Voyager II
featuring:
Beau Travail & Lost Highway
June 5 - July 2004

Phoenix Gallery

Waterloo Place. Brighton. BN2 9NB
Project Office tel and fax:01273 604422
email: studio@mazestudios.org.uk

The Voyager Project is an initiative undertaken by Maze Studios, assisted by Ignition Network, to forge links with artists abroad and develop opportunities to exhibit overseas.

In January, as part of the tenth"Semaine Du Cinema Britanique" in Abbeville, France, the artists of Maze presented Voyager, an exhibition on the theme of travel. This exhibition attracted favourable attention and contacts were soon established with artists in the Picardy region, some of whom were invited to exhibit as part of Voyager II.

Beau Travail features six artists who are based in Picardy, France, most of whom have exhibited internationally. Their work reveals unexpected properties of everyday materials; photographs, paper, plastic bags, video, concrete, and ceramics with rubbish.
Fred Boucher, Dominique De Beir, Gaele Braun, Jean-Sebastien Leblond Duniach (jsld),Denis Pondruel, Gabrielle Wambaugh.

Lost Highway is an exhibition of new work by the artists of Maze Studios. Inspired by the narrow gallery and its close proximity to the relentless city traffic, the point of departure for each piece is the road.
Louise Body, Louise Bristow, Barry Falk, Jane Fox, Simon Grennan, Julia Ingle , David Miles, June Nelson, Sebastian Pedley, Michael Seal, Russell Webb, Ina Weber.

Maze Studios were established in 1988. It is a non-profit making organisation that currently provides space for 12 artists with a strong commitment to their practice.

Maze have been based at a number of sites in Brighton and Hove since they began at North Road when they converted a dilapidated property into 20 studios and two gallery spaces. Here they hosted exhibitions by local and national artists, performances, film and video, workshops and community projects.

To make way for redevelopment , Maze moved to Stoneham Road in Hove in1994 and similarly in 1999 relocated to premises owned by the Phoenix Arts Association at Waterloo Place, Brighton. These moves forced Maze to reconsider its purpose and identity.

One outcome was the decision to hold regular group exhibitions of experimental new work. 'Housebound', held at Phoenix during December2001, was the first of these. The exhibition succesfully brought together the diverse work of the membership around the theme of domesticity and was very well received.

The security and support offered by Phoenix has allowed its artists to go from strength to strength. The Voyager Project is a symbol of this.

June 5 - July 3 2004
The Phoenix, 10 -14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB. tel (01273) 603700
Open: Tues - Sat11 am - 5 pm (closed Sun & Mon)
Private View; Saturday June 5th, 6 - 9 pm.
For further information email: studio@mazestudios.org.uk tel: (01273)604422
www.mazestudios.org.uk
The Voyager Project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Interreg IIIa