MFA student Lester Korzilius answers questions about Ascension, his exciting installation in the atrium of the Minerva Theatre at Chichester Festival Theatre.

West Dean's Archivist, Simon Coleman, recently delivered an evening lecture to introduce the cataloguing of the Edward James Archive which is currently underway. The talk provided an introduction to the Cultural Papers and highlighted material found in both these papers and in other sections of the Edward James Archive.

Following an Open Call in 2016, Eva Rothschild was selected to work with the Master Weavers at West Dean Tapestry Studio to create a new hand-woven tapestry. The resulting work, The Fallowfield, extends the artist's exploration of the meeting points between spirituality, power, visual perception and materiality.

The correspondence between Edward James and Ivan Hicks reveals a private, intimate side of James and offers a glimpse at the formative years of Hicks, now considered one of the UK's leading garden designers and landscape artists.