House Festival 2012

Commissions for House 2012

For HOUSE 2012 David Batchelor has produced two major commissions specifically for Brighton & Hove, as well as an intriguing exhibtion of his related works. New commissions include Skip and the Brighton Festival co-commission Brighton Palermo Remix.

As Lead Artist, Batchelor has also influenced the selection and development of five satellite commissions that make up HOUSE Festival 2012. Through the process of an open-call for proposals, the HOUSE 2012 panel selected Helene Kazan, CINECITY & Anna Deamer, Robin Blackledge, Deb Bowness and Caroline Le Breton.

David Batchelor on video talking about his commission for HOUSE 2012

David Batchelor - Lead artist

Brighton Palermo Demix (The Regency Town House) - David Batchelor (photo: Bernard G Mills)

Renowned British artist David Batchelor brings newly commissioned works to Brighton this May, as Lead Artist of HOUSE 2012. Located at The Regency Town House and Bartholomew Square.

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Exhibiting Artists

Deb Bowness

For HOUSE 2012, Deb Bowness takes her uniquely designed wallpaper out of the home and into the urban and street environment of Brighton & Hove.

Robin Blackledge

Blackledge's artistic vocation has spanned the fields of Live Art and Performance & Physical theatre, Live event production and more recently public art commissioning.

Caroline Le Breton

Le Breton's work combines everyday, household items with living growing materials to create temporary site-specific sculptural projects.

Helene Kazan

Helene Kazan presents her mixed media installation based on the research and methodology developed in the making of her short film Masking Tape Intervention: Lebanon 1989.

CINECITY & Anna Deamer

Hangover Square is a unique art installation situated in the University of Brighton galleries, created and presented for HOUSE by CINECITY & Anna Deamer with Brighton Festival.

Unravelling Nymans

Artists and makers group Unravelled launch their three year project Unravelling the National Trust with the exhibition Unravelling Nymans in a unique HOUSE partner project.