Open Studio: Passengers Residency : The Brunswick Centre, London

An open studio event to view Luxton's work in progess during her residency at The Brunswick Centre. The final results of which will culminate in an exhibition in Spring 2025.

Juxtaposed against the architectural backdrop of the Brunswick Centre, Luxton will reframe her ideas within this built environment. As was the philosophy of its architect Patrick Hodgkinson, she will seek out its harmonising features that speak to 'the psyche of the individual' (1), and bring nature closer. The abundance of sky views via the windows and balconies was key to his design, offering the sensation 'of living in the clouds, providing an escapism … it allows an engagement with an existential awareness of self in the world … [a] bodily relationship with the infinite realm of light above and the site as an open-ended permeable terrain of solids and voids, continuous with the surrounding urban and cultural landscape.'(2)

These explorations will be grounded in the buildings striking repetition, symmetry and hard edges, which will draw out Luxton's surrealist and minimalist tendencies.

(1, 2)Clare Melhuish, 'Towards a Phenomenology of the Concrete Megastructure Space and Perception at the Brunswick Centre, London', in Journal of Material Culture, 2005