Opposite the crumbling wreck of Brighton’s old West Pier stretch the cream alcoves of the regency squares. Once grand twenties buildings, many have since been living out their days as hotels for weekend visitors. Nestled amongst these salty B & B’s, however, a new space is coming to life. Artist Residence is a hotel and [...]
June 20, 2009
Categories: Art News, Glovebox News, Lizzie Simner . Tags: artist residence, brighton, hotel, hutch, maria slovakova, mel sheppard, regency square, west pier . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a Comment
Anish Kapoor’s C Curve makes amazing viewing on the South Downs, close to Brighton. These photographs were taken at intervals throughout the day, and are displayed in chronological order. Lizzie Simner
May 14, 2009
Categories: Lizzie Simner, Photography . Tags: anish kapoor, brighton, c curve, Lizzie Simner, Photography, sculpture, sky mirror, south downs . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: 1 Comment
As I’m a fraternal twin, the idea of duplicity has always appealed to me. Happily enough, that happens to be the very theme of this week’s compendium from Wordsmith’s ‘Word of the day’ e-mails. Today’s word is ‘diptych: a work of art hinged on two panels, such as a painting or carving. From Latin diptycha, [...]
March 23, 2009
Categories: Discussion, Lizzie Simner . Tags: coat of arms, diptych, don geyra, double elvis, duplicity, latin, Sotheby's, twins, warhol, wordsmith . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: 3 Comments
Mention that you’re from/live/work in Brighton and you’ll almost always conjure an enthusiastic response along the lines of ‘….yeh, Brighton…it’s pretty cool there, right?’ For a while, however, all I could see of my hometown was the fake tan and garish commercial sleaze of West Street on the one hand, and, in no franker terms, [...]
March 22, 2009
Categories: Discussion, Lizzie Simner, Rachel Collins . Tags: anish kapoor, anthony gormley, barbara halunicki, brighton, brighton art school, creativity, eley kishimoto, fine art, grand parade, jonathan m woodham, julian macdonald, mark eley, north laines, royals, sculpture, southdowns, the basement, turner prize, white night festival . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: 6 Comments
The words ‘graphics’ and ‘computers’ today seem interlinked. Hear the job ‘graphic designer’ and you might imagine a laptop, a slightly pasty man in trendy specs tapping away, you might even know the names of the programmes (even the average viewer may have dabbled in a bit of Photoshop). Whichever way you think of it, [...]
March 19, 2009
Categories: Graphics, Lizzie Simner . Tags: advertising, american dream, apple, barclaycard, computer, contactless technology, graphic design, hockney, ipod, lichtenstein, Lizzie Simner, o2, obama, peter blake, pontilism, replication, shepard fairey, silk screen, splash, takashi murakami, technology, warhol . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a Comment
