Geoff Hands joins Nadine Feinson to present talks about their visual art practices in a Spotlight event at the Phoenix Art Space in Brighton. Geoff has a keen interest in psychogeographical drawing and how it evolves into studio-based practice. His works are typically abstract, gestural, and richly coloured, while maintaining connections to landscape. He is […]
A behind-the-scenes tour exploring the extraordinary legacy of former West Dean (and nearby Monkton House) owner Edward James, who collaborated with such artists as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, and Leonora Carrington. The tour is guided by Collections Manager Hugh Morrison and Archivist Simon Coleman.
As usual there will be a stellar line-up at this festival-within a-festival, with writers and performers of national and international repute hitting the pretty West Sussex town for readings, Q&As and performances.
Surely one of Brighton's quirkiest venues, Bom-Bane's in Kemptown is a café and restaurant with singing staff and eccentric décor. On 29 October, the venue will host a screening of Jonathan Glazer's cult classic Under the Skin (2013), starring Scarlett Johansson.
Get set for another round of ‘Adventures in World Cinema’, at the Duke of York’s in Brighton, Depot in Lewes, and beyond. Expect a mix of premieres and previews, archive treasures, artists’ moving image, talks and special events. This year’s festival strand, ‘Cine Fiction’, celebrates cinema-going as depicted in over a century of literary fiction. […]
“Other people take photographs. I try to find photographs.” So said Jane Bown, the Observer newspaper’s go-to portrait photographer for some six decades, and a talented photojournalist to boot, whose reputation soared towards the end of her career, and just keeps on soaring after her death, aged 89, in 2014. Now, a retrospective of her work, curated by Dr […]
Part of CineCity 2025, The Haunted Moustache is a filmed version of a one-man stage show by the inimitable local writer, broadcaster and performer David Bramwell. Expect the occult, mind altering drugs and a ‘cabaret of misfits’, including Hippy Lily, Dave Suit and the enigmatic Drako Zarhazar.
This year enjoying its fifth edition, SCFF has grown into a lively independent showcase for international and local talent, with categories spanning Short Film, Documentary, Feature Film, Smartphone Film, Foreign Film, TV Pilot and Horror Short. Last year’s big winner was Anastasia Arsentyeva’s Clara, which scooped up Best Short Film and Best Period Drama. Dim […]
Until the 22 November, Robertsbridge gallery theblackShed is exhibiting the work of conceptual artist Nikki Davidson-Bowman. Titled Pathways, this show explores the precarity of being human and female stories of resilience. Drawing on personal experiences of grief and illness, Davidson-Bowman uses a ritualistic process of making to foreground a sense of unpredictability and dynamism in […]
We invite you to step into the candlelit grandeur of the Paris Opera House for a night of dining and classic silent cinema at our one-of-a-kind Phantom of the Opera Soirée Following our screening of the 1925 classic The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney and with a live score from composer Paul Robinson […]
The Society of Designer Craftsmen – one of the UK’s largest and most prestigious craft organisations – brings its latest exhibition to Oxmarket Contemporary in Chichester this autumn. Supporting its members through major exhibitions, events and creative networks, the Society offers contemporary makers the opportunity to be part of a family that stretches back over […]
A behind-the-scenes tour exploring the extraordinary legacy of former West Dean (and nearby Monkton House) owner Edward James, who collaborated with such artists as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, and Leonora Carrington. The tour is guided by Collections Manager Hugh Morrison and Archivist Simon Coleman.
