Brighton Festival: Visual Arts

Rachel Kneebone
Kneebone draws on a host of literary and artistic sources in her finely sculpted porcelain work, from Ovid’s Metamorphosis to the surreal, expressive figures of Rodin’s The Gates of Hell.
Sat 2 – Sun 24 May
Mon – Sun 10am to 5pm
Thu 10am – 8pm
University of Brighton Gallery

Dawn Chorus
This multi-screen film installation from Marcus Coates features 19 individual singers who recreate birdsong and bird movement. Together they form a chorus that accurately simulates the sounds and timings of a natural dawn chorus.
Sat 2 – Sun 24 May, 12 noon – 7pm Fabrica Gauge

Throughout Brighton Festival, Circus Street Market will be transformed into a sonically orchestrated playground of weather, water and scale, developed by Australian creators Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey; award-winning sound artists who work with the human experience of listening.
2-24 May, Wed & Thurs, 1-7pm, Fri &
Sat, 10am – 10pm, Sun 10am – 6pm.
Closed Mons (except Bank Holiday
Mon 4, 10am-10pm)

A Murmuration
This collaborative art project responds to the Brighton Festival 2015 theme of migration by asking what freedom of movement and thought really means. Sarah Wood, Lucy Harris, Helen Macdonald and Olivia Laing combine film, text, images and cross-artform dialogue to rethink how we frame the natural world, how we understand patterns and just how free is the modern gaze.
Sat 2 – Sun 24 May
Wed – Fri, 12 noon – 7pm
Sat & Sun, 11am – 6pm
ONCA Gallery

Portraits of Dissension / You Imagine What You Desire
Brighton Festival and HOUSE 2015 join forces to bring work from renowned contemporary artist Nathan Coley to the city, including new commission Portraits of Dissension and his illuminated sculpture You Imagine What You Desire.
Portraits of Dissension, Sat 2 – Sun 24 May, Wed – Sun, 12noon – 6pm, The Regency Town House
You Imagine What You Desire, Sat 2 – Sun 24 May, Wed – Sun, 12 – 5.30pm, St Nicholas’ Church