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'LOST PROPERTY'
A NEW EXHIBITION
SEPT 23rd - 28th
@ The Regency Townhouse, BRIGHTON
LOST PROPERTY
An Exhibition by Alice Mara & Philippa Stanton
Ceramic artist Alice Mara and visual artist Philippa Stanton present their joint exhibition LOST PROPERTY at The Regency Townhouse in Brighton from September 23rd - 28th 2025, 11am - 5pm daily.
LOST PROPERTY takes you on an immersive journey of ordinary and everyday history from bin bags, broken glass and sellotape poster ghosts, to what it is to be lost, found and re-imagined…
Both Mara and Stanton’s work celebrates rejuvenation and reinvention through ceramics and telephone boxes.
Alice Mara is known for her poignant and playful ceramic building exteriors and now she is moving inside; creating fantasy ceramic interiors with the feel of an old snapshot or a moment suspended in time. She is also injecting new life into abandoned coffee pots; inspired by the grandeur of Regency elegance combined with the very ordinary, she layers the pots with photographic imagery taken in and around Brighton.
Philippa Stanton’s new work stems completely from telephone kiosks, an obsession she has held for over 30 years. Her telephone box portraits predominantly feature the KX100 series, rather than the red kiosks, feeling that these undervalued, often unseen, ugly kiosks have a greater urgency to be documented and seen as they will have all disappeared in three years time.
Her abstract photographs are all taken either inside or outside a telephone box window and her multi media pieces are more like telephone kiosk relics; a smuggled artefact nicked from the side of the road.
Their work, seen together here for the first time, highlights the need to reminisce, to celebrate our ordinary memories, and consider the potential of all LOST PROPERTY, even if it is never found.