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CONCLAVE PRESENTS: Disorientation & [f]LOSS

Our final exhibition in the basement events space at Conclave Brighton’s Queens Road site.

DISORIENTATION & [f]LOSS:
A site-specific installation by Sukey Booth

This new immersive, site-specific (and time-specific) art installation contemplates issues of cultural identity and belonging in relation to location, migration, shared histories and circumstance.

Recognising the complex world where many of us (whether subconsciously, or otherwise) self-edit much of our messy social histories of heritage and identity, this work will seek to illustrate the intricacies of individuality that are collected together to make up our communities and networks.

Personal identity was never just one thing; a web of inter-locking stories, genetics, histories and influences come together in every human narrative. These tangled webs are made up of many strands: some with obvious beginning and end points, and some that unravel themselves into infinity…

In Disorientation & [f]loss, the artist invites us into a confusing world where we attempt to follow those different strands, where the start and end of linear narrative is unclear. Caught up in a mile of gold and red threads, the remnants and evidence of genetics, travel, experiences and memories reveal themselves to the viewer as they explore the space. We are invited to consider the different ways we transform, evolve and develop: be that physically – travelling over continents – or in time, circumstance and social identity.

The historical and nostalgic is grounded against the current day and current location through integral references to the space: sited in a Victorian building in central Brighton, this work tells multiple stories of circumstances and coincidence: “In the particular is contained the universal.” (James Joyce)

Comprising installation, sculptures, print, “reliquaries”, text and projection, the multi-channel nature of personal identity and experience is reflected in the physicality of this work, and as a farewell to this particular gallery space before its permanent closure on 16th September.

EXHIBITION OPEN:
Fri 01 Sept: 6-9pm (PV)
Sat 02 Sept: 10am-6pm
Sun 03 Sept: 10am-6pm

Tue 05 Sept: 12-6pm
Wed 06 Sept: 12-6pm
Thu 07 Sept: 10am-6pm
Fri 08 Sept: 10am-6pm
Sat 09 Sept: 10am-6pm
Sun 10 Sept: 10am-6pm

Tue 12 Sept: 12-6pm
Wed 13 Sept: 12-6pm
Thu 14 Sept: 10am-6pm
Fri 15 Sept: 10am-6pm
Sat 16 Sept: 10am-6pm

FREE ENTRY

Disorientation & [f]LOSS – Private View

Join us for the Private View launch party of our final exhibition in the basements events space at Conclave Brighton’s Queens Road site.

DISORIENTATION & [f]LOSS:
A site-specific installation by Sukey Booth

This new immersive, site-specific (and time-specific) art installation contemplates issues of cultural identity and belonging in relation to location, migration, shared histories and circumstance.

FREE ENTRY

Licenced bar
(all under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult at all times)

PRIVATE VIEW TIMES:
Friday 1st September 6-9pm
FREE ENTRY, TICKETS ADVISED – (to secure a space, please book a ticket via Eventbrite here)

MAIN EXHIBITION OPEN:
2nd – 16th Sept (more info on opening times and days here)

Bird’s Eye Views: LAUNCH PARTY

Conclave presents

Bird’s Eye Views – THE LAUNCH PARTY
27th April 2023
6-8pm

To mark the launch of our new group show, BIRD’S-EYE VIEWS, we’re having a launch party!

Get to meet the artists, admire the artworks (and maybe snap up a preview bargain before everyone else!) and enjoy a drink whilst being the first to see more than 150 new works from 28 artists:

Barrie J Davies / Barry D Bulsara / Beav-Art / Billy Chainsaw / Bobby Dazzler / Corkie / Curlymark / Dave Pop! / Ganzfeld Studio / Gavin Jay / GraphicExistence / heartshapedmouth / It’s Raining Art / J David Bennett / Jonny Edmund-Jones / Lady Sculptura / Lucy Nickholds / Marty Anscombe / Mass Roman / Merny / Michael Panteli / Paper Draper / Sfelez / Tiffany Crisp / True Spilt Milk / Twydall P. / Vicky Scott / Yureiwomb

Entry is FREE but tickets required. Please reserve your space here

Expect to see:
One-Off Originals
Limited-edition Prints
Drawing
Digital Art
Pop Art
Street Art
Spray-Paint
Mixed Media
Abstracts
Collage
Painting
Screen Prints
3D
Illustration
Painting

SOS Street Art: EGGS-TRA Special Easter Street Art Workshops

Looking for things to do with the kids over Easter break?
Spray Painting is your answer!

Please EGG-SCUSE the silly EGG Puns but we couldn’t resist…

The award-winning inclusive arts practitioner, Sarah Gillings is running an EGGstraordinary workshops with an Easter theme on Thursday 6th April 2023.

Come with the family, or send them off on their own…or come on your own – kids not required!!

WHAT DO YOU GET?

Graffiti inspired egg decorations…You get to make 5 of these (complete with hanging strings). You’ll get to use graffiti pens and spraypaints paints to create something unique.
A Vinyl Record to spray-paint with nature-inspired stencils and freehand layers
Bring your own T shirt (white or light coloured) to decorate with cool designs.

2 x 2hr sessions:
1.00-3.00pm
3.30-5.30pm

A fully tutored event with all materials provided, where you can be sure you and your kids are getting creative and technical supervision in a safe and welcoming environment. See more about the amazing Sarah and her work at her website here: https://www.iamsos.com/

ADVANCE TICKETS REQUIRED:
£20 (+booking fee)
For more information and to buy tickets, please head over to Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eggs-tra-special-street-art-session-tickets-544644876487

SOS Street Art: The Science of Spraypainting Workshop

The Science of Spraypainting – Workshop for all ages
Thursday 16th February (3 sessions)

Award-winning Inclusive Arts Practitioner, Sarah Gillings (aka S.O.S Street Art) will be leading half-term workshops for young people (8+) and adults on Thursday 16th February 2023.

What is a hydro-dip? How can you create tie-dye in seconds? These questions and much more will be answered in this unique experience!

We will be offering an amazing and affordable opportunity for you to make a piece of art in a special 1-hour workshop. This session is designed to get the creative juices flowing (and also highlight some fun scientific facts and experiments with pressurised paints.)

This experience was first created for the Brighton Science Festival and completely sold out!

3 x 90 minutes sessions:
11.00am-12.30pm
1.30-3.00pm
3.30-5.00pm

A fully tutored event with all materials provided, where you can be sure your kids are getting creative and technical supervision in a safe and welcoming environment. See more about the amazing Sarah and her work at her website here: https://www.iamsos.com/

Advance tickets required. For more information and to buy tickets, please head over to https://eequ.org/experience/691

TICKETS:
£15 via the EEQU website

Christmas Street Art Workshop (ages 10+)

Young People’s Workshop (Christmas Street Art)
Saturday 17th December 11:00 – 13:30

Award-winning Inclusive Arts Practitioner, Sarah Gillings (aka S.O.S Street Art) will be leading a workshop for kids (10+) and young people on Saturday 17th December.

Get the creative juices flowing and your young person can learn how to make their own decorations and presents which is much more fulfilling than buying from the shops!

All materials are supplied including, masks, spray paints, stencils, poscas, varnish and an array of street art materials to decorate including baubles, cards, tags, and vinyl records, or T shirts – plus learn hydro dipping!

This is a unique experience and you will be leaving with fantastic cards, tags, and baubles to put on your tree…you also get a vinyl record in the price. If you want to make T shirt presents or extra vinyl records for loved ones simply choose the amount you need – choose from the ticket options for extras.

Your young people get to go home with so many goodies, but mainly they’ll be learning all the amazing skills to realise their designs, and skills to use forever to make their own cards and presents in future.

**Parents – make the most of this fantastic opportunity to get your young person involved in a creative and rewarding activity where they learn amazing confidence building skills as well as giving you some pre-time to do your Christmas shopping!

Advance tickets required. For more information and to buy tickets, please head over to https://eequ.org/experience/2423

TICKETS:
£25 / £35 / £45 via the EEQU website

Deck The Halls: LAUNCH PARTY

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Deck The Halls – THE LAUNCH PARTY
2nd December 2022,
6.00-10.30pm

To mark the launch of our DECK THE HALLS event, we’re having a party! Join us in the Conclave Basement to be the first to see the amazing exhibition of contemporary art on skate decks and celebrate the start of our skateboarding mini-festival.

Get to meet the artists, admire the artworks (and maybe snap up a pre-Christmas, preview bargain before everyone else!) and enjoy a drink whilst DJ Steve KIW (*Keep it Wheel…) gets on the other sort of wheels of steel to soundtrack our foray into youth culture, our fascination with the retro imagery and visual creativity that’s abundant in this urban activity.

The group show features 40 original works from 20 of Conclave’s artists, including:
Barrie J Davies / Beav-Art / Cassette Lord / Daniel Mortimer Skinner / Dave Pop! / Emma Holmes / Godzuki / J David Bennett / Jarvis Weaver / John Lymer / Leo Kember / Michelle Mildenhall / Mypenleaks / Phil Lawson / Sfelez / Skatin Chinchilla / Tiffany Crisp / Twydall P / Vicky Gomez / Victoria Kaplan
(+ a young artist guest will be showing their work as part of our collaboration with Portslade Aldridge Community Academy school)

Expect to see:
SPRAY-PAINT, STENCILLING, MIXED-MEDIA, CARVING, DRAWING, SCREEN-PRINTS, PAINTING, COLLAGE, SCULPTURE, GOLD-LEAF FINISHING, ASSEMBLAGE and more!

Here’s a little sneak peak at some of the works!

If you can’t make it along to our launch party, we hope you’ll be able to pop in later and attend one of the many events that will take place over the following 9 days:

EXHIBITION (more info here) Sat 03 – Sun 11 Dec – FREE
STREET ART ON A SKATEBOARD WORKSHOP (Ages 10+, more info here) Sat 03 December, 10.30am-2pm – TICKETS REQUIRED
STICK IT ON: Vintage collage on skate decks workshop (18+, more info here) Tues 06 Dec 6.30-9.30pm – TICKETS REQUIRED
FLUORO-DOODLE-DECKS: Pop art on skate decks workshop (18+, more info here) Weds 07 Dec 6.30-9.30pm – TICKETS REQUIRED
DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS: Film Screening (15+, more info here) Fri 09 Dec 6.30-9.30pm – FREE

STICK IT ON! Vintage Collage Skateboard Art Workshop (with Twydall P)

Part of Conclave’s special week of events for DECK THE HALLS celebrating the archetypal symbol of urban street and youth culture: THE SKATEBOARD.

Alongside a group show from local artists showing their original (and limited-edition) artworks created on the humble skateboard deck, we are hosting a hands-on VINTAGE COLLAGE creative evening workshop in our basement events space in central Brighton (under the main gallery). This will be a fun, sociable, and hands-on creative event where you can get inspired, get stuck in, and get your hands on the decks…

Tuesday 6th December, 18:30-21:30

Our “Creative Deckmaster” for the night is Twydall P, a Brighton-based mixed-media artist, puppeteer and poet. He works mainly with analogue collage where he blends his playful humour with his love of history, science, nature and symbolism to create striking, yet simple, artworks. You can find out more about Twydall here.

He will help you find your inner master collager, whilst giving you practical help, advice, ideas and inspiration to get you leaving the workshop with a fully-fledged, beautiful skate deck. We’ll have oodles and oodles of vintage collage materials (helpfully sorted into categories so you can find what you need, when you need it! Ask for help, or just crack-on with it over a drink or two (yes, there’s a bar! 🍺🥂🍹) Come by yourself, or come with friends – we’ll all enjoy a good natter over the paper snipping 🙂

This workshop will provide a creative lovely break from all the Christmas eating and drinking – come in enjoy the escape from all the over-the-top Christmas themed stuff! (Although if you do need a Christmas excuse, this will be THE PLACE to make a bespoke present for someone special).

There are no rights or wrongs for this workshop – the only rule is to get involved and give it a go! Whether you’re a sticking pro, or a complete beginner, we’ll get you trying out different techniques, and thinking about how to use different types of source material to create the effects you’re after. Twydall will be helping you along with hints and tips to create a unique skate deck that tells a story (and the gallery upstairs is on hand to provide any extra inspiration you might need).

There will be vintage stuff. Lots of vintage…
We’ll be focussing on using vintage print materials to create your collage skate deck, but there will also be lots of other materials on hand to ensure you can create the effects you want to achieve with your decks. We’ve shown you some of Twydall’s work here, but the possibilities (and style options!) are endless!

ALL MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT WILL BE PROVIDED (Including a new, full-sized blank skateboard deck for each participant)

You’re welcome to bring your own ideas and source materials (if there’s something in particular you fancy doing) or just come as you are, and we’ll load you up with ideas and options on the night!

As this is a hands-on workshop with glue and other mucky things, you might want to wear things you don’t mind getting dirty!

🙂 Tickets: £27 / £34 🙂

Tuesday 6th December 2022:

Doors: 18:15
Workshop: 18:30-21:30
Venue & Bar closes: 22:30

Age Restriction:
14 and over (under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult)

– FULLY LICENSED ONSITE BAR –

TICKETS:
Early-bird (order by 11th November) £27
Standard (after 11th November) £34
(price includes all materials)
BUY TICKETS ONLINE HERE

Strictly limited to 15 participants.

Fluoro-Doodle-Decks: Skateboard Art Workshop (with Barrie J Davies)

Part of Conclave’s special week of events for DECK THE HALLS celebrating the archetypal symbol of urban street and youth culture: THE SKATEBOARD.

Alongside a group show from local artists showing their original (and limited-edition) artworks created on the humble skateboard deck, we are hosting a hands-on FLUORO DOODLE creative evening workshop in our basement events space in central Brighton (under the main gallery). This will be a fun, sociable, and hands-on creative event where you can get inspired, and get your hands on the decks…

We’ll give you the deck, and get doodling with…

Wednesday 7th December, 18:30-21:30

Our “Creative Deckmaster” for the night is Barrie J Davies, a Brighton-based urban contemporary pop artist. He makes fun paintings, prints and sculptures that have found their way into private and public collections nationally and worldwide. You can find out more about Barrie here.

He will help you find your inner master doodler, whilst giving you practical help, advice and inspiration to get you leaving the workshop with a fully-fledged, fluoro skate deck. We’ll be cracking open the paints, pens, spray-paints, stencils (and SMILES!) and you’ll be able to try different media and techniques on your own deck. Ask for help, or just crack-on with it over a drink or two (yes, there’s a bar! 🍺🥂🍹)

There are no rights or wrongs for this workshop – the only rule is to get involved and give it a go! Whether you’re a master draughtsman, or a complete beginner, we’ll get you trying out different doodle media, from pens and paintbrushes, to spray-paints and stencils. If you like it, TRY IT. Barrie will be helping you along with hints and tips for how to create punchy, striking POP doodles on your skate deck, and the gallery upstairs is on hand to provide any extra inspiration you might need.

There will be fluoro. Lots of fluoro…
We’ll be focussing on fluoro and bright, POP colours, but there will also be lots of other materials there to ensure you can create the effects you want to achieve with your deck doodles. BIG AND BLOCKY or small and detailed, we’ll have the tools for the job!

ALL MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT WILL BE PROVIDED (Including a new, full-sized blank skateboard deck for each participant)

As this is a hands-on workshop with paint and other mucky things, you might want to wear things you don’t mind getting dirty and painty!

🙂 Tickets: £27 / £34 🙂

Wednesday 7th December 2022:

Doors: 18:15
Workshop: 18:30-21:30
Venue & Bar closes: 22:30

Age Restriction:
14 and over (under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult)

– FULLY LICENSED ONSITE BAR –

TICKETS:
Early-bird (order by 11th November) £27
Standard (after 11th November) £34
(price includes all materials)
BUY TICKETS ONLINE HERE

Strictly limited to 15 participants.

Skateboard Street Art Workshop (ages 10+)

Kid’s Workshop (Skateboard Street Art)

Part of Conclave’s special week of events for DECK THE HALLS celebrating the archetypal symbol of urban street and youth culture: THE SKATEBOARD.

Alongside a group show from local artists showing their original (and limited-edition) artworks created on the humble skateboard deck, we are hosting a street-art workshop for young people in our events space in central Brighton (under the main gallery)

Saturday 3rd December, 10:30 – 14:00

Award-winning Inclusive Arts Practitioner, Sarah Gillings (aka S.O.S Street Art) will be leading a half-day workshop for kids (10+) & young people on Saturday 3rd December.

This is a unique opportunity for your kids to get involved in an innovative, fun and productive hands-on workshop, where they will get to create their own spray-paint and mixed-media creations on a skateboard deck.

Tickets required (strictly limited to 16 participants). For more information and to buy tickets, please head over to https://eequ.org/experience/2118 or join the Facebook event to ask questions and share info.

TICKETS:
Bring your own skateboard: £60
New skateboard deck included: £75
https://eequ.org/experience/2118

Conclave presents

Bird’s Eye Views – THE LAUNCH PARTY 27th April 2023 6-8pm

Conclave presents

Deck The Halls – THE LAUNCH PARTY 2nd December 2022, 6.00-10.30pm

Bird’s Eye Views – THE LAUNCH PARTY
27th April 2023
6-8pm

Deck The Halls – THE LAUNCH PARTY
2nd December 2022,
6.00-10.30pm