THE artwork in the Brewery Arts Centre is particularly outstanding at the moment with two equally appealing and impressive, yet contrasting, exhibitions.

Visual arts officer Lene Bragger has pulled off a minor coup and recruited the creative efforts of Lubaina Himid - artist-in-residence at the Tate, St Ives, 1998-99 - for a show in the Kendal venue's Warehouse Gallery.

Lubaina's Plan B: paperworks (running until September 24) was created while she was in her St Ives residency.

Wonderful, odd-looking chairs and uneven furniture in empty rooms.

One, After the Meeting, is a host of chairs, discarded wildly across a room.

Some stacked, a couple heaped on to a window sill.

Her work is fun, colourful, and crazy, and strangely lovable, with a great sense of time and space.

Highly regarded, Lubaina is a reader in Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire and has exhibited internationally, with her work in many public collections such as the Tate, Victoria and Albert, and the Arts Council Collection.

Meanwhile, in the Foyer Gallery, there's a fine selection of paintings from the Secondary Schools Exhibition as part of Kendal Windows on Art event.

Turn to P14 for our picture coverage.

The Secondary Schools display features A level and GCSE examination work and runs until September 29.

Bags of character and lots figurative work.

Gina and Gemma hold off in Kirkbie Kendal's Jessica Fellows oil.

And Gemma Jackson's (also from KK) sultry self portrait captures her reflective mood.

Lighting up the gallery wall, the eyes dance to the bright tango tones of Ulverston Victoria High's Hayley Webster's Arches prints, with the teary Eye of Karen Swarbrick's oil on canvas, focused fiercely on the viewer.

Karen is a student of Kirkby Lonsdale's Queen Elizabeth School.

Another good work is by John Ruskin School student Libby Blundell, with a clever ink, Forest Drawing.

Modern works from forward thinking talents.