Artist's Quarter, The Doughnut & The Shelter Hall

The Artists Quarter runs along the seafront promenade where you'll find lots of artists studios, workshops and galleries and can browse and buy a variety of arts and crafts, including paintings, sculpture, souveniers, pottery, models, second life clothes, fabric art and much, more more. The artists quarter is not big, it's after the Pier, and runs from the Doughnut sculpture groyne to the Shelter Hall.

The Doughnut is actually sculpture called 'Afloat' by Hamish Black, from 1998. 250cm in diameter & made of bronze, its centre at eye level allows a view of our world through the sculpture. The donut or torus (a shape that has a continuous surface with a hole in it) has been posed as a possible model by scientists of how our universe may look. The sculpture was generated by taking a world globe and pressing the south and north poles together to form a torus. Now placed on its side the lines of longitude radiate from the central hole, linking the sea and sky. Look closely across its surface and you'll see the shrunken shapes of the major continents, adrift like dark shadows.

The Shelter Hall is a newly renovated building forming part of the promenade, and is a replica of the original building dating back to the 1880s. It's now brought back to life as a seafront food market, where 7 leading Sussex chefs offer 'The Best of Sussex' in a food court style self-service restaurant set up, with seats inside & out, and with ocassional live music performances. The Shelter Hall is fast becoming a favourite food & entertainment destination in the city.

Artists' Quarter

Afloat - The Doughnut

Shelter Hall

Other Sights in Brighton - City Centre

Seafront Towards Hove

Seafront From Pier to Marina

Out of Town