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Current & upcoming events & exhibitions

 

Exhibition - The Presence of Absence
Four very different artists explore space, memory, loss and connection

Fri 25th September - Sun 4th October, 11:00am - 5:00pm

See also exhibition events:
Thursday 1st October, 7:00pm - 9:00pm, 
The Changing Face and Taste of Tequila
Friday 2nd October, 7:00pm - 9:00pm, 
Film screening of 'Unrelated'
details below…

An upholsterer, a contemporary surrealist, a painter and a photographer will come together for a two-week interactive exhibition.

“Your absence is a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.”
Jacqueline Simon Gunn

At the heart of this exhibition are 4 vintage chairs, a collaboration between Frances Bloomfield and Emily Beaumont. The chairs will explore the concepts of memory; healing; secrets and retreat.

The exhibition has been created to explore the impact of an individual presence, the spaces created where someone or something used to be.

Jo Hathaway’s work on memory and reflection bring colour and light and the internal, abstract experience of the theme; Nick Bowman’s photographs each tell their own story of time and motion, alongside additional work by Frances Bloomfield and Emily Beaumont.

The exhibition invites you to be part of the visual conversation between the artists about how to interpret individual experiences of the past, present and future through the space we leave behind and the memories it holds of us whether it involves happiness, sadness, joy, loss, beauty, grief or hope. Visitors are encouraged to be actively involved by discovering secrets concealed around the space and by leaving their own memories and experiences written down and hidden inside a chair.

Jo Hathaway is creating a ‘Book of Words’ a collection of writings that explore the theme.
Nick Bowman will be including a photographic installation ‘We are not a number’ in the exhibition.

The artists:
Emily Beaumont, Upholsterer emilybooupholstery.co.uk
Frances Bloomfield, Contemporary Surrealist francesbloomfield.com
Jo Hathaway, Painter johathaway.com
Nick Bowman, Photographer @iamnotabene
Find out more about the artists johathaway.com/about-the-artists

Download Press Release here

Exhibition events:

Private View
Thursday 24th September, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
A preview peek at the show plus an opportunity to meet the artists.
Tickets here on Eventbrite

Thursday 1st October, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
The Changing Face and Taste of Tequila
Join us for a fun and relaxed dive into the evolving world of tequila! Discover how this classic spirit is transforming in flavor and style. Local distributor, Proof Drinks will take you on a journey and offer some amazing cocktails to try all in this incredible setting surrounded by The Presence of Absence exhibition. We hope you can join us.
Tickets here on Eventbrite

Friday 2nd October, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Film screening of 'Unrelated'
Joanna Hogg’s incredibly accomplished, subtle and utterly involving first film. The screening will take place on the first floor and is only accessible by stairs. Wine is being supplied by the fabulous Beacon Down Vineyards. The doors open at 19.00, the film will start promptly at 19.30 - running time is 1hr 40mins. 
Tickets here on Eventbrite

 

Exhibition - PhotoWorks
'Pseudomorphs and Fighting Fish'

Fri 2nd - Sun 18th October, 12:00noon - 4:00pm
(closed Mondays & Tuesdays)

Sun 4th October, 3:00pm, public opening with artists present
Reserve your place here on Eventbrite

Fri 16th October, 6:00pm, performance and reading by artists
Reservation link coming soon

As part of Un/stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams, Photoworks Festival, we are thrilled to present Pseudomorphs and Fighting Fish by Sam Kaufman and Holly Birtles. These two bodies of work examine instability conceptually, materially and digitally to illuminate ecological concerns and a lack of responsibility over them by design.  

Pseudomorphs (2026) by Kaufman, is a film about cephalopods, doubling bodies, institutional friction, hypnosis and disappearance. It is staged across three locations: a marine biology laboratory studying cephalopod cognition and skin camouflage; a beach home to giant ammonite fossils; and the mesopelagic zone of the sea. 

The film takes the pseudomorph as its starting point - a decoy ink body created by cuttlefish, squid and octopuses - to think through disparate instances where the body’s boundary against the world becomes unstable and altered. It is narrated through multiple voices: interview fragments, email correspondence and a bookending exercise to facilitate out-of-body experiences.

In Fighting Fish, Birtles reflects on her work inspired by the Thames River London and Estuary in Kent, Essex and Suffolk, where performers and artists contemplate their choreographed roles as ‘Thames Monsters'. In Chennai, during a darkroom residency hosted by Chennai Photo Biennale and Photoworks, Birtles responds to the Adyar and Cooum rivers, identifying parallels linked to sentimentality, dedication, care, and destruction. The paradox lies in the personal reverence for these sacred sources, juxtaposed with the toxicity and damage caused by anthropocentric activities and neglect. 

The project Fighting Fish embodies monstrosity, intertwining beauty and magnificence with the grotesque, haze, mud, waste, life, and death. The concept of ‘fight’ is explored through performative and directed body language during constructed performances. The physicality of these gestures conveys an ecological struggle, a lack of oxygen and a growing frustration with governmental inefficiencies related to new infrastructure.

Holly Instagram: @hbirtles
Sam Instagram: @s_am_k_
Download Artist Biographies here

 

Exhibition - Jungle Harpies and African Vistas
'A collaborative art exhibition celebrating life, origings, folklore and rite.'

Tue 13th - Sun 18th October, 10:00am - 6:00pm

Live tattoo installation
Wed 14th - Sat 17th, 10:00am - 6:00pm

Artists: Inma Vila Solfire & Seth Solfire

Exhibition events: (booking links and prices to follow)

Wednesday 14th, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Welcome event; drinks, music and a surprise or two.
Book here on Eventbrite

Sunday 18th, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Closing reception; drinks, cake & last chance to view.

Husband and wife artists Seth and Inma Vila Solfire announce the opening of JUNGLE HARPIES AND AFRICAN VISTAS, a deeply personal multi-disciplinary exhibition.

Spanning painting, storytelling, and live performance, the exhibition explores origins, rituals, and human transformation. The collection brings together two distinct artistic visions born from family life and a shared five-decade legacy in the tattooing industry—the craft that originally brought the couple together. 

 

Inma: ‘Jungle Harpies is inspired by the folklore around harpies as strong female characters and my love for bird’s delicate beauty. A tribute to family and the transitional nature of life, and to the importance of rite and celebration as we oscillate, sometimes perilously, its in between stages.’ 

Seth: 'African Vistas is inspired by growing up in South Africa these paintings depict abstract themes of creation and the earth through bold but intricate patterns and graphics, reminiscent of the art of Southern Africa, traditionally found on rondavels (a traditional conical dwelling with a grass thatched roof), pottery and fabrics.’  

At the core of the exhibition is an exploration of the 'mark' - how humans use patterns and symbols to communicate identity. Blurring the line between fine art and living ritual, the gallery will host live tattooing sessions throughout the event, turning the physical act of marking the body into a witnessed, communal artwork. 

Artists social media links:
www.inmatattooartist.com
www.instagram.com/inmatattooartist
www.setharcane.com
www.instagram.com/setharcane

Link to Press Release: Press Release

 

Exhibition - Silent Companions
A solo show of work by Amy Dury

Wed 21st October - Sun 1st November, 11:00am - 5:00pm, or by appointment

With solo shows in the UK, New York and Berlin and a major commission for Hermès in Paris that saw her work displayed along the length of the Champs Elysée; the last few months have confirmed Amy Dury as one of the country’s most exciting and in demand young artists. 

Her new show, Silent Companions, continues Dury’s fascination with figures from the recent past. She writes;

“Looking back into our recent past is an act of remembering and nostalgic misremembering, with photographs and film becoming the vehicle which constructs stories about ourselves.  Our history instructs, seduces and tethers us, and I look to use paint to examine these emotive memories which reflect current themes and tensions in contemporary life.”

The setting of The Regency Town House gives her both inspiration and scope to create large scale work and promises to be a show not to be missed.

 

Exhibition - It's Alright: The Permission Project, by Caroline Oleron
Because you're allowed to feel that way

Wed 28th October - Sun 1st November, 11:00am - 6:00pm

Sat 31st October: workshop, 11:00am - 2:00pm (details TBA)

It's Alright is a participatory exhibition built around hundreds of voices responding to a single question: "It's alright that I..."

No response is too small, too trivial, or too big to be included. Every voice carries equal weight.

The exhibition unfolds across two rooms. The first presents twelve artworks exploring the themes that connect us all — relationships, self-worth, hopes and fears. The second room invites visitors to immerse themselves in the collective responses. Following a path through the voices of others, they may discover that we are not as alone in our thoughts and feelings as we imagined.

It's Alright is an invitation to give yourself permission to feel exactly what you feel — and to know that somewhere, someone else feels it too.

Visitors are invited to add their own voice to the project.

Artist biography:
Caroline Oleron is a painter based in Hove. She trained at Penninghen in Paris and West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham (now the University for the Creative Arts), and is currently completing an MA in Creative Practice with the University of Plymouth. Her work is driven by an intuitive approach to layering and colour, rooted in a deep connection to the natural and botanical world. Her paintings explore themes of hiding and concealment.

It's Alright: The Permission Project is her first solo exhibition.

Social media:
Instagram: @caroline.oleronart
Project Instagram: @its_alright_that_i
Website: www.carolineoleron.co.uk
Facebook: Caroline Oleron

 

Event - The Last Halloween

Sat 31st October, performances at 6:00pm and 7:30pm
Tickets are £21.43 inc booking fee, available here on Eventbrite.
Age 15+, access via narrow steps.

(The ticket price includes wine and a copy of Curious Tales of The Regency Terraces by Catherine Page.)

Are you ready to face the undead in one of Brighton’s most atmospheric and eerie buildings? Welcome to the world of the malicious never-alive that lurk in the dark basement at Number 10 Brunswick Square.

Outside it has all the elegance of a cream-coloured Regency Town House. Inside is a very different story. Go down the steps worn away by 200 years of servants’ feet and you will emerge into a world dominated by shadows, secrets and the undead.

Real fear comes when strange paranormal phenomena erupts to torment the living, fuelled by long-held grievances. You can feel sorry for some of the tortured men and women, but not all of them. Some deserve their fate.

Fortified by wine, you will be guided through dark corridors, passing by the arsenic-impregnated man-sized meat safe into the chilling kitchen where you will believe that sometimes Time can run backwards.

You will then be invited to your seat in the servants’ hall where generations of parlour maids and kitchen skivvies once ate and slept. Here, where so little has changed since the 19th century, they seem only a shadow’s-width away.

This is where stories of strange happenings and sinister tricks will unfold. You will meet a vulnerable young soldier and a conniving cook, but the evil begins with an aristocratic couple living off the misery of others. If only it ended with them…

Why have we called it The Last Halloween?

Because it could well be precisely that – we will tell you more on the night – but also because we are visiting a time and place that we may not wish to return to ever again.

Note: the ticket price includes blood-red wine (non-alcoholic drinks will be available for the very brave) and a copy of Curious Tales of The Regency Terraces (Amazon price £9.99) by Catherine Page.

 

Exhibition - Common Ground
An exhibition by six artists

Thurs 5th - Sun 8th November, 11:00am - 6:00pm,
admission free

Two painters, a stone sculptor, a jeweller and two ceramicists are exploring Common Ground in the pared-back splendour of The Regency Town House in Hove. 

“Exhibiting together previously has allowed us to develop a combined aesthetic and mutual kindness in the works we choose and their curation, exploring our collective relationship between abstraction and colour, adornment and function in 2 and 3 dimensional work…

…The Regency Town House provides the perfect setting to develop this further, demanding, as it does, a strong dialogue and coherence between the elegance of pared-back Regency architecture and the works we exhibit in this glorious space.” 

Artists:
Paintings: Kate Scott
Paintings and drawings: Susanne Winter
A sculpture & stone carvings: Davina Colmer
Ashdown Pottery: Anthea Stewart and Bill Gowans
Handmade sustainable jewellery: Emma Stanton

 

Exhibition - Ecdysis
Presence in the Present moment

Sat 28th & Sun 29th November, 11:00am - 6:00pm
admission free

An exhibiton of work by Charmaine Evans

This exhibition derives from the 'Minnesota Semi-Starvation Experiment' conducted at the University of Minnesota USA  November 1944 till December 1945. Professor of Physiology Ancel Keys documented the progress of 36 healthy men who served in the Civil Public Service. The 12 month voluntary experiment was an exploration focusing on effects that semi-starvation has on the mind and body in correlation with soldiers and famine victims in Europe & Asia during the 2nd World War. 

These researched based  oil and charcoal paintings on canvas are a broader investigation of human behaviour in extreme conditions. The effects food restrictions have physically and mentally on humans, which is also relevant in today’s society. From past to present this exhibition is to invite thought and discussion on this global issue.

About the artist
Charmaine Evans is an Australian and UK artist. She has completed a MA in Fine Art at The University of Brighton and BA Fine Art (Hons) at The Art Academy, London. Charmaine has had solo exhibitions at Bermondsey Project Space, London and Phoenix Art Space, Brighton. She has participated in group exhibitions previously at The Regency Town House, and at Brighton CCA and BN9 Studios, Newhaven.

Artists social media links @charmaineevansart

 

Event - The Daddy Long Legs 130th Anniversary

Sat 28th November, 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Two sessions, 2:00 - 3:30 & 4:00 - 5:30.
Tickets are £6.13 from Eventbrite

This is the same date the inaugral departure of the train from Banjo Groyne to Rottingdean. Join us to celebrate Daddy Long Legs’ epic 130-year launch with a seated historical talk and indoor immersive projected art event.

Come celebrate with artist Luciana Haill, seeing 'Pioneer' (The Daddy Long Legs) in different ways using augmented reality and projected visuals - it’s going to be one for the books!

The first session is 2:00pm to 3.30pm, second session from 4:00pm - 5.30pm will be added if tickets sell out. Talk will last 30 minutes, then various exhibits made by the artist can be interactively engaged with by the audience, including a mixed reality room, seated inside the train carriage with souvenir photos.

 

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