HOUSE FESTIVAL 2010

For the second year, visual-arts festival, HOUSE took place small galleries and domestic sites throughout Brighton and Hove. Drawing together contemporary, experimental artists and curators from the city, the region and beyond, HOUSE brings a new cultural experience to the city during May, offering the best that the contemporary visual arts have to offer.

Included in this year’s HOUSE is Outside In Brighton, an exhibition of work by award winning marginalised artists.

• Outside In Brighton, an exhibition of work by award winning marginalised artists.
• Home Cinema, a two-seater cinema in a garden shed, showed a selection of short films on the theme of The Garden.
• 41 Kensington Place, in the North Laine area, two artists created work reflecting the history of an ordinary Victorian Brighton terraced house and its previous occupants.
• Unravelling the Manor House in Preston Manor, showed the work of 12 artists working at the radical interface of fine art and craft, each creating an intervention within the Manor’s permanent collection and responding to its intriguing history.
• Platform X (B) at Permanent Gallery, Third Floor Right 3 at Grey Area, Exhibition Cancelled at Blank Studios and Dream Home at Phoenix Brighton Galleries, all offered shows in which artists created work challenging the way we look at art, life and ourselves.
• HOUSE also offered artist-led tours of Studio Tours at Phoenix Brighton, where visitors could meet and engage with nationally and internationally regarded artists at work in their studios and find out about the artists practices and the thought processes behind the creation of their work.
• HOUSE Open at The Regency Town House showed selected work from Open House artists, in an exhibition based around the theme of Regeneration, reflecting the ongoing regeneration of the building. The exhibition mixed accomplished, dynamic and thought provoking work in a stunning, unconventional gallery space.

HOUSE brings a rich mix of diverse and innovative new work to the Brighton Festival season and may challenge your preconceptions of what visual art can be.

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