Melanie Woodward’s visually impactful series Omang, meanwhile, explores identity and nationality via the use of documentation to identify people – specifically focusing on giant images of fingerprints in varying degrees of legibility.
Workers and their treatment by employers and those they serve are the subject of Finn Gayton‘s interactive live performance installation Lorry Boy which draws on his own experiences of freight work. Finn will be performing the work at set times during the day on Saturdays and Sundays throughout May: 11am–1pm, 2–3pm and 3.30–5pm.
Megan Ryan, meanwhile, provides a resonant depiction of the disintegration of relationships in her candlelight work Journey, based on wax casts of feet, slowly burning away beneath the flames.
This Open Houses exhibition also provides a taster for the extravaganza of artistic expression that will go on view from University of Brighton art, design and fashion graduates from late May through to July when students will celebrate the return of in-person graduate shows for the first time since 2019.