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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wonderland is a project by self-taught artists Sarah Watson and Will Hanekom on a theme that has captured their imagination. An exhibition of new and diverse works in a variety of media – film, painting, illustration, drawing and photography – it reflects their interpretation of and artistic responses to the theme. As Will says: “Everyone […]
Laura Ford and Celia Davies, HOUSE Biennial Curator, will hold an In Conversation exploring Ford’s film selection and its relationship with her new commission. Followed by screening of Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick – UK 1975 – 184min. An Irish adventurer wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband’s aristocratic position […]
As part of our Autumn exhibition New Truth to Materials: Wood, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft have teamed up with House Biennial to show the striking sculptures of artist Laura Ford. Ford is the Festival’s Invited Artist and will be displaying her works Espaliered Girl (2007) in our introductory gallery. The sculpture features wood as […]
Rag and Bone Bin commissioned by Turner Contemporary in 2007, is a distorted depiction of Beatrix Potter’s famous childhood character Mr. Brock. Enveloped in an old sleeping bag this familiar badger is street-worn and squalid, seen rifling through a bin looking for edible waste to sustain his homeless existence. There is of course a humorous irony […]
Laura Ford’s fantasy creatures Espaliered Girl (2007) and Lion (2014) form an unusual conversation with the formal architecture of the courtyard garden, the historic house and the contemporary extension. Ford selected the works specifically with the idea that they inhabit the space in a similar way to the objects in Jean Cocteau’s film ‘Beauty and […]
Natasha Caruana talks about the ideas behind her new installation Timely Tale and making work using 360° technologies for the first time, with Celia Davies, HOUSE Biennial curator. Saturday 4 November, 12.00 – 13.00 Free event, but booking essential as places are limited. Please reserve your ticket HERE.
Join the artist and HOUSE Biennial Curator, Celia Davies for a tour around the exhibition with tea and cake. Anthony Stevens has been co-commissioned with Outside In for the exhibition Common Threads, read more about the work and artist here. Tickets £5 Book tickets HERE.
As part of HOUSE Biennial and the UK-wide Museums at Night event, Outside In will be holding an informal evening with commissioned artists Anthony Stevens and Andrew Omoding, accompanied by refreshments and buffet. We invite you to come along and find out more about Outside In and the artists involved in the show. Free event, […]
Join project lead Becky Warnock for an interactive artist talk about the HOUSE Biennial community project Crossover Point. Becky will be joined by participants of the project from Brighton Table Tennis Club, along with BTTC’s director Tim Holtam, to talk further about the project’s key themes of storytelling, memories and the ideas that connect us as well as how it […]
Join this year’s Invited Artist for HOUSE Biennial, sculptor Laura Ford, who will discuss what inspired her installation A King’s Appetite at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. The event will begin in the Museum Lab, where HOUSE Biennial Curator Celia Davies will introduce the artist. Laura will be joined by Royal Pavilion curator Alexandra Loske, […]
Introductory talk by film writer Michael Brooke Dir: Luis Bunuel Cast: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur 97mins 1972 France 15 French, Spanish A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together. Carousel short film: Man Without Direction, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Pelle Öhlund, Nina Jemth: Sweden 15min […]
6pm Dir: Hayao Miyazaki 124mins 2001 Japan PG Japanese, English subtitles During her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts. In Conversation Carousel artists Sarah Watson and Will Hanekom Carousel short film: Whinstor Norville dines at La Gothique Dir: […]
Paolo Sorrentino Italy 2013, 2hr 21min Introductory talk: Carousel short film, approx 10 min Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. Tickets […]
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison 94mins 1957 US PG English Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister’s romance with a jazz musician. ‘With some of the sharpest dialogue ever cut in Hollywood, only on the most superficial level is this […]
Family matinee Introductory talk by media and screen lecturer Ewan Kirkland Dir: Hayao Miyazaki Japan 2003, 125min, English During her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts. Tickets £6 (Under 25s/Concessions £4) Book via Lewes Depot […]
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 […]
Becky Warnock is a London based artist working across photography, film and theatre, using participatory practice to create innovative, community engaged art powering social change. She is passionate about social justice and using the arts as a platform to stimulate dialogue and exchange.
Natasha Caruana is a photographic artist living and working in London. She has an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London and is a Senior Lecturer of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK. Caruana’s art practice is grounded in research concerned with narratives of love, betrayal and fantasy. […]
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 […]
Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates.