Abstract sculpture artist Claire Knill and musician and label founder Julian Deane are returning to New House after their In Conversation With talk with Liana Fricker earlier in the year, for a breathtaking sculpture and soundscape collaborative installation.
The exhibition marries Knill’s large suspended sculptures and Deane’s immersive sound environment to create a calming ambience that echoes throughout the gallery, inviting visitors to spend a quiet moment letting the movement and sound unfold around them.
About Claire Knill
Claire Knill is a multidisciplinary British artist based in Brighton. Having completed a degree in Multimedia textiles at Loughborough University (2001), Claires work has developed into a practice including sculpture, installation and collage that reflects on themes of distillation, transition, knowing and unknowing through light, movement, balance and colour.
Her work is exhibited regularly at Artists Open House in Brighton and The Affordable Art Fair in London, where she is represented by Lara Bowen Contemporary.
She has undertaken residencies including A Place To Breathe Slowly at the Regency Townhouse, which combined sculpture, sound, and spatial installation.
Prior to working as a full-time artist, she held senior roles in luxury travel marketing and communications, including Head of Marketing & PR at Black Tomato.
Her current practice reflects the ongoing reconfiguration of earlier professional experience into sculptural form, process, and material decision-making.
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About Julian Deane
Julian Deane is a soundscape artist, writer, and former music industry professional.
He began his career as a musician in Toploader, who released multi-platinum records and achieved multiple UK Top 20 singles.
He later moved into artist management and label operations, working with artists including Bombay Bicycle Club, Reverend and the Makers, and Dream Wife. He most recently served as Managing Director and A&R at Raygun, a Brighton-based management company, record label, and music publisher.
He now works independently as a soundscape artist and writer, focusing on sound as space, attention, and composition.
His current practice emerges from a long history of industry-facing roles, where systems of management, representation, and structure are reworked into sound-based creative output.
He has recently stepped away from full-time artist management after two decades in the industry.
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