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See the details of Epha Roe’s exhibition, taking place next week, in Edward Street. The exhibition is part of Epha’s practice-based photography PhD, supervised by Annebella Pollen and Xavier Ribas.|
Vanessa Marr, School of Art and Media Principle Lecturer and also of the UK-based Domestic Dusters Project. The Project features in this New York exhibition. This craftivist enterprise invites women and girls to embroider their views of so-called “women’s work” on a yellow duster (a popular cleaning cloth in Britain). The duster artworks will be displayed in Passing the Brush. At the end of the exhibition, each duster will be sent to the Domestic Dusters touring collection in the UK, if its maker so chooses Please see press release Passing the Brush press release Vanessa Marr was interviewed about the project on US Radio Long Island’s NPR WLIW-FM morning show, hosted by award-winning multi-platform journalist, Gianna Volpe last week. Image: Vanessa Marr, Domestic Is Not a Female Word! Textiles on stitched-together dusters. This large-scale work is on display at Greenport’s First and South Restaurant & Bar; it will be transferred […]
Stephen Bull will be running a course for The Photographers’ Gallery, London running from May/June 2025 . This is based on his forthcoming book Photography and Celebrity (Routledge). Do refer to The Photographers’ Gallery for more information about the course timings. https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/online-course-photography-celebrity Image feature – Photographers’ Gallery post
The Domesticity Under Siege (DUS) Conference s hosted by the BA(Hons) Interior Architecture course at the School of Architecture Technology and Engineering critically re-examines domesticity as a concept historically shaped by tension, disruption, and negotiation. Traditionally framed as a site of refuge and stability, the home has long been subject to forces that destabilise its protective function—whether through war, displacement, surveillance, or shifting social structures. These pressures have intersected with gendered dynamics of domestic labour, security, and spatial agency, continually redefining normative structures of care and habitation. In the present era, this inquiry takes on renewed urgency. As geopolitical conflicts, ecological crises, and digital infrastructures reshape domesticity, the boundaries of home are increasingly blurred. Rather than solely a site of vulnerability, the conference explores how domestic precarity might foster resistance, empowerment, and new forms of spatial and social agency. Vanessa Marr’s Domestic Duster Exhibition will be displayed during the conference […]
This funding supports the development of community-university partnership projects, with impact outcomes central to the proposal. Each Ignite partnership project, whether local or international, will be awarded up to £5000 seed funding along with a programme of support including social learning events and a suite of opportunities for creative evaluation and knowledge exchange (e.g. digital case studies, films, and podcasts). Ignite 3.4 partnership projects will include a focus on co-creation, mutual learning, and community driven outcomes. The needs of community partners and their communities must be a focus of the project. Please review the guidance document and download an application form. Please allow yourself time to get your application signed off by your Dean/Associate Dean RKE Send your completed application to ImpactAccelerationAccount@brighton.ac.uk The deadline for this fund is 5pm Friday 4 April 2025.
Phil Tyler is a practising artist and course leader and senior lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at the University of Brighton. Having discovered Procreate in 2020, he now uses it extensively to capture the beauty of his beloved South Downs in West Sussex. Procreate Landscapes on the iPad explains how to use this ingenious package to paint powerful landscapes at the press of the Apple pencil. By breaking down painting a landscape into different steps, it shows how Procreate can help an artist find their direction and try new techniques to create more expressive work. Referencing the work of Masters throughout, shows how digital painting follows a long tradition of artists observing and interpreting the landscape, and how you can effectively use Procreate to develop your own ideas. The book is available now see link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Procreate-Landscapes-iPad-Philip-Tyler/dp/0719845149/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3ADN8SBST1GLG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.mN-08kcl8EF6DVPQ_ND5LP74bwIYQMDcAwSl78vVyGYVcmresnG4PAgCGhWQRS1akkKk4hntJLEHR4yZPTEJemtLeg0LpVGnoj5Xw7Nm79TSxkpGvZUq68TkNkGoFpgiRgU4SrVuMddOfA15eyMMdBu8gZ9UqZT_YVIQ5D8M0nVCOvg8VUXtq9MCztwtYS4J.YiZf9uRScWjU2wUfbAw_DZrnIA_TzdZ4mlatvywuUwA&dib_tag=se&keywords=philip+tyler&qid=1742297919&sprefix=philip+ty%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-2#detailBullets_feature_div Image: Phil Tyler
At Studio 14, ACME Studios , 165 Childers St, London SE8 5JR. Please call: 07581446335 on arrival for admittance RSVP: editor@saturationpoint.org.uk Saturation Point is pleased to announce an exhibition by the artist Duncan Bullen. This is his first solo exhibition focusing exclusively on drawings, and his first one-person show in the UK in two decades. The works on display comprise a selection of drawings made between 2021-2025 and focus on Duncan’s examination of compositional methods that use grids and geometries alongside slow, tactile mark-making. Some drawings consist entirely of points created with a graphite pencil, resulting in images that suggest circularity and hover at the edge of perception. In other works, the drawn points are connected by thin lines of silver pencil, allowing for an exploration of volumetric geometry. Patrick Morrissey and Hanz Hancock edit Saturation Point, the online editorial and curatorial project for systems, non-objective and reductive artists working in the UK. See more on […]
Up coming group exhibitions this Spring. The dr.J 100th Dr Julius Art Projects Leberstraße 60, 10829 Berlin, Germany 16 March – 4 May 2025 Finissage: Sunday, 4 May, 12–4pm (coinciding with Berlin Gallery Weekend) 40 Dimensions &gallery 3 Dundas St, Edinburgh EH3 6QG 5–26 April 2025 Opening Reception: Saturday, 5 April, 2–4pm If you’re in Berlin or Edinburgh, it would be great to see you there. For more details and/or PDF of works, feel free to get in touch. Best Wishes, James Murray Image: James William Murray, Cross Form Emerging, 2025, steel brazed with brass, 80 x 55 x 6 cm
All are very welcome to the exhibition opening on 20 March 2025 at Dorest Place from 5.30 pm. This exhibition brings together artworks by staff and students in the University of Brighton (UoB) photography degrees and digital music and sound art degree. The exhibition comprises of image and sound responses to selected themes inspired from the British Antarctic Survey Archive (BAS), who have generously opened up their doors to welcome this collaboration. Artists have worked with the archive in a variety of ways, realising new visual work which reappropriates images within the archive using techniques such as collage, working with AI platforms, dark room processes, cyanotypes, Polaroid and installation. Source material has been as diverse as photographs themselves, maps, written communications and other records, all hosted at the BAS in Cambridge. Responses, exhibited in this exhibition, are inspired by a range of themes emerging from the glimpses possible of such […]
See the full call at https://direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibrary/CallForPapers/Design%20Issues%20CFP%20Special%20Issue_Tangible%20Archives_2025.pdf This Special Issue seeks to explore the relationship between design and archives, using the lens of tangibility. The tangible, defined as the physical, the haptic, the made, allows us to explore the role of design in making, accessing, navigating, digitizing, researching, and experiencing the archive. There are multiple and varied definitions of archives, and we invite contributions that interrogate the relationships and boundaries of these definitions. This special issue will explore the archive of, as, and in design. Submission: full papers to Guest Editors by Monday 30 June 2025. Any questions, please direct to the Guest Editors: Jessica Kelly, Gina Pierce and Sue Breakell, tangiblearchivespecialissue@gmail.com
The University of Brighton’s Material History Group (MHG) welcomes participants and presenters to a conference on the topic of Objects and Objectives. The MHG is located within the University’s School of Art and Media, which has a long and esteemed history of colleagues conducting practice-as-research and research-informed teaching. The MHG builds on these foundations and is particularly interested in research that begins with and is conducted via objects and archives, whether by making, analysing, curating or teaching with them. We recognise that both the questions and answers that objects provoke as historical artifacts can be useful in furthering knowledge; as Peter N. Miller has noted, There is more depth to the use of objects as evidence than we might think, and a more sophisticated inventory of approaches and arguments on which to draw than we might imagine. (History and Its Objects, 2017) Of what tactics and methodologies would this ‘sophisticated […]
Call from Professor Paul Sermon – Doctoral Studies Lead I would be immensely grateful if you could take a few minutes to complete the survey. The PRES runs every two years at Brighton. Since the last PRES in 2023, we’ve introduced a range of activities and initiatives, including our SAM Research Methods Programme and our SAM Postgraduate Symposium last November to try and address some of the feedback we received concerning building our research culture and community. I hope these are having a positive impact on your doctoral study experience. Sincere thanks to everyone who’s taken the opportunity to engage with our activities and is helping to grow and strengthen our PGR community. On Thursday you’ll receive an email from Prof Rusi Jaspal inviting you to complete the PRES. The survey asks you to rate your experience in several areas, including supervision, resources, research culture and community, training opportunities and overall […]
This event – Nature Starts on Our Plate – will explore the deep connections between the food we eat and the landscapes we live in. Hosted by The Living Coast UNESCO Biosphere, this free, open-to-all, in person event will bring together expert speakers to highlight why choosing local food matters—for our health, our communities, and the environment. Join expert speakers to discover how the food we eat connects us to nature and our local landscapes within The Living Cost UNESCO Biosphere. This gathering will engage you to rethink your food choices, reduce food waste and discover how you can play a role in supporting nature and sustainability through what you eat. This is a must-attend for anyone interested in food, sustainability, and the future of our local environment. Here’s the link to tickets for the event: Nature Starts on Our Plate – The Living Coast Biosphere Partnership Meeting Tickets, Thu, Mar […]
There are a number of useful sessions recommended by SAM Grant Caputre Lead – Julie Doyle For those of you interested in support with bid writing and information about the funding landscape then please come along to the Bid Writing and Funding Landscape 2025 session on Monday 31 March, 11-12.30pm Checkland Building A402 (Falmer) that Julie Doyle is taking part in. The pre-award team will be offering a presentation, including a discussion from staff of how interaction with external funders can benefit bid development methods, as well as time for Q&A from the floor. This is open to all career stages. In addition to the above the following two other sessionsmight be of interest for information about how to develop bids: Working with external partners through knowledge exchange Responding to rejection: learning and growing from feedback (lunch provided)
The University Research week will be taking place from 31st to 3rd of April 2025. The Festival of Postgraduate Research and the R&KE Showcase event are on Thursday 3 April from midday onwards. With funding from Research England, the Research and Knowledge Exchange Week will include activities designed to support our R&KE endeavours, bringing together colleagues and students at all stages of their research and knowledge exchange career and from all disciplines. Taking place at a time with fewer teaching commitments, colleagues can participate in activities throughout the week and select the sessions that interest them the most to create their own tailored programme. You can view the full timetable, read workshop descriptions and reserve your place by clicking through to the booking website. See link: https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/rakeweek/
This seminar will focus on the use of light in live aerial and circus performances with two of the UK’s most exciting lighting designers: Jai Morjaria and Robbie Butler-Milroy. In particular, we will be discussing their work on Barnum and Death in Venice, respectively, while also exploring the role of light in aerial performance, how light affects aerial and circus performance, and what lighting designers should know when working in this performance genre. About the speakers: Originally from Ireland and based in the UK, Robbie Butler-Milroy is one of only a handful of Life members of the Association for Lighting Production and Design. Having trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he won the inaugural Profile Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, an Off West End award for Best Lighting Design, and was also the winner of the 2015 ETC Award. More info at www.robbiebutler.com. Designs include: Reverberation (Bristol Old […]
This relates to earlier Research and Knowledge Exchange (R&KE) Development Fund post. Deadline has been extended! The Research and Knowledge Exchange (R&KE) Development Fund supports a broad range of exploratory R&KE projects that require seed funding. The fund supports various activities, including: Partnership building activities; Co-developing research with community partners; Data collection/pilot projects to enable external funding proposals; Evaluation activities to assess a potential market or demand; Activities designed to test use of research in non-academic contexts; Stakeholder, partnership or audience engagement activities and events to increase reach of research into a wider audience. Maximum award amount: £10,000 Information about the fund, including the guidance document and application form can be found on the R&KE Initiatives SharePoint page. Email: RaKE Initiatives <RaKEInitiatives@brighton.ac.uk> See: RKE Development Fund Guidance for Applicants 24-25_ CALL 3 Form:RKE Development Fund Application Form 24-25_ CALL 3
Historic photographs return to Crawley decades after they were taken A new exhibition at Crawley Museum featuring photographs by the renowned photographer Wolf Suschitzky (1912-2016) of the early development of Crawley are returning to the town and being shown to the public for the first time since they were taken six decades ago. This runs along with a series of talks, community events, gallery tours, school visits, half-term activities and workshops. The photographs were commissioned to capture life in the New Town ten years after construction had begun. Along with images made in the other emerging New Towns around the country, a small selection of images was featured in an exhibition held at the Royal Academy in 1959 to highlight the progress of the first wave of home building and new town development following World War 2. They were discovered in the Fotohof archives, Salzburg Austria, by photographer and researcher […]
A Visiting Research Fellow kindly sponsored by the Centre of Design History and working in the School of Art and Media, Dr Lomax will be discussing some of her current research in a presentation entitled “Makeup as Magic”; she will consider the analogies between makeup and magic in makeup advertising and promotion, study makeup in film via some key moments in clips, and then go on to talk about her own artwork. As usual with the MHG, there will be the change to participate in some making, and refreshments. Please RSVP to REG-Material-Histories@brighton.ac.uk by 10 March to secure your place. Everyone is very welcome. Please RSVP to REG-Material-Histories@brighton.ac.uk by 10 March to secure your place. Everyone is very welcome. Images provided by Cathy Lomax
Please note for planning purposes that SAM Research and Knowledge Exchange Week next academic year is from 10th-14th November 2025. There will be a Postgraduate Research Culture Festival for MAs and PGRs on Wednesday 12th November. Please consider embedding research and knowledge exchange related activities into your teaching that week.
