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 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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Rosanna Martin and Ester Svensson met in London while studying at the Royal College of Art. A recognition not only of the crossovers between each of their individual practices, but also their shared concern for the situation of refugees and migrants today, fuelled their decision to work in collaboration on this project. Martin was born in Cornwall and […]
Leah Gordon is an artist and curator and has produced a body of work on the representational boundaries between art, religion, anthropology, post-colonialism and folk history. Her photographic work registers junctures between shared Haitian and British histories and cosmologies, with an emphasis on the links between the slave trade and the industrial revolution. She is […]
Tobias Revell is a critical designer and futurist talking and exhibiting worldwide, a lecturer at the Royal College of Art and the London College of Communication, a senior associate at design studio Superflux and a researcher with Arup’s Foresight group. His practice looks at alternative narratives for technologies and changes in contemporary society. He has […]
Born in 1971 and resident in Brighton, Phillip Hall-Patch is a contemporary artist of mixed heritage and ethnicity (part English and part Iranian). He is a practicing artist and architect working at the boundary between the two disciplines and specialising in the conceptual design of public art installations, sculpture and drawing. His first public art […]
Yinka Shonibare MBE is a British-Nigerian artist living in London. He studied Fine Art, first at the Byam Shaw School of Art (1984–1989) and then at Goldsmiths, University of London (1989–1991) where he received his MFA. In 2002 Okwui Enwezor commissioned Shonibare for documenta XI, where he created his most recognised work: Gallantry and Criminal Conversation, […]
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