Sunday 8 February 2009, 11am - 4pm

ART JUNKY 3

An eclectic diverse market, an opportunity for artists to sell artwork and inspirational ephemera.

Cost £20. Bring your own table (Hire of table extra £10)

Highlights include:

Stall Holders include:

Bedsit Press, Leslie Wilson Rutherford, Victoria Melody and her antiques, Kaye Blegvard with Illustrators Elbow, Yumi Okuda, Liz Toole, Lonny Pop Poetry, Kirstin Stride, Mike Newman, Rona Innes, Mary Macmillan-Sloan+Liz Schwarz, Isabel Greenberg+Tom J Hughes, Lucy Cheung, Patrick Gildersleeves, Zara Wood, Jasmine Mercer Laura Krikke, Kit Merritt, Lucy Kayne, Lydia Garnett, Ric Hayden, Mandeep Birdy, Jasmine Fish, Hazel Welc, Joe Whitney, Adam Koukoudakis, Maxine Michaelides , Anna Thorell, Anne Shearn, Cathering Grimaldi

Sally Ray
Hazel Welch
Phil Lyddon
Lucy Brown
Mandeep Birdy

14 - 28 Feb, 11am - 5pm "O" the shape I'm in

"O" the shape I'm in - is same sky's annual young peoples art show produced in association with Phoenix Brighton.

An exciting exhibition that involves workshops in 4 local schools leading up to a show and half term workshops at Phoenix Brighton.

Artists from same sky are working with students from Fairlight, Carlton Hill, St Martin’s and St Bartholomew’s schools. The show takes a range of individual portraits from 120 students, influenced by the works of Paul Klee, Picasso and Francis Bacon and combines these to create massive shapes inspired by the large scale works of Brighton Festival’s Artist in Residence Anish Kapoor. All exhibited in Phoenix Brighton’s gallery.

The young artists will attend their own Private View during the school day and school visits will be arranged for their peers to come and learn about the show and Phoenix Brighton’s gallery, artists and studios. Any schools or groups interested in these visits should contact same sky on 01273 573981.

The show is open Tues to Sat 14th February to 28th of February 11am - 5pm
Gallery closed on Sundays and Mondays.

Free “drop in” workshops are running every afternoon during the half term week Tuesday February 17th to Saturday February 21st from 1pm till 4pm. Come make your own pieces to add to the show.

For more information contact same sky on 01273 573981 info@samesky.co.uk
or Phoenix Brighton on 01273 603700  info@phoenixbrighton.org

Or visit same sky online www.samesky.co.uk

TALKS 'RATTLING THE CAGE'

In conjunction with the exhibition of Save Omar Group archive 7 - 21 March 2009.

Wed 11 Mar 2009, 6pm FREE

Polly Ruiz, University of Sussex, joins Rattling the Cage curator to discuss ‘Cultures of Protest’

Sat 14 Mar 2009, 2pm FREE

Omar Deghayes reflects on the Guantánamo system followed by an opportunity to meet activists and participate in a drop-in writing workshop.

Wed 18 Mar 8 pm, FREE

Workshop to prepare for the performance: “Anniversary – an Act of Memory” - see below. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be found in more than 300 languages at www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Sat 21 Mar, 2pm in the gallery, FREE

“Anniversary – an Act of Memory”. A recitation, from memory, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948. Monica Ross with members and friends of the Brighton Against Guantanamo Campaign.

PHOENIX STUDIO TOURS 2009

Sat 16 May and 23 May, 11am – 1.00pm; 2.30 – 4.30pm

Phoenix Brighton is delighted to be hosting visits to the studios of eight artists whose work sits outside the typical environs of the Artists Open Houses. These artists will present work, discuss their ideas and field questions that will illuminate their practice.

Although based in Brighton, many of these artists present their work nationally and internationally and rarely exhibit locally. It will be an opportunity to discover the wealth of talent that remains hidden in the city.

Each tour is priced £6, which includes a glass of wine at the end of the tour.
To purchase tickets please contact the Phoenix Brighton office:

Tel: 01273 603700

email:

Please arrive on time to ensure a prompt start.

Tour 1
Duncan Bullen and Ruth Rix
16th May
11.00am – 1.00pm
Tickets: £6.00

The first tour presents different approaches taken by two artists for whom artistic traditions of drawing and painting remain paramount.

Duncan Bullen makes drawings on a gessoed support using silverpoint and coloured pencil. The resulting works are shimmering surfaces that seem to hover on the edge of perception. They appear to change constantly in a way that reflects the idea that our understanding of the world is always in a state of flux.

In contrast to Bullen’s abstraction, Ruth Rix draws continued inspiration from the figure and its relationship to space. Using paint and collage she aims “to get close to the boundary between different states and the moment of transition between one state and another.”

Tour 2
Russell Webb and Dave Stephens
16th May
2.30pm – 4.30 pm
Tickets: £6.00

(Unfortunately Julia Ingle, who was originally taking part in this Studio Tour, is unable to do so due to illness. Russell Webb has taken her place)

This tour focuses on two artists who use different media to explore their interest in their perceptions of ‘reality’.

Russell Webb’s practice encompasses objects/sculpture, books, moving image and painting. It functions as an interpretive diary of time and place whereby he transforms or re-presents commonplace objects. The results might be described as mementoes, relics or souvenirs. Linking his work is a concern with the passing nature of everything, be it vegetable, mineral, man-made object or idea.

Dave Stephens first came to public attention as a performance artist in the late 1970’s. His recent work however has used sculpture and film to investigate the fact that our ideas about the world are a series of images that have been fragmented and reassembled. What is reality and how influential is our imagination?

Tour 3
Caitlin Heffernan and Claudia Fontes
23rd May
2.30 – 4.30pm

Tickets: £6.00

This tour contrasts two different approaches that inspire artists – one intensely personal, another questioning the role of the artist in society.

Caitlin Heffernan makes drawings, models and installations (often mediated by photographs). Whilst attempting to recall significant moments she also aims to reflect the precarious nature of memory - the unreliability of remembering and the belief in our own reconstructed fictions. Caitlin is presently making new work following a residency in Nigeria that was interrupted by factional violence in the region.

Claudia Fontes is an artist from Argentina who explores through her actions, objects and research the power of social transformation inherent to art.  Later this year her Reconstruction of the Portrait of Pablo Miguez, made in polished stainless steel, will be set up on the waters of the Rio de la Plata as a monument to the memory of “the Disappeared” who were murdered by Argentina’s military regime of the 1970’s.

A day of inspiration and rational madness!
Workshops, discussion, debate, performance, dialogue.