Tag archives for Nick Pelling
Contemporary up for Award?
NICK PELLING Something extraordinary has happened. Hastings Old Town has reached the last six of a European competition. To be more precise, Hastings Contemporary is the only UK gallery selected…
Measuring A Unit of One Year
HELEN MURPHY AND NICK PELLING For one precise year, a young artist, Bee Nicholls, initiated, set-up and ran the ‘Unit 2’ Art Space at the sea-end of London Road. It…
Siren Spring at the Hastings Contemporary
HELEN MURPHY AND NICK PELLING If you have ever felt (along with John Masefield) that you simply “must go down to the sea again”, then Hastings Contemporary – set on…
Wish You Were Here?
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING There is something both alluring and rather sad about the English seaside. Somehow the seaside is full of the promise of naughtiness and fun, and…
Love Letter inOrange
HELEN MURPHY and NICK PELLING There is a tender and rather poignant lovers’ story behind the exhibition The Stolen Orange, off Bond Street in Brighton. The tale begins back in…
Apples From the Bohemia Tree
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING take a look at a dynastic exhibition Sophie Parkin, The Ever-Growing Cat Inside My Head The current exhibition at the marvellous Rogue Gallery on Norman…
Oh Mykki, You’re So Fine
NICK PELLING The artist Mykki Blanco defies easy categorisation. I could shuffle and deal–poet, photographer, performer, glam-rapper, trans-gender activist and so on. But, let us leave labels to one side;…
When Objects Start to Speak
NICK PELLING previews an up-coming exhibition at a new art space in St Leonards Picture this: Samuel Beckett hobbling about painfully in Phoenix Park in boots that don’t fit. Why…
Ammonites atthe Museum
NICK PELLING There are certain subjects that baffle the human mind. For example, I do not know what a proton or a quark is. And I know this is embarrassing,…
Back to Life
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING try out life drawing with your clothes on A Drawing in Progress Sometimes it is important to think about things a little differently. And that…
Blokes in Wonderland
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING The wonderful Rogue Gallery has moved. It is now to be found opposite the Kino-Teatr on Norman Road in St Leonards. The charismatic gallery owner,…
Animal Gods and Furry Friends
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING look into an unusual way to help animals There are few things more upsetting than stumbling across a wounded wild animal. A bird with a…
Getting Strange on Seaside Road
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING preview something a little unusual coming your way Alexander BrattellColin Booth: Joy, 2004 It may surprise you to know that we were not familiar with…
Inside Number 78
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING visit a new exhibition in St Leonards How do you like your horror? Spattered in innocent blood or something more like a demonic beast in…
Through a Lens Brightly
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING find out about an exciting new opportunity for young creativesin Hastings I suppose you could argue that we are all film makers now. You can…
Fighting Back the Years
NICK PELLING explores a brilliant new photographic project The world of boxing seems contradictory: brutish yet alive with the metaphorical possibilities of all human struggle. For this reason, perhaps, it…
A Kind of Brooklyn Blue
NICK PELLING takes a look at our latest piece of street art You may not have noticed but there is a new mural in town. Head down London Road in…
A Night in the Death of a Pugilist
NICK PELLING gets a glimpse of a boxer’s tale Unless you are a boxing aficionado, the name Sonny Liston conjures up only a vague idea of a heavyweight slugger from…
Kick Out theGrey Cliché
NICK PELLING looks into a forthcoming action day. I suspect that most people don’t think being old is a desirable state of being. Oldies tend to get a bad press:…
This is Tomorrow Calling
HELEN MURPHY and NICK PELLING investigate an unusual new podcast. It’s not often that we hear the voices of the people of St Leonards when contemplating the state of the…
Love Comes in Doodles?
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING investigate doodle dating. As we all know, going on a real person-to-person ‘date’ is full of potential embarrassment and enough social awkwardness to turn otherwise…
A Forgotten Hastings Hoaxer
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING investigate a curious case Have you ever heard of Charles Dawson? I suspect not. He was a well respected Victorian gent who was brought up…
A Pearl for the People?
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING ask what the Hastings Contemporary is doing for the people of Hastings. The shiny black box of the Hastings Contemporary that graces The Stade in…
More Than a Gym
NICK PELLING & HELEN MURPHY investigate the realities of a community leisure centre. Around this rather bloated time of year, many people begin to think about self-improvement schemes, like joining…
Ten Weeks That Could Shake Your World
NICK PELLING highlights the Hastings Writers Workshop If you have ever attempted the lonely craft of writing a short story or a poem, you will know how easy it is…
It’s a Kind of Madness?
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING investigate an amazing project. Something extraordinary is happening at the junction of Pevensey and London Roads. Something almost heroic, perhaps. Four years ago, one man…
A Time Machine in George Street
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING visit an almost new vintage outlet Donna Grimaldi What does the concept of vintage clothing actually mean? Some might think it is just second-hand stuff,…
Dreaming of a Bright Christmas
NICK PELLING The Bright Foundation is a remarkable place. It is situated in 24 acres of beautiful land, Rodgers Farm, but it is only a few minutes out of…
Pink Star Pilates
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING investigate the P word Pink Star Pilates We should admit something: we thought Pilates was just another variant of yoga, probably a branch of transcendental…
Quiet Realism Makes a Noise
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING explore the David Tindle exhibition at the Kino Gallery. Nick PellingDavid Tindle: Blue Bed Sheets and Pillowcase (2006) When you think of British painters of…
Weird Times
Nick Pelling In these weird times it is very easy to feel that the whole world is sliding towards something awful. The apocalypse narrative is everywhere. The planet is burning…
Poetry Corner: Nothing Happens!
JEMIA DE BLONDEVILLE On average I delete a minimum Of about 50 emails per day 350 per week About 1,500 per month 18,000 per year And approximately 200,000 per decade…
News from the Front of Beyond
NICK PELLING & HELEN MURPHY review the exhibition, Succession, at the Kino Teatr in Norman Road All photos: Helen PellingRadford in Mid-Flow Have you ever felt like you were sort…
The Festival that Keeps on Giving
NICK PELLING and HELEN MURPHY Wayne HerbertWayne Herbert, Festival organiser Some people don’t like book festivals: maybe they see them as chintzy affairs full of folding-chair types. Sort of a…
Primal Dreaming at Electro Land
NICK PELLING There used to be a time when the world teemed with deities. You couldn’t move for them. Messing with every aspect of your life. Bird-like or as beetles…
Something New, Something Blue
HIP’s Westminster mole has uncovered a recent interview with Health Secretary Steven Barely from the podcast ‘Dying to Know’ with Laura Doomsberg’ Laura Doomsberg: I have with me today the…
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…
Normal Not Normal
by HELEN MURPHY and NICK PELLING Obviously, someone called Henry Normal is not going to be normal. Henry is not dull, au contraire, Henry is quietly, blazingly brilliant. You may…
Staying Focussed on the Image Trail
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling The prospects for young working-class people growing up in Hastings are often thought to be rather limited. But there are those who seem to…
Twists in the Paintwork
HIP explores the many lives of a real painter man. By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling. The Hastings-based artist Chris Roskell, has led an extraordinary life. In chatting to him…