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 […]

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Jemma Day at Temple Group Open House, Photo: Syl Ojalla This is your first time exhibiting with AOH, what are you most looking forward to? We are a new group made up of established artists that have come together to exhibit in this revamped venue at Brighton Girls School.  I am most looking forward to […]

The Winter of Our Disco Tent – exhibition poster by Katherine Griffin We have to ask about the brilliant title of your show ‘The Winter of Our Disco Tent’, tell us more about it.. Those harsh opening lines from Shakespeare’s Richard III never felt so poignantly relevant! As a studio collective of artists, we wanted […]

Emily A – Fox (front view) Hi Miranda – Would you like to tell us a bit about St John’s and what you do? St. John’s College is a specialist further education college for young adults aged 19-25 who are autistic and may have other complex needs, including learning disabilities. We have been based on […]

  Hi Matt, Could you tell us about your practice and if you’ve always been drawn to creating work that is described as ‘stills from an imaginary film‘? ‘Stills from an imaginary film’ is not a description I coined, and I don’t think I set out to do this, but I do tend to think in […]

  Hi Emma,  Can you tell us what made you decide to take part in the AOH Winter festival? I actually exhibited in the May AOH festival back in 2014 – Tony Mills & Friends, Kemptown trail and we won bronze (or 3rd) for best open house. Life, the universe and everything happened in between and, as […]

  Hi Lisa and Alex, You’ve taken part in Artists Open Houses for many years now – when did you first take part? When we first viewed our flat in early 2012 we both said “this would be perfect to do an Open House in” so in May that year we took the plunge, and haven’t […]