Curated Events Open studios
In this section you will find workshops, performances, films and exhibitions in shops, on the seafront, on the streets as well as in galleries, museums, art venues and cinemas.
Please use our map to help guide you to all the events and exhibitions happening during the Festival.
The following posts contain community listings that are not funded or organised by Coastal Currents. We cannot be held responsible for accident or injury at events and activities organised by external individuals and groups during Coastal Currents.
Aged 18 – 25? Apply to be one of our dancers at this year’s festival as part of our public art piece.
COASTAL CURRENTS AND THE POETRY BROTHEL HASTINGS ARE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE
AN EXCITING NEW SPOKEN WORD AND PERFORMANCE MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME FOR 2026.
Make a Zine in a workshop hosted by Tiger-lily Martinez and come out with something tangible you can feel proud of. Materials provided.
SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO BE PART OF A PUBLIC EXHIBITION IN HASTINGS STATION. Priority will be given to young and early career artists who haven’t had the opportunity to exhibit in a public space.
You are invited you to bring your projectors and films, slides, shadow stuff, etc. to create a new, ever-evolving artwork installation.
ALL “KATE’S” WHO WANT TO TAKE PART IN THE OFFICIAL DANCE, PLEASE TO REGISTER HERE
An exhibition curated by Hattie Hambridge, exploring the relationship between landscape,
memory, and time through moving image, photography and painting by emerging and established artists.
BINGE: Live performance by Ornagh & Rosie Greenwood with Artist Talk & Q&A. An evening of contemporary performance and immersive worlds.
View the work of several artists as we transform the office space into a gallery for the festival.
Private View reception – come and celebrate the Battle trail for Coastal Currents and view the work of several artists as this office space is transformed into a gallery for the festival.
My work uses textiles, stitch, paint and print to depict familiar everyday objects and sayings.
Part Buster Keaton deadpan, part Road Runner energy – this is sculpture with a sense of timing.
Plus pop-up exhibition Out Front will showcase the diverse and thought-provoking work of Hastings Contemporary staff and volunteers.
The After Dark exhibition will showcase a new body of work by latex artist Michelle Mildenhall. Exploring Hollywood’s iconic figures in intimate, nocturnal moments.
Phillip Cosham, Tim Riddihough, Siobhan Tanner, Jackie Attwood plus invited artists.
Bringing together creativity & spirituality, through movement and sound to visually create a body of work through participation and engagement.
Inked In is a flash story mob at The Pig. Drop in, pick a prompt, drop a line.
A one day event at the Beacon with a bake-off, a children’s art competition, and an exhibition.
Bringing together painters, printmakers & illustrators for a yearly market showcasing
work from local Creatives and designers.
You are invited to a ritual of storytelling, mythic folklore & Shamanic sound journeying…
Oscar’s on the Square presents The Last Picture Show, a selection of new and not so new paintings in different media on the theme of Cinema. Watercolours, paintings, inks and mixed media.
Zoom Arts provides spaces for members to exhibit their work, either solo or as a collaboration…
An Exhibition of Artworks by Mark Shepherd, Helen Savage and Nathalie Frost.
Markus Thonett works in his unique medium of Card Cuts and Tessa Thonett is a portrait painter, working in oils.
Two floors of studios featuring a diverse array of artists including painting, ceramics, sculpture and much more.
Rozza is a neo-expressionist painter exploring fractured identity and psychological noise through abstract and symbolic mark-making.
Fiona and Martha welcome you to Studio 16, to see linoprints, tetrapak, mono prints, woodblock and mosaics.
Art among the plots! Discover the many talented artists of Marina Allotments & explore the artworks in and around this magical site
Fine Art photographer Tim E White’s studio sits in beautiful gardens with arguably the finest view in St Leonards;
Limited edition and original photographic prints of curated objects which experiment with effect of light. Ground floor access with single step.
Inspired by nature, stolen from culture, re-worked by head and hand: drawings, paintings and research fragments from the artist’s studio.
The lost object is neither fully relinquished nor frozen intact. Instead, it is transformed, metabolised, worked on.
Oil, acrylic and bleach paintings spanning several decades, bearing witness to politics, climate change and spiritual reflections.
Wander down the wild garden to two studios side by side and discover new paintings by Adrienne Hunter and Nick Snelling.
Figurative and semi abstract watercolours painted outdoors and exhibited outdoors in the private garden of the Lawn.
Mixed media textiles using reclaimed materials such as vintage cloth and paper, found metal fragments and textile surplus to create low relief wall hung pieces.
Semi abstract and still life paintings incorporating imagined and remembered landscape.
A collection of vibrant and weathered landscape paintings, with a curiosity for edgeland areas where wild spaces meet the more contained.
Hundreds of waves in all moods, shapes and sizes from tiny prints and cards to large paintings on canvas in a studio near the beach.
Profound, abrupt and turbulent change feels ever more present; more everyday.
Robin is showing a wide range of work including drawings and paintings of Dancers and brightly coloured landscapes.
Decorated Everyday Earthenware Pottery: Cups, Plates, Jugs,Vases etc and Photographic Transfer pieces using images from my travels.
6 artists in a very curious house: Mark Bean, Zander Clayton, Tom Laine, Helen Bryant, Patrick Bean, Hilderic the Valkyrie.
Lesley is an artist who loves colour. She creates local scenes as screenprints, collage, watercolour and collagraphs.
Combining repetition, intricacy and scale I intend to create basic frameworks for thought.
Five artists on four floors: Adaesi Ukairo, Stephanie Fawbert, Rod Morris, Fi Brown and Lorna Crabbe
Visit 7 artists at our loft space just off the Queens Road. Annie Lawson, Cath Tajima-Powell, Chris Embury, Clare Land, Emma Harding, the Two Ians.
Step inside working studios and meet artists making across painting, ceramics, photography, mixed media, sculpture, illustration, sound and installation.
Hastings-based designer showing bright, bold paintings, prints, cards and textiles inspired by the natural world.
Jo’s work contrasts urban domesticity with aspects of nature. Her distinctive compositions, mostly in oil, are visions shaped in bold harmonies of colour and line.
A posthumous retrospective selection of the artist’s children’s book illustrations, drawings, watercolour artworks and sketchbooks with an accompanying poetic soundtrack presented by her husband Alan Durant.
A tiny tool-shed studio showing kiln-formed leaded-glass panels of sea-shells and fossils, plus larger windows on local themes.
2026 official JITG artist Nicola Jones presents a playful and exhibition of hand painted plywood cutouts, with prints and original artworks for sale.
For four weeks in September we will be hosting four different local and internationally renowned artists: Peter Spencer, Jon Jon Renouf, Barny Zadok, Will Shine All Stars.
Andrew and Eden Kötting invite you into their studio of visions, snippets, memories, and collisions.
Working with handmade charcoal, and also pastel and pencil, Dominic has a passion for wild places, wild seas and wild life.
Kathleen Foley’s artistic practice is rooted in intuition and emotional expression, with a strong focus on themes related to the identity of ‘Woman.’
Claire Fletcher and Peter Quinnell: original art, illustrations, prints, sketches, collages, watercolours, drawings, badges and cards.
We welcome everyone to a studio of fun and surprises, where you can see
textile works, costumes…
Working between assemblage and collage lostnorfound is building an imaginary visual story.
The DEPO is a creative hub for those interested in wasting less, hosting events with a sustainable theme
Katherine Reekie is a figurative surrealist with a interest in cultural and Jane Higginbottom is a sculptor…
Pippa’s three-dimensional assemblage artworks celebrate everyday objects and the memories they hold.
I paint colourful acrylic paintings on such themes as technology and our changing social and physical world with a gratuitous splash of satirical and dark humour.
Arts on Prescription’s Friday Printing Group started off as a lino printing group but is now experimenting with silk screen and gel printing.
For the first weekend only: discover the delights of Sara Martin’s intensely coloured florals and landscape oils alongside Samantha Guertin’s richly expressive figurative land and seascapes.
DT Studios are exhibiting work by many local artists through a maze of studios in 8, 9 and 10 West Street
Project Art Works opens up its campus across three sites in Hastings for studios and exhibitions.
Markus & Tessa Thonett are an artist couple with very different work. He makes original card-cuts of local scenery, while she paints portraits & her imaginary ‘Grace n’ Grit’ series.
Katja creates intricate ceramic works that honour lives, stories and experiences often overlooked; combining delicacy, detail and narrative to produce pieces that invite closer attention.
Lino-cuts, woodcuts, etchings, sketches, cards, ceramics, prints and portraits of people and animals by commission.
I would love to show you my new studio, filled with my paintings, drawings and prints for sale. My work originates from Wales, New Zealand, and the South Coast.
Coastal Alchemy: mosaics, paintings, sketchbooks and designs where patterns shift, forms emerge and curious worlds quietly reveal themselves.
Visit 5 artlab artists at our base in Priory Meadow: Kim De Paolis, Stephanie Funnell, Jeni Johnson, Amanda Knight and Marigold Plunkett.
Hastings Atelier is a small, independent art school founded by artist Alex Tzavaras.
A rare opportunity to visit this extraordinary subterranean palace…
Many HVA staff members are artists so we wanted to celebrate their wide-ranging work during Coastal Currents.
Turn handles, push buttons & see mechanical marvels from CMT’s legendary collection.
Artists showing paintings, prints, cards, photographs and jewellery. Delphine Pope. Gill Copeland. @joannagoodwin.art. Claire Polley. Helen Morgan-Jones. Pat Barefoot. Elaine Baker. Mike Stott. Geri@figtreeartrye.
Annie Soudain uses images in her head or in her immediate surroundings as inspiration for linoprints, paintings, and collages.
Evocative original oil paintings inspired by cliff top living, featuring huts, hounds and wildflowers. Also available are my books of paintings and a selection of greeting cards.
Blue Shed is a quirky studio a 5 min stroll to the beach at the cliff end of Pett Level, a magical place where clay is used as an art medium to hand-form sculptural vessels, assemblages and 3d still-lives using centuries old techniques.
For the first time, ceramic artist Tania Fallon opens her home and studio, showcasing her work alongside a selection of local artists, set against spectacular views across the countryside to the sea.
Visit multidisciplinary artists showing contemporary art with resplendent colour. Fine art paintings, prints and weavings.
Mixed media artworks exploring the mind, the body, the power of suggestion – merging fact and fiction, art and science. Experience the curiosities, the line between the real and the invented.
My work is predominantly watercolour and more recently oil and acrylic. The local seascape is forever changing and provides continued challenges in light, colour and subject.
We welcome the extraordinary work of Dr Rupert Record (DProf) to our Battle office, temporarily transformed into a gallery space for the occasion.
Darren Buss is a photographer with 18 years of experience capturing people and the natural world. Ruby Sams is a printmaker and illustrator specialising in wood engraving and relief.
Samuel Peacock is an artist who works on steel, creating landscape paintings with oils and coffee. His work is shown in galleries across the globe including Novotel Canary Wharf.
Victoria Woolfe is an expressive realist artist painting in oils, with a love for florals, wildlife and rural Sussex scenes.
Carne Griffiths is known for his expressive portraiture and wildlife paintings created using inks teas and alcohols, with fountain pen details.
Clare is an artist and photographer inspired by nature and the human form and especially interested in the marks we make on the world and on each other.
Inspired by The Natural World Robin paints with a focus on landscape – from ancient woodlands, dramatic seascapes to bright maximalist florals.
An opportunity to discover local talented artists showcasing their incredible work throughout this fabulous building.
Silk painter working with pure Habotai silk and preloved blouses and scarves, Stephen’s work is always of the moment and reflects his connection to the feelings of the day.
Kerry paints nature in watercolour to capture quiet moments of light, movement, and emotion.
MIRROR MIRROR is a large-scale immersive installation by ORNAGH exploring the unstable relationship between beauty, identity, illness, self-perception and emotional surveillance.
TAKE PART IN OUR SURVEY TO HELP US UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT OUR CREATIVE COMMUNITY LOCALLY. THE MORE RESPONSES WE GET THE BETTER AS WE CAN USE THIS INFORMATION TO CAMPAIGN FOR THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURE.
Come celebrate the opening of Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2026 and support young talent.
