2024

Luiza MachadoLanding Gallery Brazilian-born, multi-media artist Luiza Machado explores the relationship between ‘fancy’ and ‘fantasy’ in her solo show in our first floor gallery. July 7th – 8thPV Friday 5th July 5pm-7pmSaturday & Sunday 11am – 5pm

Last year the Turps Banana Art School added Turps Hastings to its collection of studio, off-site and correspondence mentoring programmes. 25 practicing artists with studios located across Sussex and Kent, from Brighton to Tunbridge Wells and Rye, joined the inaugural programme, attending crits, artists’ talks and workshops, having mentors visit their studios, and getting together… Continue reading Turps Hastings 2024

OUR HOME – For Refugee week A multimedia exhibition of photography, film and gardening exploring aspects of *Our Home’ in communities for Refugee Week, featuring:Samar Abu Elouf – The Light from HellJamie Sinclair – Hjemand participatory exhibition – Growing Home Open Evening: Friday 21 June, 6 – 9pmGallery open over two weekends: 15 -16 June… Continue reading Our Home

Residency 28 May to 9 June Private view 7 June, 6-9 pm Exhibition 8 to 9 June, 11am 5 pm Ania Goszczyńska (Illustrator) / Agnieszka Dąbrowska (Painter) / Agata Read (Photographer) Three Polish-born artists contemplate the concept of liminal space, drawing inspiration from a location that went through significant transformations as well as their own… Continue reading U n c e r t a i n t r a n s i t i o n

Curator Paul Carey-Kent – whose home town is St Leonards – has matched six artists based there with six UK-based artists who bring an international dimension. Pairings are founded on the idea that the works have enough in common that a conversation between them will prove interesting.  It is to be celebrated that, despite Brexit… Continue reading St Leonards Meets the World

Open event Fri 10 May 6pm-8pm Sat 11 May to Sun 12 May 12-4pm John Logie Baird invented television while living in Hastings one hundred years ago. To celebrate his achievement we are pulling together artistic and mechanical inventions with over 20 artists. Curated by Jude Montague from Montague Armstrong and guest inventor-curator Chris Simpson… Continue reading Spirit of invention

25 – 28 April 2024 SHIT SHOW – New works by Georgina Cook Expect Poo, Tits & Tunnock’s Tea Cakes and the intimacy and intricacies of early motherhood in the domestic space as told through photography, multimedia and performance. . . Opening Event Thursday April 25th 6-9pm, and a weekend event on the afternoon of… Continue reading Shit Show

Kim Wan: Self-portraits and new graphic works 20 – 21 April Opening preview Friday 19 April 6 – 8pm Read all about it at Hastings Online Times

5 – 7 April 2024 Opening event 5 April 6.30 – 9pm Live performances at the opening from Miroslava Večeřová, Lucie Kordačová and Adelaide Percy. Further info and tickets here. Taking its name from the pagan welcoming of spring, OSTARA brings together a transnational cohort of artists, musicians and filmmakers, each with an interest in… Continue reading Ostara

This exhibition is aiming to visualise the broad spectrum of theanimated image and illustrate that the word ‘animation’ is not tiedto any specific form or medium, but should rather be seen as amethod of research and investigation. The common research ground for this exhibition is the field of tension between roughness and tranquility. Artists:Silas Money,… Continue reading Opposing in Motion