A newly commissioned work Skip is sited outside Moshi Moshi in Bartholomew Square, providing a city centre presence of a major commission throughout the festival. The skip, an everyday object found on the street is a readymade for Batchelor. Here a skip is transformed into something which ‘hums’ with its local environment, exploring colour through the hues […]
For HOUSE 2012 Bowness takes the wallpaper out of the home and into the urban and street environment of Brighton & Hove. Paper Trail stretches between Phoenix Brighton and The Regency Town House in Hove. Each site along Paper Trail has been identified by Bowness so that her wallpaper rolls and cut-outs have an interesting interplay with her surroundings […]
Artist Robin Blackledge has for Shelf Life frequented his local supermarket in Brighton not to buy milk or biscuits, but to alleviate them of plastic containers used to display items for sale, including yoghurt, carton desserts, cheeses and such like. Blackledge is fascinated by packaging in its many forms. Supermarket logistics packaging, or ‘collation’ trays, serve to […]
For HOUSE 2012, Le Breton takes a large scale, circular (8m diameter), brightly coloured floral carpet, from which she has cut letters, and places it on the north lawn of St Peter’s Church Gardens, in central Brighton. The carpet is used as a stencil on the grass. Where the grass is covered by the carpet […]
Helene Kazan’s mixed media installation for HOUSE 2012 is based around the research and methodology developed in the making of her short film Masking Tape Intervention: Lebanon 1989. The film is entirely generated from a single archive photograph taken of the kitchen in the flat where her family lived, just before their migration in 1989, during […]
‘Earl’s Court in the rain… The summer had crashed: it had crashed at Brighton: it would never rise again. Only rain now – the grey, wet end of hope and love.’ To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Patrick Hamilton – iconic author, saloon bar laureate and former Hove resident – this unique […]
Unravel the fantastical world of the Messels at Nymans Unravelling the National Trust is a unique concept by a group of artists and makers who work with craft in what they refer to as ‘extreme, alternative and conceptual ways.’ The project takes place over a three-year period and kicks off in May 2012 for six […]
Deborah Bowness makes wallpapers. Her unique domestic designs furnish interior spaces with an unexpected dimension: trompe I’oeil produced through a photo-realist twist. Beautiful and functional they are handmade in England through a combination of digital printing, silk-screen and handpainting. The rolls of wallpaper come as ready mades, specially mades, machine mades and paper cut outs. […]
1955, Born Dundee, Scotland 1973–75, Foundation Course Watford College of Art 1975–78, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham 1978–80, MA Cultural Studies Centre of Contemporary Cultural Studies – University of Birmingham Lives and works in London
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