Viva Brighton Issue #45 November 2016

ART & ABOUT
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Art & About: In town this month...
Described as one of Britain’s most powerful
figurative painters, Graham Dean
boldly uses watercolour on an epic
scale; building up layers of paint and
collage with his ‘reverse archaeology’
technique, to create life-size depictions
of the human body that can be years
in the making. Cameron Contemporary’s
new exhibition, featuring works
from all four decades of his career (so
far), is Dean’s first solo exhibition in his
home town for 20 years. It runs till the
7th. [cameroncontemporaryart.com]
‘Swimmer’ by Graham Dean
‘Mermaids’ by Ruth Mulvie
Joyland is at Gallery 40 until Saturday 5th. It showcases
a series of landscapes by Ruth Mulvie, which she has described
as “places I want to go to but have never been”.
Her part-real, part-fictional landscapes are reimagined
in Kodachrome shades of candyfloss pink, cerulean blue
and phthalo turquoise. Down the road, Brighton sculptor
Eve Shepherd has a solo show at Corridor Gallery
from the 4th. Blood & Bone is an exhibition of her delicate
porcelain works that explore, we’re told, ‘fragility
and fortitude through feminine archetypes of maiden,
mother and crone’. [corridorgallery.co.uk]
From the 18th to the 20th, the city hosts
Colour Out of Space, the 7th edition of the
International Festival of Experimental
Sound and Art. As part of the expanded
programme, Constant Linear Velocity is at
Phoenix from the 12th. This exhibition of
sculptural sound works by Stephen Cornford
ponders what the future holds for
now-obsolete audio-storage devices. Accompanying
activities include an intriguing
build-your-own-musical-instrument workshop
with Phantom Chips, which, from the
description, sounds like a mix of electronic
engineering, art and general daftness.
[phoenixbrighton.org]
Soft circuits workshop with Phantom Chips
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