Silly | Brighton Photo Fringe
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10:00am — 4:00pm
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Silly x Brighton Photo Fringe Festival
Our Heritage Barn, at One Garden Brighton, will be transformed into an exhibition as part of Brighton's Photo Fringe Festival - running between 19th October - 3rd November.
The Exhibition
“Silly,” a nickname for Sussex derived from the Saxon word for blessed ("sælig"), invites viewers to explore the legend of the Knucker, a mythical water dragon said to lurk in “Knucker Holes”—bottomless bodies of water scattered across the landscape.
Photographer Toby Lamborn and writer Oliver Rimmer delve into the local sites associated with this creature, blending myth and history to examine how landscapes shape and are shaped by the stories we tell.
This project explores how folklore, like the tales of Knuckers, serpents, and fairies, evolves over time and how photography and text can contribute to the ongoing process of retelling these myths.
About Photo Fringe
The biennial, open-platform Photo Fringe festival runs 4 October - 14 November with exhibitions and events taking place online and in venues across its home city of Brighton & Hove and along the south coast from Newhaven to Portsmouth.
The programme presents a vibrant mix of lens-based work from emerging practitioners and well-established names, in galleries, cafés, pop-up venues, outdoor installations and other extraordinary spaces.
About the Artists
Oliver Rimmer is a writer and photographer based on the Sussex coast. His work explores the fluctuating, ambiguous margins between place and imagination.
Toby Lamborn is a British photographer based in Brighton, East Sussex, whose recent work explores the narrative capabilities of photography.