Fabrica

Fabrica offer a programme of events, workshops and activities devised to maximise accessability and inclusion for individuals regardless of their abilities or any other aspects of their lives which may prevent them from engaging with visual arts.

Entitled Working With Diverse Audiences there are a few activities scheduled during the forthcoming exhibition (Otilith Group – opening April 13th).

Skate Arc is a project in development by artist Lulu Allison. Lulu is artist in residence based at Brighton Youth Centre, the project is a collaboration with Fabrica and Brighton Youth Centre

Throughout The Forty Part Motet Jessica Curry has been artist-in-residence at Fabrica. Last Friday 20 May, she conducted a listening walk around the centre of Brighton. Participants were asked to follow Jessica without talking, and to pay attention to the cacophony of sounds in the street. Here are Jessica’s reflections on the walks taken from [...]

As I arrive at Fabrica there is a real buzz of excitement, not the usual air of intellectual sobriety at many previews – a real feeling of intense curiosity and delight. At such events people usually stand around, near the artworks, looking coolly sufficient in their interest and I feel just nervous and awkward.

It was exciting to have had the opportunity to take a glimpse during the installation process of the House of Vernacular at the Fabrica Gallery, Brighton. The exhibition consists of a series of amateur and commercial photographic images selected by artist Martin Parr, and is part of the Brighton Photo Biennial.

A Fabrica volunteer, Daniel Yáñez González-Irún, asked Frederic Geurts if he could take photos to document the building of ‘A Fine Line’ as it developed in the gallery. This is a selection of those images.

Selamat pagi/tengah hari/petang/malam, readers! That means good morning/afternoon/evening/night in my national language, the Malay language.

This is how it started. Back in February ‘09, I was at work for a weekend during a hire of the gallery for a fashion market. I’d been vaguely thinking that I should set up a Facebook group for Fabrica with an equally vague idea of why, just that it might be a good idea [...]