Never has exploring the Royal Pavilion come with such a sense of paranoia and artistic trickery.

This can be directly attributed to the many pairs of enormous eyes that glare at you upon entering its grand music room. This however is precisely the desired effect of the installation.

Artist Maisie Broadhead has photographed a handful of Georgian characters peering inquisitively, with their hands and noses seemingly pressing up against a window pane.

These images have been blown up to a gigantic scale and placed meticulously on light boxes fitted into the room’s floor-to -ceiling windows. Peepers gives the illusion that one is walking around a decadently decorated doll’s house.

As the Pavilion’s previous owner King George IV grew older he became increasingly reclusive. The people of Brighton continued to gossip and gawk at his once lavish life, and his seaside retreat became a symbol of his previous escapades. Inspired by this element of the King’s highly publicised life, Broadhead wants visitors to feel as if they are themselves subject to similar scrutiny from the outside world.

A surreal and historically interesting installation, Peepers gives a new perspective to the life of King George, Georgian high society and the Royal Pavilion.