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40 Duke Street, Brighton, BN1 1AG
Fabrica is an art gallery in the heart of Brighton, committed to promoting understanding of contemporary visual art and craft. It opened in March 1996 in the redundant Holy Trinity Church with the support of South East Arts, Brighton Borough Council, The Foundation for Sport and the Arts, and Chichester Diocese. The original idea grew out of the ambitions of Red Herring Studios, in Hove, to provide access to contemporary visual art. Fabrica runs the Artist Resource, a free drop-in information centre, events and one-to-one advice programme to support professional development of visual artists, arts managers and educators in South East England. Library resources include information on self-employment, studio set-up, exhibition venues, funding sources, artists' networks, post-graduate study and training.
Fabrica occupies the space of the former Holy Trinity Church, a deconsecrated building in the centre of Brighton. Whilst for the majority of its exhibitions the gallery tacitly renounces this sacral connection, there are occasions when Read on…
Fabrica, Brighton
2 April - 23 May 2010
Reviewed by: Jonathan Gilhooly »
The Incommensurable Banner ‘The Incommensurable Banner’ is a shocking and disturbing representation of Thomas Hirschhorn’s five year anguish over the media’s coverage of the Iraq and Afghanistan war, his Read on…
Fabrica, Brighton
4 October - 22 November 2008
Reviewed by: Olivia Oldfield-Beechey »
The Chameleon Project’s Prototype 9 and The Science of Sympathy Currently exhibited in Brighton's Fabrica Gallery, The Chamelion Project’s ‘Prototype 9’ is the penultimate prototype in a two year exploration into Read on…
Fabrica, Brighton
17 October - 12 December 2009
Reviewed by: Olivia Oldfield-Beechey »
It isn't often that I feel compelled to stay with an installation for a prolonged period of time but Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen's installation Cast Off proved hard to walk away from. The piece, which dominates the redundant church in which it Read on…
Fabrica, Brighton
21 June 25 August
Reviewed by: Jessica Curry »