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
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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
Chorismos
Chorismos is a Greek term meaning separation or division. The meeting point of ocean and land is one example of chorismos unfolding over time. Shaped gradually through erosion, displacement, sedimentation, and ongoing environmental change, this porous boundary gives rise to distinct yet interconnected ecosystems. The exhibition brings together four East Sussex coastal artists in dialogue… Continue reading Chorismos
Unearthing an interval
This exhibition will be showcasing work from young emerging women artists practicing in Hastings while we investigate what it might mean to unearth an interval. Our version of an interval refers to a space not limited or confined to time, or to structure. Quite simply, an interval. There seems to be an area in memory… Continue reading Unearthing an interval
Everything I Couldn’t keep
Alexandra Vacaroiu ‘Everything I couldn’t keep’ brings together photography, cyanotypes on domestic fabrics, and moving image to explore memory, loss, and the fragile ways we try to hold on and let go. The work moves through personal experiences of grief, family, and change — with pieces that you walk alongside and through. Opening night: 3… Continue reading Everything I Couldn’t keep
Significant Mundanity
Our lives are full of things that an onlooker might consider insignificant. That bowl we usually eat breakfast from. That jumper that feels cosy. The pair of shoes that fit just so. The chair that cradles our body perfectly. And then there are the many apparently insignificant acts. Making the first coffee of the day.… Continue reading Significant Mundanity
1067 Conquest to Community
067 CONQUEST TO COMMUNITY Featuring ACT NORMAL an exhibition of etchings by Dinah Casson 1067 – Conquest to Community: An exhibition of photographers’ and and artists’ work in and around Hastings and St Leonards on Sea. The idea of conquest not as force, but as one of arrival and integration – a quiet process through… Continue reading 1067 Conquest to Community
TURPS EAST SUSSEX MENTOR’S EXHIBITION
Open 14 & 15 March 2026, 12 – 5pm Introduction to the Programme with Marcus Harvey, Helen Hayward and Laura Wormell 2 – 3pm Saturday 14 March Private View 3 – 6pm Saturday 14 March Matthew Burrows The Baron Gilvan Paula MacArthur Joe Packer Geraldine Swayne Turps East Sussex Programme is a mentoring programme for… Continue reading TURPS EAST SUSSEX MENTOR’S EXHIBITION
The Cloud of Unknowing
The Cloud of Unknowing – Paintings by Abi Stockbridge The Cloud of Unknowing – that uncertain space we inhabit when we create. From within the cloud, visions appear, painting their way into our known world. How else could they have come about, without us first entering this unknown, in order to meet them face to… Continue reading The Cloud of Unknowing
Porridge Van
Extended to 13 & 14 December Live music on Saturday 13 from 1pm With The Porridge Ensemble Porridge Van: The Peculiar Art and Music of Sexton Ming and Jason Williams – a collaborative exhibition True outsider artists, Sexton Ming and Jason Williams exemplify a lifetime commitment to art, experimental music and performance that invites and… Continue reading Porridge Van