Abstract sculpture artist Claire Knill and musician and label founder Julian Deane are returning to New House for a breathtaking sculpture and soundscape collaborative installation, following their conversation with the founder of Inspiration Space Liana Fricker earlier in the year.
The exhibition marries Knill’s large suspended sculptures and Deane’s immersive sound environment to create a calming ambience that echoes throughout the gallery, a space to breathe slowly. We’ll be 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.
Follow her on Instagram @claireknillart
About Julian Deane
Julian Deane makes music as Woodchester Piano Company, bringing together piano, guitars, vintage synthesisers, violin, saxophone and resonant percussion in slowly unfolding soundscapes.
For Breathe Slowly, he shares excerpts from The Electric Plough, his forthcoming album, due for release in 2027. Developed from a live music and film performance, the record moves through acoustic intimacy, spacious electronics and moments of psychedelic intensity, drawing on landscape, the rhythms of life and the possibility of beginning again.
The exhibition continues a creative conversation with sculptor Claire Knill, whose work featured in Julian’s recent performance of The Plough at The Old Market in Hove. He also composed The Willow Tree in response to one of her sculptures. Both artists invite us to slow down and notice movement, stillness and the space around us. Here, music and sculpture offer visitors room to pause and make their own connections.
Previously a guitarist in Toploader, Julian spent more than two decades working in artist management, records and publishing. His current music and writing explore creativity, change and finding a different pace of life.
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