A Very Live Parrot
Gareth Stevens reviews ‘Parroting’, a multi-media exhibition by Josie Rae Turnbull and Kate Tipler currently at Zuzushi Art Laboratory. The significance of this exhibition is multi-layered and complex. A subtle symphony of different themes and ideas, it left me intellectually…
14 Months of Solitude
Gareth Stevens previews an upcoming group show by four Hastings based photographers at Electro Studios Project Space. Many local artists from across the range of creative endeavours have alchemically developed innovative new ideas and produced great work out of what…
Rest, Observe and Listen
By Gareth Stevens Many would forgive Nancy Odufona for politely declining the opportunity to prepare a one person show at BlackShed Gallery. After a tough academic year, she recently landed her first teaching job at a local college and, as…
Fishing Families Caught on Camera
Gareth Stevens reviews John Cole’s book of photographs: Generations: Hastings Fishing ; The great photojournalist Robert Capa once said that “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough”. Whilst this is an oft-trotted out maxim for documentary photographers,…
Flip The Script
Following a successful exhibition at Bermondsey Project Space in London, in partnership with The Good Governance Institute, Tim Nathan brings his large format seascape photographs home to the Lucy Bell Gallery. Gareth Stevens reviews the ; The GGI Festival Director,…
BlackShed voted Best Gallery in Sussex
Gareth Stevens, who has a long association with blackShed, discusses with gallery director Kenton Lowe what winning the Muddy Stilettos Award means for ; The Muddy Stilettos lifestyle website came into being in 2011 when journalist Hero Brown (Independent on…
Vox Salva
GARETH STEVENS reviews Juliet Russell’s breathtaking new album: Vox Salva. Like us all, I truly appreciate the depth and breadth of musical talent that we have in our town, but when I first heard Vox Salva I thought how could…
For Better or For Worse
Be sure to visit the current show of photographs by the renowned artist Jane Hilton at Solaris Gallery in Norman Road, St Leonards. Gareth Stevens pays a visit and talks with the show’s curator, Alexandra Drawbridge. When I meet Alexandra…
Mew Welch: Pot star
By Gareth Stevens Many of our best loved music icons came to us via Art schools, but it is less usual that successful musicians find fresh passion for the visual arts later on in their ; So who is Mew?…
Cosily Creative Two-wheel Studio
Gareth Stevens visits The Mudworks in a repurposed St Leonards’ Garage When well-known Hastings singer Chantelle Duncan first met Graphic designer Isabella Campi at an out-of-town Winter Fair in December 2020, neither of them could have imagined how quickly their…