The County Mall Window Gallery is open from 9am – 6pm Monday to Saturday and from 10.30am – 4.30pm on Sundays. You can visit the window gallery on the first floor of County Mall Shopping Centre, Crawley (opposite Primark, right at the end of the mall) – it’s completely free to have a look, walk by, take in the artworks and then tell us what you think.
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Beth has created a posable soft sculpture made with kelp and bladderwrack bio “leather”, aluminium wire, seacell rope, crocheted wool and cotton.
Nereocystis luetkeana, bull kelp, made with homegrown indigo dyed kelp bio“leather”, with dried bladder wrack is used to create the root like holdfast that anchors it to the substrate.
Beth explores the use of seaweed in new, innovative materials, both it terms of its properties and its sustainability, as well as it’s different histories and cultural significances around the world. Using edible kelps, grown in Ireland, to create the leather like material is a nod to the consumption of seaweed being a life line to Irish people during the Great Famine and dyeing the materials with Japanese Indigo connects to it’s use a tax during the Asuka period in Japan, as well as it’s importance in Japanese Shinto tradition.
All seaweed sourced from sustainable Irish seaweed farmers.
Beth William’s artwork will be displayed in the Window Gallery at Unit 79/80, County Mall Shopping Centre from September-December 2026
Invasive Species Series was created by Rubbish Artist Tracey Graham who is based in Surrey. Rubbish Artist’s work explores the potential of reclaimed materials and found objects, using humour and creativity to inspire sustainable thinking. They believe playfulness is far more effective than fingerpointing when encouraging reflection on our environmental impact. By transforming thrown away materials into precious and poetic sculpture, Rubbish Artist aims to reframe how we perceive waste, inviting viewers to find beauty and value in the discarded and using art as a hopeful catalyst for change.
Inspired by Rubbish Artist’s love of coral reefs and diving, this is a wry look at single-use plastics which take decades to break down into microplastics affecting wildlife and people every step of the way. Each critter has a taxonomy, a made up ‘Latin’ name and a lifespan reflecting the number of years it takes to break down. They are made from the types of plastics that invade our waterways, some beach-combed, some bin-combed. The intention is to provoke thought about consumer choices and elevate plastic to something more valuable than the throw-away single-use culture we currently inhabit. There’s no art on a dead planet.
Tracey Graham’s artwork will be displayed in the Window Gallery at Unit 79/80, County Mall Shopping Centre from Friday 3 April, Opening times here
This work is by photographer, filmmaker and artist, Simon Edwards who is based in Crawley, West Sussex. The magic of photography was sparked in childhood when sat looking at his Dad’s Kodachrome slides using a handheld backlit viewer; photography has held his imagination ever since.
This work is a snapshot of Simon’s work and is the first time that he has shown his work in this way and on this scale. It contains elements of the everyday and is a response to the world through a viewfinder. It is a celebration of what is, an exploration of the mundane and that becomes extraordinary through the gaze of the artist.
Follow Simon on Instagram @i_am_mr_sedders
Visit Simon’s work at Unit 79/80 County Mall Shopping Centre.
A dance and portraiture-based installation celebrating Black joy, brilliance, and community, shifting the lens beyond trauma and centring tenderness, resilience, and style.
Read about Pearl’s commission HERE.
Beth Williams and Pearl Makayi’s artwork were displayed in the Window Gallery at West Green Studios, 1 Town Barn Road, West Green, RH11 7XG and could be viewed 24 hours a day.
Find out more about the future of West Green Studios HERE
A crochet tapestry poem made from plants and dyes from the West Green Studios garden. ‘Together we are a garden’ depicts a poem written to reflect Beth’s hopes for the future and how much we can learn from and thrive alongside the natural environment.
Read about Beth’s commission HERE.
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