The Adelaide Salon ‘Wedding Crashers’ exhibition opening tonight!

Wedding Crashers exhibition at the Adelaide Salon

Im pleased to announce that tonight is the opening of the Adelaide Salon exhibition ‘Wedding Crashers’ part of the Brighton Festival and Brighton Artists Open Houses. The curators Ben Coleman and Bill Redshaw have selected my piece ‘Se(e/a) and be seen/scene’ (2024) to show in this beautiful Georgian Regency space - a place reminiscent of a wedding cake’s elaborate frosting the setting of The Adelaide Salon.

‘Se(e/a) and be seen/seen’ was first shown in May 2024 at the Regency Town House ‘Shoaling’ exhibition. On this occasion I have re-curated and re-organised for this different setting, including a new black lace parasol and a new piece of larger sugar cane with the original gentleman’s silver topped walking cane. Pictures to follow.

I’m interested in walking as a pedagogic practice, as a teaching method - a way of learning that’s lived, creative, imaginative, personal, emancipatory, embodied and rooted in context. Walking as an analogy of Brighton’s Regency past. In the Regency era, walking wasn’t just about getting from one place to another; it was a leisure activity for the wealthy, promenading, slowly and stately moving along the sea front, socialising and displaying their wealth and importance. Wandering on Brighton’s shoreline was a very popular Regency past time, not as a way of getting anywhere, but as a way of being somewhere, it was essentially circular, seeing and being seen. I will use objects to challenge and raise questions, to reflect and walk through time and space, to wonder, to consider other narratives, to imagine other stories, of exploitation, money, power, colonial wealth, control and highlight those not seen or given voice. The sculptures appear as everyday objects but can equally be seen as museum pieces displayed and carefully curated for the viewer like much of the past and present.

The show runs through the weekends of 3rd, 4th, 5th & 10th, 11th of May.