Home Away From Home
Thompson Hall works intuitively in a variety of media, specialising in acrylic paint and pastel. His work begins with observational sketches from the urban landscape, providing the basis for artwork that depicts the world as seen by Thompson. He is concerned with colour, shape and texture over representation. Rather than an accurate re-creation, he prefers […]
The Language of Living
Show Room: The Language of Living The University of Brighton Galleries, 154-155 Edward Street, Brighton, BN2 0JG 30 April – 29 May Monday – Sunday: 10am – 5pm Late Night Thursdays to: 8pm Felicity Hammond researches the simulated domestic settings and constructed worlds of the digital ‘renders’ that illustrate architects’ proposals. She photographs digitally manipulated […]
A Room with Your Views
This exhibition is presented in partnership with University of Brighton World Premiere of the completed work Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing OBE is HOUSE 2016’s Invited Artist and brings to Brighton & Hove A Room With Your Views, a collaborative film project capturing a snapshot of ‘views’ from homes across the world, connecting people and countries. Through […]
Crossover Point
Stories of Pastimes and Play Crossover Point is a community project led by artist Becky Warnock, working with a diverse group of participants from Brighton Table Tennis Club to explore stories, memories and the ideas that connect us. Starting from the stories found within Brighton Museum & Art Gallery’s Willett Collection of Popular Pottery, such as the […]
Common Threads
London based artist Andrew Omoding and Brighton based artist Anthony Stevens have been co-commissioned by HOUSE Biennial and Outside In to create a joint exhibition for the first time. Both artists work with mixed media and textiles, taking discarded and unwanted materials and repurposing them to create new objects that share personal stories and perspectives. Anthony Stevens […]
Timely Tale
Natasha Caruana has been co-commissioned by HOUSE Biennial and Photoworks to create a new lens-based work. Timely Tale is set against a backdrop of love, desire and health in the age of Excess – the theme for this year’s festival. Excess is explored in the artwork through the vehicle of the artist’s mother, Penny, and the […]
A King’s Appetite
British artist Laura Ford has been commissioned by HOUSE Biennial in partnership with Royal Pavilion & Museums. A King’s Appetite is a new sculptural installation taking inspiration from the Royal Pavilion & Museums collections, including caricatures by James Gillray and George Cruikshank, satirising aspects of the life of the Prince Regent (later to become King […]
You Imagine What You Desire / Portraits of Dissension
You Imagine What You Desire St Nicholas’ Church, Church Street, Brighton, BN1 3LJ 2 – 24 May (+ Bank Holiday Monday) Wednesday – Sunday, midday – 5.30pm FREE LISTEN: Nathan Coley on BBC Radio Sussex, Sunday Breakfast with Emily Jeffery, starts at approx 1hr37 A HOUSE 2015 / Brighton Festival 2015 co-production Coley often uses the idea of […]
The Same Face
Joseph Popper presents an installation of a 1:1 scale set of a drone command centre. The installation plays upon the uneasy similarities found between handmade, hobby flight simulators and actual stations of drone ground control, where only outside these spaces does the disparity of their potential for destruction become apparent. Inside, amongst the monitors, control […]
Relict Material
Relict Material is a new film installation from Amanda Loomes, shot on location at marine aggregate and concrete industry sites along the Sussex coast. Loomes is interested in people at work and in changing definitions of labour in contemporary society. The film focuses on the marine aggregate industry and its use in concrete manufacture. Approximately 25 […]
City Collective
City Collective begins with a photograph taken of staff on the balconies of Brighton’s Grand Hotel on the day it reopened after the 1984 bombing. The project is a collaboration between filmmaker Abigail Norris, theatre director Maria Pattinson and an inter-generational group of Brighton & Hove residents who have collectively responded to questions relating to the […]
Intuitive Visions: Shifting the Margins
HOUSE 2015 is working in partnership with Outside In and Phoenix Brighton to present a unique exhibition showcasing the work of nine artists: Aradne, Blair McCormick, John Ackhurst, Jonathan Kenneth William Pettitt, Luc Raesmith, Martin Phillimore, Michelle Roberts, Paul Bellingham and Sally Ward. The exhibitors were selected from an open call to East Sussex artists […]
The Past Is A Foreign Country, The Cinema of Re-enactment
In the face of dissension, protest often provides the necessary edge that leads to change. A series of films explores this idea in the HOUSE 2015 pop-up cinema. Recent years have seen a resurgence of re-enactment in contemporary art, though in some ways it has always been part of cinema with battles and historic events […]
Asylum in the City
A local community of people share their experience of displacement through photographs and personal stories. This project has been developed in partnership with Sussex Interpreting Services who work with refugees, providing language support for non-English speakers and assist people in difficult situations. The interpreters themselves have first hand experience of immigration are now more settled in the […]
No One Owns The Land
No One Owns The Land is the first collaboration between artist-makers Ester Svensson and Rosanna Martin, whose practices span ideas of travel, restlessness, identity and belonging in the context of ceramics and illustration. Made primarily from ceramic and glass, as well as thread, wire, sand, stones, glass wax, inks, soap, shower gel, nail varnish, paint, […]
Caste | Cast
Artist and curator Leah Gordon, takes her unfinished photography project Caste / Cast as her starting point, to explore shared Haitian and British histories and cosmologies in the dining room and library of The Regency Town House. Photographs investigating the practice of grading skin colour in eighteenth century Haiti are juxtaposed with a film of […]
The Monopoly of Legitimate Use
Critical designer and futurist, Tobias Revell’s interests include theoretical physics and failed architecture. The Monopoly of Legitimate Use is a three-part film with individual vignettes named Blackspot, Bumper and Stateless in which Revell looks at near-future techno-political landscape. Each short film deals in turn with the control of citizenship political identity and border definition, within […]
Salt Field
Phillip Hall-Patch, an Iranian/British artist and architect, who investigates the tensions between transience and stability through ephemeral and time-based works is producing Salt Field for The Brighton Waste House, a new low energy pre-fabricated house built entirely from recycled materials sited within the University of Brighton. Looking at the global historic and economic role of […]
The British Library
Yinka Shonibare MBE’s new site-specific installation explores the impact of immigration on all aspects of British culture and considers notions of territory and place, cultural identity, displacement and refuge. Brighton Museum’s Old Reference Library becomes a repository for those, both celebrated and unfamiliar, who as immigrants to this country, made unique contributions to what we regard as ‘British’ culture. […]
Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes / The Air Itself is One Vast Library
Heterotopias and Other Domestic Landscapes is artist Mariele Neudecker’s installation at the Regency Town House. The idea is to create a ‘geophysical slice’ of a recorded, yet fictionalized landscape through the air, earth and deep sea as visitors ascend and descend through the floors of the Regency Town House. The installation by Neudecker, uses the entire building as a ‘container’ for a […]
Hero
David Wightman creates acrylic abstract and landscape paintings using collaged wallpaper. For HOUSE, Wightman has created a large-scale, site-specific painting entitled Hero. Using a collaging technique similar to marquetry, Wightman uses wallpaper as a personal reference to his own childhood. Hero’s composition is based on found images of landscapes that have been edited and idealised. The result is a sublime and archetypical beautiful mountainscape that is familiar yet […]
Monument to the Excluded Middle
This large outdoor structure takes the form of a stricken airship whose central section has collapsed, bringing the vessel to ground. The invention of the powered airship at the turn of the last century marked a fundamental shift in our relation to the landscape and its elements, promising exploration and access to new vistas on an unprecedented scale. As with all encounters with […]
Aria
Aria is a site-specific audio-visual piece featuring a freediver and a female soprano projected inside a shipping container on Brighton’s seafront. Immersed in the soundscape of an a capella voice, the viewer experiences a figure moving within the depths of the underwater landscape, pulsing with the lyrical rhythm of the singer’s breath. In this space the boundaries of interior and exterior become blurred and perceptions become distorted. […]