Jeremy Deller:

As part of Sussex’s 50th anniversary, we were delighted that Turner Prize winner and Sussex alumnus Jeremy Deller was Artist-in-Residence with the aim to create a display around the University’s social history.

Jeremy prepared two exhibitions, the first a display on campus entitled: Sussex Incidents, which was displayed at the University in May 2012.

This exhibition celebrated the provocative and off-beat side of campus life in a series of postcards inspired by the University’s Special Collections archives photo archives.

The postcards that featured in the exhibition can be seen on the Sussex Scrapbook flickr pages.

Jeremy also co-curated with Professor David Alan Mellor on an exhibition of Bruce Lacey at the Camden Arts Centre. The exhibition ran between July- September 2012 and charts Lacey’s artistic development in a career encompassing painting, sculpture, robotised assemblages, theatrical performances and installations, as well as community arts and ritual action performances.

Mike Nelson:

The United Kingdom representative at the Venice Bienale in 2011, Mike Nelson, collaborated with The Archive of Modern Conflict in London which resulted in an installation of objects and artefacts based on his research in the Universtiy's Library Exhibition space.

The University was proud to house- for a short period –this extraordinary installation The Ebb Tide, a global flotsam and jetsam of tribal objects, relics of human endeavour and tragedy and attempts to assert human resistance and fantasy, in a totalized world.

Objects include the keys to the infamous island prison of Alcatraz, a piece of the first transatlantic telecommunications cable, plans for a Victorian time machine (that subsequently “vanished” without trace) and others that relate to humanity in conflict with itself and its environment.