About Hove Plinth
Hove Plinth is an ambitious community-led public art project by Hove Civic Society (Reg Charity 1187602) creating a brand new cultural attraction on the historic Hove seafront. Hove Plinth will bring exciting new public art to the city and showcase a changing programme of the best in modern day sculpture. Major works will stay on the plinth for a set period, after which they will be moved to permanent public sites in Hove. The first sculpture Constellation by Jonathan Wright was installed in 2018 and is now installed in the Hove Museum gardens having made way for the second sculpture Flight of the Langoustine by Pierre Diamantopoulo MRSS which was inaugurated on 17 September 2023 by the mayor of Brighton & Hove. View videos of Flight of the Langoustine in the making.
Hove Plinth and sculptures are funded by voluntary contributions. We invite you all to support this fantastic project.
Constellation was inaugurated at its new home at Hove Museum of Creativity 26 May 2024
Thank you to Localgiving / Magic Little Grants, Arts Society East Sussex and Brighton & Hove Museums for funding gilding workshops to restore Constellation icons and thank you to all the workshop participants!
Flight of the Langoustine edition
A limited-edition bronze series based on the Flight of the Langoustine sculpture is available for purchase from Hove Civic Society. Part of the proceeds of sales will be invested back into future public art projects.
Contact info@hovecivicsociety.org
Constellation maquette
A limited edition Constellation maquette in cast Carrara marble and stainless steel is available for purchase. from Hove Civic Society. Contact info@hovecivicsociety.org
Small but perfectly formed
Partners
Main Funders
Supporting organisations
Elaine Evans BEM, Karin Janzon, Helmut Lusser, Michael and Stephanie Brada, Bob Ryder, Niklas Lusser, John Kapp, Regency Society, Jon Turner, Peter Roberts, Jon Orrell, Andrew Nichols, Crispin Ellison, Alison Minns, Simon Lambor, Robin Cameron, Louise Arnell, Genevieve Ballard, Hazel Reeves, the Papanichola family, Kellie Miller, Philip O’Callaghan, Shelagh Diplock, Simon Boyd, Vaughan Rees, Nick Osmond, Phoebe Wyss.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Photography
Tony Bowall, FRPS
http://www.tonybowallphotography.com/
A fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Tony is well known nationally for his images of Brighton & Hove and, in particular, for his Beach Hut Portraits Project, from which we borrowed to make the banner for this website.
http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/index.aspx
Tony Mould was the official photographer for the Hove Plinth launch. He covers a wide range of local events for the My Brighton and HovConstellation Speaks
The sound file www.callhove.uk was produced by Clare Bowskill. The script was written by Nicole Urbanski and read by actors Foss Shepherd and Claire Sturgess. Matt Creed provided mixing and sfx design. Web and phone access was set up by Dean Few, Department of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton.
Website
The website was designed by Dean Few and Karina Rodriguez – Echavarria at the Department of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton.
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