Encounters was one of the runner-up houses in 2017. The winner was Montefiore Open House who exhibited a diverse range of work in a variety of media, to include painting, printing, textiles, photography, sculpture, mosaics, ceramics and knitted work. All the work in the exhibition was made by artists with learning disabilities and/or mental health needs. […]
Ashworth & Rattenbury Guitars will play on Sunday afternoon at 4pm at Encounters. Not need to book. Another pleasure to be enjoyed in this edition’s great show.
On Sunday the 21st May Miladys Parejo, Director of Encounters, introduced Yole Quintero to an audience in Encounters’ Garden. She discussed her work in conversation with Gerry Hussein of the Best of Brighton & Hove. Yole is a Venezuelan photographer currently living in London. For 40o months she was away from home but kept in contact through social […]
Annemette Beck is one of Denmark’s most successful and progressive artists. Working with textiles and a team of highly skilled weavers extraordinary works are produced. Around the World leading Hotels and retailers feature these products that are both elegant and inventive.
The River and the Fan film is being shown for the first time anywhere in Encounters Art Space during the Brighton Festival. It is a documentary of the emotional life of inanimate things. Viewers are transported to a world in which a river takes pride in her performing her duties but grows tired of drudgery […]
When we visit a city we absorb many impressions. These are a kind of food. They create new thoughts and feelings, especially as our own memories and those countless others interfuse with the solid forms of an urban landscape. Bea explains her intricate, multi-layed and hauntingly beautiful work in a video made in Encounters Art Space […]
There is no doubt that communicating in a digital world opens the way for completely new forms of expression. The exciting and creative mind of Elizabeth Cemborain sees dramatic possibilities for digital expression and her recent work with digital landscapes, on show in Encounters Art Space, takes the medium to new places. She explains her work (in 4 […]
Garcia Garcia is one of Encounters’ 2017 artists who cannot be with us for the whole month of May. To help visitors he made a video to explain is work. Watch the new video at: Venezuela is one of the World’s centres of Kinetic Art and Carlos Garcia Garcia presented five new works in […]
One of the Venezuelan artists showing work during the 2017 edition of Encounters Art Space is Rafael Reveron. In a specially made film he shows his remarkable sculpture made after studying the Hindenburg disaster, when the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed when it attempted to land in the USA. Rafael Reveron’s degree […]
The Friday night before the first Open House day is a time when artists, friends and collectors get together to celebrate the end of the preparation period and the show that is about to begin.
Those living in West Hove are getting an annual treat. This year the West Hove trail is characterised by diversity. Check out the Artists Open Houses Website http://aoh.org.uk/ for more details.
Living so close to the sea we are used to gulls but the large ones that Marion Brandis made for Encounters this May are spectacular! You can see details of her making process at Large Gulls being made. Marion shows the requirements of each element of the process in a brilliant photo montage. Now her gulls are living […]
Encounters’ Director, Miladys Parejo (on the right of the photo above) and Maria Carlota Diaz (PR) attended the party to launch this year’s brochure at The Old Market in Hove on the 11th April. This year’s brochure is creative and user-friendly. Many artists and house owners attended and heard Councillor Pete West, Mayor of Brighton and Hove, give the […]
This year Encounters will have a Corner Shop selling original artwork (such as the work shown above) and other delights. Take a look when you visit. An opportunity to do some early Christmas shopping! We accept credit cards.
This May you can see Annemette’s untraditional combinations of materials and astonishing creations in Encounters Art Space. Read about her in the Artists Section of this website. Annemette’s work can be seen in the Waldorf Hilton Hotel, Christian Dior Centre, Chanel, the Utzon Centre, McCLaren Headquarters and the Emirates Marina.
