Artists’ Projects
Roz Cran – Time to Listen: Readings from Nature Writing
Weds 9 Sept 12noon : Artists’ ProjectsCome and listen to half-hour readings – and bring a wild flower, leaf, insect to identify using the books available.
Cran’s work is a multi-layered project juxtaposing visual and literary interpretations of the natural environment. In each venue the artist will read from a selection of works by nature writers including HD Thoreau, Roger Deakin, Annie Dillard and Richard Mabey. The work includes elements of performance and viewers’ participation as Cran encourages pleasure and interest in the everyday world of nature.
Roz Cran – Time to Listen: Readings from Nature Writing
Sat 12 Sept 5pm : Artists’ Projects 
Level access
Come and listen to half-hour readings – and bring a wild flower, leaf, insect to identify using the books available.
Cran’s work is a multi-layered project juxtaposing visual and literary interpretations of the natural environment. In each venue the artist will read from a selection of works by nature writers including HD Thoreau, Roger Deakin, Annie Dillard and Richard Mabey. The work includes elements of performance and viewers’ participation as Cran encourages pleasure and interest in the everyday world of nature.
Roz Cran – Time to Listen: Readings from Nature Writing
Thurs 17 Sept 6pm : Artists’ Projects Level access
Come and listen to half-hour readings – and bring a wild flower, leaf, insect to identify using the books available.
Cran’s work is a multi-layered project juxtaposing visual and literary interpretations of the natural environment. In each venue the artist will read from a selection of works by nature writers including HD Thoreau, Roger Deakin, Annie Dillard and Richard Mabey. The work includes elements of performance and viewers’ participation as Cran encourages pleasure and interest in the everyday world of nature.
Claremont Studios presents Personal Growth II – The Art of Survival
25 & 26 Sept, runs until early November 12- 4pm : Artists’ ProjectsSarah Broome, Maggie Cullen, Nicky Gilmour and Caroline Le Breton continue their investigation into the ways that we, as urban dwellers, relate to nature and our environment. In the light of increasing awareness of the impact of climate change, their work contemplates both our resilience in the face of personal tragedy and our collective helplessness in the face of looming global catastrophe. Making art has become a quiet act of survival. Their work explores issues of shelter, self-protection and the reparative capacity of art and nature.
David Dixon/Louise Stokes
Sun 20 Sept 12noon - 5pm : Artists’ Projects Level access
Dixon and Stokes are both nationally exhibiting artists who create site-specific installations. Their work engages with the transient nature of the world, and often makes use of fragile particle-based materials such as sand, sugar and ground stone.
Oya Allen – Losing Civilisation Archive
Dates TBC : Artists’ Projects Level access
NB: Change to location
Utilising the medium of the archive and the museum as a mode of display for framing personal experience, Losing Civilisation Archive presents an ‘archaeology of loss’ consisting of a video, book-works, etched prints, digital images and cabinets filled with objects and text.
Esther Appleyard – Hidden Hastings
Dates TBC : Artists’ Projects Level access
NB: Change to location
Appleyard’s work is concerned with difference; the spaces in-between; the flaws within structures and is informed by her interest in genetic screening. Appleyard’s project for Coastal Currents combines elements of sculptural installation and projection which explore the duality of invisible/visible combined with references to our hidden genetic code. The artist is also interested in the physical space she occupies and this installation will be the exact width of her wheelchair.
Chris Ballingall – Super-galactic highway
29 Aug - 30 Sept, Mon - Sat 9am - 5pm : Artists’ Projects Level access
This large scale wall based work uses a commonplace material – tape – to create a dynamic interplay of line, colour and space. Ballingall’s work aims to be purely aesthetic while establishing a visual interaction with the viewer.
Sharon Haward – An Experiment in Town Planning
Dates TBC : Artists’ Projects Level access
NB: Change to location
Haward’s installation is informed by the perception of architecture and the way in which the built environment mediates and projects meaning. Through light, mirrors and fabricated structures, Haward creates the sense of a night-time cityscape; a silent stage upon which many dramas are enacted. The viewer’s presence and interaction will bring a sense of reality to this transitory work.
Mat MacDonnell/Phil Smith – The Good, the Bad and the Telly
29 Aug - 15 Sept : Artists’ ProjectsNB: Change to location
Multi-screen video disaster waiting to ‘mishappen’ in a shopfront near you soon.
The artists are using a shop window installation of salvaged TV sets to promote the 5th Hastings Film Challenge. The TVs turn on/off at random, the films interspersed with images from new experimental looped works, as if an unseen viewer was channel hopping. The artists hope that passers-by will be intrigued, recognise a location or person and maybe even watch a whole film. Within the loop will be information on the forthcoming Film Challenge.
