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.
Contemplate and contrast the work of two artists who’s very different practices both involve using ‘found strands’ to weave structural and organic forms.
A group art exhibition celebrating the breadth and depth of local talent.
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.
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.
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.
Imaginative hand-cut collages often depicting plausible realities. Occasionally surreal, often funny and beautifully crafted. Cards and prints available for sale.
