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…
Paying The Piper
Arts Council England (ACE) has announced funding awards totalling £257 million for 1,385 venues, theatres, museums and cultural organisations across the ; The awards are administered by ACE on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as Round…
“Keep on drawing – right now, it’s more important than ever!”
An interview with Thom Kofoed Hastings born-and-bred; Thom Kofoed has lived here all his life. HIP Wellbeing editor, Caf Fean reached out to him after hearing about some mindfulness exercises he had designed in collaboration with John Murray of Hastings…
Does England’s Creative Coast Care About Racism?
The answer turned out to be an interesting balance of possibly and, well, no, not very much. I picked the organisation known as “England’s Creative Coast” as a sample rather than looking over Hastings’ galleries, because ECC says things like:…
Drawing Life’s No-tech Solution to the Covid-19 Lockdown
Drawing Life, the Hastings-based charity, brings art to people living with dementia and other age-related conditions. Now they are releasing a lockdown-proof sketchbook so that their artists can continue drawing. For the last five years we have held regular…
Quentin Blake: We Live in Worrying Times
The Hastings Contemporary Review by Mia L Sir Quentin Blake’s new exhibition We Live in Worrying Times, currently on show at the Hastings Contemporary, is a marked departure from his usual body of work. It’s a visceral and mesmerising portrayal…