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HAROLD OFFEH

PINK PERCHING / BRIGHTON (LAUNCHING 2026)

A new public sculpture celebrating the history and culture of Brighton, commissioned by Landsec Property and produced by the Artists’ Research Centre. The final work incorporates the artist’s research into the design of Brighton’s historic seafront lampposts, local flora and fauna, ecology and social history.

About Harold Offeh

Harold Offeh was born in Accra, Ghana, but grew up in London. He is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. He studied Critical Fine Art Practice at the University of Brighton (1996–99) and completed an MA Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art (1999–2001). He is due to complete his PhD in 2020. He lives in Cambridge and works in London and Leeds, where he is also currently a Reader in Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, Slade School of Art, the Royal Academy Schools, Central St Martins and School of the Art Institute in Chicago, USA.

HELEN CAMMOCK

GARDEN / EASTBOURNE

2023

This new work by Turner Prize winner Helen Cammock has been specially made for the front of the historic Winter Garden venue in Eastbourne’s cultural quarter. The title is a reference both to the building itself and the layers of history and culture that root it within the town; a place where people have come together and communities have grown. Cammock’s works are a poetic celebration of overlooked or perhaps unremarked social history; of people’s stories and their place in society. They give life to feelings and moments which are fleeting, that disappear when we try to describe them. But like a garden, although the way we feel about them may change almost daily, they are also the place we return to for solace, comfort, growth and to feel ourselves again.

Garden is a joint commission between The Artists’ Research Centre, Eastbourne Alive and Towner Eastbourne. Curated by Ben Roberts.

About Helen Cammock

Helen Cammock was born in 1970 in Staffordshire. Cammock examines mainstream historical and contemporary narratives about Blackness, womanhood, oppression and resistance, wealth and power, poverty and vulnerability through film, photography, print, text, song, and performance. 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.

In 2017, Cammock won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women and in 2019 she was the joint recipient of the Turner Prize.

Contact : ben@artistsresearchcentre.org.uk

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