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A long standing Brighton and Hove tradition, Artists Open Houses are back once again for 2008

Voted the ‘Best Cultural Event of 2007’ at last year’s Brighton and Hove Business Awards, the Brighton Festival of Artists Open Houses is a great opportunity to view work by leading local artists and makers in their own homes and studios. Established in 1986, Artists Open Houses (www.aoh.org.uk) in Brighton looks forward to its 28th year in May 2008. 220 venues and over 1,000 artists will showcase new work in a unique way. Timed to coincide with Brighton Festival, the city becomes an organic creature of culture, feeding 300,000 visitors to the houses alone.

Walking from house to house, by the coast and in the company of collectors, house hunters, designers, families and celebrities, the experience of open houses entertains, nourishes and inspires everyone who visits. AOH gives a rare opportunity for the public to view art exhibited in the homes and studios of Brighton and Hove artists.

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Get along to Scotches Farm to view Jane Butler-Biggs’ latest exhibition as part of Brighton Fringe, you might just find it ‘well hung’

Summer Pond

Jane Butler-Biggs is a fine artist of over 20 years standing with a background as a healer and Feng Shui master. She lives in the idyllic countryside surrounds of Hurstpierpoint with her family and will be opening the house for the May Open House festival and also exhibiting at the Brighton Media Centre in the first week of May as part of the Brighton Fringe.

How did you get started in painting?
I have always painted, there was never a beginning and there is never really an end only a point at which I stop.

I paint in the same way that I clean my teeth or walk across the gardens and down to the field near where I live. I paint as a matter of course and have been grateful for the lack of intrusion I have enjoyed in its progress through the years. For me painting is one of the easy parts of life.

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A unique imprint between the Piers

Residents and visitors seeking art between the Piers in Brighton are in for a treat during the Brighton festival; Artizan Editions – renowned publishers and proponents of original art in print – have a retrospective exhibition hosted by Castor & Pollux gallery for the duration of May on the seafront.

Brian Rice with Bridget Riley

“It’s great for us to have the opportunity to exhibit our published works. Not only are we in our home city but exhibiting within an amazing beachside venue. It’ll be something of a welcome change from our London exhibitions.“ Read the rest of this article »

Contemporary installations by new artists supported by Brighton creative company

Props Studios, Brighton-based creative specialists in design, bespoke props and sculpture for the arts, retail and events industry, are sponsoring three highly promising new talents in the Brighton Artists’ Open Houses Festival.

Entitled ‘Girls’ School’, Alexandra Dipple, Jason Hall and Matt Pagett will be displaying new work. Alongside prints, drawings and sculpture, each artist will have sole use of the bedroom as an installation space for one weekend only. Jason Hall’s work focuses on sexuality and society, including a decommissioned tank bullet shell engraved with homophobic insults and an AK47 with a gay flag. His work will feature a tribute to Justin Fashanu on the tenth anniversary of his death. Alexandra Dipple deals with issues around authority, control, erasure and censorship. Her show will include a graphic equalizer made of books, and an alchemical piece using books about madness burnt to ashes and presented as pills. Matt Pagett explores apparently unrelated issues surrounding processes, signs, transience, desire, beauty, man and machine. Matt will replace his bedroom furniture with a coffin.

Nina Constantin, managing director of Props Studios, said: “We are very passionate about working with artists to produce creative installations.”

Props Studios, Unit 3, Old Kiln Works, Ditchling Common Industrial Estate, East Sussex.

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Tel: 0870 77 00 960
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or email: elina@propsstusios.co.uk