HIP EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Sir Quentin Blake
HIP Co-Arts Editor , speaks to the iconic artist Sir Quentin Blake, about his illustrious career and new exhibition We Live in Worrying Times, running from May to September of this year, at The Hastings Contemporary GalleryListen here Read more about…
Local Creatives Bring The America Ground’s Past To Life
A new set of creative works bringing to life a fascinating area of Hastings is now available to view online. The works were produced for Our Past, Our Future – a project by local arts and heritage company, ; PICTURE:…
A Word From The De La Warr Pavilion
In 1935 DLWP was designed as a place to bring people together, inside and out, and we will work hard to bring that back to you as soon as we can. But as we head into the autumn, it may…
Quentin Blake: We Live in Worrying Times
The Hastings Contemporary Review by Mia L Sir Quentin Blake’s new exhibition We Live in Worrying Times, currently on show at the Hastings Contemporary, is a marked departure from his usual body of work. It’s a visceral and mesmerising portrayal…
Maya’s Time Machine Writing Challenge
Imagine your time-traveller self discovering a favourite building from now as it might look in the future! Inspired by the discovery of the Porcelain Palace in Wells’ The Time Machine, Maya Coombs, youngest team member at A Town Explores A…
Local Photographer and Legend Giles Duley Calls for Artists
VENT Studio Giles created VENT “out of a place of anger” having spent years photographing active warzones. In a video on the VENT website, he describes his need to progress beyond the basic way photography records events. He wants to…
Hastings Rock Radio Goes Online For May
Hastings Rock Radio returned on Saturday 2nd May, for another 28 day broadcast. But this year’s broadcast is rather different to all that have gone ; Due to the current Coronavirus situation, Hastings Rock have had to adapt, just like…
Night Sweats & Fever Dreams
Oli Spleen’s forthcoming AIDS-themed album, is due to be released on 1st June, 20 years on from Oli’s hospitalisation and near death at the hands of AIDS defining complications. ‘With Night Sweats and Fever Dreams’, Oli Spleen has once again…
Quentin Blake
We Live in Worrying Times The Artist returns to Hastings Contemporary with an exhibition of drawings, paintings and a 30ft long mural described as ‘his Guernica’. Opening 7th May 2020. Opening digitally on 7th May, Hastings Contemporary is delighted to…
Artist Spotlight
Sue Tilley Sue Tilley’s made an indelible mark on the local arts scene since relocating to Hastings from London in 2017. Her eclectic litany of job titles have included: benefits supervisor; till dolly at the notoriously decadent Taboo club in…