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2018 Brochure out now

Download the new brochure here…  

2021 Festival Submissions Open

SUBMISSIONS OPEN! CLICK HERE ANYONE CAN APPLY TO BE PART OF THE 2021 FESTIVAL BY SUBMITTING A LISTING. DO IT NOW. YOU WILL APPEAR IN THE 2021 COASTAL CURRENTS DIGITAL BROCHURE DISTRIBUTED IN JULY/AUGUST.

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GROUNDED/Screening 2: Wednesday 30 July, 6pm – 31 July, 6pm

PART OF GROUNDED: A SEASON OF SCREENDANCE socialised Please note there is nudity and sexual content in this screening which we would advise isn’t for under 18’s A reflection on the conscious and unconscious movements that

grounded

  grounded:  A Season of  Screendance 28 July – 9 August 2020 grounded is a season of online screenings that brings work together under the framework of Screendance, a term that signals an affinity between choreographic and cinematic approaches

Placemaking – street art, murals and more…

Coastal Currents is perhaps more recently best known for creating placemaking pieces which have transformed Hastings & St Leonards and Bexhill. From Wavelength on Bottle Alley, to the Morrison’s mural, from the West Hill birds, to the

Fuel

“One of the most exciting and indispensable producing outfits working in British theatre” Fuel is a producing organisation working in partnership with some of the most exciting artists in the UK to develop, create and present

Greig Burgoyne

CURATOR: COASTAL CURRENTS 2018 Burgoyne was born in Glasgow Scotland, studied at HAK Vienna & MA painting Royal college of Art London. He is Senior Lecturer BA MA Fine Art at University for the Creative Arts

GROUNDED/Screening 4: Thursday 6 August, 6pm – 7 August, 6pm

PART OF GROUNDED: A SEASON OF SCREENDANCE 1+1=3 / narratives An exploration of how our bodies try to make sense and the stories we tell.    Sally Potter, Play (UK, 1970), 16mm film transferred to video,

ZEROH

CURATOR: COASTAL CURRENTS 2018 Daniel Hardiker and Neil Hetherington are ZEROH and have been working creatively together since meeting while studying Fine Art. After graduating with Honour Degrees they moved to the south coast where they developed

GROUNDED/Screening 1: Tuesday 28, 6pm – 29 July, 6pm

PART OF GROUNDED: A SEASON OF SCREENDANCE interior worlds / exterior lives An exploration of the construction of boundaries and space, and how bodies move within and across them. – Ben Rivers, The Coming Race (Ireland,

COVID COMMISSIONS OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS NOW

SO…WHAT A WEIRD TIME IT IS! COASTAL CURRENTS WANTS TO HELP HOLD UP THE COASTAL CREATIVE ECONOMY AND GIVE OPPORTUNITIES, FOCUS AND DIRECTION…SO WE APPLIED FOR AN ARTS COUNCIL COVID GRANT TO HELP US LIMP THROUGH

GROUNDED/Screening 3: Tuesday 4 August 6PM – 5 August, 6PM

PART OF GROUNDED: A SEASON OF SCREENDANCE taking / care An investigation into the embodiment of loss, uncertainty and that which we cannot name.   Yvonne Rainer, Hand Movie (1966), 8mm film transferred to video, b&w,

GROUNDED/Screening 5 : Saturday 8 August, 6pm – 9 August, 6pm

PART OF GROUNDED: A SEASON OF SCREENDANCE Wild Car An exploration of time and space, in which the past is before you. Graeme Miller,  Wild Car (2020), video, 01.16.40 An opportunity to view Graeme Miller’s recently

CC2020 Brochure out now!

Well 2020 is unusual that’s for sure. But if Coastal Currents can create as much artistic noise as possible we know everyone will feel a lot better! So here’s to an ONLINE OPENING PARTY next Friday

Becky Beasley

CURATOR: COASTAL CURRENTS 2018 Becky Beasley will be a guest curator for 2018, creating a prominent piece of work that will be accessible and critically engaging. Becky Beasley lives and works in St Leonards, East Sussex.

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DREW COPUS – original stencil – FREE TO DOWNLOAD NOW!
Watch today’s Coastal Currents Takeover of Isolation Station

Coastal Currents on BBC South East

In case you missed the coverage of Coastal Currents on BBC South East

Help make the 2020 Festival happen

Coastal Currents 2020   Firstly, thanks to everyone who helped pull off Coastal Currents 2019. It was a battle of wills at times and I am so thankful to everyone who helped contribute in tiny ways

Diversity Officer – Fixed Contract

FIXED CONTRACT (1 day a week for 8 weeks): Needs to be a freelancer/self employed. We are seeking a confident, analytical and outgoing individual to assist in a fixed contract to help with Diversity monitoring and

Download the 2019 Brochure

Download the 2019 brochure here

tickets

Book your tickets to Coastal Currents events through Eventbrite:   Coastal Currents Workshops – Very Limited Tickets £10 per adult per session Free to students from East Sussex College but must book in advance by emailing info@coastalcurrents.org.uk

Week One – 31/8 to 6/9

We are super excited to announce that Coastal Currents Arts Festival kicks off THIS weekend. Take a look at the highlights of the first week of Coastal Currents 2019…

ARTISTS LIVE WITH ISOLATION STATION EVERY SAT 3-5PM

EVERY WEEK ON FACEBOOK – SATURDAY 3-5PM WE TAKE OVER ISOLATION STATION WATCH AND LISTEN TO A RANGE OF COASTAL CURRENTS ARTISTS! https://www.facebook.com/CoastalCurrents/ YOU CAN SEE THE ARCHIVE OF PAST WEEKS HERE… Isolation Station

2021 BROCHURE OUT NOW!

DOWNLOAD THE 2021 BROCHURE HERE    

ESCG ART OPEN

ESCH screening of Inside & Out with accompanying exhibition of work and stalls.

Advertise in the 2022 Brochure – don’t delay

Deadline 6 JUNE – BOOK a space in the Coastal Currents Arts Festival Brochure. We print 30,000 brochures distributed across Sussex and in key London locations.

Upon Waking

The Dirty Old Gallery, 31a West Street, Hastings, TN34 3AN 2 September – 3 October Private View: 2 September, 6pm New works by local artist William Shepherd presented by The Museum of Us Hastings & St

St Leonards Ceramics Studio

36 Marina, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0BU 8 – 9 October 11am-4pm Celebrating one year since opening, St Leonards Ceramic Studio is hosting its first open studio and sale of pottery made by the students,

Opening Party 2022

Thanks to everyone who attended the Opening Party of the Festival 2022. Held at 55 Prints in St Leonards, this was the first time we all could welcome in the Festival in style since pre Covid.

Audiotrope Studio Sessions OUT NOW! Watch and subscribe to support us

Do you know about our “sister” project Audiotrope? We started it during Covid as the PM announced no live music…so we found a way.. Also it means we can create opportunities for musicians and incredible Studio

2023 Submissions Open until 20 MAY

Submissions open now for 2023 Festival – anyone can take part, just submit a listing, photo and small fee

Apparitions

This is a self-selecting, inspirational, immersive art experience in three scenes. I have designed and made a smart phone app that transcends a purely informational use, its presence is anchored to 3 surreal soundtracks, each travelling through time – ‘bringing back the bygone‘.

Matt Hardman

My paintings are about adults as children and children as adults and the complicated relationships between different personalities.

Grand Coastal Postcard Hunt – Bexhill

7 September 2019 10am outside Hastings Contemporary Or 1pm De La Warr Pavilion Or 3.30pm Towner Gallery TRAIN TIMES: 12:40 St Leonards to Bexhill 14:47 Bexhill to Eastbourne The Grand Coastal Postcard Hunt will take you

Performance Double Bill

Home Live Art and New Queers on the Block present Adam Frost and Marikiscrycrycry Performance Double Bill

Salty 1st Birthday Party

Home Live Art are hosting an epic birthday party to celebrate the first year of Salty, their infamous performance parties held at the Printworks.

If Not a Wasteland

Cry Club – an alternative therapy workshop that allows you to reconnect with yourself in a shared, safe and therapeutic space. Cry Club is a collaborative design project by Goldsmiths Alumni and the mental health charity MIND.

Crowley Calling

A mixed media group exhibition influenced by modern day occultist and magician Aleister Crowley .

Brian Mander – Respire:Suspire

An installation of figurative sculpture on Hastings beach by Brian Mander. 1920: The confined fears of Miss Nellie Moore were asphyxiation and drowning having witnessed life’s breath taken from those she had cared for and loved,

The Empty Sardine Can Gallery

I’ve exhibited works at the bottom of the garden for many years so that people using the public footpath can have a gander. There are many that return just to see what I’ve been up to.

Objects from the id’ XV

Group of artists; Phillip Cosham, Nigel Plumb, Tim Riddihough, Steve Rutter, Siobhan Tanner, Anna Thomson plus invited artists. Work includes painting, print, ceramics, photography, film and sculpture.

West Street?

A collaboration of work from the artists of West Street, Hastings, all based around the forgotten history of this little backstreet. Featuring Jilliene Sellner, Lorna Crabbe, Kate Iles, Megan Donfrancesco Reddy, Leigh Dyer and Adam Dando.

Public House

An installation by Joe Fawcett at the Dirty Old Gallery

Sinéid Codd

Responding to the times we are living through, ‘a fuller acquaintance with the archipelago’ invites the viewer to navigate a co-created Lilliputian world.

Catherine Hambridge Designs

Catherine Hambridge is a designer and maker of silver and gold contemporary jewellery. After studying Design and Craft (BA Hons) at Brighton University she now hand makes all her own creations in her sunny Hastings studio,

Annie Soudain

I use my immediate surroundings and my imagination to create images of paintings, linoprints and fabric collages. Most work based on landscapes and seascapes of the local area.

Hannah Kynoch @ The Crown

Self Perceptions and Points of View
Embroidery, Oil Paint, Tapestry

Work in Progress @ Zuzushii Arts Lab

Four artists; Two days each. Window Installation art. View the daily progress of the artists works through the gallery window on White Rock. Optional, restricted socially distanced entry 11-5pm to chat with the artists. Covid compliant.

Sophie Shaw Treatments : What We Find and What We Bring

This exhibition of prints and paintings provides a glimpse into an ongoing project, which brings rigorous research together with a little bit of fantasy.

Adam Dando ‘Paper Dolls’

10 years of sketchbooks on display plus a new collection of florals on paper.

Thursday to Sunday 11am till 4pm

Annie Soudain

I use my immediate surroundings and my imagination to create images for paintings, lino prints and fabric collages.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 6pm

Annabel Faraday

Annabel Faraday Sculptural Ceramics

4/5 & 11/12 September, 10.30am – 4.30pm

Painting, Printmaking and Sculpture

Kirsty Baring, Mark Godwin, Barnard McGuigan, Judith Shaw, and guest artist Tessa Holmes in countryside studios in a yard overlooking the Brede Valley.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 5pm

Jane Sarre

Sculpture for the curious. The work is inspired by the unfamiliar forms discovered whilst exploring edgeland places including Dungeness and Rye Harbour.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 10.30am – 4.30pm

My Coast – John Coello

John has been a resident artist on West Street for six months and has lived in Hastings for 5 years. His artwork has been inspired by everyday views from many walks and journeys through the area.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 4pm

Shuby

Shuby’s technicolour, pop art style revels in absurdity, kitch and irony. She works in a range of mediums including silk screen print, painting, reworking found objects, collage and ceramics.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 6pm

Sue Lawes, Ruth Bullock, Peter Green

Ruth Bullock – figurative and abstract painting, Peter Green – printed and painted work, Julie Kirk – objects and adornments, Sue Lawes – painting, film & print

4/5 & 11/12 September, 12noon-6pm

Rod Morris – roadfactorystudios

ROADFACTORYPHOTOS
Still films – photography exhibition and print sales. Photographs are like vessels, and within the most memorable are references to our own lives and those of others, remembered or imagined.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 10am – 6pm

Meet Miss Marianne North – Amy Fellows

Meet Miss Marianne North Returning to home shingle, artist Amy Fellows will be popping up in her half-boat with a new body of work inspired by Hastings-born heroine Miss Marianne North.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 10am – 4pm

Anna Malni

Anna Malni’s open studio at the Sugar house features linocuts, etchings, cards, ceramics, portraits by commission.

4/5 & 11/12 September, (Sat 11am – 5pm) (Sun 11am-6pm) (Sunday 5 Sep closed 11am till 4pm for linocut workshop)

Jill Hartman Art

Jill’s themes range from the drama and serenity of the sea to the quiet, calm environment of parks and gardens.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 6pm

Dominic Zwemmer

Working with pencil, colour pastel and homemade charcoal, Dominic has a passion for wildlife, wild landscapes and seascapes.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 6pm

Carly Ralph & Fiona Denning

Carly Ralph: Mixed media textiles using found, vintage and second use materials.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 5pm

Elizabeth Duckett Textiles

Elizabeth Duckett, a fourteen year old, has created a display of homeware and accessories using coastal themed fabrics.

4/5 September 12noon – 5pm

Harriet Macaree Paintings

Oils, Acrylics & Watercolours large & small. Some of my idylls are imagined, some inspired by plants, landscape, and seas.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 6pm

Geraldine Franklin, MB Haas, Elana Tree

Pop Up Art, West Hill Back Garden Shed from Geraldine Franklin, MB Haas, Elana Tree.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 5pm

Wendy Smith, Katia Giordanella & Carrie Warrior

Extraordinary ceramic sculptures, vibrant paintings from the seashore and screen prints and originals referencing childhood from 3 artists.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 6pm

China Girl

I have been experimenting with the process of overprinting vintage China Plates with a variety of images that particularly appeal to me.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 6pm

Prue Theobalds

I am an illustrator and like to draw in various media. My drawings are mostly inspired both by the natural world and also with relevance to time and place.

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 6pm

Emma Hundleby St Leonarts

ESCH Screening of Inside & Out with accompanying exhibition of work and stalls

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 5.30pm

Alex Leadbeater

Why not give your wall a sea view? Paintings, prints and cards from the nearest wave to the distant horizon in all sizes – buy the sea by the inch, yard or nautical mile!

4/5 & 11/12 September, 11am – 5pm

Afri-Co-Lab Presents We Are Here

4/5 & 11/12 September, 10am – 6pm 3 Marine Court, St Leonards TN38 0DX Anna-Maria Nabirye afri.co.lab.uk@gmail.com afri-co-lab.org facebook.com/Africolab instagram.com/afri.co.lab *Copy To Come*

Claire Fletcher / Peter Quinnell

Original paintings and prints by Claire Fletcher, collages and assemblages by Peter Quinnell. Cards, badges etc also for sale.

Sundays 5 & 12 September, 10.30am – 6pm

It’s Still Life

I am now exploring different techniques and seeing how my style develops. In addition to my work there will also be some paintings on show by artist Tony Mono.
Wed to Sat 11am – 4pm throughout the Festival

SLICC – St Leonard’s Inclusive Crafty Creatives

Welcome to our space! SLICC, St Leonards Inclusive Crafty Creatives. Locals Theresa Hodge and Penny Pepper, share their different creative practices with you.

11/12 September 12noon – 4.30pm

Anna Wilson-Patterson

Coastal artist inspired by huts, hounds and wild flowers. Original paintings, 2022 Calendar and Greeting Cards for sale, featuring the haunting coastline from Hastings to Dungeness.

11/12 September, 10am – 5pm

The Mudworks

Run by Chantelle Duncan & Isabella Campi, the pottery is geared towards the local community where makers can hire studio space for throwing, hand building and slip casting.

11/12 September

Sarah Nelson

Sarah Nelson works expressively, in ink, watercolour and print, embracing the joy of strong line and organic mark making.
Opening hours:11/12 September, 10am-5pm

Art Walks: Finding inspiration in the world around

Catherine and Martha collaborate as Printwalks, using the walk as the starting point for a collaborative print process. Emma Harding’s ceramics investigate the patterns in nature.

At Hastings Country Park – 18/19 September, 10am – 4pm.
At Zoom Arts Gallery – 24 -26 September and 1 – 3 October, 11am – 4pm

Objects from The id’ XVI

Group of artists; Phillip Cosham, Nigel Plumb, Tim
Riddihough, Steve Rutter, Siobhan Tanner, Anna
Thomson, Fi Brown plus invited artists.
18 – 26 September
(Sat/Sun 11am-5pm – Mon-Fri 1pm-5pm)

Creativity Unlocked Pop-up Exhibition

Let’s Create and PPH Art Club present Creativity Unlocked, an inclusively curated exhibition and creative event at Printers Playhouse.

17 October 4pm onwards

Soul Of The Sea

Local artist Nathalie Frost and musician Richard Reinhardt’s collaborative work celebrates the coast and the enduring yet ever-changing nature of the sea.

OIKOS – Electro Studios

Artists include: Babalola Yusuf | Daisy Stewart-Darling | Maya Ramnarine | Ollie Williams
Mara Ukairo-Morris | Ethan Kirby | Ellie Jewell | Evie Ukairo-Morris | Hayden Ackerley
Joe Ackerley | Lily Dixon | May Mayo | Rosie Sullivian | Tom Healey | Franky Cordell

Jo McAllister

Join jeweller Jo McAllister to think, make and work metal on the beach. Explore your creative flow. Make a silver tool or amulet. Breathe the fresh air. Feel connected with land and sea. Look at things differently; consider, select and design. Find tools at your feet. Work silver on the beach. Refine and reflect back in the workshop.

Colden Drystone

Play like there’s no opposition
An exhibition of recent work by the multi disciplinary artist and musician Colden Drystone. Colden paints and collages on glass, carves into stone slabs, creates golden panels with clay, makes short films with original compositions and produces pop music and live performance pieces.

Pattern Up

Pattern Up is a revolutionary youth lead movement, raising awareness around child exploitation through art, fashion, and performing arts. This fringe event is a multi-art medium exhibition and performance depicting messages around mental health.

Mark Shepherd

Born east of the River Severn, under the shadows of the Malvern hills, in Worcester in the late 70’s, Shepherds’ process tends towards automatism, often driven from a spontaneous impulse to make primal marks, composed using a well-honed toolbox of mark making techniques, broad palette, and a passion for texture. Receptive to serendipity, Mark will arrive at his destination – but instant art this is not; this is art that reveals itself gradually.

2022 Festival Highlight: Jim Roseveare – Site number: 102222

Roseveare’s art incorporates concrete, organic materials and debris swept from surrounding ground surfaces. The very fact that this exhibition will not only be hosted in the gallery itself, but also in surrounding woodland, embodies the very core themes and concepts that have preoccupied the artist throughout his life.

Lucy Wertheim at the Towner Gallery

Installation view, A Life in Art: Lucy Wertheim, Patron, Collector, Gallerist. Photo by James Bellorini. A Life in Art & Reuniting the Twenties Group townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/lucy-wertheim A Life in Art & Reuniting the Twenties Group — two

Objects from the id’ XVII

Group of artists: Phillip Cosham, Tim Riddihough, Siobhan Tanner, Anna Thomson, Fi Brown plus invited artists.

BFI NETWORK – Hastings Takeover

BFI NETWORK South East presents a series of events at the Electric Palace cinema, designed to get local creative residents feeling curious and inspired about making short films.

Rock Against Racism

(RAR) 1976-82, co-curated by Rock Against Racism – Research ‘n’ Archive Project and
South Coast Squared featuring a new work by artist Larry Achiampong created in response
to the sounds, visuals and ethos of RAR; new RAR-RAP commissioned film interviews with
RAR activists by SCSQ and contributions from the Bass Culture Archive.

Sonic Fair

Sonic enthusiasts Lifesize and their France based partners BrutPop specialise in creating accessible, inclusive, and low-cost music making tools and activities.

Cenerentola

Barefoot Opera presents Giaccomo Rossini’s Cenerentola

The classic tale of Cinderella, with a sparkling new twist, delivered by outstanding newly emerging singers.