A naked 3D dancer, a plush cinema set up in someone’s living room and a sculpture that transforms in front of its audience, will all feature in a new mini festival.
HOUSE is part of Artists Open Houses, the UK’s largest open visual arts festival, which got off to a flying start with visitors popping into houses, studios and gardens across the city to view artwork and crafts.
The mini festival consists of seven curated projects which are connected by the theme of “art and domestic space”.
They include Billy Cowie’s The Revery Alone which projects the image of a naked dancer on to the ceiling of the Regency Town House in Brunswick Square, Hove and Home Cinema, which turns the living room of 6 Clifton Street, Brighton, into a mini picture palace complete with traditional red velvet cinema seats and a projector.
Ocean Mims’ Things for Here, Now and There, questions mass-produced products with a slowly transforming sculpture at the Permanent Gallery in Bedford Place, Brighton.
This year’s Artists Open Houses, which allows artists to turn homes into impromptu galleries, is bigger than ever.
More than 200 venues have opened their doors to allow over 1,000 artists to exhibit their work.
Judy Stevens, the event’s organiser, said: “If you thought the Artist Open Houses was confined to central Brighton homes you’d be wrong.
“It has always been a truly inclusive event and this year the festival includes an artists’ trail on the Bristol Estate, two schools, several student houses, the Clock Tower Sanctuary homelessness project and three venues exhibiting work of artists with learning disabilities.”
Tying HOUSE and the Artists Open Houses together is the Selector’s Choice exhibition upstairs at the Regency Town House.
It showcases outstanding work by selected Open House artists.
All visitors will be invited to vote for their favourite work and two awards will be presented to winning artists: The Brighton Festival Award and the Visitors Choice Award, sponsored by VisitBrighton.
Artist trails are available every weekend across Brighton and Hove, Saltdean and Rottingdean, Lewes, Newhaven and Ditchling.
To plan a route visit www.aoh.org.uk.
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