- Venue
- Brighton & Hove
- Starts
- Saturday, November 26, 2022
- Ends
- Sunday, December 11, 2022
- Address
- Various Venues
- Location
- South East England
- Organiser
- Artists Open Houses
Artists Open Houses Winter 2022
November 26|27, December 3|4, December 10|11
Blue Angel, Scoffin | Northern Lights, venue 26
To mark its 40th anniversary in 2022, Artists Open Houses will celebrate with a second festival during the run up to Christmas. 64 houses across the Brighton & Hove area will open their doors to sell a range of artworks and handmade crafts as unique gifts.
“Artists Open Houses connect artists and makers with an audience of art-lovers, buyers and industry professionals – and is also fun to take part in, exhibiting with your friends in your own home.”
Judy Stevens, Artists Open Houses Festival Director
The festival is an inclusive community event and represents a huge variety of Brighton & Hove’s creatives. As well as artists’ houses the festival will feature housing associations, such as senior residents Rose Hill Rebels, local specialist education college St John’s, independent retailers and artists studio collectives.
Many of the venues also offer festive fayre, creating a warm atmosphere to make the whole Christmas shopping experience interesting, pleasurable and unhurried.
The open houses can be visited over the weekends of:
November 26 |27, December 3|4 and December 10|11
(Openings may be limited to a selection of these dates)
Artists Open Houses
Artists Open Houses (AOH) helps artists connect with audiences in
self-curated, non-traditional art spaces; which means usually (but not exclusively) artists’ own homes. To this end they co-ordinate and promote open house festivals, during May alongside the Brighton and Fringe Festivals, and a Winter festival in November/ December. Involvement in AOH festivals is open to anyone living within the 01273 landline telephone code area. The ethos is inclusive rather than selective, encouraging participation from artists and makers of all ages, at all stages of their careers and from all parts of the community, including school and college students and artists who might otherwise be excluded or marginalised from the art world mainstream.
AOH is also commemorating a long history of education partnerships, and students and emerging artists are especially welcome this year. Many of its founders were working in the region’s art colleges when the movement began in the 1980s; they recognised the enormous benefits that working on projects alongside professional artists brings to art students. AOH is pleased to continue to provide this platform to support students and graduates following the disruption of the pandemic.
www.aoh.org.uk [email protected]
Instagram: @artistsopenhouses
#AOH40 #AOH2022 #artistsopenhouses
Press Contacts:
Jessica Wood and Holly Finch
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Tel: 07939 226988
