Coastal Currents

2023 Archive

Curated Events Open studios

Joanna Sheldon artwork

Ore Place Farmhouse, The Ridge, Hastings, TN34 2RA jsheldon@joannasheldon.com joannasheldon.com @joanna_in_hastings 07824 098315 Paintings and drawings in oil, watercolour, pastel, ink, and mixed media: landscapes of Italy and the south of France as well as Hastings;

Land and Earth

Vanessa Chamberlin will exhibit her drawings and oil paintings, made in response to the land at Ashburnham Place.

Linzi and Dafydd Jones

A semi rural studio complex on the outskirts between Little Common and Hooe.

SEApink workshop

Visit my workshop, to see stitched, multimedia art. Handmade clothes from vintage fabrics, cushions, bags, bunting and haberdashery. Plus vintage treasure treasure.

PhotoHastings

PhotoHastings Festival Season 2023 PhotoHastings is an artist-led group that aims to inspire an appreciation of contemporary photographic art through an annual festival programme with regular talks, exhibitions, workshops and mentoring. Producing the festival is a

Common Mormon Studios

Common Mormon has 8 artists studios, a residency/project space, and Blacklands ceramic studio. The building will be open to visitors over the two weekends of Coastal Currents, with works for sale from studio artists and ceramic members.

The Sea View Art Studio 7

Painter Noel and Photographer Peter showing and selling their original paintings and photography. Peter likes to photograph images that others may overlook; photographing local landscapes and portraits. Noel’s work is very emotive; painting from his past work experience and his mental health.

Audiotrope Open Mic Nights

If you are between the ages of 18 and 25 register for a place at two special Open Mic Nights to showcase your talent and
win a prize. Come along and watch, support and even spot talent for your next event!

Barbara Hepworth Art & Life

This exhibition, which has garnered rave reviews across the country after visits to Wakefield,
Edinburgh and St Ives

Barefoot Opera

Rossini’s effervescent comedy tells the classic tale of Cinderella, with a sparkling new twist.

St Andrews Mews

off Queens Rd in Hastings, for a mix of art, music and events throughout Coastal Currents. VISIT ST. ANDREWS ‘FIVE’ Paintings & more by: Tom Banks Leah Germann Peter Jones Siobhan Stanley Michael Tierney @leahgermann for

Once Upon a Time in the South

A selection of new works by Nick Hill, mixed-media, watercolours, oils, and acrylics, focusing on images of the southeast of England. Pic credit “Aslian”

Nereids by Caitlin Lock

Come see this amazing show celebrating the unseen women so influential in culture locally.

Radiant Objects

A wide ranging exhibition of Radiant Objects emitting heat and light from an arcane past and
hinting at a fragmented futuristic archaeology.

KINKY

The KINKY exhibition will showcase the work of latex artist Michelle Mildenhall who has thrilled,
shocked and tantalised the art world with her provocative and subversive latex art works.

The Old Ambulance Station

A new creative community hub for Bexhill, with 8 resident artists showing a variety of work

Silver jewellery, ceramics and more

Studio open exhibiting and selling handmade silver jewellery, ceramics and more.

Robin Holtom

(Basement) 41 Marina, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0BU (Entrance at rear of building) robinholtom.art @robinholtom 07853 765218 The large gallery/showroom in the basement of 41 Marina is showing work by 4 very different artists. The

Tressell’s Children

A collaborative, immersive installation inspired by the everyday heritage of working-class people in Hastings,both past and present. Discover the innovative work of local people who took part in our series of creative workshopsand responded to archival materials and their lived experiences.

All that Jazz at Le Petit Balcon

All that Jazz at Le Petit Balcon ‘All that Jazz’, an exhibition by a group of renowned local artists, on show at ‘Le Petit Balcon’, the fabulous jazz themed bistro and cocktail bar.

Opening Party

1066 Music City, Audiotrope and Coastal Currents bring you a free music and art night.
Glass of free fizz till it runs out.

Cinema Cats: ‘The Sick Kitten’

Visit the exhibition before every public screening during Coastal Currents.

“in your shell-like”

Shelter number 3 De La Warr Parade (between junction of Bolebroke Road/Bedford Avenue) Bexhill on Sea Open 10am-6pm throughout September Sound installation in Shelter number 3. Take a seat in the shelter, look out to the

Bide Cottage

Welcome to my open studio, next to the river in Rye, filled with paintings and drawings displayed through the ground floor rooms.

Playing to the Gallery

‘Playing to the Gallery’ is a rare solo exhibition by Peter Spencer of his original handcut collages, vector-graphics, photomontage work, teenage scrapbook pages…

Annie Soudain

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

Anna O’Neill and Friends

Printmaker Anna is joined by talented local artists creating naturally dyed textiles, sustainable year round floral designs, colourful illustrations and ceramics in natural organic shapes.

Tim Riddihough

Sculpture Garden, Tower, and House Studio, ceramics, paintings, and sculptures.

Blacklands Studios

9 Artists’ studios including- Catalin Philip, Bethan Smith, Alexandra Ffion, Laura Ribbons, Jamie Atherton and Rowan Corkill.

Project Art Works

Arch 1, Braybrooke Terrace, Hastings, TN34 1TD projectartworks.org @ProjectArtWorks 01424 423555 Project Art Works invites you to Trinity Hall to explore our new building and see plans for the capital development of the Arch studios next

The Art and Photography show

A tiny art gallery in the heart of the old town, showing various fine art and photography from local artists.

The Birches Studio

Elisabeth Lenz takes inspiration from nature, interesting people, and her naughty cat. Her work includes paintings, prints, and needle felt.

Sugar House Open Studio

Elford Street, Hastings, TN34 1RJ Come and visit our charming loft studio space near Hastings town centre. On show will be: Cath Tajima Powell: Ceramics Cathtajimapowell@gmail.com Annie Lawson: Cartoons, quilts, rugs and knitting annielawson.com, lawsonannie886@gmail.com Elaine

Kristin Watt-Bonar

Beautiful, robust and etheral porcelain garden sculptures. Studio ceramics in a continuously evolving discourse.

Dominic Zwemmer

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

Artist in Residence @ The Tuck Shop

Ian Harris is artist in residence. Showcasing recent works on paper, limited edition prints and small scale original paintings…

Chris Sherman

26 St James Road, Hastings, TN34 3LH chris@sculptor-painter.com sculptor-painter.com 07913 898507 FINE ART Figurative artist/Pre-Raphaelite Nude & portrait figures Oil paintings Pastels Watercolours Human & animal sculptures Ceramics Stone carving Display in the house & sculpture

Hastings Art Club

Visit West Street. There will be lots of artists, lots of art, some good tunes and a beer or two.

Anna Malni

Linocuts, woodcuts, etchings, sketches, cards, ceramics, prints and portraits of people and animals by commissions.

Mark Daniels

Foxes, Badgers, Swifts and Crows. Things I’ve painted, drawn and made out of wood and clay. Limited edition prints are also making themselves available.

Claire Fletcher & Peter Quinnell

Paintings, prints, collages and assemblages, cards and badges for sale. Unframed sketches etc. Studio prices! Level access to ground floor.

China Girl UK

I create sustainable art. I print over old vintage plates and tiles transforming an often redundant and quite average, ugly object into a thing of beauty.

Still Moving

Fi Brown works on the top floor with a view of the sea, boats and plastic swans with lots of steep steps on the way up. Her current work moves between drawing, paint, print and collage.

J Coello Art

A heterogeneous collection of works in charcoal, oil, clay and driftwood that reflects six years of living in a coastal community from landscape paintings, portraits, sculptures…

Ceramics & Glass Open Studio

20 Brook Street, Hastings, TN34 1RX info@brettmanley.co.uk brettmanley.co.uk #msbrettmanley.co.uk 07963 416407 Magical glass in many forms. Kilnformed wall panels, vessels, sculptures and jewellery. My work ranges in size from salt bowls to street art installations. Also

Impressions of Nature

Nazarin Montag & Helen Grant – ’The Drawing Room’. – Photographic studies

Jill Hartman, Undercover Studio, Collage Club

Oil paintings of sea and shore, plus prints + cards. Hand-printed textiles, accessories + homeware.

Common Mormon Studios

10 artists’ studios including- Ben Fenton, Duncan Brown, Laura Asselborn, James Holcombe, and Blacklands Ceramic Studio.

Anna Pontonutti

Acrylic paintings, prints and cards inspired by the weather and the sea of the East Sussex coastline.

The ArtWorks

Craig Lawrence, whose work has featured in the V&A, is showcasing accessories made with repurposed materials. Natalie Frost, creator of unique wistful keepsakes using images, textures and words.

Amanda Prouten

Hastings-based designer showing bright, bold prints, cards and textiles inspired by the natural world, folk art, and pattern design.

Kirsty Innes

Hastings-based artist inspired by nature, particularly botanicals and the surrounding area.

Transforming Movement

Adaesi Ukairo’s sculptural work in copper and brass expresses in tangible form the fluid movement of energy.

Three Artists

Dawn Borthwick, works with encaustic wax and developing this ancient tradition with her own contemporary style.

Eagle Raven Wren

My work explores the mythic landscape of the British Isles, omens, dreams, deep ecology and sacred relationship.

FACES

Unit 3, Studio Unit 3, Ibex Buildings, Terminus Road, Bexhill on Sea, TN39 3LR sarahevansart@gmail.com @studiounit3 07729 193117 Robert Sample, Loulou Cousin, David Fowler, Cat Pavek, John Davison Joanna Kerr, Sarah Evans, Leigh Dyer. The theme

Dear Future: The Stories That Shape Us

Ed Boxall – Handmade prints and illustrated books inspired by wild magical nature. Rachel Pearson –

Lionel Road Art Studio

After retirement two friends decided to indulge their shared passion for painting.

Prints and Paintings

Dynamic original screen prints, abstract and semi abstract paintings, and ceramics.

Mark Lawson Bell

I collect objects from nature
& the detritus of man.

The Scarf at the Burton Gallery

A celebration of scarf design from the mid twentieth century. Level access.

Monoprints.belle

Come and see a selection of monoprints of local scenes as well as some abstract original pictures.

Penny Nice

The colours of our coastline and surrounding countryside, as well as coastlines of more distant shores; continue to inspire me to paint.

Brian Deighton at the Burton Gallery

A founder member of RAG (Riverside Artists Group), Brian Deighton’s work touches on both the spiritual and environmental layers within our lives.

The Mudworks Ceramics Studio

138 London Road, St Leonards on Sea, TN37 6NA Themudworks@gmail.com themudworks.co.uk @themudworks 07710 771886 The Mudworks is a ceramic studio that recently moved to London Road in central St Leonards. Chantelle Duncan & Isabella Campi have

Wendy Smith, Steve Betts

Steve Betts – Explores seascapes through narrative, storytelling, man’s preservation against the elements, the shifting of time and tides. The work is produced as original paintings, prints and cards.

Joan Roche at the Burton Gallery

A graduate of the Royal Academy Schools, Joan Roche’s work originates in a forensic observation of her subject matter,

Amanda Knight

7 Park Lodge Court, Kenilworth Road, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0JQ amandaknight@outlook.com amandaknight.com @aknightstudio 07931 255090 My works are mixed-media and often temporary, wall-hangings or small artefacts crafted from biodegradable materials like card, paper, fabric,

Marcia Buckley

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Luiza Machado Studio

Cutting and repositioning photographs from various times and places, and through the dialogue images can have with each other,

The House of Curiosities

Take a wander through this mixed media show. Come on in, take tea and meet the artists.

Birds and other subjects

My studio space is full of limited edition etchings, woodblock prints, lino prints, and paintings.

Tessa Horrocks

Printmaking artist, influenced by the natural world and the positive energy that it brings me.

Studios @ Kings Road

The reclusive artists in the Studios @ Kings Road offer a glimpse of their work.

Carly Ralph

Mixed Media Textiles using reclaimed materials such as vintage cloth and paper, shoreline fibres and metal fragments to create low relief wall hung work.

Fiona Denning

I paint portraits of domestic objects set within a landscape.

John Hunt

Slap and dash is my current approach to abstract painting.

Annabel Faraday

Collaged and printed stoneware ceramic wall pieces and ridged and rugged sculpture and vessels.

Caroline Bartlett

Different bodies of tactile, textile artworks are represented here, employing a range of material techniques.

Prue Theobalds

I am an artist and illustrator inspired by the natural world.

Adrienne Hunter and Nick Snelling

Two studios, two artists: Nick Snelling’s luminous oil paintings of land, trees and sea live next to Adrienne Hunter’s drawings

Raymond McChrystal

The Lawn is an enclosed communal garden that is one of my favourite places to paint.

Rachel Lever

Rachel Lever opens the garden gallery at 14 Stanhope Place. Plants, pots, furniture and more, featuring Last Fling designs.

Ellen Svenningsen’s Workshop

Ellen Svenningsen is a woodworker, making furniture, bespoke frames and a range of small objects from her workshop in Harold’s Mews.

Veronique Pullen

The Muse, Harold Mews, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0EA veronique@veroniquepullen.com veroniquepullen.com @veronique_pullen Contemporary, handmade jewellery inspired by our local coastline. Opening hours: 2/3 & 9/10 September 11am-4pm

Elaine Partington

I am a metalworker seeing the potential of texture and form in everyday things.

Catherine Farr

Catherine is an artist who is passionate about gardens and wildlife.

Alex Leadbeater

Immerse yourself in the exhilaration of crashing waves and choose from a wide range of paintings, prints and cards to give your wall a sea view.

Mews Road Open Studios

Mews Road Studios is a creative hub of multidisciplinary artists.

Sharlala Jewellery Open Studio

Welcome to my studio, where I design, make & teach. I will have lots of handmade jewellery on display..

Film events at the Electric Palace Cinema

The awe-inspiring life and times of Nam June Paik, often referred to as the ‘Godfather of Video Art’, who foresaw the internet and meme culture’s importance in the 1970s, and coined the phrase “Electronic
Superhighway.”

Hastings Arts Forum Gallery

Hastings Arts Forum Gallery, 20 Marine Court, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0DX hastingsartsforum.co.uk @hastingsartsforum Hastings Arts Forum, 20th Anniversary Members Show and Party. Opening hours: Exhibition 5-17 September. Tuesday – Sunday, 11am-5pm Party: 9 September

Folde

An exhibition of contemporary works exploring clay.

Anna Wilson-Patterson

Coastal Paintings, Calendar and Greeting Cards inspired by the huts & hounds of Fairlight Cove.

ompompom

Ompompom can be found at the end of her garden accessed by a public footpath at the top of Harold Rd adjacent to the East Hill.

79 Bohemia Road Studio

A printmaking, fine arts and textile collective studio run by Tom Williams,

Journeys Dance

As part of Journeys Festival of Dance, 18 Hours will bring French Compagnie Bilbobasso to Hailsham, Newhaven and Bexhill. Their spectacular show ‘Amor’ is an alliance of Argentinian Tango, music and fire.

Ivy RecRods Tour

Ivy RecRods artists ROWSIE, Martha Makes Mistakes & Holly Henderson are touring the UK this Autumn and coming to Hastings with Audiotrope support.

Uncertain Edges

Uncertain Edges is the latest endeavour from Ground Collective. Ground Collective is made up of eight artists and a writer. For this project Jim Roseveare, artist and arboriculturist, is their
invited collaborator.

HFT presents Under the Radar

Hastings Fat Tuesday CIC present their free monthly live music night at the Brass, Hastings, showcasing another three emerging acts from the South East. Friday September 29th from 7.30pm, free entry.

Call of the Jaguar The Sound Apothecary & Abstract Source

“Call of the Jaguar” is a modern day sound ritual of hypnotic abstract film projections, ambient soundscapes, drum journeying and gong & crystal bowl sound bath resonance.

The Spirit in the Dust

Dance performance featuring Japanese dancer Yumino Seki with original music by Afrit Nebula.

Carnivalesque

A veritable riot of biped and quadruped madness.

St Leonards Ceramics Studio Sale

Studio Sale celebrating the second anniversary of opening; St Leonards Ceramic Studio will be opening the studio for the sale of pottery made by the students, members and teachers.

Liz Wilson

at the blackShed Gallery Russet Farm Robertsbridge TN32 5NG celebrating the Turner Prize

Audiotrope Workshops

Register online for our set of free workshops for Under 25s

On the Edge of Nothingness

Haunted landscapes, revenants and spectral visions. An exhibition of works by artist Jo Israel.

Navine G. Dossos, ‘Riviera’

Artist Navine G. Dossos has been conducting workshops with residents of Eastbourne’s Devonshire Ward to create Riviera: a communal-and-community-designed textile pattern made from stencils relating to the neighbourhood.

Fast-Forward to the Past – Nick Hill

Taking inspiration from black and white photos from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, from across Hastings and St Leonards, Nick Hill has adapted using his usual psychedelic and idiosyncratic style bringing new work to this exhibition.

Trash Dollys – WE MOVE

Join TrashDollys and an amazing community cast as they illuminate West Street in a whirlwind of dance, music, and absurdity.

EAST SUSSEX COLLEGE GROUP

2 exhibitions coming up at 5th floor studios, ESCG Hastings, celebrating local talent and hosting a wide variety of works.

Opening Party 2024

JOIN US FOR A MULTIMEDIA SOUND AND MUSIC EVENT

Colden Drystone and Bruce Ingram

Duo exhibition of Hastings based artists Colden Drystone and Bruce Ingram. Both artists share an energetic and playful approach to painting, appropriating found materials alongside rich painted surfaces such as concrete, clay, plaster and collage.

Old Hope The Three Legs Brewery and Taproom

Old Hope is the studio name under which local artist Darren Pilcher sets about realising an ’unspoken local vernacular’ of Romney and the Weald. Using woodblock printing and wax stencils he strives to share his view of the local landscape.

Picnic, A Place for Photography

Picnic Tables will be showing and selling photographic works from its residents, Nick Ballon, Alma Haser, Dawn Parsonage, Joe Charrington, and artists that have helped us along the way.

Amanda Knight

Paintings, drawings and experimental imagery on manipulated canvas and card.

Work in Progress – Wendy Pacey

Soft sculpture, contraptions and mixed media objects exploring themes of Women’s issues, medicine and religious practices through the medium of textiles, clothing and related objects.

Work in Progress – Grant Braithwaite

Work in Progress exploring photography, found objects and the folk/plant lore of the Sussex Countryside.

Tom Ormond

Paintings, drawings and prints of exploded architecture and landscape, inspired by visits to nuclear test sites and intentional communities. Plus bespoke architectural portrait service.

Mark Eason

Three artists working in figurative, abstract and mixed media respectively. From Leeds Polytechnic to Saint Martin’s, Mark, Pat & Darren go way back.

Julian Greig

A bit like Baruchello meets Alfred Wallis – paintings, sculpture and digital installation.

Anna Pontonutti

Acrylic paintings, prints and cards inspired by the weather and the sea of the East Sussex coastline. Wide range of sizes from 14x14cm to 120x100cm.

Tim Riddihough

Sculpture garden & Studio House – all rooms displaying Art.

Anna Wilson-Patterson

Coastal Paintings, Calendar and Greeting Cards inspired by the huts & hounds of Hastings, Fairlight and Rye Harbour.

Annie Soudain

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

Rosemead Paintings Prints and Ceramics

Colour is the subject matter for Geraldine’s paintings, prints and ceramics.

The Car Park Park

An experimental conceptual project consisting of a non-geo-fixed micro green space that questions how urban space is
used and can be repurposed to improve the wellbeing landscape.

Show Off

Free, woven through the town for you to happen-upon.

Ibex Art Studios

Come and join us at Ibex Art Studios to see the wonderful, creative ceramics by Eddie Knevett and Mokshaghandi Van der Plas. Large, colourful abstract paintings by Sarah Evans.

The Old Ambulance Station

Meet the artists at our creative community hub, where resident artists will be showing their work in this amazing converted space, along with outdoor sculptures and a restored 1960s vintage train carriage café on site.

Basement Studio

Keith Waller’s pictures dance within dreamscapes, the unseen meet subconscious whispers. In landscapes people dance a graphic journey into the abstract mind.

Blackbird Jewellery

The Beach Hut, 95 West of Haven, Cinque Port Way, West St Leonards, TN38 0AJ maggie@blackbird-london.com blackbirdjewellery.com @blackbirdlondon @blackbirdjewellery 07568 572076 Blackbird Jewellery designs and makes recycled silver, gold vermeil, brass and bronze jewellery and collectables

St Leonards Ceramics Studio

Grounded in Clay is a curated ceramics exhibition that captures the essence of our natural world using clay and materials found in
the making process.

Cliffs and seas: materialities of pigment

Oil pigments from the environment are transformed into imagery. An exploration of the inter-relationships of the sea and the cliffs shaped by it. A dynamic process highlighted by the ongoing landslips of West Hill, St Leonards on Sea.

Sharon Seager

Icon writing is a practice on especially made wooden boards prepared with gesso; the image is drawn from the ancient prototypes of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The work of Mark Walter & Jo Buse

Highland Garden Studio, Front Garden Basement Flat, 4 Highland Gardens, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0HT markwalterartist.com @theartistmarkwalter @busejo @MarkWalterArt Mark Walter is an abstract painter; his textural paintings are made by applying and removing layers

Helen D Moore Artist/Printmaker

Printmaker specialising in bird cartoons and other animals. Mixed media paintings and sculptures. Stitched and stenciled pictures. Jewellery and cards.

Tropical Flora

Discovering a collection of botanical watercolour paintings made whilst living in Nigeria over 50 years ago, local artist Prue Theobalds exhibits these works in collaboration with local artist and grandson Caner Mutu to create a unique experience of paintings and photographs exploring plant life, place and people.

Raymond McChrystal

The Lawn is an enclosed communal garden that is one of my favourite places to paint. I will have my mobile work area set up so that visitors can feel the “en plein air” experience. Expect to see watercolours with a twist.

Nick Snelling & Adrienne Hunter

Nick and Adrienne are both inspired by nature and the wild garden in which their studios are constructed. Trees, plants, water-logged landscapes and more are evoked in their work through their very different yet complementary ways of working.

Mews Road Studios

A studio space shared by Khadija Khan, Louisa Bryan, Caf Fean, Morokoth Fournier, Ornagh, Caroline Sell and Erica Smith. Works on display will include paintings, ceramics, calligraphy and jewellery. Guest artist Catherine Farr will also be exhibiting.

Alex Leadbeater

Immerse yourself in the exhilaration of crashing waves and choose from a wide range of paintings, prints and cards to give your wall a sea view. The Muse is an established studio, a stone’s throw from the beach with several artists nearby.

Liz Emtage Ceramics & Erica Wordsmith Design

Liz Emtage has been designing and creating translucent porcelain lighting, tiles and pieces for the home for more than 20 years. Designer Erica Smith will also have a selection of her jewellery and calligraphy on show.

Claudia De Grandi at The Weekend Space

The Weekend Space in collaboration with artist Claudia De Grandi invites you see a selection of her latest works. Also on display will be a variety of affordable painting, photographs, small prints and hand-made jewellery from a selection of artists – local and
non-local.

Fiona Denning

Painting in the still life genre, often placing domestic objects in a landscape. Paintings, Prints and Cards available. Level access to ground floor studio.

Carly Ralph

Mixed Media Textiles using reclaimed materials such as vintage cloth and paper, shoreline fibres and metal fragments, to create low relief wall hung pieces. Aspects of the local environment are integral to the work.

Raft Studios

Collaged and printed stoneware ceramic wall pieces and ridged and rugged sculpture and vessels. Combinations of clay, metal, tideline findings and salvaged scrap, with an emphasis on rust.

Funky Stu 

Resurrection, The message of the Mask. S.Mutt. What would have become of the bits that you see if they had not come together to make me? All the bits that you see would have been buried deep and appear in our dreams when we’re asleep.

Zoom Arts Gallery

Zoom Arts provides spaces for members to exhibit their work, either solo or as a collaboration; enabling member artists to benefit from experience whilst presenting an informal, approachable gateway for the public to access and engage with the visual arts.

The House of Curiosities

The House of Curiosities: 5 artists with a diverse mix of artistic practice. Mark Bean, painter, 3d printed sculpture. Hilary Best, mixed media artist. Zander Clayton, illustrator. Helen Bryant, painter. Patrick Bean, laser printed art.

The Mudworks

The Mudworks is a ceramics studio on London Road run by Isabella Campi and Chantelle Duncan. They produce handmade small batch functional homeware and occasionally transform the studio into a gallery for sales throughout the year.

Art by BeaP

Enter black gate, up stairs on your left, press Art by BeaP buzzer, door at top of stairs (2nd floor). Breaking the White with multi-media, Acrylics and Oils. Bev Preston brings 3D to 2D paintings, conveyed in her lessons and workshops too.

Bohemia Road Studios

Works from guest artists will also be on show! Nestled in the Bohemian Creative Quarter, you can incorporate us into a promising route of the area.

Mark Lawson Bell

I find objects, often detritus of man, or botanical objects from the forest. The passage of time has revealed a new narrative.

Temporal

Tempo Studio is a joint space for husband and wife duo to create pieces of art predominantly out of sheet metal. They work together as steel fabricators and have always enjoyed making art in their spare time.

Joanna Sheldon

I’m a painter, mostly in oils on canvas, creating loose, textured still lifes and landscapes. I often work in watercolour and ink to capture French village streets and café culture.

Claire Fletcher & Peter Quinnell

Paintings, drawings, prints and cards by Claire Fletcher, collages, assemblages, prints and cards by Peter Quinnell.

Bob and Claire Humm

Bob and Claire welcome you to our studio: New creations and old favourites; The Doors Building returns; textile works; films in the Underground Cinema; conversation and fun. Level access via All Saints St.

Dominic Zwemmer

Working with handmade charcoal and also pencil and pastel, Dominic has a passion for wildlife, wild landscapes and seascapes. He is inspired by the variety of marks that can be made with nothing more than a piece of burnt wood.

West Street Artists

We invite you to visit our three open studios in the Old Town Hastings.

Wendy Smith, Steve Betts

Steve Betts – Working in 2D and 3D as a marine artist with a passion for boats and the sea. Having developed a unique and individual style, exploring seascapes through narrative, storytelling, man’s preservation against the elements, the shifting of time and tides.

The Art Market

A return to digital technology for CC2024. “The Art Market” Works created and inspired by technology. ‘For the love of cats’ and other stories. Prints, drawings and mixed media.

The Old Trolly Bus Terminus

Featuring 3 very different artists; Chris Milton, Danny Mooney and Tobit Roche. Artworks vary from highly detailed landscapes to expressive and colourful works within various degrees of abstraction.

The Two Ians

The Two Ians have been artists-in-residence at St Andrew’s Mews since last summer. They curated the ‘dramatic and thought-provoking’ iFound exhibition in the Upstairs Gallery there. The two artists continue to explore work made from found, repurposed and reclaimed materials.

Sugar House

Visit five artists at our loft space off the Queens Road. Annie Lawson, Elaine Mullings, Cath Tajima-Powell, Mary Hooper, Chris Embury. Textiles, Prints, Ceramics, Sculpture and Jewellery.

Anna Malni

Linocuts, woodcuts, etchings, sketches, cards, ceramics, prints and portraits of people and animals by commission. Workshops on both Sundays (12noon till 4pm) Watercolour on the 1 September and Linocut/Reduction on 8 September,
Call to book asap as limited spaces.

MAKU

The DEPO is a creative hub for those interested in wasting less, hosting popups and workshops with a sustainable theme. MAKU UK are on a mission to make useful, beautiful things from leather industry discards, with limited edition products, handmade from sheepskin and leather offcuts, available to purchase.

Oli Kellett

Since 2019, Oli has drawn the same thing every day: A bar of soap on a soap dish. Over the last 1500-ish days, he has recorded the minute day to day changes as the soaps have got smaller until all gone. Then he begins with a different soap, on a different soap dish and so on.

Green Garage Studio

Featuring Debbie Quargnolo of Tala Home and Living’s reconditioned mid century furniture and lampshades, the Radicale Dog’s handmade dog clothing and accessories, work by multi-disciplinary artist Charlotte CHW and woven textiles made by Kirsty McDougall Woven Textiles and ReWeave.

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre

An exhibition of contemporary automata from Cabaret Mechanical Theatre’s collection in our new home the Mechanical Making Space. Come and make your own mechanical portrait to take home & visit our shop with automata making kits, books & prints.

Project Art Works

Project Art Works will be open to the public for Coastal Currents with an exhibition and tours of our studio. Project Art Works is a collective of neurodiverse artists and activists. From our studio base in Hastings and in off-site projects, we facilitate personalised creative pathways for artists and makers.

Blacklands Studios

Blacklands has 9 artist studios, including a residency/project space. The building will be open over the two weekends of the festival with work for sale by studio artists. If the weather is nice then spend some time in our private courtyard enjoying the sun!

Dee Harvey Pottery

I make colourful ceramics, both thrown domestic ware and larger hand built vessels. I welcome commissions for the satisfaction of making something for a specific person or place. Previously: sleeping mermaids, a garden totem for a
jazz loving globe trotter and other celebration and commemorative ceramics.

Pearbox Open Studios

Visit artists and makers: Rachel Pearson, Ed Boxall, Rebecca E Marshall, Anna Atkinson & Dear Future Films as they showcase books, prints, drawings, jewellery and provide some fun free filmmaking and storytelling sessions!

Anchored

An immersive exhibit of multimedia work by Hastings artist Mel McCleary, including paintings, textiles and sound, showing the story of her coastguard ancestors in 19th century Hastings and Winchelsea. Original paintings and greetings cards for sale.

Lorraine Singer Ceramics

Taking inspiration from her Sussex surroundings, Lorraine experiments with home dug, iron-rich clay and traditional stoneware to create texture and patina on ceramic forms, slips, and glazes. Her latest work ranges from sizeable stone-like moon jars and chargers to smaller functional pieces.

Kirsten Iles

Sussex based fine art photographer specialising in landscapes, nature and Heritage, Kirsten’s work is inspired by her deep love for the wonders of nature and wildlife;

Enter the Dragon

ENTER THE DRAGON by Ania Goszczynska goszcz.com Ania was born in Warsaw, Poland, and studied at the Academy of Arts
there, gaining an MA in Design. However, with time, her focus shifted to visual art and illustration. She moved to Hastings in 2016, and lives in the Old Town with her partner David and their 3 cats.

Tadhg Mae Projects

Exhibition: Locus curated by artist/filmmaker Richard Butchins and writer/curator Manick Govinda.

MOTH: Collected

Group show featuring works by Emma Oak, Eleanor Carter, Georgie Wheeler, Jamie Atherton, Jazmine Miles Long, Judith Douglas, Keren Luchtenstein, Kirsten Dahlerup, Lesley Greening Lasso, Madeleine Smith, Mark Shepherd, Rose Long & Vic Fowle.

Jason King & Rachel Moller

Tongue in Cheek and Rachel Moller Illustration. A unique collaboration between Jason King, creator of ‘Tongue in Cheek’ and Rachel Moller of ‘Rachel Moller Illustrations’. Bask in the beauty of fine hats and glorious floral murals at this gorgeous venue.

Bizarre Boutique

An exhibition of bags, berets, hats, and accessories made in 1920s vintage velvet.

Create ON

Create ON is a shop front window exhibition.

Plastic era design at the Burton Gallery

On view is an exhibition of interesting pieces from the Age of Plastic, together with work from gallery artists G. Calvert, Brian Deighton and Joan Roche.

PUBLIC I HOUSE

This will be Kate Delany’s largest collection of work in one place to date. Her mixed media collage & paintings are based on everyday objects & locations that satisfy her architectural obsession, extruded from their reality & abstracted back into hers for you to enjoy.

Razzmatazz

Razzmatazz’- a group show; painting, ceramics and photography at Barnabys Lounge; jazz themed bistro & cocktail bar. All welcome.

AtmosTherapy

Alfie Field Presents:
A unique audio/visual experience in collaboration with local artist Charlie Hawley. Uniting dance music & ambient soundscapes with reactive visual programming; AtmosTherapy aims to move its audience in more ways than one!

Lines in the Highwoods

Bexhill Highwoods (Grid Ref: TQ 716096) Peartree Lane TN39 4RA 31 August to 2 November Follow this free art trail in Bexhill Highwoods exploring the woods to find sculptural pieces that illustrate the history of the

Starsky & Hatch

Come relax at our beach front cafe in the middle of Bottle Alley, Lower Promenade, serving from our
Hatch. Wholesome food & Artisan Coffee. Live performances on good weather days throughout September.
Keep an eye on our social media for more information.

Daria Fisher

Daria will bring her unique style of her project Selsyn Flow to a live outdoor event on West Street as part of our creative weekender.

Hastings Arts Forum Summer Members Show

A Summer HAF members open exhibition with a ‘salon hang’. A diverse and multi-disciplinary collection of 2D and 3D work is guaranteed.

Invented Future – OBX

Taking inspiration from John Logie Baird’s experiments in Hastings which led to the invention of television, young people have worked with sound artist Isobel Anderson, animator Isabel Garrett and the team at OBX to create a striking video installation about future innovations they’d like to see.

Kathy Foley: Pattern, Shapes & Faces

New artist Kathy Foley is primarily an abstract painter who also crosses over into different disciplines and mediums using her distinctive and colourful artistic voice within her expressionistic style.

COLLAPSE

COLLAPSE is a sideways glance at a postcollapse world that might only be a few steps away. This exhibition emerges as
a poignant testament to a natural world under pressure and a deteriorating material world.

MAKING STRANGE – Colin Booth

Exhibition by Colin Booth at Electro Studios Project Space

FLUX by Keo

The brand new exhibition from mix media artist KEO.

Albany Art Garden

Three local artists exhibiting contemporary painting & photography in a wonderful landscaped garden with probably the best view in St Leonards.

A family affair

Four professional artists, all members of the Haser – Bizony – Ballon family, come together to show their work, exhibiting a mixture of materials and media.

The Beacon

The Beacon is a family home and business hidden on the West Hill, with an eatery and a licensed bar, large, secluded gardens, and a sizeable allotment (fondly known as the Wilderness)… all just a short walk from Hastings Old Town.

Dream/Time (Commoning the Programme 1)

Commoning the Programme One is developed with young people from Hastings, who have commissioned a new work by a local artist for this festival. The work is about the future of Hastings, 2024 – 2124 and what it means to be alive, past, future present. The young programmers have been guided by prominent local organisations including Project Art Works and Trans Pride Hastings.

Objects from the Id XIX

Group of artists: Phillip Cosham, Tim Riddihough, Siobhan Tanner, Jackie Attwood, Lisa Green, Sarah Marzaioli plus Invited artists.

Hastings Contemporary: Out Front FREE weekend

Visit Hastings Contemporary to celebrate the end of our summer season with FREE ENTRY to all our exhibitions on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September. Explore the work of Elias Sime, Quentin Blake and a special pop-up group show.

Solaris Fine Art and Photographic Giclée Printing

Defence Of The Realm.
After eighteen months prowling around brutalist sea defences of Dymchurch, this exhibition is an oblique testament to the
foolhardy human desire to control and dominate natural forces rather than respect and work with them.

In Every Shadow

A project exploring and interrogating the symbol of The Green Man / Jack in the Green / Green George / Robin Goodfellow / The Green Witch / Puck / Dead Papa Toothwort / The Girl Green blackShed Gallery brings together artists and writers from all corners of the UK with The Green Man acting as a focal point to explore our relationship to history, nature, and each other.

Beauport House Gallery/’Tracing the Past’/Solo Art Exhibition

A solo exhibition of mixed media drawings, paintings and thread and metal sculptures.

Doggerland

Doggerland, the country that joined the UK to mainland Europe until flooded at the end of the ice age. Absurd, funny, thought provoking & inventive. An immersive solo performance with actual fossils.

Sono-Electro

Sono-Electro is a 10-day festival dedicated to sound art, where artists and the public explore place and belonging. Utilising sound and ecological themes, artists re-imagine belonging through performances, talks, broadcasting, workshops, and installations.

Louise Whitham

Local people are invited to sit for an abstract Polaroid portrait at Louise’s NoToPhoto Booth on Saturday 21 September 11am – 4pm at St Leonards Church. See your hand finished Polaroid there a month later on 19th October.

Audiotrope Stylophone Workshop

Electro Studios 5 Seaside Road St Leonards on Sea TN38 0AL 22 September 3pm Thanks to Sono Electro and Electro Studios Project Space 12 – 25 year olds FREE, sign up here tinyurl.com/audiotropestylophone Stylophones are miniature

XMTR (Transmitter) Audio Arts Festival

A celebration of creative radio and sonic storytelling where audio makers from many disciplines come to inspire, create and share
their work through workshops, installations and performances on Saturday as part of the Sono Electro festival and an In The Dark listening event on Sunday.

GLAM OR HORROR

The GLAM OR HORROR exhibition will showcase a new collection of gothic inspired fetish prints by latex artist Michelle Mildenhall, alongside a brand spanking new latex piece created especially for the show. Michelle’s art is thrilling, provocative and tantalising. Her new works feature some very famous gothic icons immortalised in her distinctive pop art style.

St Leonards Ceramics Studio Sale

St Leonards Ceramic Studio will be opening the studio for the sale of ceramics made by the students, members and teachers, celebrating their third anniversary.