Tag archives for Electro Studios
Booth’s Dream
MARK WALTER Colin Booth explores mortality and minimalism in his new exhibition titled I talked with you in a dream at Electro Studios project space. Booth is a multi-disciplinary artist…
The Hybridityof Kim Wan
TOBY BULA-EDGE AND VERA BELL Electro Studios hosted Kim Wan’s new exhibition Hybridity on 8-9 August, with an open view the evening before. Graphic painting Shown to a soundtrack of…
Good Grief Festival:Joy in Sorrow
VICTORIA KINGHAM Over the bank holiday weekend an unusual festival took place. Curated and arranged by the development education centre (DEC) 18 Hours, and called Good Grief: A Festival of…
Visual Responses to Grief
The aim of this special exhibition, shown for the duration of the festival at Electro Studios, was to showcase local artists’ reactions to their own personal grief. These were depicted…
Electro Studios: Non-conforming universe
Sexton Ming and Jason Williams’ show this December is at Electro Studios in Seaside Rd, St Leonards. Sexton Ming (left) and Jason Williams Sexton and Jason have been at the vanguard of the…
Auditory-Sensational
Held at Electro Studios in West St Leonards, Sono-Electro is a groundbreaking, two-weekend festival dedicated to spotlighting the best in local, national and international sonic artists, while inspiring the people…
A Group Approach to Sex?
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING Imagine an art exhibition entitled Sex and Success in Sussex and you might - depending on your personal depravity - envisage a rouged-up room full…
An Improvised Exchange
EBM HUMPHREYS & CHARLIE HAWLEY “Could be chaotic or sublime, but guaranteed to massage the synapses” said the call-out on Hastings Creatives for a new mix-up night of visual art…
Wave of Protest
HUGH SULLIVAN and PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Plans for a major new housing development on the former bathing pool site at Seaside Road in West St Leonards have been revealed by prospective…
Sometimes it’s Nice to Be In Danger, With Friends
MERLIN BETTS gets in Harm’s Way Below the cliffs beyond Rock-A-Nore, it’s late afternoon and a boulder tumbles down the hillside, rolling into the sea. There are three people walking…
The Spirit of Invention
JUDE MONTAGUE and CHRIS SIMPSON on Electro Studios’ latest art venture One hundred years ago a young John Logie Baird was recovering from his chest condition in Hastings. He went…
Hastings Independents: Four Weeks of Grassroots Arts
KEITH RODWAY previews happenings at Electro Studios. The extraordinary wealth of creative arts talent in Hastings and St Leonards is becoming hard to keep pace with, with one source suggesting…
A New Gallery Takes Off
MARK WALTER interviews Tessa & Markus Thonett. Feadora by Tessa Thonett I first met Tessa and Markus at the Electro Studios earlier this year and straight away became interested in…
Refugee Week 2023
GARETH STEVENS This year’s Refugee Week in Hastings, Rother and Wealden will launch on Sunday 18 June at at the Hastings Contemporary. The sheer span of the events and activities…
Forget Hastings, Go West!
ALEXIA MASARDO The West St Leonards Forum invites you to attend an exhibition about this interesting and mostly overlooked part of our seaside community. Locals have been contributing photographs, pictures,…
The Art of Memory – The work of Ian Baker
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling Is it possible to paint a memory? It’s difficult: memories don’t keep still. They slip and slide and mutate. It is a bit like…
When Miss Weaver met the Wicked Mr Joyce
A New Exhibition, ‘Yoolyses,’ opens at Electro Studios, on 16 June, to celebrate James Joyce and the woman who made his masterpiece possible. James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, regarded in Britain…
Neither Here Nor There
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling If you have ever stood at the shore’s edge and stared at the waves and the endless grey sea, you might appreciate Seamus Heaney’s thought…
Big Sparks at The Electro
Nick Pelling looks forward to a special exhibition. The current exhibition at the Electro Studios looks set to be quite something. It carries the title A Sense of Place, but…