Gallery & Art
The Oriental Hotel was often associated with contemporary artwork and was a hangout for the Brighton art crowd. Consequently the Oriental is now an epicentre for displaying 'Brighton Art' on many different levels.
The gay friendly Oriental is delighted to be able to announce that Patrick O'Donnell (a former resident artist here) will be showing his new Exhibition "You make Me Gay" as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival at the Oriental between 1 and 31 May 2010. Furthermore 10% of any sales will be going to the Terence Higgins Trust
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An exhibition of forgotten or overlooked gay icons. "Mr O'Donnell is one of my favourite gay bearded brighton-based artists" David Walliams Visitors to the exhibition will have the chance to win their own icon painted specially by Patrick. |
"Patrick O’Donnell’s radiant and powerful abstract paintings won him the Neo Hotel Art Prize at 2008 ’s Brighton Art Fair. His oil paintings depict the power and grandeur of the forces of nature, swirling mists, and Krakatoan vistas." Latest 7, Sussex
Recent exhibitors at the Oriental include another local artist Aaron Holmes and Brighton borne Scott Allen.