This panel discussion was recorded. Watch it back here.
With thanks to BUILDHOLLYWOOD and Kunstraum Productions.

On the occasion of Helen Cammock’s takeover of multiple billboards in Brighton from 3-6 August, you are invited to join the artist in conversation with former director of Brighton Centre for Contemporary Art (Brighton CCA), Ben Roberts, as well as executive director of Phoenix Art Space Lucy Day, moderated by author and The Art Newspaper journalist Anny Shaw. Artist collective ProjectOurs – who are currently in residency at Phoenix Art Space – will also be joining the discussion.

Originally planned to coincide with the opening of a major outdoor commission by Cammock for the recently closed Brighton CCA, the deepest crease in the folds of stone and the sweet taste of salt (2023) by Helen Cammock is a newly commissioned series of work that has morphed from an ode to Brighton and its many folds, into a plea and a challenge to its institutions to support and nurture the contemporary visual arts in a more structured, sustained and existential way.

This launch event is an opportunity to platform vital conversations about what it means to value art – as a practice and as a cultural context. Bringing together voices from Brighton’s arts scene, the event will explore the importance of preserving and nurturing arts education, looking at what changes are necessary to create a more hopeful future for artists and the wider art ecosystem in Brighton and beyond.

This event is part of ‘All About Love’ commissioned by BUILDHOLLYWOOD in five UK cities this year and is curated by Zarina Rossheart. Using cultural critic bell hooks’ seminal work of the same name as a starting point, this project was initiated with the hope to inspire audiences to create a better future together.

‘All About Love’ is commissioned as part of BUILDHOLLYWOOD’s Your Space Or Mine, an ongoing project that has provided artists and creatives a unique platform to bring their work to the streets of the UK for more than a decade.

ALL ABOUT LOVE PROGRAMME:

GRACE NDIRITU – BIRMINGHAM | 28-30 APRIL

JASLEEN KAUR – GLASGOW | 9-11 JUNE

EVE STAINTON – MANCHESTER | 7-9 JULY

HELEN CAMMOCK – BRIGHTON | 3-6 AUGUST

ASMAA JAMA – BRISTOL | 8-10 SEPTEMBER

For more information, please visit www.buildhollywood.co.uk/all-about-love

This event is kindly hosted by Phoenix Art Space.

ABOUT HELEN CAMMOCK

Helen Cammock has been a resident of Brighton since 1989. Her works often cut across time and geography, layering multiple voices as she investigates the cyclical nature of histories in her visual and aural assemblages. Through film, photography, print, text, song and performance, Cammock examines mainstream historical and contemporary narratives about Blackness, womanhood, oppression and resistance, wealth and power, poverty and vulnerability, throughout her practice.

In 2017, Cammock won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women and in 2019 was the joint recipient of The Turner Prize. She has exhibited and performed worldwide with recent and current solo shows including They Call it Idlewild, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada (2023); I Will Keep My Soul, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, USA, (2023); Behind The Eye Is The Promise Of Rain, Kestner Gesellshaft, Hannover, Germany (2022); Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK (2021), Beneath the Surface of Skin; STUK Art Centre, Leuven, Belgium (2021); Che Si Può Fare (What Can be Done), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2019), Che Si Può Fare, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2019) and The Long Note, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2019); VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland (2018). Group shows include Breathing, Hamburger Kuntshalle, Hamburg, Germany (2022) and Radio Ballads, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (2022). She has an upcoming solo show at Amant, New York, March 2023 and a new book with Siglio Press and rivers Institute in April 2023 called I Will Keep My Soul. She is represented by Kate MacGarry, London. www.helencammock.co.uk