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 […]
Composer Tobias Wheal and artist Geoff Hands began collaborating in 2023, exploring connections between music, drawing, and text. Their first shared project grew from a drawing walk on Highdown Hill, where Geoff’s sketches and Tobias’s writings evolved into a concertina book, later used as a musical score. This exchange of sound and image has since expanded through studio-based paintings, […]
Materials: Pencil, paper, you If you're interested in exploring what, how, and why drawing is so integral to painting, make sure to head to Phoenix Art Space on 11th July for Poetry of Line. Luke Hannam will share his personal philosophy of drawing—how his early tutors left a deep impression, and how his parallel career […]
Phillip Cole's work is interested in the form taken by consumerist ephemera, packaging and registration marks for example. Despite their in-built transience, these things nonetheless take up something of an aesthetic presence in our world. In his work, Cole gives equal weighting to both painting and sculpture, having experimented at length with polyester resin.
A multi-channel video, plus glass and 2D works, by Dr Libby Heaney, the first artist to work within quantum computing as a functioning artist medium. Her practice explores 'non-local and hybrid concepts from quantum science' to challenge scientific assumptions about the binary nature of the world around us. It's all about slime, basically.
An array of contemporary abstract painters – including Charlotte Winifred Guerard and Matthew Burrows – explore the possibilities of works on paper, from preparatory studies to finished paintings. Study a range of mark making and explore space, colour, line and edge at phoenixartspace.org
From wood engraving to inkjet printing, via lithography, drypoint and linocuts (and many more techniques), the art of printmaking is thriving. This annual showcase, curated after an open call in the autumn, includes a Tabletop Print Fair. Discover and purchase original prints, cards and handmade items direct from a variety of makers. £2 entry which […]
Broken Grey Wires presents an exhibition of work by artists who explore empowerment, gender and community. Looking at the rhetoric behind mental illness, class struggles, race, queerness and feminist discourse through photography, interactive installation, video and painting, it brings together work by both established and emerging artists. Look out for the inimitable Bobby Baker, plus Martha Rosler, Zanele Muholi, […]
