Phoenix Brighton

Studio Tours

Saturday 8, 15, 22 May
Sunday 9, 16, 23 May
2 – 4 pm

Tour 1
Duncan Bullen and Kim L. Pace
Saturday 8th May
2.00 - 4.00pm

Duncan Bullen makes drawings on paper using pencil and coloured pencil. The drawings consist of structures built from a countless number of dots the size of pinheads. The resulting works are shimmering surfaces of barely tangible colour that seem to hover on the edge of perception, generating a sensory experience of fluctuating light and may suggest a state of both flux and repose.

Kim L Pace is an artist and curator who explores ideas about transformation. Her research and creations of hybrid characters offer glimpses of the intangible aspects of our inner worlds. Her drawings, installations and films reflect contemporary preoccupations with psychological states such as dreams, fears and primal desires.

Tour 2
Ruth Rix and Fox&Gammidge
Sunday 9th May
2.00 – 4.00pm

Ruth Rix trained in England and Austria and is inspired by theatre, photography, film and Central European culture. Her drawing, painting and collage works explore the uncertainty of memory and narrative and the interaction between figure and environment.

Fox&Gammidge have been making collaborative works together since 2003.
They make installation and video work that take stories, narrative and rhyme as their genesis. Investigating possibilities suggested by their subject, they set about a journey into the unknown.

Tour 3
Juliet Kac and Philip Cole
Saturday 15th May
2.00 – 4.00pm

Juliet Kac’s recent work investigates the relationship between the languages of music and painting. Her work ‘Largo ma non tanto’, is a visual interpretation of the middle movement of J.S. Bach’s Double violin concerto in D minor, and is the artist’s attempt to present a new way of understanding the structure and communicative power of music.

Philip Cole has a background in science. His work is driven by the enjoyment of a process that he has developed using polyester resin and pigment to make paintings exploring both visual and verbal language.

Tour 4
Dave Stephens and Victoria Melody
Sunday 16th May
2.00 – 4.00pm

Dave Stephens’ work deals with perceptions of reality and the influence of our imagination on this experience. Beginning as a performance artist in the 1970s, he now works primarily with sculpture, although performative aspects remain important to his working process. His work Mr Day @ Hove Museum, a collaborative film with Matt Page, will be showing at Hove Museum during the Brighton Festival.

Victoria Melody is a filmmaker, performer and curator. Her work examines everyday life and often has the quality of ethnographic observational research. Her (often humorous) video and performance works respond to the rules and stereotypes that define our national identity and character.

Tour 5
Karin Mori and David Miles
Saturday 22nd May
2.00 – 4.00pm

Karin Mori’s recent work concentrates on drawing, celebrating its range and flexibility. She employs personal motifs that emerge out of her strong ties with the Hawaiian Islands, and creates interior landscapes in which memory and imagination mingle and proliferate. The viewer is invited to enter into the compositions and experience their own associations and perceptual shifts.

David Miles’ current work is composed of cut-card pieces and mobiles. These bear a strong narrative element, derived from personal stories, local news items or more generic observations. His use of mobiles encourages different readings of the story as individual components move slowly through space, casting their shadows on the gallery wall.

Tour 6
Monica Ross and Jayne Wilson
Sunday 23rd May
2.00 – 4.00pm

Monica Ross is an artist whose work encompasses performance, installation, video and text. Pre-occupied with the way in which culture, politics and technology shape experiences of time, her recent work ‘anniversary- an act of memory’ involves solo and collective recitations, from memory, of the preamble and all 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Jayne Wilson’s work is often made in response to specific locations and combines investigations into social and historical context with her observed and emotional response to place. She works with drawing, printmaking and collage techniques, and more recently time-based media, including sound and film installations.