Curated by Sharon Wylde and Rowan Corkill
“Show Off” is a perambulatory exhibition, an around-town series of posters that celebrate the diverse work of the region’s artists. This open-air exhibition of work is free and accessible to all, placed in key positions allowing everyone to view at their leisure. Popping up around town over the duration of the festival, this work will sit in unusual urban spaces and everyday environments.
Each poster has been contributed by artists believing that placing art in the public realm is crucial; ensuring that everyone can experience and enjoy the vibrant art of their region.
Free, woven through the town for you to happen-upon.
Key locations include:
Seafront poster sites
Source Park – from 9 September
Town centre bus stops
Bohemia Road,
Maku on Queens Road
and more…
SHOW OFF!
SEE MAP HERE:
JUDITH ALDER
location:Macu
Clustermorph!
repurposed and reused packaging materials, electrical tape.
Judith Alder is an artist based in East Sussex. She works with a range of low tech, often repurposed or re-used media and materials to make drawings, sculpture and moving image. Judith’s work is informed by her interest in science and nature and reflects her efforts to learn more about elementary chemistry, physics and biology. Judith’s research draws upon diverse sources, from conversations with scientists and ethicists, to chats in the pub, and from academic papers to sci-fi novels. The work offers a sideways look at complex questions about where we come from, what we’re made of and the weird peculiarities of life, the universe and everything.
judithalder.com
instagram.com/judith.alder
LAURA FERRY
location:Macu
Hero’s Journey
Metamorphosis
Mother’s Love
textiles, embroidery
This body of work uses discarded remnants of fabric, mostly hand sewn to explore the deep rooted attachment we have to societal expectations and norms.
By utilising traditional textile techniques in unconventional ways, I aim to disrupt the status quo and encourage viewers to question the constraints and limitations placed upon us by society.
I challenge the notion that we must conform in order to be accepted.
Through the intricate weaving of fabric and thread, I seek to visually depict the complexity of the web of attachments we have to these expectations, ultimately inviting viewers to consider their own relationship to conformity, connection and acceptance.
instagram.com/llauraferry
ALISON BETTLES
location:seafront poster
When the Dust Settles
cyanotype, tea, paper
Made over the summer months using the cyanotype method the images are a visual documentation of the season and the eternal movement of the earth and moon.
As daylight fades the transition into the gloaming ignites the artificial solar lights and there is a brief duality of natural and artificial light, one source powering the other – Pictures of light
made in that brief moment of twilight.
alisonbettles.co.uk
instagram.com/alisonbettles
BEN BRANAGAN
location:bus stop
Rosamund
collage
Ben Branagan is an artist and designer, originally from London and now based on the south coast of the UK. Working across a range of different mediums and materials, from cast stone and paper pulp to moving image and sound, his work is driven by an idea of collage; a pulling apart and bringing together of things. Sorting, sifting and reconfiguring residues and echoes to construct new forms, narratives and feeling for a world in flux.
benbranagan.co.uk
instagram.com/the_joyful_cut
DUNCAN BROWN
location:bus stop
Mirage Diagrams: composite
mixed media on board
My practice involves a circular process moving between the virtual and real world, operating in the spaces between digital and analogue, between the human-made and the natural world. I strive to balance opposites: gestural abstract marks with cleanly designed elements; and manufactured bold colours with natural, earthy tones. My work exists to prove that competing forces can work together and to confront the polarities existing within our current culture.
duncanbrown.studio
instagram.com/duncanbrown.studio
MARK CORFIELD-MOORE
location:bus stop
Bankok Rush Hour
paint, ikat weaving
Mark Corfield-Moore (b.1988 Bangkok) utilises a hybrid practice of painting and weaving and is particularly drawn to the weaving technique of ikat, a process that he learnt in Northern Thailand during his final year of postgraduate study, due to its ‘glitchiness’ or what he calls a ‘fizzy heat’. Eschewing the traditional method of tie-dying, he paints directly onto the warp threads and then winds the yarn onto the loom, which further distorts the subject matter. The points at which the legibility of the image begins to fray or sparkle offer an apt way to think about the plasticity of memory and our evolving relationship with the past.
markcorfieldmoore.com
instagram.com/markcorfieldmoore
NOUR EL-DIN
location:bus stop & The Dove Cafe
Untitled
photograph
Nour El-Din, 28, is a Hastings based photographer from Syria. He lives with his family and he loves to spend time exploring, photographing and filming his new home.
I was born in the Syrian city of Homs, a beautiful city and its people are even more beautiful. They are characterised by tolerance, cooperation, and love of goodness. I want to be a famous photographer and to be able to convey people’s voices, feelings and beautiful places through pictures. When I take photographs of people it makes me feel so much happier. When I look at the pictures now, each one holds that memory. I put my energy into the pictures and I can feel it when I look back at that image. My personality is shy and without a shared language it has been more of a challenge. But going out and meeting new people through taking pictures gives me confidence.
instagram.com/therefugeebuddyproject
ALICE SHEPPARD FIDDLER
location:bus stop
Home
reconstituted Cotswold stone blocks
Alice Sheppard Fidler works with found spaces and materials to create sculpture, installation, intervention and works on paper. Her work is sited both in and out of the gallery. She often begins by identifying a zone of rigidity (a rule, a social code, or a hard physical surface), and then working into the space around it, rubbing up against everyday conventions until their obviousness disintegrates, toying with oppositions until their hard edges loosen.
Her installations are temporary re-stagings often assembled from modular elements that travel between contexts, searching for new narratives to unfold. By transforming spaces and materials with minimal adjustments and subtle gestures, and leaning into rules and limitations, her work invites us to experience oscillations between absurdity and poignance, pointlessness and tenderness.
alicesheppardfidler.com
instagram.com/alicesheppardfidler
DENISE FRANKLIN
location:bus stop
Walking home
mixed media on paper
The paintings and drawings of Denise Franklin speak profoundly of the female perspective . They have a quality of quiet intensity in the immersive act of being present in – of inhabiting, of inhaling- a landscape. The work sits in the resonant hinterland between abstraction and infinitely subtle geographies of place. Alison Morris – Anatomy of Minimum
In 2023 Denise was presented with the Hugh Casson Drawing Prize at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Studied Fine Art in London and Newcastle, and Visual Theories at UEL.
Denise co – founded Stable Studios in Hastings Country Park and is a member of the Rye Society of Artists. Denise is represented by Rye Art Gallery.
instagram.com/denisefranklin6004
FREYA GABIE
location:Observer Building
Romantic Gesture
a tree buried back into the landscape it had grown out of, Franconia Sculpture Park, MN, USA
Freya Gabie’s multi-disciplinary practice is research-led and site-specific. Gabie is fascinated by what makes place: how environmental, economic, social, cultural values and histories converge to form and shape it. Her work explores our exchange with the landscapes around us – often overlooked – that reflect who we are, or reveal who we want to be. By drawing out unnoticed narratives manifest within objects and environments, the familiar is transformed, highlighting the different ways we confront and define our histories, and giving space for quieter voices to be heard.
freyagabie.com
instagram.com/freyagabie
JOAN GLASGOW ASHTON
location:busstop
Satire Attire
collage
Joan is a Hastings based mix-media artist with a painting background. Her practice is informed by life experiences,social commentary and relationships. She continues to challenge herself by experimenting with different mediums and techniques which allows her practice to evolve. She is constantly learning.
joanglasgowworld.crevado.com
instagram.com/joanglasgow_art
LAURA HINDMARSH
location:Bohemia Road
The Wanderer of the Beach (A Piedigrotta)
ink on paper, 65 x 50 cm,
Taken from a series of ink and watercolours that recreate film stills from the lost films of Italian film director Elvira Notari, in which female protagonists struggle against the confinements of society. In A Piedigrotta (1920) Rusella falls in love with a young sailor and gives up her rambling life for the dream of love but after her husband departs for military services she finds herself stuck in a squalid shack nursing her father-in-law.
laurahindmarsh.com
instagram.com/lahindmarsh
EDWARD LIDDLE
venue:bus stop
Observation Study #5 (Photograph Album)
oil paint on lining paper
My artistic practice is concerned with the re-interpretation of motifs. Found motifs are taken from a range of styles and eras. Some are derived from found architectural objects such as tiles, scraps of wallpaper or remnants of fabric. Others are found featured in a scene from a film or television programme and are first documented as screenshots.
The Observation Studies, a new body of work, take witnessed moments that I have experienced whilst collecting visual motifs. These observations are transformed into painted text pieces.
edwardliddle.co.uk
PAULA MACARTHUR
venue:bus stop
All these Silent Moments
oil on canvas, 2020
For me, crystals encapsulate love, life, the universe and perhaps even everything. My paintings can be heartbreaking love songs, curious landscapes, memento-mori, magical explorations of colour and light. The otherworldliness of these glassy, geometric forms sparks infinite imaginings and in oil paint I find an equivalent magic. Using luminous colour to create intricate landscapes and new, unreachable worlds; metaphors for the fragility of the planet we inhabit, the human condition, but also a recognition of the potential joy in the here and now.
paula-macarthur.com
instagram.com/paulamacarthur_
JAZMINE MILES LONG
location:bus stop
Hope
taxidermy bird
I call myself an ‘ethical’ taxidermist to describe the way I produce artwork only using animals that have died from natural causes. I specialise in creating ethically sourced bespoke taxidermy for galleries and museums throughout the UK and internationally, straddling the realms of art and science. I use traditional craft methods using natural and sustainable materials and aim to elevate taxidermy as a respected art form, shedding light on its scientific and cultural benefits. I aim to create work that shows respect for nature, highlighting the beauty of living things. A poignant reminder that life is fleeting and precious and that we need to work hard to protect it.
zez.am/jazmine_miles_long
instagram.com/jazmine_miles_long
SILAS MONEY
location:Source Park
Trophy
clay
instagram.com/silas.mhoney
BEN PHILIPS & AMY FENTON locations: Bohemia road and seafront poster
Bug Hotel
Blue Men Stack
coloured pencil on paper
Amy and I have been collaborating since the Summer of 2021. Our sessions are relaxed. Amy doesn’t holdback or mask how she feels and through her being genuine I find it allows me to be honest with our work too. Amy is neurodiverse and has a complex set of needs and I see our sessions as a tranquil space for creativity and communication. The way we typically work, is I draw in pen while Amy simultaneously injects colour to the work, usually with coloured pencils. We often compete for the same space on the page. The works on show are a small selection from the body of work that we are continuing to create. The subject matter is varied and is a form of visual diary; autobiography, current affairs and dreams can merge to create pieces that I find solace in and I hope they resonate with Amy as well. The sessions were originally put in place with the intention of being therapeutic for Amy and Amy’s mother Jill believes that Amy’s morale and communication have improved and even her seizures have markedly decreased since we started working together. Through working with Amy I genuinely feel that I have improved as well. I am taking steps to work through personal issues that I have silenced or dealt with alone since I was young. My mother’s battle with depression meant she struggled immensely and she was in and out of psychiatric hospitals during my childhood and adolescence and I feel it is only now that I am a father of a young child myself that I have begun to unpack this trauma.
zez.am/benjamindraws
instagram.com/benjamindraws
RICHARD PHOENIX
location:Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
Will, it’s time to dance
oil on canvas
As part of my artistic practice, I paint, draw, write, make music and am constantly learning about how these things can help people be together. I primarily make figurative work because I have a fascination with people. I use both real and imagined individuals as subjects but also explore how our interactions with each other can reveal more profound questions about how the world is structured. I create work that is bright, fluid and embraces imperfection, to mirror qualities in the world I want to see myself.
richardphoenix.com
instagram.com/richardjphoenix
RORY PROUT
location:Observer Building
Lattice (III)
mixed media on board
I’m an Irish artist living and working in East Sussex. Concerned with an embodied perception of place, my paintings address experiences of remote or rural landscapes, of sites I’ve visited and environments I’ve moved through while collecting images to work on in the studio. Together with a phenomenological engagement with landscape, I am fascinated with the idea of ‘reinventing the medium’; of creating a novel process of image making specific to my concerns. My pictures are made with oil and gesso on paper, wood or canvas, but also with ash, chalk, clay, wax and resin; and I’ve increasingly been incorporating digital and mechanical tools within a conventional painting practice.
instagram.com/roryprout
AGATA READ
location:bus stop
AR_03
photograph
I am an artist living and working in St Leonards-on-Sea. Within my work there is a playful blurring of different realms, from the natural world to the cartoon. A wild homing of numerous forms,
varying in abstraction, sees curious and mysterious scenes take on a psychologically-weighted symbolism. Surfaces are built from studio offcuts amongst other things, and take shape as the
work is being painted.
Recent shows include ‘St Leonards Meets the World’, Electro Studios Project Space, 2024, ‘In Conversation: Alice Walter, Sherman Tat Mern Sam’, 2023 and Summer Exhibition, 2023, Royal Academy of Arts.
agataread.com
instagram.com/agiread
SARAH RIANHARD GARDENER
location:Source Park
Heartlines in an infinite loop
marker, pastel, oil pastel on Khadi paper
I am interested in the tension between painting/drawing as a verb and painting/drawing as an object – and how the latter is a manifestation of the former. Using personal memory, narrative fiction or poetry as a starting point, I work intuitively with process, materials, mark making and surface to create a physical record of the emotions, actions and choices made while in the ‘thick of it’ in the studio. Lines loop, colours bleed, surfaces accrete until the image resolves itself through a process which I’ve come to think of as neither painting or drawing, but rather thinking with the body.
instagram.com/sarahelgardner
EUAN ROBERTS
location:Source Park
Bear
paint on canvas
Euan’s artistic practice is focused on analysing the human condition, distilling feelings of humour, hope, suffering, joy, love and longing via his idiosyncratic cast of animal avatars and visual metaphors. Euan’s work is centred on what it means to be human but humans remain absent from his art. Instead, his visual narrative revolved around a changing cast of yogic bears, drunken crabs, lonely chimps and crying sharks.
Euan’s work also examines his journey as a person of colour navigating their way through the art world. Motifs like his familiar black bear taking up space in urban environments reference the feeling of alienation that people of colour often feel in art world spaces. He works primarily with painting, ceramics and drawing, but his practice is expanding to explore the worlds of film and fashion. A debut children’s book is scheduled for 2023. Euan takes on select commercial work and past clients include Facebook, Glastonbury Festival, Leicester Square and London Fashion Retail Academy.
euanrobertsart.com
instagram.com/euanrobertsart
YUMINO SEKI
location:Source Park
Untitled002
Outdoor Butoh document
Sensing, absorbing, shaping, reshaping, moving and being moved, the body is a moving sculpture, this durational installation slowly metamorphoses and coexists in the landscape.
Listening to the sound of the gentle rain, feeling the moisture on the cheeks, faint smell of the damp fallen leaves and the muddy soil passing through the nostrils, structure of the tree formation and the other body on the rainy afternoon then finally a form arrives where the inner and outer landscape meet . From Outdoor Butoh, March 2023, Hastings
yuminoseki.com
instagram.com/yuminoseki
MOLLY STREDWICK
location:Source Park
251 Chairs /251
drawing on sample paper
My practice looks at themes of disconnection, memory and domesticity, using motifs and symbolism from personal experiences. By presenting these elements with minimal context, I invite the viewer to create their own narratives from decontextualized fragments. My work explores how seemingly insignificant moments accumulate to create a lifetime. I work in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking, my work is created with a sense of immediacy. I recently created a series of works called “251 Chairs”, a series of 251 drawings of chairs on varying GF Smith sample papers. This drawing is number 102.
mollystredwick.com
instagram.com/mollystredwick
ALICE WALTER
location:bus stop
The Pallor of a Stalk
oil, pastel, acrylic and paper on plywood
I am an artist living and working in St Leonards-on-Sea. Within my work there is a playful blurring
of different realms, from the natural world to the cartoon. A wild homing of numerous forms,
varying in abstraction, sees curious and mysterious scenes take on a psychologically-weighted
symbolism. Surfaces are built from studio offcuts amongst other things, and take shape as the
work is being painted.
Recent shows include ‘St Leonards Meets the World’, Electro Studios Project Space, 2024, ‘In
Conversation: Alice Walter, Sherman Tat Mern Sam’, 2023 and Summer Exhibition, 2023, Royal
Academy of Arts.
alice-walter.com
instagram.com/alicewalter___
CARLA WRIGHT
location:bus stop
Women Ignoring
ceramic, ironstone, granite, quartz, underglazes
Carla Wright is an artist living and working in East Sussex. She makes ceramic sculpture, wall based worlds and undertakes longterm participatory projects that explore connection, so-operation and togetherness – through an investigation into social housing,community architecture and places of gathering.
She uses clay as a connecting material -connecting her to people and to the ground, giving her a deeper knowledge of the community and of the local environment. The individual works evolve through ongoing research of materials; locally found clay, granite, quartz, ironstone and plants are incorporated into the glazes & clay body.
Carla is the founder of Common Clay – a ceramics studio in Bexhill, set up to provide a shared, open and experimental making space for people working with clay.
carlawright.co.uk
instagram.com/_carlawright
NICLOE ZAAROURA
location:bus stop
A Mouth Full of Pins
paper/pins/elastic thread/body
Material becomes my accomplice, my carrier, pulling at the space. Sculptures unfurling, continually forming and reforming out of their own fragile skins. New armours, new confessions, time and time again… And now a new hidden. A body seeking, a body waiting, a body performing, shifting within its metamorphic process, within its material and form. An emerging costume of sorts appears. Enduring, folding, unfurling, pressed into reforming. An unspoken choreography…a body as book, a book as body, creating clusters of unspoken words and duplicitous touches that speak between the layers…
instagram.com/nicolezaaroura