Artists at War Established at the outbreak of war in 1939, the War Artists Advisory Committee was chaired by Sir Kenneth Clark and included representatives of the armed forces and the Ministry of Information. The Committee’s brief was to create … Continued
Naked Big Fish is a sculpture in steel and wood by contemporary British artist Sokari Douglas Camp. It represents the spectacular masking tradition of the Kalabari people of the Niger Delta region in West Africa. This is a contemporary masking … Continued
The Radical Bloomsbury exhibition took place at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery from 16th April – 9th October 2011. It looked at how Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, the two most significant artists in the Bloomsbury group, were radical innovators … Continued
The Images of Brighton gallery and the Exploring Brighton gallery are the local history galleries in Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. The galleries should be viewed in association with each other as they represent two very different sides of the … Continued
The Asante are a people rich in history, culture and tradition. They have lived for hundreds of years in the region that is current day Ghana in West Africa. They are part of the Akan cultural group. The Asante Kingdom … Continued
Twelve was a comprehensive project designed to study the relationship between ‘Chinese things’ and ‘Chinese people’. Historical collections in British museums offer unique challenges to those working with contemporary audiences. The Chinese collections held by Brighton Museum & Art Gallery … Continued
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery holds significant collections of objects and images from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, two island groups in the Bay of Bengal, South Asia. Most were collected by three British individuals – Richard Carnac Temple, Edward … Continued
Inspired by Brighton Museum & Art Gallery’s outstanding holdings of performance related material from around the world, the Performance Gallery opened in 2002 as part of a major museum redevelopment project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Public performances happen … Continued
This exhibition based on the Willett collection of popular pottery looks at three areas of women’s lives throughout the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries: their roles at work and in the home, in the production of ceramics and as reformers. … Continued
The Farebrother collection came to the museum in 1976 after a trunk containing many items of dress was found in a clear out of a family home and offered to the museum. The clothes were worn by Katherine Sophia Farebrother and date … Continued
Inspired by the Willett collection of popular pottery depicting social dance in decorative art. From the earliest times dance has been used to express humanity’s fundamental needs and emotions. People danced in groups to invoke the spirits of the animals … Continued
James Williamson (1855-1933) was a filmmaker, manufacturer, producer, showman and inventor. He was married to Betsy Heaysman and had four children. Although born in Scotland, Williamson moved to Hove in 1886 and was part of the hugely influential Brighton School … Continued
Fashion & Style Gallery The Fashion & Style gallery draws on Brighton & Hove Museums’ costume collection to produce displays that explore a series of inter-related themes. The themes selected reflect different aspects of Brighton life. The current displays in the gallery … Continued
Sequins and jewels glitter on vivid costumes. Shimmering marionettes play out fantastic myths and stories. This is the dream-like world of Burmese puppet theatre. Strings seem to disappear and puppets take on a life of their own. Spectators are caught … Continued
How can movement be conveyed by a still image? How is motion evoked differently in photography and painting? These questions are addressed by showing photographs from Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion series (1887) alongside artworks from Royal Pavilion & Museums Fine … Continued
Visitors to Preston Manor often ask how the Stanfords managed to maintain and finance not only the Manor itself but also the Pythouse estate in Wiltshire, 3 Ennismore Gardens in South Kensington, a yacht and large houses in Madeira and … Continued
Henry Willett, a founding father of Brighton Museum, was a man of great energy, enthusiasm and wide-ranging interests. He was born in Newhaven, the youngest of eleven children and moved to Brighton in 1841. He ran the West Street Brewery … Continued
Shadows cast by elaborate leather puppets performing Indonesian versions of Indian Hindu epics. On a portable stage, the puppeteer-priest sets up his framed screen and lamps. He will thrill and enchant a crowd with his puppets. To the women, seated … Continued
Jed Phoenix is a self-described Queer-Techno-Fetish-Punk (Q-T-F-P). Her style and identity draw on differing, sometimes overlapping interests in her life. This consciously avoids simplistic categorisation and the uniformity of single subcultural identities in favour of an assertive individualism. In an … Continued
Music, firecrackers and smoke bring these dramas to life on a shimmering stage of water. Once performed on a village pond they now travel the world. Water provides the magic and hides the mechanism of the puppet. In Vietnam today … Continued
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