Brighton Art Fair and The Hove Civic Society

Brighton Art Fair takes place between 28 - 30 September, 2007 at Brighton’s Corn Exchange and showcases affordable artwork mostly between £50 and £1500. Artists are carefully selected from over 300 applications received each year to showcase orginal and innovative artwork across a wide mix of media and styles.

The Hove Civic Society was formed over 40 years ago in response to a boom in building in the sixties. Its aim was to protect the conservation areas, to ensure high standards of architecture and town planning and to encourage the public's interest in the urban environment. It maintains that aim to the present day by monitoring planning applications, working with other conservation societies, by representation on the Conservation Advisory Group and liaison with the Civic Trust.

The Hove Civic Society is offering a £500 prize for:

"An original piece of artwork focussing on the urban environment"

The work will be judged on artistic merit and subject matter. This should comprise any architectural theme or detail, or any reference to design or planning in the urban landscape. The society's aim in offering this award is to increase the public's appreciation of these factors in their everyday surroundings. The Hove Civic Society would expect to use the winning image for publicity purposes.


The work can be in any medium approved for display at the Brighton Art Fair and must be on show at the event.


The prize will awarded by a panel comprising a guest judge, John Small, President of the City's Conservation Advisory Group. The other judges are Lesley Clarke, Chairman of the Hove Civic Society and Decorative and Fine Arts Society Church Recorder and Sarah Young of the Brighton Art Fair.

The prize will be judged and presented at the Brighton Art Fair Private View on Thursday 27th September.




Wednesday, 26 September 2007

Natalie Martin

Brighton Bandstand, 2007. acrylic on canvas, 45 x 60 cm, £ 680

Assumption I, Lost in Hove, 2007. acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm. £ 380


Ascension V, “Bristol Fashion”, 2007. acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 cm. £ 220

I am currently exploring the idea of ‘journey’; through space and time; toward a destination or a spiritual awakening; as the traveller or the onlooker. This is being expressed through creating a series of paintings examining how the space around us defines our movement, by highlighting the architectural features that we pass by on foot and pass over visually as they seem mundane and unremarkable. Indeed, we can only perceive our own movement by the recognition of the inert ‘watching’ structures that surround us and that we will ultimately leave behind. I seek to re-examine their apparent banality and invoke a celebration of the ordinary. By glorifying the unloved and unvalued markers in the landscape of the journey, the journey itself is enriched.


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