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Phoenix Art Space

Inspiring Social Change Through Art
Championing artists and communities in Brighton through studios, galleries & learning
Open Wed–Sun, 12–5pm
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Phoenix Arts Association Ltd (trading as Phoenix Art Space) is a charitable (not-for-profit) arts organisation based in central Brighton.

07/08/2026

Beyond the Studio: a celebration of artists and makers at Phoenix

Joshua Uvieghara
"...the generosity, critical dialogue and friendships I've found within the Phoenix community have sustained and shaped my practice over the past two decades."

Julian Vilarrubi
"When I came to Phoenix in 1998 my first studio had hardboard walls unattached to the ceiling. A while later, years probably, after the leaking roof had been fixed and the giant water reservoir on the floor had dried up we moved up to the fourth floor and built our own studios, with help of course. I am still up there today."

Juliet Walters
"Phoenix Art Space has been part of my practice since 2007. It’s shaped the pace and structure of my work in practical ways.
In Brighton, where studio space is limited, I’m very aware of its value. Four years as a trustee gave me a greater understanding of the effort required to support and maintain it. I sit and make as Brighton hums along outside."

June Frickleton
"Phoenix is a wonderful community of supportive artists and I am still very happy to be here"

June Nelson
"Long may Phoenix remain an affordable and supportive home for artists."

Karen Barratt
"Many years ago, living in a small house, yearning for a space to make art, I applied for a studio at Phoenix. I love and need my studio, the tree outside my window, the view of St. Peter’s."

Karin Mori
"Following a strange chain of events, I found myself packing a suitcase and flying from Honolulu to the UK in 1989 for a teaching job. Three years later, I was packing my suitcase and heading back home when somebody told me about a new studio group in town called ‘Eye Level’. After many further twists of fate, Eye Level has morphed into Phoenix, and I still haven’t returned home."

Beyond the Studio: a celebration of artists and makers at Phoenix
Open until 13 Sept
Weds – Sun, 12 – 5pm

🎉Phoenix at 30 - celebrating our past, shaping our future

05/08/2026

🍂 Our Autumn Course programme is now live!

New for Autumn 2026:
Natural Dyeing with Cathy Van Hear
The Cyanotype Studio with Nina Garstang

Plus returning favourites:
Contemporary Jewellery with Anna Watson
All Levels Printmaking with Rachel Cohen
Life Drawing with Carolyn Bew
Introduction to Sculpture with Clay with Ember Vincent
Pen and Wash with Zara Slattery
Portrait Drawing and Painting with Allan Ramsay
..and more!

To browse the full programme and book your place visit: https://phoenixartspace.org/learn/courses-at-phoenix/

🎉Phoenix at 30 - celebrating our past, shaping our future

📷 by Phoebe Wingrove

04/08/2026

Opening next week in the Project Space:

Making Waves
PMC Printmakers Council
12 - 23 August
Wed - Sun 12 - 5pm

The Printmakers Council is pleased to exhibit with Phoenix Art Space for the first time.
Our show, Making Waves, features work from our members that thoroughly explores the versatility of mark making and the potential for exploring the artists' ideas. We asked our artists to think beyond the traditional interpretation of the title Making Waves, which has resulted in a show that is a diverse representation of the printmakers' art.

https://phoenixartspace.org/Events/making-waves/

Artwork: Venessa Pugh 'Reflections'

03/08/2026

Introducing the artists taking part in Beyond the Studio: a celebration of artists and makers at Phoenix

Holly Farndell
"Before Phoenix, I shared a dingy office with 9 other artists just down the road. Little did we know it would open up so many opportunities to work together as a collective and meet so many weird and wonderful artists along the way."

Hugh Fox
"I arrived at Phoenix just before the pandemic...even when the building was silent, artists continued to create, adapt and support one another, finding new ways to stay connected and keep making work during an extraordinary period."

Ian Boutell
"In 2015 I was probably the last new sub-leasee at Phoenix but after one year I applied and was confirmed as a Phoenix Studio member. Four guys with very different practices sharing one space was like a condensed University education, BA, MA and PhD all in one...moving to my own studio across the corridor was a wrench, which probably accounts for why I always leave the door open."

Jane Campling
"An important part of my practice is working in the landscape; however, my studio at the Phoenix provides an anchor for my work. Equally important is the community around me: artists and makers with diverse practices sharing a common space which creates an atmosphere that both sustains and pushes my work in meaningful ways."

Jane Fox
"If I were to rescue one thing from the burning building it would be the artist’s right to affordable, non-conformist space in the heart of a city."

Jim Cooke
"Having a private, quiet haven to work in, within a community of fellow artists, is what makes Phoenix such a special place. A hub of creativity and stimulation. A place for formal and casual conversations with diverse artists and arts professionals."

Joseph Young
"I applied to join Phoenix over a decade ago. I was eventually offered a space and came to view it on a hot summer’s morning and it was like a sauna, plus, slightly smaller than my previous studio, so I turned it down... two years later, I got an email saying that a studio was available, and so up to the third floor I went to the very same space I had turned down previously! This time, I said yes"

Open until 13 Sept
Weds – Sun, 12 – 5pm

01/08/2026

✨ What's on this month at Phoenix Art Space?

Main Gallery:
Beyond the Studio: a celebration of artists and makers at Phoenix
On until 13 September

Window Gallery:
Flights – Laurence Tidy
7 - 30 August

Project Space:
Vessel - Fred King
5 - 9 August

Making Waves
Printmakers' Council
12 - 23 August

Clear Canvas
26 August - 6 September

For more details about what's on, visit: phoenixartspace.org/whats-on

📷 Main photo by Phoebe Wingrove

🎉Phoenix at 30 - celebrating our past, shaping our future

31/07/2026

Beyond the Studio: a celebration of artists and makers at Phoenix
11 July - 13 Sept
Weds – Sun, 12 – 5pm

Duong Nguyen
"For me, Phoenix exists as a site of transition: a place where ideas are tested, reworked, and sometimes left unresolved. It remains a space I return to, carrying traces of different stages of my practice and personal history."

Emily Beaumont
"Artists here have been really encouraging which has led me to reach out to another maker, form a collaboration and hold an exhibition of my own work - which has always been my dream."

Emily Jolley
"My first studio was on the fourth floor, a long slim studio with fantastic light. I then moved to the third floor to a smaller compact studio and now I am on the second floor, a beautiful square-shaped studio which looks straight into the tops of the elm trees and overlooks the junction, all the things I love."

Emma Critchley
"The studio is my sanctuary. When I’m designing installations the space allows me to move off the screen of my laptop, project images and films onto the wall and start thinking at scale."

Fergus Heron
"For me Phoenix Art Space is a place for focused concentration on studio production and shared conversations around the different activities within the production process among a highly supportive community."

Geoff Hands
"After over twenty years of visiting Phoenix events, taking part in numerous exhibitions and being an external member I was eventually able to secure a studio after retirement from full-time teaching. Expanding my home studio into my much appreciated space at the Phoenix has contributed enormously to my development as a painter."

Gordon Grant
"Before taking a studio at Phoenix I had been a museum conservator (mainly at the Royal Pavilion and Museums in Brighton) for many years, and at other times a freelance decorative artist. I first encountered Phoenix through occasional visits to exhibitions and through the inspiring ‘Spotlight’ talks given by Phoenix artists."

🎉 This year marks our 30th year as an arts charity – join our celebrations and find out more about our future plans.

30/07/2026

Opening next week in the Project Space:
VESSEL
Fred King
5 - 9 August
Wed - Sun 12 - 5pm

‘VESSEL’ is Fred kings second solo exhibition, that explores mediums of sculpture and performance. ‘VESSEL’ explores the idea of the body as a temple for expression . Observing the body and blood as a form of physical identification and creative purpose.

This work spans over 2 years of work that stemmed from a series of uncontrollable noise bleeds I experienced during a creative period block. Through these uncontrollable nose bleeds, I was able to incorporate physical blood into some of the elements of the pieces . Which later manifested itself into the concept of ‘VESSEL’. Being able to be creatively free in oneself.

Preview: Thursday 6 Aug, 6-8pm

https://phoenixartspace.org/Events/fred-king-vessel/

🎉 This year marks our 30th year as an arts charity – join our celebrations and find out more about our future plans.

29/07/2026

Beyond the Studio: a celebration of artists and makers at Phoenix
11 July - 13 September
Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 5pm

Dagmara Rudkin

David Blandy
"A studio block is a place of conversations in corridors and chance meetings and connections. Of knowing there are other people struggling for the same things you believe in; a creative life, a life of trying to find meaning and beauty in the world."

David Harkins
"In around 1995 I visited a lovely painter called Gary Sollars at The Phoenix ( he’s now in Liverpool).
I casually mentioned that my having to paint at home was becoming increasingly messy. He insisted I submit an application for a studio there and then. After several years a space came up and this coincided with starting my MA. I love it & feel so lucky to be part of The Phoenix"

David Price
"I love my studio, it’s like a shed that I can escape too, a godsend that got me through the lockdowns. I spend as much time in it as my flat, if not more, it’s such an enormous part of me."

David Scott Moore
"The diverse creatives here and the staff have offered a great sense of community. My studio, a large, dedicated, and bright space, became somewhere I could be productive to experientially develop in landscape painting."

Denise Felkin
"A year after completing my fine art degree in Sunderland, I moved to Brighton to pursue a PGCE. Phoenix immediately caught my attention. The building manifested a powerful possibility: a studio space of my own. I joined in 2001."

Denise Harrison
"Having an art studio within a community of fellow artists provides a valuable network of support and a space where new ideas can be nurtured."

🎉 This year marks our 30th year as an arts charity – join our celebrations and find out more about our future plans.

28/07/2026

"Joining a Board can feel like a closed room, and we want to say plainly that this one is not.
Phoenix Art Space is a real, working organisation of artists, audiences and ideas, and being a Trustee here is, in my own experience, unusually rewarding. You join a charity that is creatively alive, civically engaged, and ambitious about the role art plays in everyday life. You sit alongside colleagues who treat governance as a craft, not a chore. And you arrive at a moment where the decisions we take together will genuinely shape what Phoenix Art Space becomes.
If you have skill, judgement, generosity and curiosity in the right mix, we would love to hear from you, even if you have never sat on a Board before. The pack will tell you what we are looking for. The conversation that comes before any application is where most of the thinking gets done. Please do get in touch."

Download our recruitment pack: https://phoenixartspace.org/opportunities

Bring your expertise. Bring your curiosity. Help shape our next 30 years.

Address

Phoenix Art Space, 10-14 Waterloo Place
Brighton
BN29NB

Opening Hours

Wednesday	12pm - 5pm
Thursday	12pm - 5pm
Friday	12pm - 5pm
Saturday	12pm - 5pm
Sunday	12pm - 5pm

Telephone

+441273603700

Website

http://www.phoenixartspace.org/

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