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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Maria Pattinson is a theatre director specialising in new writing and community engagement.
Abigail Norris is an artist filmmaker, whose work includes documentary film and art installation. Collaboration forms a central part of her practice.
Amanda Loomes was a Civil Engineer until 1996 when she went on to study Fine Art, graduating from The Royal College of Art in 2006. She lives and works in Dorking, Surrey. Amanda’s work considers the frailty and resilience of human endeavour; in particular, work that goes unnoticed or becomes erased or undone. Usually working […]
Born in 1986; Joseph Popper lives and works in London. He examines space travel and other forms of human exploration and technological endeavour through film, photography and installations. Taking inspiration from cinematic special effects, his works transform found locations and everyday objects to simulate speculative scenarios and fictional experiences. In these handmade worlds, Popper plays […]
Nathan Coley was born in 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland. Between 1985 and 1989 he studied at the Glasgow School of Art. From 1998 to 2005 he lived and worked in Dundee. In 2007 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. His work is represented in many international public and private collections. He currently lives and […]
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