BYOB – bring your own beamer You are invited you to bring your projectors and films, slides, shadow stuff, etc. to create a new, ever-evolving artwork installation. With special thanks to Dr. Annebella Pollen, Professor of Visual and Material Culture at University of Brighton. There will be a technician for advice and safety on the… Continue reading Coastal Currents 2026
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Lowlands
An exhibition exploring the relationship between landscape, memory, and time through moving image, photography and painting by emerging and established artists. The works trace shared histories, human presence, and the sociocultural ties that shape our connection to the natural world. Exhibiting Artists: Viviana Almas @viv.almas Syd Farrington @syd_farrington RJ Fernandez @rj.fernandezis Edd Carr @_eddcarr_ Ben… Continue reading Lowlands
I talked to you in a dream
Colin Booth Looking through images of recent work, things keep repeating: found objects, eucalyptus, branches of trees, twigs, lichen, feathers – and aluminium. Almost everything is fragile. Almost everything suggests transience and vulnerability. By putting together – and placing together – things old and new, my studio practice evolves as a narrative and a kind… Continue reading I talked to you in a dream
Rupert Hartley
HETEROTOPIAS Rupert Hartley’s practice centres around painting and colour. Using both playful and systematic processes, he revisits and reinterprets formalist traditions within painting. In the Ground Floor Gallery, Hartley presents Heterotopias, a new collection of works on paper that foregrounds his use of the grid while further developing paper assemblage as a form of mark-making.… Continue reading Rupert Hartley
Kim Wan – Hybridity
HYBRIDITY showcases paintings and prints by contemporary artist Kim Wan, whose distinctive practice has been described as “the point where fine art meets graffiti”. With deep connections to Hastings and Rye, Wan is as comfortable in the boxing ring with his club BMAX as he is with a paintbrush in hand. A regular presence on… Continue reading Kim Wan – Hybridity
Textile Junction 2026
TEXTILE JUNCTION JULY 2026 EDITION We’re excited to announce this year’s exhibition will continue to showcase a vibrant mix of contemporary textile work, celebrating the incredible range of what’s being made today. Time-honoured techniques and bold new experiments will demonstrate how artists are pushing textiles into exciting new territory. Curated by@rug_puncher @legalbrie @wolfandwilding Exhibition open… Continue reading Textile Junction 2026
Odour
This exhibition investigates scent as a structuring force within aesthetic, social and material experience. Bringing together artists working across image, text, sound, video and sculpture, the exhibition treats smell not as a sensory given but as a mutable conceptual medium. ODOUR foregrounds the absurd, intimate and queer dimensions of olfactory experience. The adolescent bravado of… Continue reading Odour
Crunch Crossing Paths
Crossing Paths – themed ‘Courage’, aligning with Refugee Week 2026 – will platform refugees, their experiences and stories, and celebrate the richness migration brings to our culture. This will be, as always, an all inclusive event. All are invited to bring art, poetry or anything else and take part in our event. Any media and… Continue reading Crunch Crossing Paths
Drowning in a sea of you
A solo exhibition by Maisie Maris, bringing together sculpture, textiles, installation, participation, and performance to explore the sea as both a physical environment and a space shaped by memory, migration, displacement, mourning, and transformation. Seeing the coastline as something both emotional and material, the exhibition considers how the climate crisis is lived intimately, entangled with… Continue reading Drowning in a sea of you
Good Grief Hastings
Good Grief: Artists explore the impact of grief. Art can open up conversations that words alone can’t. A new exhibition runs throughout Good Grief Hastings, a space to explore grief, memory and creativity through visual art. Opening celebration: Friday 22 May, 5:30 – 8pmOpen Saturday 23 to Monday 25 May, 12 – 5pm A group… Continue reading Good Grief Hastings