Coastal Currents – Looking Back and Looking Forward
by Jilliene Sellner As we move through mid-September we have so far experienced an impressive first half of Coastal Currents. It seems to me as though the curated program has raised the bar this year and exceeds expectations. Bright Beginnings…
Making a Mark
By Tina Morris, director of Coastal Currents I’m proud to say that by the time you read this, four new pieces of street art will have been installed in Hastings. What a lot of energy it has taken and certainly…
Pygmalion Turns Abstract
Bernard Mcguigan Sculpture Show at The Lawn 1st–2nd September and in his studio at The Beacon during Coastal Currents. Preview by Simone Witney In the middle of a delightful conversation with Bernard Mcguigan, I realise I’m really witnessing a story…
Project Art Works turns Premier Inn Walls into Exhibition Space
By Tim Corrigan At Project Art Works we collaborate with people who have complex needs, their families and circles of support. Our mission is to change lives through art by exploring the potential of each individual and sharing their creative…
Coastal Currents – Short Story Competition
A chance for local unknown writers On 30th September, as part of the Coastal Currents month, Hastings author, Joan Taylor-Rowan, will be reading three of her art-inspired short stories at the Jerwood Gallery. Joan has invited other writers to submit…
Coastal Currents set to make a Bigger Splash
Tina Morris We are pleased to announce that Coastal Currents Arts Festival has been successful yet again with their Arts Council England funding, so we can all breathe a sigh of relief and start blocking out September in our diaries…
Oska Lappin’s Scary Vision of America
The American Scream By Oska Lappin If you visited Oska Lappin’s open studio during Coastal Currents last September, you will be familiar with the splashy and expressive red white and blue mixed media woodcuts which make up her Scary Amerika…
Coastal Currents Goes Out of Season To Bring a Special Piece of Art to Silverhill by Tina Morris
Now seemingly a year-round venture, with new owner, Tina Morris, at the helm, Coastal Currents is still making the headlines. Here, she discusses a missing piece of the 2017 programme With bravery of programming, comes risk. But who would want…
Roland Jarvis, an Artist at Play – Coastal Currents Open Studio by A. Vasudevan, The Literary Shed
Japanese Golfer by Roland Jarvis The late Anglo–French artist Roland Jarvis considered art ‘play’ not work. ‘Play gives you a tremendous amount of freedom,’ he said. An artist, printmaker, filmmaker, horologist and engineer, Jarvis was a man of many talents.…
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Reoccurring Undulation VI Interviewed by Thomas Denman
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva in front of her installation for Coastal Currents Nothing could be more fitting to the name and location of the Coastal Currents Arts Festival than Reoccurring Undulation VI, a panel made up of 55 ‘tiles’ of salmon…