Throughout this year I've been working in various capacities with Brighton Hip Hop Festival. One of the projects was 'Frieze Box', a mobile public art installation designed to bring the work of emerging visual artists into the public arena. We built a huge canvas wrapped box which the invited artists came and painted in rotation over a 2 week period. Positioned outside the public library in Jubilee Square, Brighton it benefited from the vast amount of foot traffic passing through the area on a daily basis. Although stressfull at times and realised with next to no budget, the project was a considerable success and has inspired lots of ideas for future endeavours.
Frieze Box would not have been possible without the support of Indy Hunjan - KALA PHOOL, Kevin DaCosta, Richard Nutbourne - Coolflight, Flint Hire & Supply, Brighton & Hove City Council, Jubilee Library, the BHHF07 volunteer squad, all the artists who participated for free in often adverse weather conditions and most of all, my partner in crime for this project the omnipresent Sri McKinnon.
You can check out some pics of the project at the Frieze Box Flickr site.
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