For her Public Art House commission in the Opera House Pub, Tunbridge Wells, artist Jane Pitt has  probed all the nooks and crannies of the building with her recording equipment and been regaled by the regulars and irregulars to create her condensed ‘Eccentric Pub Opera’ digital sound work. Layering actual recordings of sounds the building makes with customers  voices (laughter and vocal reminiscences of the buildings past sounds) plus sounds that evoke the ghosts of entertainment past in the building’s century of variety, opera, cinema and bingo.

Eccentric Pub Opera

The Public Art House team at Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery are trickster do-gooders. By bringing art to the people, their ground-breaking work creatively challenges current perceptions of exhibiting artists’ work. 