Over three hundred people gathered at the Hilton Brighton Metropole (December 3) to see all fifty unique Snailspace sculptures go under the hammer and slide away to their forever homes.
Over three hundred people gathered at the Hilton Brighton Metropole (December 3) to see all fifty unique Snailspace sculptures go under the hammer and slide away to their forever homes.
The final event of Snailspace Brighton and Hove sees the auction of fifty works of art by over 40 different artists, with hundreds of bidders and two hours of nail-biting excitement both in the room and online.
Legendary DJ and Martlets’ Ambassador, Norman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim, will swap his usual moniker for one day only to mark Martlets’ inaugural #BeMoreSnail day and walking rather than running Norm’s Snail’s Pace Marathon on Friday, October 19.
Are you a closet performer? A humble historian or an art addict? Do you want to meet people, re-discover this vibrant city and help a wonderful cause? If so, then sign up to be a volunteer Route Master as part of the Snailspace art project being run by Martlets, this September.
Internationally renowned DJ and Brighton resident, Norman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim, is spearheading the Snailspace campaign; a street art project with a difference, as fifty giant snails take over the streets of Brighton & Hove this autumn to raise money for Martlets Hospice.
Superstar DJ Norman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim, has been announced as an official Ambassador for Martlets.
One of Brighton’s most established, independent business has signed up as a Snailspace sponsor. Based in the North Laine, Punktured is the city’s ‘go to’ piercing studio for people looking for body adornment. Now in it’s 18th year, Punktured is celebrating with its very own giant gastropod on the Snailway this autumn.
Next autumn the streets of Brighton and Hove will come alive with a colourful and magical art installation featuring up to 50 giant snail sculptures, in aid of Martlets Hospice in Hove. ‘Snailspace’, the much-anticipated follow up to ‘Snowdogs by the Sea’, is reaching out to local artists to submit their designs for this unusual 3D canvas.
