Hinterland at Ovoid studio 2024

Hinterland at Ovoid studio

Something special happened on the outskirts of Brighton in 2024. Hinterland was a themed show of sculpture, drawing and painting that took place at Ovoid studio –  a shed in a back garden in leafy Ovingdean on the edge of the Brighton metropolis. The show was also part of the Artists Open Houses festival that takes place annually every weekend in May all over the city.

I hosted a group show entitled Hinterland and showed the work of other Brighton, Sussex and UK artists as well as my own. I cleared and prepared the shed during the spring as an exhibition space and used parts of the garden as an art populated corridor that led visitors to it for all the weekends of the AoH event in May.

You could follow my progress towards the open weekends and events on the Ovoid studio Instagram account and there was also an Ovoid Facebook page with its own events section where you could register your interest in attending the show.

Hinterland – what does it mean?

I have written more about how I chose the Hinterland theme and here’s a set of definitions of the word from Wiktionary to consider:

• The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
• The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.
• A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater.
• That which is unknown or unexplored about someone.
• Anything vague or ill-defined, especially something that is ill understood.