Exhibitions

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

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