Tag archives for Peter Quinnell
A Town Explores a Book – Ten Year Celebration
GAIL BORROW The book choice for 2026 is a lively little book chosen by the voluntary committee which raises festival ;John Agard’s My Name is BOOK, illustrated by Neil Packer, is…
Hastings Proves Itself to be A Curious Town
RUBY RUSSELL Curious Agenda CIC had a mission this summer to put Hastings on the map as the ‘world’s most curious town’! The people and community of Hastings made this…
Yoolysees’ Erotic Energy
Review by Helen Drake There was a flurry of activity at the Electro Studios Gallery in Seaside Road over the last couple of weekends of June which was featuring a…
Gifts that Last
For many people, the transition from November to December can come as something of a shock: they suddenly realise it’s nearly Christmas, and there are things to organise and presents…
ARTS DIARY
Beginning Again The Wealden Consort choral singers are preparing for an ‘uplifting’ choral and classical music concert in Christ Church, Silchester Road, St Leonards on Saturday 30th October. The concert,…
ARTS DIARY
Open – to misinterpretation? Zuzushii Art Laboratory is currently staging an exhibition in celebration of the ambiguous. A visual, vibrant journey through 2 and 3D collage, mixed media assemblage, sculpture,…
Arts Diary
Premonitions A new mixed media exhibition is showing at Zuzushii Arts Laboratory until 29th August, featuring work by Fumico Azuma, Alexander Brattell, Ben Browton, Tim Can, Kathleen Fox, Jill Rock…
The Extinct Animal Show at The Dirty Old Gallery
The Dirty Old Gallery, which can be found hidden away in the nefarious backstreets of Hastings Old Town, re-opened its doors to arts-starved locals earlier this month. The Extinct Animal…
A Platform For Young Readers’ Voices
By Gail Borrow Catch this year’s biggest public display of young people’s art locally as ATownExploresABook20 gears up for its final weekend of exploration of H G Wells’ The Time…
Artist Spotlight
Peter Quinnell Hastings-based artist, Peter Quinnell is, as his website so rightly suggests: ‘The original and best’. His prolific series of collage and 3D assemblages are characterised by a zany…
House of the Internal Combustion Engine
The eclectic team at ExploreTheArch are fine-tuning their Christmas production for its début run on 21st December, and this year’s model looks set to be a cracker. In what may…
An exhibition Of Erotic Art at Zuzushii Art Laboratory
Eleven artists from around Hastings join together a compelling mix of styles to produce an exhibition on one theme and one theme only: eroticism. Amazons by Chris Milton This is…
Exploring A Book Outdoors
St Leonards’ #ATownExploresABook festival comprises a multitude of community explorations and one of the best-loved aspects of this emerging two-week spring holiday festival is the outdoor art. Andrew Myers caught…
Robinson Crusoe Announced As Festival Book For #ATownExploresABook19
Almost three hundred years to the day after it was first published on 25th April 1719, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe will feature as the chosen text for A Town Explores…
Highly Inflammable – Poly Styrene in Hastings, by Cheryl White
Marianne Elliot-Said, AKA Poly Styrene by artist Paul Quinnell A play inspired by Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex is coming to St Mary in the Castle in June. Here Cheryl…