Previous Artist-in-Residence, Gabriele Beveridge is showing new work at Seventeen Gallery in London. The solo exhibition, Live Dead World, include a series of photograpms made by Beveridge during her 2017/18 residency at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation.

This live concert features performances by some of the most imaginative music makers working today. Collectress are a quartet whose collective ethos, aesthetic and approach is inspired and informed by the practices which complement their performing lives. Sonic Pleasure is famed for her unique crafting of sound from bricks and masonry, reducing much of her instrumentation to dust by the end of a concert.

Throughout 2018-19 West Dean College will host a series of live concerts under the banner Salon Imaginaire. Join us for the inaugural concert on Friday 12 October 2018.

Find out about the next stage of the Edward James Archive Project with West Dean College Archivist, Simon Coleman.

An essay by Dr. Joanna Pawlik that uses the Mexican surrealist journal S.NOB to rethink Edward James's involvement with transnational surrealism. Republished to mark the anniversary of James's birth on 16 August 1907.

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Kate Jennings on adhesion, cohesion, and repairing a lead elephant.

It's the end of another academic year at West Dean! Following a long tradition from the Books department of having a reception for students to show their work to and chat with professional conversators, clients, visiting lecturers, and friends of the college, the rest of the college now participates on the same day. I love seeing the same faces turn up year after year to celebrate with us. Here are some photos for those who couldn't make it in the flesh!