Curated Events Open studios
Visit my workshop, to see stitched, multimedia art. Handmade clothes from vintage fabrics, cushions, bags, bunting and haberdashery. Plus vintage treasure treasure.
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.
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.
Haunted landscapes, revenants and spectral visions. An exhibition of works by artist Jo Israel.
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.
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.
Join TrashDollys and an amazing community cast as they illuminate West Street in a whirlwind of dance, music, and absurdity.
2 exhibitions coming up at 5th floor studios, ESCG Hastings, celebrating local talent and hosting a wide variety of works.
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 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.
Paintings, drawings and prints of exploded architecture and landscape, inspired by visits to nuclear test sites and intentional communities. Plus bespoke architectural portrait service.
I find objects, often detritus of man, or botanical objects from the forest. The passage of time has revealed a new narrative.
MSL wants your stories of the coast!
We are lead regional partner and creative agency for Beach of Dreams activity along the 30 mile stretch of our coast in the national arts festival, led nationally by Kinetika, taking place in May 2025.
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!
Colour is the subject matter for Geraldine’s paintings, prints and ceramics.
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.
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.
Keith Waller’s pictures dance within dreamscapes, the unseen meet subconscious whispers. In landscapes people dance a graphic journey into the abstract mind.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
Printmaker specialising in bird cartoons and other animals. Mixed media paintings and sculptures. Stitched and stenciled pictures. Jewellery and cards.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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 exploring photography, found objects and the folk/plant lore of the Sussex Countryside.
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.
Painting in the still life genre, often placing domestic objects in a landscape. Paintings, Prints and Cards available. Level access to ground floor studio.
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.
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.
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 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: 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A celebration of WEST STREET with: Two days of creativity, art and a west street style saloon.
Paintings, drawings, prints and cards by Claire Fletcher, collages, assemblages, prints and cards by Peter Quinnell.
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.
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!
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.
Three artists working in figurative, abstract and mixed media respectively. From Leeds Polytechnic to Saint Martin’s, Mark, Pat & Darren go way back.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A bit like Baruchello meets Alfred Wallis – paintings, sculpture and digital installation.
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.
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 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 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!
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.
Razzmatazz’- a group show; painting, ceramics and photography at Barnabys Lounge; jazz themed bistro & cocktail bar. All welcome.
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.
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.
Coastal Paintings, Calendar and Greeting Cards inspired by the huts & hounds of Hastings, Fairlight and Rye Harbour.
I use my immediate surroundings and my imagination to create images for paintings, lino prints and fabric collages.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Exhibition: Locus curated by artist/filmmaker Richard Butchins and writer/curator Manick Govinda.
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.
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;
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 …
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.
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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.
A Summer HAF members open exhibition with a ‘salon hang’. A diverse and multi-disciplinary collection of 2D and 3D work is guaranteed.
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.
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 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.
Three local artists exhibiting contemporary painting & photography in a wonderful landscaped garden with probably the best view in St Leonards.
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 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.
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.
Group of artists: Phillip Cosham, Tim Riddihough, Siobhan Tanner, Jackie Attwood, Lisa Green, Sarah Marzaioli plus Invited artists.
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.
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.
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.
A solo exhibition of mixed media drawings, paintings and thread and metal sculptures.
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 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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 Ceramic Studio will be opening the studio for the sale of ceramics made by the students, members and teachers, celebrating their third anniversary.
