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Course: WRITING HISTORY

Runs over three Mondays:
10th, 17th and 24th March, 11:00am to 1:30pm.
There’s a break at 1.00pm (bring a packed lunch) 
The whole course costs just £45 (plus Eventbrite fee of £2.48)
Book your place here on Eventbrite

Do you see yourself as the next Georgette Heyer?

Or perhaps you would rather follow in the steps of BBC's David Olusoga and record the history of your house or street?

Photograph of a man sat on the steps of a historic building.
Photo: BBC2

Dive into the past with Town House volunteer and writer Bridget Whelan (aka Mrs Finnegan) in an exciting three week course that will give you the tools to weave a Regency romance or turn raw research into a factual history that others will want to read.

WRITING HISTORY starts on Monday March 10th in our renovated Regency kitchen and continues on March 17th and March 24th. Each session runs from 11.00am to 1.30pm. There’s a break for lunch at 1.00pm (bring your own) which gives the class a chance to chat about books and history and access our specialist library.

We have kept the price low so as many would-be writers can attend as possible. The entire course costs just £45 (plus Eventbrite fee of £2.48). Find out more and book your place here on Eventbrite.

Not sure if it is right for you?

Write to Bridget at bridgetwhelan@hotmail.co.uk and put 'writing history' in the subject line.

 

Drama: Krapp's Last Tape, by Samuel Beckett
plus
Photographs from the Wembley to Soweto Foundation

Monday 7th to Friday 11th April, 8:00pm
Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th April, 6:00pm & 8:00pm
Tickets are £20 (conc. £12) from Eventbrite
Ages 12+

Starring David Westhead, directed by Academy Award nominee Stockard Channing, Krapp's Last Tape is a riveting journey into the human soul.

Photo of a dishevelled man with thinning white hair. A banana is hanging out of his mouth.

Stockard Channing's critically acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape' comes to The Regency Town House this April. Bringing her unique directorial vision to this production, she explores the intricate layers of Beckett's masterpiece and Krapp's solitary world.

Starring multi-award-winning actor David Westhead, a veteran of The Royal National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company, this 50-minute theatrical experience delves into the life of Krapp, a 69-year-old man reflecting on his past through annual tape recordings.

Photo of a dishevelled man with thinning white hair and rolled-up sleeves. He is seated and resting his head on an old tape recorder while embracing it with an outstretched arm.

The Birmingham Press described Westhead's performance as, “Intense and compelling”.

John McAndrew of the Royal Shakespeare Company praised the production as, "Just terrific...brilliant, outrageous, and heartbreaking".

Concurrently with the play, we are showing on the ground floor an exhibiton of photographs by students of the Wembley to Soweto Foundation. ground floor

All proceeds will benefit the Wembley to Soweto Foundation, an international charity founded by David Westhead to offer photographic training to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. An exhibition of their work will run concurrently with the play on the ground floor. For more information visit: wembleytosoweto.com

Photo of young boy, smiling happily at the camera while swinging upside down from a pipe.

Note: there will be a Q&A with Channing and David after the shows on Sunday 13th April.

Practical information

Please arrive at least 30 minutes before the show and take time to see a display of extraordinary photographs taken by students of the Wembley to Soweto initiative.

The show lasts approx. 50 minutes.
Refreshments will be available from the bar.
The play is not suitable for under-12s.
There are stairs to be climbed to reach the performance space, see our detailed accessibility guide.

Book your tickets here on Eventbrite

Students and the unwaged may access a concession price of £12 by using the promo code: Soweto.

Cameron Contemporary present:
'Observer', a solo show by Amy Dury

Wednesday 16th - Sunday 27th April, 11:00am - 5:00pm
Admission free

This is Cameron Contemporary's second solo show with Amy Dury, a rising star of the UK art world. In March she appeared as a presenter on the Sky Arts "Masterclass" series and her paintings are in demand worldwide.

Painting in red and black depicting a young girl jumping up in the air against an abstract background
Final Girl, © Amy Dury

Amy Dury: "Working from old home movies or found imagery I pick an image or see a face that makes me stop and think. When they smile in the bright sunshine, laugh with their friends or are seen thoughtful in their everyday tasks, we can see what is in our DNA, what laid the paths we tread and what we have lost."

Recent notable events include appearing on Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year ’21, and accepted for the 2021 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. In March 2021 she conducted a livestream portrait painting session for the Tate Instagram. She was chosen to respond to Edvard Munch print for Society of Scottish Artists 22/23 Annual Show. In 2024 she exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Show and in early 2025 she is a guest presenter for two episodes of Sky Arts ‘Artist Masterclasses’.

Artists social media links: www.cameroncontemporaryart.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/amy_dury

 

Workshop: Bring Your Stories to Life
Build worlds, shape characters, and develop surprising conflicts

Sunday 27th April, 11:00am - 3:00pm
Book your tickets here on Eventbrite

Join Emma Kelly, dramatist and writer for The Town House Voices, for a writing workshop at the beautiful Regency Town House, Hove. Whether you’re completely new to writing or already working on a story, this session will give you the tools to create:

  • Compelling Characters – Make your characters feel authentic and unforgettable
  • Evocative Places – Build immersive settings that transport readers
  • Engaging Situations – Craft gripping moments that drive your story forward

Image of fingers with strings attached controlling a marionette, all superimposed on the silhouette of a person's head

Through interactive exercises, expert guidance, and group discussion, you’ll develop your storytelling skills, gain new insights, and leave feeling inspired.

Website - Emmakellydramatist.com
Instagram - @e.l.kelly_
LinkedIn - Emma Kelly Dramatist

 

Artists Open Houses - No Hard Shoulder

Thursday 1st -  Sunday 11th May
11:00am - 5:30pm
Admission free

Exhibition events

Tue 6th   Hard Shoulder Performances   16:00 and 19:00
Wed 7th   Hard Shoulder Performances   16:00 and 19:00
Thur 8th   Artelium wine tasting   tbc
Fri 9th   Phil Grabski presentation   19:00

Poster for exhibition, featuring abstract painting with blue and orange geometric shapes

Merging the past with the present and hints of the future, No Hard Shoulder brings together an exciting mix of artists and the arts in the atmospheric, richly historic Regency Town House. The exhibition features paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics and textiles by nine leading Sussex artists.

Daytime workshops and evening events include music, lecture/performances by ‘Festival Best Production’ director Jane Collins and poet performer Honour Mission, a presentation by BAFTA winning filmmaker Phil Grabsky of Seventh Art Productions/Exhibition on Screen, and exceptional wine tasting by Artelium.

No Hard Shoulder opens the Regency door to eleven days of rich contemporary creativity.

Artists

Thumbnail of abstract painting, a circle with tangential coloured areas and linesRebecca Angel, Mixed Media
rebeccaangel.co.uk   @rebeccaangelcreative
Contemporary Collage award winner, fabric designer and paper collage artist working at the Red Herring Studios. Work explores the geometry of form and colour, the contrasts of resistance and the fluid.

 

 

Thumbnail image of sculpture, whispy black and white elements mounted on a stratified black baseJo Delafons, Sculpture.
@jo_delafons
Delicately balanced mixed media sculptures reflect on our fragile relationship with nature. Emotional connections to the landscape, forged walking the South Downs and coast, are explored. The work acts as a siren call to discover, protect and nurture the fragile worlds around and within us.

 

Thumbnail image of painting of tree trunks against a silver-grey backgroundSarah Mitchener, Painting
@sarah_michener_art
Sunday Times Watercolour finalist. Sussex based painter and printmaker specialising in poetic landscapes and the landscape of poetry, dreams and recollections.

 

Thumbnail image of sculpted abstract torsos in a church settingKeith Pettit, Sculpture
@keith.a.pettit
Versatile artist, painter, printmaker and sculptor . Working in wood exploring range of themes rooted in landscape, and rural myth . ‘Seeking the magic that survives.

 

 

 

Thumbnail image of abstract landscape paining depicting the window of a building seen through foliageLucy Bristow, Painting
@lucy_bristow_paintings   www.lucybristowpaintings.co.uk
Jackson’s finalist 2024. The abstract landscape painter who explores light in and through nature and its interaction in meeting the borderlands of the urban environment.

 

Thumbnail image of abstract lanndscape painting in yellows and greens against a blue background, overlaid with thin geometric shapesNick Gardner, Painting
nickgardnerart.com   @nickthepaint
A painter influenced by mythology, colliding ideas and a sense of the absurd - these evolving through oils, inks, pastels, grits and wax into works on canvas and paper.

 

Thumbnail of abstract painting in billowing shades of red and pink with blue detailJules Allan, Painting
@Julesallan_art
Sussex based artist and art psychotherapist. Dual practice as an artist and psychotherapist inform one and other: both reflect an enduring passion for using art as a way of giving form to what is unformulated, expressing things that may feel impossible to put into words.

 

Thumbnail image of ceramic vase, Circular in planform, tapering to the base and top from a raised waistline, comprised of smaller segments joined together.Barbara Gittings, Ceramics
www.barbaragittingsceramics.com   @barbaragittings
Work explores the line between order and chaos, the juxtaposition between control and spontaneity. The combination of the ancient techniques of Nerikomi and smoke firing, alongside unusual contemporary shapes, places the work in a unique position within the field of Nerikomi ceramics.

 

Thumbnail image of sculptures, organic black forms on dark rectangular basesAmanda Sumpter, Sculpture
www.amandasumpter.co.uk   @amanda.sumpter.artist
Amanda Sumpter is a sculptor exploring themes of attachment and transformation through the slow, tactile process of carving organic, fluid forms that evoke fragility and resilience.

 

 

Artists Open Houses - DARKER

Tuesday 13th - Sunday 25th May
Times, 11:00am - 5:00pm
Admission free

DARKER brings together a collective of six artists, each pushing boundaries to explore the subconscious and the provocative.

Working across mediums such as paint, print, 3D sculpture, collage, film and music, the group channels a fusion of Pop Art, Surrealism, agitprop, and the avant-garde to create a visceral and electric atmosphere in the setting of a beautiful Regency-era townhouse.

Montage artwork comprising a background of pages of book text, on which is layered an anatomical drawing of a human and a large a black bird, struck through with a bold diagonal line of red paint.

Maxine Allan Maxine's work is a vestige, a trace or remnant of something disappearing or no longer existing. Her layering and found objects are like modern fossils of trophies from the past, where Surrealist conversations happen between the objects.

Website: www.maxineallan.com/

Billy Chainsaw A contemporary Pop Artist whose work uses a mix of pulp and the arcane to engage with ideas of mortality, magick and sensuality. Working with paints, screen prints, photographs, ceramics and decals, Chainsaw has developed a personal armoury of imagery and gestural approaches which are instantly recognisable yet open to infinite experimentation.

Website: www.koolkrakenincorporated.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/billychainsawhoulston

Girl Shit A multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores propaganda, subcultures and female narratives, often referencing art history and DIY cultures. There is a fascination in the work with rituals, agitprop, cinema and vintage imagery collected since childhood.

Instagram: www.instagram.com/girlshitgirl
Facebook: GIRL SHIT

Gavin Jay Influenced by figures such as Max Ernst and Joseph Cornell filtered through Pop Art, Victoriana, the occult, pulp sci-fi, antique toy theatres and anatomical models, Jay brings a unique approach to his surrealist collages. Drawing on a wealth of esoteric imagery harvested from the libraries of the world his work is both nostalgic and quietly disturbing, conjuring scenes from impossible narratives that exist suspended in Lynchian dream spaces.

Website: http://monodada.com/

Rob Rinn For his ‘Warzone’ series, Rinn sought to resolve a series of pictures he started, and put on hold, some time ago. Taken directly from an out of print book on WWII the pictures combined black and white photo cut-outs with black and white acrylic paint. Rinn believed that revisiting these pictures could be like revisiting a dream - trying to piece together the fragments and make sense of them.

Mal Troon A professional musician, sound artist, lecturer and writer who explores sonic and auditory cultures. Through his newly designed umbrella concept called ‘Sound Tenses,’ he seeks to excavate and organise notions of auditory permanence, permanences that challenge traditional tropes of sounds as confined to ephemerally brief timescales. 

Email: mt368@sussex.ac.uk

Download extended artists' biographies here.

 

Drama event and workshop

Saturday 31st May & Sunday 1st June
Times TBA

Natasha Higdon presents interpretation of work by Leonora Carrington. More to follow.

 

Exhibition: Wedding Dresses, a history

Thursday 12th - Sunday 15th June
Times TBA
Admission free

More to follow.

 

Exhibition: The text TOWNHOUSE where the O is replaced with a smiley face
A TBOY solo show

Thursday 4th - Saturday 6th September
11:00am - 5:00pm

TBOY returns to Brighton this September with TOWNHOUSE, his most ambitious solo exhibition yet.

Image of the eyes of a masked Batman staring through a small, clear area of a steamed-up window

Renowned pop artist TBOY is set to take over Brighton’s Regency Town House with TOWNHOUSE, his largest and most ambitious solo exhibition to date.

Spanning two floors, the show will feature an electrifying collection of brand-new, innovative pop art pieces alongside TBOY’s iconic Keith’s 12” album covers and an extensive series of never-before-seen currency artworks.

Don’t miss this bold and unforgettable showcase from one of Pop Art’s most exciting contemporary voices.

web: artbytboy.co.uk
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artbytboy

For more about TBOY, download the short biography here.

 

Exhibition: Lost Property
an exhibition exploring public spaces and private conversations

Tuesday 23rd - Sunday 28th September, 11:00am - 5:00pm
Admission free

An exhibition of ceramics by Alice Mara and photography by Phillipa Stanton.

Exhibition poster featuring a derelict factory building, a Georgian terrace and a man pressing his hands against a phone box

PHILIPPA STANTON

Philippa Stanton is an artist, photographer and author of the 'Conscious Creativity’ books which have now sold over 25,000 copies.

Philippa has created synaesthesia paintings and photographs for clients including The Crown Estate, TUI, Green and Blacks, Fortnum and Mason, Barclays, Spotify, The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, Illuminum Fragrance, Boutiquey Gin and Domino’s Pizzas.

She has given talks and demonstrations for UCL London, Vogue London, Instagram, the Royal Society Summer Exhibition and at both the Cheltenham Literary and Science Festivals where she painted live on stage to a pianist playing Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures At An Exhibition’.

Her work has been featured on BBC's Radio 4 and The World Service as well as on television in the Horizon Special: Is Seeing Believing?, SmArt, and The One Show with Michael Mosely.

As a synaesthesia voice and taste artist, Philippa has been artist in residence at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, exhibited her solo show of celebrity voice portraits ‘PerSona' at Brighton’s Theatre Royal, her ’Seeing Sense’ exhibition at The Hop Gallery, and other exhibitions at The Orange Tree, Richmond, Taylor St Baristas, Mayfair, Ten Green Bottles, Brighton, Symposium, Lewes, ArtatFive and 35 North.

Philippa has held an obsession with telephone kiosks since dropping out of her History of Design Degree at Manchester Poly in 1992. It took her over 30 years to take this artistic dog leg, give in to her obsession, and exhibit some of her telephone kiosk photographs for the first time at The Halpern Pop Gallery in Rochester last September. She still takes voice portrait commissions for private clients, but is currently focused on telephone box portraits before they all get taken out over the next 3 years.

Philippa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/5ftinf

ALICE MARA

Alice Mara is a ceramic artist with over twenty years’ experience and is widely acclaimed for her skilled craftsmanship and innovative designs. She is confident and ambitious in her work and has won industry awards including the Ella Doran Award for Best New Designer, the Queensbury Hunt Award for innovative use of ceramics, and the Royal Academy of Scottish Art Award for Best Female Sculptor.

Alice’s work has been exhibited at The Royal Academy, Christies and Fortnum & Mason in London, at the New York Print Fair, and in galleries in Paris and Italy. She has undertaken commissions for museums and galleries including The Hayward Gallery, The William Morris Museum, Sheffield Museum and Brighton Pavilion, and has created work for clients as far afield as Beijing and Aberystwyth. Her work is featured in numerous publications including You Magazine, Elle, Ceramic Review and Printmaking Today.

Alice has a Degree and Masters in Ceramics and taught pottery for over ten years to University students across the South East.

Alice’s commercial success has meant she now concentrates on what she loves most, undertaking unique commissions for individual clients looking for distinctive pieces of art. Alice has spent her career developing the relationship between form, function and decoration, and has an insatiable appetite for new challenges. When she is not busy working in her studio, Alice loves to travel, and finds inspiration in foreign architecture and urban patterns.

Alice Mara on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alicemaraceramics

 

Cameron Contemporary present:
Exhibition of work by Victoria Kiff

Wednesday 1st - Sunday 12th October
Times TBA
Admission free

More to follow.

 

Exhibition: Design Nation

Wednesday 1st - Sunday 12th October
Times TBA
Admission free

More to follow.

 

Exhibition: Group Show, details to follow

Wednesday 29th October - Sunday 2nd November
Times TBA
Admission free

Gina-Marie Cincinnati curated group show. More to follow.

 

Cameron Contemporary present:
Winter Show 2025

Wednesday 19th - Sunday 23rd November
Times TBA
Admission free

More to follow.

 

Exhibition of work by Sarah Shaw

Wednesday 26th - Sunday 30th November
Times TBA
Admission free

More to follow.

 

Town House Open Weekend

Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th December
Times TBA
Admission free

More to follow.

 

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