Brighton-based artist Chris Kettle. His articles so far have featured the work of Alison Milner-Gulland, Carolyn Genders, Eve Shepherd, Susie Jenkins and in the September issue he meets printmaker Sarah Young ahead of showing her work at the Brighton Art Fair. It is available in the shops now for £3.65. Many of the previous articles can be viewed here: http://sussex.greatbritishlife.co.uk/arts/features/

Sarah Young featured in Sussex Life — September Issue of Sussex Life

Nicholas Toovey’s Latest Article for Sussex Life

The June issue of Sussex Life (pictured left) is currently in the shops and features an article by Nicholas Toovey on the East Sussex ceramicist Carolyn Genders, his fourth article in the magazine to date.

The articles allow Nicholas to further promote Sussex-based contemporary artists and reinforces Toovey’s annual Contemporary Art Auctions.

The magazine also has a fabulous diary section with things to do in the county this month, available now for £3.65.

Contemporary Art Auction featured in Sussex Life

Toovey’s Contemporary Art Auction was a cover feature of the May issue of Sussex Life (west).

The three-page article features the drawings of Hannah Stewart, the acrylics on canvas by Dan Bennett, Natalie Martin and Sheila Marlborough, sculpture by William Harling and ceramics by Josse Davis.

Also inside the magazine is a half-page advert that showed a number of different works within the sale. The issue is in the shops now for £3.65, or can be viewed online here.