#BRINGBACKBRIGHTONDOME | Morag Myerscough & Steve Bell

posted by Robyn Pitts October 13, 2020

Morag Myerscough and cartoonist Steve Bell have contributed artwork in support of Brighton Dome’s Crowdfunder campaign, #BRINGBACKBRIGHTONDOME. Donors have already exceeded the initial target, with the registered arts charity hoping to raise £50,000.

Following on from her 2018 Brighton Festival project on a community bandstand on the seafront, Award-winning visual artist Morag has made a bold new artwork to amplify the essential need for art in our lives. Art is our expression and our sunlight has been painted on Brighton Dome’s New Road hoardings, and has also been produced as a signed hand-made screen print, with proceeds going towards the campaign, #BringBackBrightonDome. The hoarding project has also been supported by Dulux as part of the #TrueColours social movement which celebrates acts of kindness that are adding colour to people’s lives.

Morag comments: “I love Brighton and I was so excited when I was asked to create this new artwork for the #BringBackBrightonDome campaign. My work is rooted in creating a sense of joy and belonging and I have always felt strongly that we need art in every form to stimulate us and transport us from the everyday, especially at this time it feels essential for our wellbeing. I hope anyone walking past the mural or hanging my print on their wall will feel that the arts have a positive future are essential and we must help to make sure that the arts have a positive future.”

Posters from Brighton Festival’s archive have also been expertly reproduced as screen prints thanks to Brighton-based fine art printers The Private Press. The latest release is by caricaturist Steve Bell, who is known for his satirical cartoons in The Guardian newspaper. Steve’s illustration features a lively cityscape with famous Brighton & Hove characters including the Prince Regent. His contribution joins David Shrigley’s drawing from 2018; Brighton tattoo artist Adam Sage and design agency Johnson Banks’ artwork for poet and musician Kae Tempest’s 2017 festival; a firework display image from 1988 by Australian pop artist Martin Sharp (1942-2013) and a 1972 image of Brighton palace pier by an unknown artist.