Posts Tagged ‘art’
Regent Street
Posted by Sara on May 17, 2010
Posted in Brighton Graffiti, Street Art and Random Ephemera | Tagged: art, brighton, Brighton Graffiti, brighton lanes, Graffiti, seaside | Leave a Comment »
Jellybean Queen
Posted by Sara on February 20, 2010
Posted in Brighton Bits and Pieces, Brighton Shopping, Street Art and Random Ephemera | Tagged: art, brighton, brighton lanes, jellybean, jellybean queen, queen portrait, sweets | Leave a Comment »
Pebble Art
Posted by Sara on February 7, 2010
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Art Junky
Posted by Sara on January 24, 2010
If you’re looking for a jumble sale with a difference then you can do a lot worse than the Phoenix Art Junky Indoor Market this Sunday 31st January. Last summer’s bazaar brought together a variety of affordable art and jewellery made by local artists as well an eclectic mix of stalls selling books, badges, buttons an’ bows and all things arty and junkalicious in between. For more information go to http://www.phoenixarts.org/
Phoenix Art Junky Indoor Market, Sun 31 Jan 2010, 11am to 5pm
Posted in Brighton Shopping | Tagged: art, art junky, brighton, brighton fairs, brighton markets, Brighton Shopping, flea markets, indoor market, jumble sales, painting, phoenix brighton | Leave a Comment »
Mirabelle
Posted by Sara on August 27, 2009
A spookylicious new tale has just been added to our sister blog Shadowstime. Though feedback on this one has not been too good so far, I love this story. I have dusted her down and looked her over and still can’t bring myself to change a thing. So here she is as she always has been and always will be. I guess Love is blind after all.
Posted in Short Story Shelf | Tagged: art, dark fiction, fantasy, fiction, ghost, ghosts, goodbye cruel world, horror, paranormal, poems, short story, strange things, theatre, writing | Leave a Comment »
Shadows of Time
Posted by Sara on August 24, 2009
No – it’s not yet another plug for my story blog (I’m leaving that for the next post), just that I’ve noticed these around town and could not help taking a photo or two. I have no idea who is responsible or why, but I find them strangely beautiful and look forward to stumbling across more.
Thinking about Time and Shadows while playing the google game, I came across a great interactive piece of shadow play, created by the West Sussex Grid for Learning, which is worth a go just for the disturbingly eerie sound effects. It’s called Shadows of Time and of course I love the name – well I would wouldn’t I?!
Posted in Brighton Graffiti, Street Art and Random Ephemera | Tagged: art, bicycle, brighton, Brighton Graffiti, chalk drawing, lamp, shadows, shadows of time, street art | 1 Comment »
Back of the Car park
Posted by Sara on August 20, 2009
Posted in Brighton Graffiti | Tagged: abstract art, art, brighton, Brighton Graffiti, brighton lanes, Graffiti, mouse, street art | Leave a Comment »
Tales from the Seaside
Posted by Sara on August 12, 2009
Nice to see neglected buildings put to good use – as in the case of the old music library in Church St which is now home to the Prescription Art Gallery and its rather fabulous exhibition of Street Art. Spread out over three storeys in this splendidly dilapidated listed building, the exhibition features artwork by over 25 artists from around the globe. From monumental monopoly boards to basement Madonna’s and scary wooden robots this is an amazing collection of artwork.
I loved this and cannot recommend it enough – there is something about the combination of crumbly mansions and cutting edge creativity that always manages to warm the cockles of my heart and as we speak I am scrimping and saving my pennies so I can buy one of their gorgeous canvases – failing that I guess I’ll settle for one of the brilliant books or bargain prints on offer.
And if that isn’t enough spray can splendiferousness for you, an exibition of local grafitti legends Heavy Artillery will be opening upstairs in the gallery from Wednesday 12th August, featuring special screenings of the film that followed the creation of their work in Kensington St. For more info go visit Prescription Art.
Posted in Brighton Bits and Pieces, Brighton Graffiti | Tagged: art, art exhibition brighton, brighton, Brighton Graffiti, Graffiti, heavy artillery, prescription art, seaside, street art | 4 Comments »
Mommy, what’s a Coccolithophore?
Posted by Sara on August 9, 2009
Why dear, it’s a single-celled algae responsible for forming the chalk bed we now call the South Downs and the inspiration behind the lastest art installation at Fabrica. Called The Elephant Bed and created by John Grade, this sculpture consists of a series of beautifully crafted horn shaped cones suspended in the gallery, some of which are left hanging over a pool, slowly disintgrating into the brackish water.
John Grade’s work is characterised by the crafting of sculptural objects which are then left outside to the mercy of the elements and Fabrica are running a series of events throughout the installation celebrating this sculpture’s ongoing decay and eventual destruction. Last Wednesday we attended a free Drawing to Film evening in the gallery. Hosted by artist Jane Fordham we were invited to draw our responses while watching the classic sci fi film The Day of the Triffids (1962 Dir Francis & Sekely)
This film is based on the John Wyndam novel and was chosen by John Grade specifically for the fact that those pesky Triffids were eventually destroyed by sea water, in much the same way his sculpture will be. The evening was free and all art materials supplied. It was a great fun and a wonderfully eerie location to watch a movie with the advantage that, being in the dark, you don’t even need to be able to draw too well! There will be another Drawing to Film event this Wednesday featuring The Creature from the Black Lagoon in glorious 3D no less, so that should inspire some interesting pictures too.
On the morning of August 31st the Elephant Bed will be laid to rest on the beach to dissolve forever into the sea. For more info on this beautiful, haunting piece of work and future events contact Fabrica.
Posted in Brighton Bits and Pieces | Tagged: art, brighton, coccolithophore, day of the triffids, fabrica, fiction, film, goodbye cruel world, john grade, painting, poems, sculpture, sea, seaside, the elephant bed | Leave a Comment »
of insane cults and unheard of idols
Posted by Sara on July 23, 2009
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