Archive for: May, 2025

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Event: Vanessa Marr’s dusters from Domestic Duster’s project are on display Friars St, Lewes, East Sussex and workshop 12 June 2025 10-12.30 am at Aterlier Beside the Sea, Brighton

This month a selection of dusters from Vanessa Marr’s long-running Domestic Duster’s project are on display in Lewes. They represent a selection from the hundreds held in the main collection and include those stitched by unpaid carers in a political call for improved rights, a reflection on the power of the duster from a workshop with women seeking asylum, reflections on motherhood, railing cries for domestic equality, heartfelt stories, playfully personal reflections, and Marr’s own collaged response. Collectively, they protest against the tyranny of the kitchen sink through the power of storytelling, stitching, and craftivism. The dusters can be seen in a shop window on Friars St, opposite the All Saints Centre, just around the corner from Lewes train station. For more information on Domestic Dusters, please visit https://domesticdusters.wordpress.com and follow @domesticdusters in Instagram Vanessa will also be running a duster collage workshop on with Sue Breakall from the Design […]

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Event – Grant Capture: AHRC/ESRC Bid Writing Day | 23 June 2025 10-4pm at Moulsecoomb, Mithras 123

This is an opportunity for those who are currently writing, or starting to write, an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) or Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) bid: The day will provide supported, uninterrupted writing time in a computer room. There will be opportunities to link up with colleagues who are writing similar bids for the purpose of peer support, and Grant Capture Leads will be available for questions, support, and proof-reading where needed. The event will take place on  Monday the 23rd of June from 10am until 4pm, although the room has been booked from 9am until 6pm for those who are keen to arrive early/stay late and make the most out of it. Yes: tea, coffee and lunch will be provided, so all you need to bring is an idea for a bid! How to sign up? To sign up, please email L.Tip@brighton.ac.uk, so that we know numbers for […]

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Event: Private view invite 5 June 2025 6-8pm for New work by Ole Hagen exhibition – Black Sun | 6-15 June 2025 at Dorset Place

New work by Ole Hagen Work made under the paradoxical image of the black sun, the sun that swallows the day to reveal its own primordial luminosity. The black light of the sol niger of alchemy marks both an eclipse of the familiar and a light with no external source. The black sun demands a descent into darkness whether as egocide of the personal self or the killing of the King (collective superego). It can appear as a ‘dark night of the soul’ where everything that once gave a sense of joy and security collapses. There is a potential for deep healing here on the personal and collective level, if we don’t pathologise depression or bypass darkness too quickly in the name of developmental salvationism. When I first had the idea to make a ceramic fire I didn’t know I’d soon be participating in fire ceremonies led by marakames of […]

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Event: UoS Sussex Research Culture Symposium, Resilient Research, Resilient Researchers: Building Research Culture now and for the future | 17 June 2025 – online

We are hosting our first Sussex Research Culture Symposium, Resilient Research, Resilient Researchers: Building Research Culture now and for the future. This will bring together fantastic speakers from Sussex, Eastern ARC and UCL, to think about how collaboration in our research and a sense of belonging for our researchers are ways to build resilience in these difficult times for our sector, taking place online, 12-2pm on Tuesday 17 June. All welcome! This event is part of our annual Summer of Research, a festival celebrating and sharing research at Sussex, on campus and online, 9-20 June 2025.  

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Event: Communication and Creative Ecologies REG – Colloquium | 21 May 2025 13.30–15.30 at Grand Parade, M204

Members of the Communication and Creative Ecologies REG Alex Esculapio Mark Wells Jules Findley Will discuss their recent work. All  are very welcome. See :Details Please join online here Jules Findley: Location for the online part of the colloquium. 13.30 – 15.30 If you would like to be added to the mailing list please email Jules Findley, j.findley@brighton.ac.uk (Participants external to the organisation University of Brighton will need to email Jules to be added to the Team as a guest) Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible either in person or online.

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Event Past: Experimental Print Workshop + Craft took place on 3 May 2025 at the Ditchling Museum of Art

There was a  screen print workshop responding to the distinctive work of Tadek Beutlich MBE (1922 – 2011), a visionary textile artist, printmaker and teacher. The workshop at Ditchling Museuem of Art + Craft is part of the museums current exhibition. This workshop was led by Principal Lecturer Gavin Ambrose and Technical Instructor Chris Hunt from the University of Brighton, with staff and participants at the museum as part of an ongoing knowledge exchange programme. Images are  responses to Beutlich’s work ‘Pollination I’ 1973 by participants at the workshop.  

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Book : Drawing in Health and Wellbeing: Marks, Signs and Traces – edited by Philippa Lyon and Curie Scott | publish date 15 May 2025

The book Drawing in Health and Wellbeing: Marks, Signs and Traces is being published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts this week (15th May 2025). It was initiated and co-edited by Philippa Lyon of the School of Art and Media, and Curie Scott (who completed her PhD at Brighton with Lyon, Moore and Haq). The book has chapter contributions from a range of international authors including from Australia, the USA, Canada and South Africa. It features chapters by current and recent Brighton staff Duncan Bullen, Vanessa Marr, Jane Fox and Edina Husanovic and cites drawing projects involving several other Brighton colleagues and alumni, Tom Ainsworth, Patrick Letschka and Martha Turland. It also features current SAM PhD student Caehryn Tinker. Other authors, Joanna Stevens and Judy Parkinson, have been SAM creative project partners and featured in the drawing exhibition Marks Make Meaning (Bullen and Lyon 2018). This is the publisher’s web page which […]

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BOOK: Vanessa Marr artwork research artefacts in Normative Motherhood, Demeter Press (2022)

Vanessa Marr created artworks that are published as research artefacts in Normative Motherhood, Demeter Press (2022).  These have been acquired by the Museum of Motherhood (The Fertile Mother) and sold to raise funds (The Desirable Mother) at their annual auction https://event.auctria.com/27bf46e2-87f0-4c73-a4ed-329d4a4c5a4f/a780d600ec2e11e9ae081db830846aa5 Image: Vanessa Marr – The Desirable Mother