Brighton Festival
left, Burn Out and Fade Away, Shelves (MDF, hardboard, cardboard, laminate, spray paint), 2008 and right, All in One Complete, MDF, laminate, laminate flooring, mechanisms, motors, 2008 both by Ocean Mims
Brighton is the place to be this May when the city hosts its month-long multi-arts festival.
Events include The Great Escape, a music festival showcasing over 300 artists, plus a Fringe that features everything from cabaret to comedy. And for the visual arts there will be works by guest artistic director Anish Kapoor on show around the city.
Four separate exhibitions are being staged by the Artists’ Open Houses organization, all connected by the theme of art and domestic space. Probably the most interesting one for readers of Crafts is the show of kinetic furniture by the sculptor Ocean Mims at the Permanent Gallery, although Ghosts in the Machine at the Regency Town House featuring Billy Cowie’s three virtual women trapped in house doing endless domestic chores, also looks promising.
Other names to look out for include jeweller Lindsey Mann whose colourful brooches will be shown at Preston Manor alongside ceramics by Helen Beard and textiles by Sarah Bidwell. Frances Doherty will be showing her new range of sculptural ceramics at 31 Havelock Road and Kate Jenkins has created a knitted paradise at Arundel Mews – other textiles worth looking at are Fiona Howards’s Harbour prints (at 55 Brunswick Square) – and don’t miss the Badgers Hill Workshop display of automata.
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