Coastal Currents

HASTINGS

Curated Events Open studios

MRKL

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.

Pippa Ryan | Assemblage Artist

Pippa’s three-dimensional assemblage artworks celebrate everyday objects and the memories they hold.

Markus & Tessa Thonett & guests

Markus Thonett works in his unique medium of Card Cuts and Tessa Thonett is a portrait painter, working in oils.

BLAST Art Gallery

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.

Nicola Jones

2026 official JITG artist Nicola Jones presents a playful and exhibition of hand painted plywood cutouts, with prints and original artworks for sale.

Ella Guru

Local figurative painter Ella Guru exhibits new affordable paintings and prints.

HVA Staff Showcase

Many HVA staff members are artists so we wanted to celebrate their wide-ranging work during Coastal Currents.

Geraldine Swayne & Jennifer Binnie

A rare opportunity to visit this extraordinary subterranean palace…

Hastings Atelier

Hastings Atelier is a small, independent art school founded by artist Alex Tzavaras.

artlab

Visit 5 artlab artists at our base in Priory Meadow: Kim De Paolis, Stephanie Funnell, Jeni Johnson, Amanda Knight and Marigold Plunkett.

Emma Law Coastal Alchemy

Coastal Alchemy: mosaics, paintings, sketchbooks and designs where patterns shift, forms emerge and curious worlds quietly reveal themselves.

Sally Cole. New Studio 45

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.

Anna Malni

Lino-cuts, woodcuts, etchings, sketches, cards, ceramics, prints and portraits of people and animals by commission.

Katja Seaton Ceramics

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.

Project Art Works

Project Art Works opens up its campus across three sites in Hastings for studios and exhibitions.

Katherine Reekie & Jane Higginbottom

Katherine Reekie is a figurative surrealist with a interest in cultural and Jane Higginbottom is a sculptor…

Maku

The DEPO is a creative hub for those interested in wasting less, hosting events with a sustainable theme

Oli Kellett Studio

Oli will present work from his ongoing series ‘Soap Drawings’.

Greenhouse Open Studios

Paintings, film, stories, prints, jewellery, mobiles, DnD, and tarot…

Art in The Green House

Working between assemblage and collage lostnorfound is building an imaginary visual story.

Bob & Claire Humm

We welcome everyone to a studio of fun and surprises, where you can see
textile works, costumes…

The Trouble With Women

Women photographed in their own homes across Hastings.

Black Winkle Studio

Claire Fletcher and Peter Quinnell: original art, illustrations, prints, sketches, collages, watercolours, drawings, badges and cards.

Pips Community Gallery

A homely community-run gallery. Celebrating local creatives in the area.

Woman Stanley, Women

Kathleen Foley’s artistic practice is rooted in intuition and emotional expression, with a strong focus on themes related to the identity of ‘Woman.’

Dominic Zwemmer

Working with handmade charcoal, and also pastel and pencil, Dominic has a passion for wild places, wild seas and wild life.

Andrew – Eden Kötting

Andrew and Eden Kötting invite you into their studio of visions, snippets, memories, and collisions.

Sara Martin and Samantha Guertin

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.

Friday Print Group

Arts on Prescription’s Friday Printing Group started off as a lino printing group but is now experimenting with silk screen and gel printing.

DT Studios

DT Studios are exhibiting work by many local artists through a maze of studios in 8, 9 and 10 West Street

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre

Turn handles, push buttons & see mechanical marvels from CMT’s legendary collection.

The Art of Healing

Louise Witham – art exhibit at The High Street Clinic, Hastings Old Town.

Richard Platt/Light & Lead

A tiny tool-shed studio showing kiln-formed leaded-glass panels of sea-shells and fossils, plus larger windows on local themes.

Sam Van Riet: Illustrator and Artist

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.

Jo Vesanen

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.

Amanda Prouten

Hastings-based designer showing bright, bold paintings, prints, cards and textiles inspired by the natural world.

Blacklands Studios

Step inside working studios and meet artists making across painting, ceramics, photography, mixed media, sculpture, illustration, sound and installation.

Sugar House Studios

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.

33 West Street

Five artists on four floors: Adaesi Ukairo, Stephanie Fawbert, Rod Morris, Fi Brown and Lorna Crabbe

Anna Pontonutti’s Studio

My work is informed by the weather and sea of the East Sussex Coast.

I Make Lines

Combining repetition, intricacy and scale I intend to create basic frameworks for thought.

After Dark

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.

Out Front Free Weekend

Plus pop-up exhibition Out Front will showcase the diverse and thought-provoking work of Hastings Contemporary staff and volunteers.

Objects of the Id XXI

Phillip Cosham, Tim Riddihough, Siobhan Tanner, Jackie Attwood plus invited artists.

Inked In: A Flash Story Mob

Inked In is a flash story mob at The Pig. Drop in, pick a prompt, drop a line.

The Beacon

A one day event at the Beacon with a bake-off, a children’s art competition, and an exhibition.

“She Wants To Be Flowers”

You are invited to a ritual of storytelling, mythic folklore & Shamanic sound journeying…