Viva Brighton Issue #56 October 2017
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ART<br />
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ART & ABOUT<br />
In town this month...<br />
Laura Ford: Maquette for Green bags, Queen, <strong>2017</strong>. Image courtesy of the artist<br />
‘Lavishness, absurdity,<br />
hubris and<br />
humanity are all<br />
on show in dizzying<br />
proportions,’<br />
says Laura Ford,<br />
about the Royal<br />
Pavilion. Where<br />
better for the<br />
celebrated British<br />
sculptor to draw<br />
inspiration for a<br />
commission on<br />
the theme of ‘excess’?<br />
The resulting<br />
works make up A King’s Appetite, and will be on<br />
display at <strong>Brighton</strong> Museum and Art Gallery as part<br />
of HOUSE Biennial throughout this month (see pg<br />
51). Also on the HOUSE billing are lens-based artist<br />
Natasha Caruana; textile works by ‘outsider artists’<br />
Anthony Stevens and Andrew Omoding at Phoenix<br />
Gallery, and the young people from <strong>Brighton</strong><br />
Table Tennis Club, who have been working with<br />
artist Becky Warnock. See what they’ve made at<br />
<strong>Brighton</strong> Museum. [housebiennial.art]<br />
As part of the <strong>Brighton</strong> Digital Festival,<br />
which continues until the 13th, the winners<br />
of the <strong>2017</strong> Lumen Prize – an award that<br />
celebrates the very best art created digitally<br />
– will be on display at the University of<br />
<strong>Brighton</strong> in Edward Street from the 29th<br />
September to the 13th <strong>October</strong>. [lumenprize.com]<br />
Also in Edward Street, Dominic<br />
Hawgood’s site-specific installation and<br />
animation serves as a ‘hallucinogenic window<br />
into another world, questioning the role of<br />
the gallery, and exploring how light installation<br />
can be experienced in the virtual.’ If that<br />
all feels a bit too futuristic, Tom McNally<br />
presents the season’s finale of his fantasy podcast<br />
The Saga of the European King at ONCA<br />
on Friday the 6th, with an exhibition of the<br />
accompanying art and a sound workshop for<br />
kids over the weekend. What’s it all about? In<br />
his own words: ‘A medieval king sets out to do<br />
what all tyrants dream of – to murder Winter<br />
alongside all his best friends’… Move over<br />
Game of Thrones. [thesagaoftheeuropeanking.<br />
bandcamp.com] [brightondigitalfestival.co.uk]<br />
Lucy Sherston<br />
<strong>Brighton</strong> Illustration<br />
Fair returns for the 3rd<br />
year on the 21st and<br />
22nd. Given how many<br />
talented illustrators live<br />
in the city (see our cover<br />
stories over the past five<br />
years), expect a lively<br />
turnout at the Sallis<br />
Benney Theatre.<br />
[@wearebif]<br />
Tom McNally<br />
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