The winner for the best Open House Award is….
Latest 7 announces the winner of the best Artists Open House 2013
The May 2013 Artists Open Houses Festival has been a great success – with a large number of venues reporting record visitor numbers and many have enjoyed meeting and welcoming a whole new audience to their venues. The weather was kind throughout the festival weekends and, despite the gloomy economic forecasts, sales of work for many artists have also reached record highs.
The Ceramic House Wins Best Open House Award!
A huge congratulations to The Ceramic House who took home The Latest’s Best Open House Award for 2013! The award was announced and presented at The Latest Awards event held at The Latest Music Bar on Monday night. The Ceramic House takes Artists Open Houses to a whole new level – making the house the art. Ceramicist and owner of the house, Kay Aplin has used her walls and surfaces as her canvas and the results are outstanding. As well as Kay’s work, this May The Ceramic House also boasted the work of 21 other artists. All of the exhibiting artists worked with clay and the house included installations, wall pieces, decorative ceramics, sculpture and much more.
Shortlisted Houses and Highly Commended
With 214 houses taking part in the Artists Open Houses Festival, voting took place via an online public voting system, after which the Latest’s Andrew Kay and his team visited the ten highest scoring venues over the final festival weekend and from which they selected an overall winner.
Also shortlisted for the award were Encounters and The Holistic Art House and special mentions also went to AT Open House and Dion Salvador Lloyd, all of whom attended the Latest Award event.
Artists Open Houses in the Press!
During May we had some fantastic press and have been featured in The Spectator, Sussex Life, Homes & Antiques Magazine, Absolute Art, The Times, The Argus and many more! You can take a look at all of our press over on our website in our pressbox!
A Big Thank You
We’d like to give a massive thank you to our team of fantastic volunteer bloggers. This May they all worked incredibly hard making sure to get around as many houses and venues as possible and as a result have produced some superb content over on our blog. If you haven’t visited our blog lately then we highly recommend you do! You may not be able to visit the houses any longer but you can still be inspired and discover new local artists!
Fancy opening your own house?
Then why not? Our Christmas Artists Open House festival runs for the last weekend in November and first two weekends in December. Registration for opening your house opens in September and lasts for a month. If you haven’t opened your house before then no problem! We welcome new houses and will provide you with all of the information you need. Start by reading this blog post about the experience of opening up your house for the first time and download our comprehensive guide to opening your house. It covers why you should take part, what benefits you’ll get and everything you’ll need to know in order to get set up.
Both established artists and artists and makers just setting out on their careers are welcome to take part in the Artists Open Houses festival, as well as school and college students and marginalised artists. The Artists Open Houses festival is open to everyone and a great place to learn and develop new skills and to get your work seen by art-loving crowds!
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BRUNSWICK TOWN ART FAIR – Sunday 30 June
The third Brunswick Town Art Fair, a community event set in the Regency splendour of Brunswick Square Gardens, features local artists exhibiting paintings, prints, photographs, cards, ceramics, sculpture and jewellery focusing on high quality but affordable work which is all for sale. Admission is free and refreshments are available from sponsors, local coffee shop Flour Town and cheese specialist La Cave à Fromage.
There are still a few spaces left for any artists interested in exhibiting. Email brunswicktownartfair@outlook.com for more information.
Sponsored by Gerard Maye Legal, Justin Lloyd Estate Agents, La Cave à Fromage, Florian, Flour Town, The Southern Co-operative and Stampa.
Brunswick Town Art Fair
Brunswick Square Gardens, Hove
Sunday 30 June
11am – 6pm
Admission free
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brunswick-Town-Art-Fair/261827963924381
