Streets of Style in Hastings & St Leonards
You could say that Sue Tilley knows a thing or two about style, having previously moonlighted as club kid in residence at performance artist Leigh Bowery’s legendary Taboo nightclub, whilst simultaneously being hailed as official artist muse to a certain…
Story Time: at home on the pier
By Fiona McGarry We humans have a great need for narratives. An example is the way my three-year-old granddaughter asks for stories about all the happenings in her life. After she cuts her finger or is sick, or even after…
An absurdist masterpiece
Andrew Myers reviews Avanti West Coast Online Booking Experience (Anonymous) In 1961, the avant-garde artist Piero Manzoni placed a metal pedestal upside-down in a field in Denmark, effectively turning the whole planet into a work of art, rendering the artist…
Seascapes
Although not directly on the coast, Rye Art Gallery is home to many living and now departed maritime artists. The Gallery’s Education and Outreach Officer, Louise Simkiss Day, describes their new exhibition: ; Seascapes brings together over 120 artworks of…
Back to the Bar
By Fiona McGarry It was good to see the return of the Bavard Bar to the Kino on Wednesday – the first live Bavard since lockdown. The event normally involves three volunteers talking for 15 minutes each about a subject…
HIP AUTHOR INTERVIEW Things in Heaven and Earth
By Jane MetcalfePaperback, £ INTERVIEW BY LUCY BROWN St Leonards author Jane Metcalfe launched her book Things in Heaven and Earth at the town’s Funky art gallery on Sunday. A true story told through diary extracts, interviews and letters, Things…
HIP OBITUARY Untimely death of an anarchist
Inspirational campaigner and long-time Hastings resident Stuart Christie has died aged 74 Although ultimately a proud Scot, Stuart Christie – writer, editor, publisher, translator, anarchist campaigner and a deeply humane man – lived in Hastings for 30 years. Christie in…
Alessandro Raho: the making of an Artist
Alessandro Raho is one of the artists that recently took part in the Everyday Heroes Exhibition organised by the Southbank Centre to celebrate frontline workers during lockdown (read Local artist paints one of Hastings’ Everyday Heroes here). Rupert McAvoy talks…
The Hastings Trawler
Set up in 2005 by local people disenchanted with the Council (not unlike HIP a decade later) this magazine spread its literary net far beyond politics to encompass history, poetry, fiction and cartoons. Initially financed by Graham Frost, owner of…
HIP YOUNG WRITING
Get Hastings Reading Our passion for words goes viral By Stephen Ratcliffe Culture Shift, a key partner in the Get Hastings Reading campaign, has launched a series of short films to encourage young people to take up the art of…