Tickets and more info: www.brightonfringe.org/events/the-daddy-long-legs-rides-again
May 25th 2025 a special trip to The Swan Pub & Hotel
Andrea and Luciana will help you visit the demolished bombed inn, beginning at 1pm with a projected heritage talk inside ( host venue tbc) followed by a unique artist walk very nearby to the actual location of the bombed site where guests are able to see the building using augmented reality layers on their smartphones as part of the £6 ticket price. The effect is truly impressive and you also learn about 300 or more years of what took place inside the Swan Inn, and connect to a place in town in a new way with added experience.
links for tickets and information for venue starting with the talk at 1pm will be added soon
book tickets for guided walks & talks in March 2024
Saturday March 9th, 3pm – local lost landmarks and augmented reality – £3 tickets
The Bank Hotel & Bistro, 28-29 Grand Parade, Saint Leonards, TN37 6DR
Tickets are £3 are available from eventbrite
Join us inside the spacious old Bank Bistro with drinks and cakes available to purchase, tickets ensure you are seated for the artist’s historical presentation followed by a guided augmented reality walk across the road opposite The Royal Victoria Hotel for the AR group demonstration. All ages are welcome, everyone can learn more history about the amazing pier of St Leonards that was demolished finally by 1951 but also experience a life-size version using the artwork on their smartphones.
Saturday March 30th, 2pm – The Pyramids of Victorian Death Culture in AR – £3 tickets
Meet outside Goodmans Barbers, 48 Marina, St Leonards where we begin a short walk to view the pyramid and augmented reality experience
Tickets are £3 are available from eventbrite
St Leonards has its own Pyrmaid tomb in a garden cemetery, the artist first encountered this esoteric architecture when she lived near Burwash as Jack Fuller had also built a Pyramid for his tomb in 1834. These examples of wealth and status for all time hold fascination today for the modern tourist or local.
A 3D model in AR and video of the monument will be shared as the actual one is currently closed to the public for safety, due to the subsistence of the area.
‘No Hammer Needed’ – October 2023
06.10.23
‘No Hammer Needed‘, St Andrews Mews, Waldegrave st, TN34 1SJ, Hastings, East Sussex.
The long awaited Apparitions AR will launch with geotagged lifesize experiences of St Leonards Pier, The Memorial clocktower and the lost beach huts for iOS and Android devices, with a pop up exhibition in the black gallery. Alongside will be stroboscopic experiences and brainwave monitoring, for special events each friday.
The Daddy long legs sea faring train is called ‘Pioneer AR’ and this is one of two main heritage attractions using augmented reality in the exhibition next to Apparitions AR, alongside flickering nostalgic artworks made by Luciana Haill since 2012 using Dreamachines and strobes from Thursdays 5pm to Saturdays 10pm throughout October.
Check the show website for artist walks to the sites at weekends in Hastings.
Tours
Join me on this walking history tour viewing Pioneer (The Daddy Long Legs life-size in augmented reality), 1.5 hours and tickets from £6 – £10.
Next tour dates: July 12 and 26th (low tide rockpools Marina to Undercliff) meet up in Marina Village Green at 5.30pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/low-tide-walk-the-daddy-long-legs-rides-again-tickets-1349763893139
August 2nd, 16 and 30th (accessible – Banjo Groyne to Carwash in Asda) – starts at 3pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-daddy-long-legs-rides-in-august-tickets-1445256905309
Daddy Long Legs souvenirs
The Pioneer sea-faring train invented by Magnus Volk was affectionately known as ‘The Daddy Long Legs’ – my tours enable guests to visit inside the carriage and follow it along the original route it travelled through the sea on rails, from Kemptown to Rottingdean via Brighton Marina.
Join a tour in June and July 2025 (May dates for the Brighton Fringe festival are sold out)
Daddy Long Legs tour 2025
Tote bag – £12 on tour or £14 from my Etsy shop with free postage here
Screen print, limited edition of 40 hand-finished prints £20 on tour & from Etsy with free postage
The Daddy Long Legs Rides Again
Brighton Fringe festival is hosting us for 3 dates in May for hunting this long-lost Victorian train
Tickets from £6
https://www.brightonfringe.org/events/the-daddy-long-legs-rides-again/
Talk and walk : Saturday, May 25th The Memorial Clocktower (demolished 1973) & The Swan Hotel (bombed 1944)
The Memorial Clocktower (demolished 1973) & The Swan Hotel (bombed 1944)
Starts at 12pm, Barnabys Lounge, 46 Robertson St, Hastings TN34 1HL
The walk in one direction is just under a mile and both experiences are complete by 2pm
Tickets are £4 for the projected talk and guided walk with augmented views of both sites :
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bombed-demolished-local-heritage-pt-1-tickets-902285138137 or cash is cool.
Starts at 12pm with a visually projected talk about the history of both these sites. At 1pm we will walk to the original location of The Memorial, then we will continue to Hastings Old Town to the High Street where the Swan Hotel stood, and view both in lifesize recreations using our free augmented reality artwork together (smartphones are not essential to enjoy the talk and guided walk)
Lost & Endangered Local Heritage Weekends in April
2 weekends in April featuring a pop-up art exhibition displaying the development of the augmented reality app that triggers local heritage that’s either demolished or endangered Apparitions AR. The source material of vintage postcards, draftsman’s sketches and lithographs will be shown transforming into augmented reality artworks, modelled in 3D and games engine software. An art display of large-scale reimagined multiview postcards combining Edwardian portraits and contemporary scenes is available to order, they will also be projected in an evolving dreamy fantasy version of St Leonards and Hastings.
4 dates for April a new exhibition with walks and talks
Save the dates Saturday, April 13th and Sunday, April 14th 2024, as well as the weekend of 27-28 April.
A hanging exhibition displaying the development of the lost heritage Apparitions augmented reality artwork modelled in 3D and games engines software, from locally sourced vintage postcards and photographs. As well as large-scale reimagined multiview postcards combining Edwardian portraits and contemporary scenes.
A talk by the artist Luciana Haill both days at 1pm, followed by a guided walk to the demolished sites of St Leonards Pier and The Clocktower Memorial will take place at 2pm each Saturday and 5pm each Sunday. The exhibition is open to visitors both days from 1pm-6pm upstairs in the ballroom on the second floor, dogs are welcome on lead on both the walk and inside the exhibition and talk.
Tickets are available in advance from £6 using Eventbrite, link here soon
Lost Heritage Weekend pop-up exhibition & talk
Save the dates Saturday April 13th and Sunday April 14th 2024
A hanging exhibition displaying the development of the lost heritage Apparitions augmented reality artwork modelled in 3D and games engines software, from locally sourced vintage postcards and photographs. As well as large-scale reimagined multiview postcards combining Edwardian portraits and contemporary scenes.
A talk by the artist Luciana Haill both days at 1pm, followed by a guided walk to the demolished sites of
St Leonards Pier and The Clocktower Memorial will take place at 2pm,
The exhibition is open to visitors both days from 12pm-6pm upstairs in the ballroom on the second floor
Tickets are available in advance from £6 using Eventbrite, link here soon
Apparitions 