Arts Diary
Jazzing Up the Stade On Tuesday 5 July, award-winning saxophonist, Gilad Atzmon, will be headlining at the Jazz Hastings July monthly session at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association on the Stade along with his trio featuring two of the…
Covid, Mother of Invention?
By Gareth Stevens It is often said that necessity is the mother of invention. Whilst lockdown has had a catastrophic effect on art exhibition schedules, and led to all galleries being closed; as restrictions have eased and public spaces have…
HIP Congratulates Project Art Works as Runners Up in this year’s Turner Prize
Project Art Works Exhibition at the Hastings Contemporary We hope that the recognition of collective action, artists and activism so clearly articulated in the Turner Prize 2021, represents acceptance of neurodivergent and wider perspectives and stories in life, art and…
And the Winner is?
By Nick Pelling By now, anyone with a vague interest in the art world, probably knows that our local art collective, Project Artworks, has been short-listed for the national Turner Prize. Over the years, of unmade beds and dissected cows,…
A Stroll along the Prom, Prom, Prom!
By Amanda Knight Sitting at opposite ends of the ‘Hastings-St Leonards’ promenade, two new public artworks Seawall and Painting the Prom bring the elemental nature and social role of our shoreline into active ; Starting in Old Hastings I track…
INTERVIEW
Lost and Found The curator of the new Hastings Contemporary exhibition speaks toKent Barker. “I was open-mouthed in wonder” James Russell told HIP. This was the moment he first laid eyes on the ‘lost’ Ravilious, Mackerel Sky. To be brutally…
ARTS DIARY
The Kino Teatr in Norman Road St Leonards reopened with a short season of Oscar nominated or winning films including Nomadland. In June there’s a Coffee Concert: A Garden of Songs by Women Composers 1890s-1920s. In July they are screening…
Arts on the Horizon
When we finally get out of lockdown, there’s bound to be huge excitement and enthusiasm for the Arts – the same Arts that we took for granted until 2020. But at the moment things are very much up in the…
Arts Diary
Hastings Contemporary has re-opened after Lockdown2 with two hugely anticipatedexhibitions – Lakwena Maciver’s Homeplace and Stephen Chambers’ The Court of Redonda. Lakwena Maciver, one of the UK’s most exciting contemporary black artists, creates painted prayers and meditations which respond to…
Victor Pasmore: Line & Space
By Gareth Stevens I am an atheist, but still cherish visiting temples and churches and the feeling of contemplation that descends on me when I enter old religious spaces. Similarly, I am not a believer in the fictitious history of…