AFTER-IMAGE celebrates the close proximity of the Phoenix Art Space to the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery by presenting a small but engaging display of paintings and photographs inspired by works in the Museum collection.

This exhibition has been devised and curated by Geoff Hands, a PAS studio member.

He writes,

It is necessary for visual artists to see and experience original artworks ‘in the flesh’, rather than only in print or online. Many practitioners are aware of the history behind their respective discipline and see this as celebrating and developing particular subject matters. They may have chosen to empathise with or to react against outmoded forms of representation and now implement contemporary media or frameworks. Works from the past therefore remain alive and relevant to all who view them with a suitably creative attitude and these historical works can be linked to the present either directly or more obliquely.

A link between an organisation holding historical works of art and a contemporary studio collective so close by is tentatively made in AFTER-IMAGE. An exhibition of ‘new’ work that respond in some way to ‘old’ artworks reveals the many skills and interests of artists from the Phoenix, whilst acknowledging one of the primary exhibition spaces and institutions in the city.

Twenty or so works have been selected for AFTER-IMAGE, including photographs from Murray Ballard and Fergus Heron; plus paintings from Perdita Sinclair, Stig Evans, Julian Vilarrubi, Denise Harrison, Bernard G. Mills, June Nelson, Mike Stoakes and Geoff Hands.

Private View: Thursday 30 October, 18.00 – 20.00

Find more information about the artists below

Murray Ballard

Geoff Hands

Denise Harrison

Fergus Heron

Bernard Mills

June Nelson

Perdita Sinclair:

Mike Stoakes

Julian Vilarrubi

Stig Evans