Tag archives for Mark Walter
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…
Mark Walter at Electro Studios
Confront the Silence Without Light is Walter’s largest solo exhibition to date, and will feature an opportunity to see him painting live, in a show at Electro Studios Project Space…
The Psychoshadowery of John Logie Baird
MARK WALTER I met Jude Montague on a sunny but chilly January morning at the door of the Hastings Museum, and her beaming smile radiated from the entrance hall. I…
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…
ARTS DIARY
Flatland Projects – My Assembled Selves 2 Sept-5 Nov Swelling clouds, aged turf and morphing figures populate the paintings and drawings of Martyn Cross. Within this presentation at Flatland Projects,…
A New Art School Comes to Priory Meadow
MARK WALTER, a current student, highlights a new Art School in town. You may not have heard of Hastings Art School (HAS) as it’s still relatively new. They are of…
Alison Claire France and Visual Communication
MARK WALTER writes: I recently had the chance to interview Alison Claire France about her upcoming exhibition at The Rogue Gallery in St Leonards. We talked about her early artistic…
Rocking The Boat: The Presenceof Absence
MARK WALTER in conversation with Anne Lydiat A couple of weeks ago l was at Hastings Arts Forum gallery for the Changing Spaces exhibition. As I peered into and around…
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…
Column258 Meets This Elegant Gull
MARK WALTER It was a chilly night in Hastings, and I had just done my now familiar walk from St Leonards along the rugged coastline of the English Channel to…
Falling into Sound
MARK WALTER As soon as I walked into the Durbar Hall, built in 1886 and designed by Caspar Purdon Clarke, I felt an air of relaxed calm. I was about…
The Sum of Strange Bedfellows
All the Fair of the Unfair at the Electro Gallery. Review by NICK PELLING and HELEN MURPHY The title of an art exhibition can shed a little light on the…
The Lunatic, The Lover and The Poet
Mark Walter I first saw Victoria Kiff’s work last autumn in an exhibition in Rye at the Ryebank gallery. Her lucid movement of the human form at once struck me…
The Mystery of the Unfinished
MARK WALTER The space was rammed, but I had an invite, so I thought “I’m going in!”. Once inside the work leapt off the walls and smacked of six contemporary…
Jeb Takes the Biscuit
by MARK WALTERI was walking along Norman Road on a dark chilly Saturday evening when through the gloom I could see a light. It was coming from the Project78Gallery. I…
Shadowlands
Mark Walter Explores an Alternative Photography Process Shadowlands was a collaboration between six artists and is part of the Photo Hastings festival that has run since 2010. This year the…
Who Immersion
On the night of the first moon landing, The Who played Hastings pier. 53 years later Mark Walter explores a multi-layered exhibition based around the iconic 1960s rock band. A…
Multicultural Resistance
By Mark Walter The cave-like vaults of the much loved, but under threat of closure, St Mary in the Castle, lend themselves perfectly to an exhibition space. As exemplified in…
On Your Radar
MARK WALTER spends some enchanted evenings at new venue for performance artists – Off Radar – and meets the progenitor of this ‘un-ordinary’ platform. Ross Clifford, a tall, exuberant man,…
Mildly Annoyed Barbarians
Profile by Mark Walter The Barbarian Horde are coming. The name could evoke a tribe with Germanic roots who want to destroy Rome, then and run screaming into the Teutoburg…
Riding the Zig-Zag Horse into Town
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling What is it that attracts so many creative people to Hastings? Is it the long arc of white sandy beach, the soft impressionist light…