Public Art House, new art work
Article Date: 10/27/2011
By bringing art to the people, the
ground-breaking work of the Public Art House team creatively
challenges current perceptions of exhibiting artists’ work. Public
Art House is co-funded by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and Kent
County Council.
Public Art House proudly presents the new work of artists Shelly
Goldsmith and Jane Pitt. The artists have been commissioned to make
a creative response to the Duke of York public house and the
Wetherspoon’s Opera House public house in Tunbridge Wells. The new
art work is complemented by museum objects selected by the artists
from the collections of Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art
Gallery.
Goldsmith’s work The Lovers draws upon the layers of
romantic liaisons that have taken place over the years in the Duke
of York public house, where stories are told and intimacies are
revealed.
Is it the beer or the building talking? Pitt’s work
Eccentric Pub Opera reveals hidden sounds of the
Wetherspoon’s Opera House pub also once a cinema and bingo hall in
her re-working of a traditional opera.
Visitors to the pubs can participate with the work by making
their own versions of the pub opera or adding to our game of coded
consequences.
The work will be on display from 5 November 2011 – 1 May
2012.
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the Public Art House Project Website
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