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 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

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

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

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: 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 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

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

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