Coastal Currents

PhotoHastings

PhotoHastings Festival Season 2023

PhotoHastings is an artist-led group that aims to inspire an appreciation of contemporary
photographic art through an annual festival programme with regular talks, exhibitions, workshops
and mentoring. Producing the festival is a collaborative effort organising and funding each exhibition
ourselves supporting one another and our photographic practices. Whether you visit our exhibitions
in person or online, we encourage new thinking about the role of the photographic image and
believe that photography matters and the stories it tells should be accessible to everyone, no matter
what your level of interest or ability.

Every year the festival takes on a different form and in 2023 we are presenting an expanded festival
throughout September, October and into early November, which means we are delighted to be
taking part in this year’s Coastal Currents.

September & October at St Andrews Mews, Hastings
Gallery 1 will be open Thursday to Sunday, 11am – 5pm

St Andrews Mews, Waldegrave St. (off Queens Road), Hastings, TN34 1SP
5 mins walk from Hastings station, Alexandra Park, and the seafront
PhotoHastings will be in Gallery One, up the iron staircase in The Mews with 8 independent rooms
for showing our members and friends work, we will be changing exhibitions every 2 weeks with an
open evening to celebrate each new installation. This gives our exhibitors a unique opportunity to
show complete projects, as such there will be 19 solo shows and 3 group shows during our
residency.

There will be a small shop with photographic cards and books, as well as hung work for sale
throughout the gallery. There will also be a wide range of refreshments available from the amazing
vendors in The Mews, as well as lots of other arts events happening simultaneously within The
Mews.

Mews 1
September 7-10 and 14-17 – Open Evening Saturday 9 September 6-8pm
Tracy Jones, Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones, Tim White, Richard Butchins, Joe Charrington, Louise Whitham
and Patricia Webb.

Mews 2
September 21-24 and 28-1 (Oct) – Open Evening Saturday 23 September 6-8pm
Sophie de Roe, Agnieszka Szuba, Alison Beetles, Richard Butchins, Justine Devenney, Frank Francis
and Sinéid Codd.
+ PAGAN a group show responding to divine and ancestral energies in the landscape and the
sensations of living in our everyday world: Sinéid Codd, Jude Montague, Alison Bettles, Tracy Jones,
Ian M. Land and Clare Land.

Mews 3
October 5-8 and 12-15 – Open Evening Saturday 7 October 6-8pm
HERE, NOT THERE – Group show throughout all the galleries: Dan Percy, Neale Willis, Gary
Willis, Imogen Bloor and Derek Cottrell.
Mews 4
October 19-22 and 26-29 – Open Evening Saturday 21 October 6-8pm

Jude Montague, Ian Land, Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, Alex Brattell, Amanda Thomas, Caoimhe
McDonnell and Toby Shaw.
+ BETWEEN STATES – curated by Alison Bettles – presenting a new perspective on two- and three-
dimensional space, exploring the tensions and transformative qualities that are created between the
flatness of the photograph and the volume of the sculptural.

September at The Electric Palace
PhotoHastings: The Light Will Shine through Them
11am Sunday 10 September – book your ticket through the Electric Palace website :
https://www.electricpalacecinema.com/whats-on/photohastings
Photographers explore moving from still images into moving pictures. Developed and selected by
Jude Montague and Matt Armstrong with an open remit, these moving pictures explore new themes
and look back at recent years of activity revisiting some of the diverse projects created by
photographers and filmmakers associated with the Hastings area. Plus, a session to discuss the work
with the makers.

September at Electro Studios Project Space (ESPS), St Leonards on Sea
Galleries will be open Thursday to Sunday, 11am – 5pm
Seaside Road, St Leonards-on-Sea TN38 0AL
ESPS 1
September 28-1 (Oct) and 5-8 (Oct) – Open Evening tbc.
Landing Gallery – SMALL STORIES – Andrew Moran and David Fowler create a single mixed media
art piece of 50 parts, using still life painting and photography.

October Continues..
Our photo season continues into October with 4 weeks at Electro Studios Project Space, 4 weeks at
Hastings Arts Forum, with 5 Monday Photology talks at The Pig, online galleries and more.
To see our full programme for this autumn please visit our website at : https://photohastings.org
Or subscribe to our newsletter and ezine for our full festival weekly updates at :
https://www.photohastings.org/e-zine/

Opening Party 2023

This year we are hosting an Opening Party for the festival with Audiotrope – our sister organisation focused on helping local musicians.

Our Director Tina Morris is now co-chair of 1066 Music City so with her co-chair Hannah Deeble from Hastings Fat Tuesday, we bring you this night of free live music and more.

From 8pm we have the Coastal Currents Opening Party but arrive at 7pm for the 1066 Music City Networking event if you are a music professional.

The line-up is really exciting with the Message From the Ravens who recently blew everyone away at Green Man Festival with Steve Lamacq hailing them as the best of the festival. Plus Kid Cruise straight back from supporting Greentea Peng in concert. Look at the rest of the lineup below which also supports local young musicians such as Bad Pedestrian and Florescent and also had long standing Audiotropers Harry Osborne in his new incarnation as 3 piece band Chimer and Reshad Rahman who brings the rest of his musicians for a night of unavoidable dancing.

This is all happening at The Pig on Grand Parade in Hastings on 1 September, so get yourself down there and grab a copy of our festival brochure or navigate the art and culture via our online map at coastalcurrents.org.uk

The line up is looking like this…

7.30pm Kerri Green
7.45pm Lucas the Peaceful Poet
8.05pm Message From The Ravens
8.50pm Chimer
9.30pm Florescent
10.05pm Bad Pedestrian
10.35pm Reshad and Friends
11.20pm Kid Cruise

“in your shell-like”

Shelter number 3
De La Warr Parade
(between junction of Bolebroke Road/Bedford Avenue)
Bexhill on Sea

Open 10am-6pm
throughout September

Sound installation in Shelter number 3. Take a seat in the shelter, look out to the sea and
listen. “in your shell-like” is a site specific poem. It considers erosion of the landscape along the coast and the erosion of our own bodies; combining chance encounter, sensory experience, and performance. The sound is activated when you sit on the benches. Join Pat Jamieson and Carol Laidler for a writing
workshop (90 mins) “a word in your shell-like” in the bandstand next to the War Memorial, Wed 6 of Sept, 2-3.30pm. Bring a notebook and something to write with.

Supported by Bexhill Heritage Association.
carollaidler.com
alldaybreakfast.info

Cinema Cats: ‘The Sick Kitten’

Electric Palace Cinema
39a High Street
Hastings
TN34 3ER
Thu 10.30am-11am,
Fri 7pm-7.30pm,
Sat 7pm-7.30pm & Sun 10.30-11am

Visit the exhibition before every public screening during Coastal Currents. A 1903 British silent directed by G.A. Smith from the ‘Brighton School’ shows two children tending to a sick kitten; the starting point for a new series of original art of cats and kittens made by Montague Armstrong of 15 Kings Road. Original monoprints, bold and vibrant, made in an experimental process based on etching and using imagery in the spirit of a golden age of family matinees, inspired by film posters and creative expressions of children’s cinema during the Soviet era.

electricpalacecinema.com
info@electricpalacecinema.com

Carnivalesque

The Crown Pub
64-66 All Saints Street
TN34 3BN

1-31 October
11am-11pm 7 Days a week

A veritable riot of biped and quadruped madness.
With works ranging from embroidery and wallhangings to Monotypes.

art@rkwilliams.com
www.rkwilliams.com
@rachelwilliamsart
07716 171 536

KINKY

Seed
50 George St
Hastings
TN34 3EA
Opening night 31st August, 7pm onwards

Throughout the Festival:
Thu 5pm-10pm, Fri 5pm-12.30am,
Sat 12pm-1am, Sun 12pm-10pm

The KINKY exhibition will showcase the work of latex artist Michelle Mildenhall who has thrilled,
shocked and tantalised the art world with her provocative and subversive latex art works. Her art
boldly explores sexual taboos and BDSM themes, examining both empowerment and vulnerability,
often fetishising iconic personalities in her distinctive pop art style portraits. Level access.

michellemildenhall@yahoo.co.uk
michellemildenhall.co.uk
twitter.com/missmildenhall
facebook.com/michellemildenhallartist
@michellemildenhall_latexart

Journeys Dance

As part of Journeys Festival of Dance, 18 Hours will bring French Compagnie Bilbobasso to Hailsham, Newhaven and Bexhill.

Their spectacular show ‘Amor’ is an alliance of Argentinian Tango, music and fire.

St Andrews Mews

off Queens Rd in Hastings, for a mix of art, music and events throughout Coastal Currents.

VISIT ST. ANDREWS

‘FIVE’
Paintings & more by:
Tom Banks
Leah Germann
Peter Jones
Siobhan Stanley
Michael Tierney
@leahgermann for info
SEPT

OFF/RADAR + THE POETRY BROTHEL
Seven rooms, seven sins,
seven unions and seven
recurring dreams
f: offradarhastings
f: ThePoetryBrothelHastings

Tressell’s Children by MSL
An immersive installation showing work by local residents who took part in MSL’s series of creative
workshops inspired by the heritage of working-class experiences in Hastings.
www.mslprojects.co.uk/tressells-children/
SEPT

‘SHELF LIFE’
…presents objects & assemblage from artists based in Hastings & beyond. The unit’s location in St Andrews Mews informs the project’s concept of an artwork being a desirable object.
christinegist.wordpress.com
AUG 19-SEPT 13

PHOTOHASTINGS
…will be in residence in Mews Gallery One. We’ll be sharing contemporary photographic art through
our extended festival programme, ezine, talks, exhibitions, and socials.
@photohastings
photohastings.org
SEPT/OCT

CEREBELLUM:
EXCAPPARE
Curated by Charlotte CHW,
Work by artists and writers exploring creating through the ideas of an(other).
Opening event Oct 7
Daytime workshops Oct 8
@charlottechw_art
OCT

LUCIANA HAILL
Hyperstasis & Heritage: Expansive brainwave installation explored in VJ culture & technology; Augmented reality artworks of demolished local heritage (walking guided tour tbc)
www.lucianahaill.co.uk
OCT

NICOLE ZAAROURA
Artist In Residence
@nicolezaaroura
Open days/ events
to be announced
SEPT 16-OCT 31

COLUMN 258
Psych Groove sensory explorers ratchet music from the unbounded skies
f: column258
SEPT DATE TBD

CHRIS DALY
SEPT

GLOSS
OCT

SAND LAURENSON
SEPT

MARKUS THONETT
TESSA THONETT
ALICE MAYLAM
3-D and abstract mixed media, portraits in oils, & surreal watercolours
artstudiosthonett.com
artstudiotessathonett.com
alicemaylam.co.uk
SEPT

ONE SQUARE CLUB
The world’s smallest and most exclusive private members club.
New members welcome.
@onesquareclub
@tom__pope
SEPT OCT

With food & drink on site from:

The Good Place
@thegoodplace_cafebar

SMOKESHACK
@smokeshackhastings

CALIMA KITCHEN
@calimakitchen

CRÊPERIE BY THE SEA
@creperie_by_the_sea

THE BIRD HOUSE
@t_h_e_b_i_r_d_h_o_u_s_e

standrewsmews.co.uk
@standrewsmews

Liz Wilson

at the blackShed Gallery
Russet Farm
Robertsbridge
TN32 5NG

celebrating the Turner Prize

St Leonards Ceramics Studio Sale

36 Marina
St Leonards on Sea
TN38 0BU
7-8 October 10am-4pm

Studio Sale celebrating the second anniversary of opening; St Leonards Ceramic Studio will be opening the studio for the sale of pottery made by the students, members and teachers. Courses, membership, taster
sessions and workshops are all taught by local teachers and guest potters, offering a variety of making techniques and firing methods, including raku. Meet the makers, have a look around the studio and
have the opportunity to buy local handmade ceramics.

Featuring work by: Kim Kish – working primarily with wheel thrown forms with a focus on functional objects inspired by ancient Greek vessels and the simplicity of Japanese design.

@kimkishceramics
kimkishceramics.co.uk

Láura-Paloma Ibáñez makes fine yet playful wheel-thrown and hand built functional ceramics.

lpibanez
lpibanez.co.uk
info@stleonardsceramics.co.uk
stleonardsceraramics.co.uk
facebook.com/StLeonardsCeramicsStudio
@stleonardsceramics