Top 5 Brighton Art Exhibitions July 2016
artrepublic provides its pick of the top 5 Brighton Art Exhibitions July 2016.
The Colour of Summer – Cameron Contemporary Gallery
In this show, select artists from the Cameron Contemporary Gallery roster will show their most vibrant, exciting works. The gallery promises a varied, vibrant and uplifting exhibition to celebrate the season from artists including Pippa Cunningham, Dinah Dufton, Luke Hannam, Hetty Haxworth, Kevin Hendley, Maria Kuipers, Simon Laurie, Annie Mendelow, David Storey and Kirsty Wither.
Alongside this riot of colour, the gallery also welcomes two new artists and the renowned ceramicist Rowena Gilbert. Showing for the first time, visitors will see a selection of new works by Nic De Jesus, and Richard Whadcock.
Date/Time: 25 June – 28 August: Mon-Sat 10.30am-6pm / Sun 12-5pm
Admission: Free
Michelangelo Pistoletto – Fabrica
For summer 2016, Fabrica presents internationally renowned Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. His installation will feature an elaborate labyrinth constructed from cardboard, with a symbol laid out in coins on a mirror in the centre.
The symbol, which is the infinity sign altered to add a central loop represents The Third Paradise. According to Pistoletto’s manifesto written in 2003, The Third Paradise seeks to reconcile the conflict between the first and second paradises of nature and human artifice. This conflict has led to globalized, destructive problems and by imagining a third paradise representing a socially responsible path to a new planetary civilization, Pistoletto aims for a resolution that will save the planet and humanity.
Date/Time: 9 July – 29 August
Admission: Free
The Art of Recovery – Phoenix
This month the Royal British Legion’s award-winning Bravo 22 Company will run its first ‘Recovery and Wellbeing through Art’ Project. Set up in 2014, the Bravo 22 Company was formed to help improve self-awareness, confidence, self-esteem and motivation in order to move wounded, injured and sick service personnel (WIS) along their individual paths to recovery.
The Royal British Legion, in partnership with The Drive Project and Phoenix Brighton, will be working with a group of WIS personnel, veterans, and their family members, on model making, sculpture, and collage exploring the theme of recovery. This exhibition is a culmination of this four-week project.
Date/Time: 22-24 July | 11am– 5pm
Admission: Free
Hinterlands – Bailey Alexander Gallery
Hinterlands are defined as those areas that are beyond what is known and visible and is possibly the most poetic of geographical terms.
Bailey Alexander Gallery will show works by their resident artists and other local artists as well as select artists from across the globe – from South America to Africa to Eastern Mongolia, as well as Surrey, London and Dorset.
Date/Time: 9 July – 3 September: Fri-Sat 10am-6pm / Sun 11am-5pm
Admission: Free
Hove Plinth film on Brighton’s Big Screen
Hove Civic Society has launched a crowd funding campaign to raise the remaining £35,000 of £100,000 needed to build a plinth on Hove promenade.
Launched in June, the campaign has already reached a third of its target and organisers are calling on the people of Brighton and Hove to make this new site for public art a reality. A film about the campaign, including interviews with the artists behind the first three sculptures, is being shown throughout Brighton’s Big Screen event.
Date/Time: 10 June – 10 July
Admission: Free
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