All photos: Syl Ojalla The winners of the AOH 2023  Awards were announced on Thursday night at the AOH Awards Night. The event was generously hosted by the Old Ship Hotel AOH Best Open House Award – Sponsored by Latest TV: The nominations were: Vida Active Artists – Hove trail The Red Door – Fiveways trail Art […]

‘If I could speak to a younger version of me, the one that left university with less confidence in her creative ability than when she started. I’d tell her, ‘It’ll be ok. Your passion for art will come back, you just need a little time, the right set of circumstances and a few inspiring ‘mentors’ […]

All photos: Syl Ojalla You tell us what you liked best about your favourite Open House: Vida Active Artists Open House: ‘Great variety of colourful, lively work, friendly welcoming artists, surprising garden with refreshments and live music. Loved it! ‘ ‘Really friendly mix of multi cultural and international artists from as far afield as Mongolia!’ […]

Ceramic  House (photo: Syl Ojalla) We asked you to tell us what you loved best about visiting Artists Open houses – and here is the really wonderful feedback: ‘I love to see Brighton from different viewpoints and to see the amazing work of artists and artisans that we have locally.’ ‘All of it! Definitely coming […]

Image credit: Francine Kay (all other images: Syl Ojalla) Hi Sarah, You home is like amazing and exotic installation, reflecting yourself and your work. Can you tell how you came to be doing an Open House this year? I have always admired artists who open their homes, and honestly never thought I had what it took […]

No 35 Meryl Stringell – Still Life with Silver Pot – Ditchling trail  Why not have a day out in the historic Downland village of Ditchling? Located at the foot of Ditchling Beacon and nestled within the South Downs National Park, Ditchling village plays host to a selection of contemporary artists, craftspeople, and designers/ makers, showcasing […]

  Hi David, the Figment Arts project A Room of Our Own in Hanningtons Lane has been so exciting! Can you tell us about the outlines and aims of the project? A Room Of Our Own is an exhibition and ‘Open Studio’ where we invite the public to join us in creating large-scale artworks, which in turn become […]

Lucianna Whittle – Great White AOH talks to Liz Wakefield of Sussex Nightstop: Hi Liz, can you tell us a bit about Sussex Nightstop? Nightstop was a community response, started in Leeds to address homelessness by opening up volunteer homes to young people in need. It started small, but has now become a national movement, […]

  Hi Sam Your work is really intriguing and, on the surface, may be seen as purely about people and their shadows. First of all, can you tell is how you photograph and select the people you paint? Ha, I wonder if that is the hardest and most pertinent question you could ask. I have […]

Matt Henry: Phone call Hi Matt, Your photographs are compelling because we’re not quite sure what we’re seeing. They are like stills from films that never existed; can you tell us how you came to work in this way? I began life as a magazine journalist with novelist ambitions. I’d always been a big reader of fiction as […]

Figment Arts – A Room of Our Own For one day – Sunday 14th May – you can take part in our special Treasure Hunt Day. Our partners at Brighton Fringe are offering five great prizes to the first five successful Treasure Hunters (see below). Follow our Treasure Hunt clues around a trail of six Open Houses […]

The Regency Town House The Rapture exhibitions and programme of talks sound fascinating. Can you tell us about the name and how artists were selected? The name Rapture felt like a really good fit for what we are creating, because it relates to a present-moment experience that is somewhat indefinable yet expansive and exciting. We […]

  Hi Amanda – It sounds like some interesting things are happening at Rottingdean’s Beacon Hill Windmill! Can you tell us a little bit about your Open House and how it acquired its name – More Tales from the Windmill? Thank you, yes, we are very pleased to be exhibiting inside the Windmill for the third year […]

Artist: Judy Dwyer Offering a great alternative to royal events, many Open Houses this year will be open on Monday 8th May. Have a trip out to the countryside, visiting the wonderful cluster of Open Houses in the Downland village of Ditchling who’ll be opening that day. Back in town, many houses in the Hove […]

(image credit:Ryan Bollard) A big thank you to all who came to the AOH launch on Thursday – what a great evening it was! Jane Bom-Bane and Eliza Skelton entertained us with songs about Einstein and relativity, whilst wearing a mechanical hat! (image credit:Rowena Easton) AOH brochure cover artist Daisy Jordan’s puppeteering performance was beautiful […]

Hi Daisy,  Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your background as an artist? I’m a visual artist, maker and puppeteer, born and raised in Dartford, currently based in Brighton. I studied Fine Art Painting at the University of Brighton from 2006-2009. How did you become a puppeteer? I discovered my love for puppets […]

  Have you ever wondered what it’s like getting ready to transform your home into an Open House? Take a look at Jo Moore and Laurence Wallace’s (speeded up) film The Big Hang and get a glimpse into the inside story!   And here is Jomo Hove Open House in action last May! You can visit […]

International artist Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva has preserved one of the iconic Preston Park Twins as a new sculptural celebration of these ancient elms. She exhibits her prints, drawings and small gilded objects in four Open Houses this May (see below for details) in support of  Preston Park Twins project. We talked to Elpida: Can you tell […]

Why on earth would anyone open up their house to hundreds of random people over the summery month of May? Surely there are better things to do over peak season in glorious Brighton than locking yourself inside for consecutive weekends. Well, after much debating – we decided to do just that…and as part of Brighton’s Artists […]