Hastings Contemporary

Hastings Contemporary.
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Rock-a-Nore
Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3DW United Kingdom Get Directions
Phone 01424 728377
Website https://www.hastingscontemporary.org/

Hastings Contemporary, a gallery situated on the coastline of Hastings, exhibits modern and contemporary art. The gallery showcases a range of different events for the art lovers of East Sussex. Opened in 2012 as the Jerwood Gallery (because it housed the Jerwood Collection), the gallery was renamed in 2019. An array of notable artists have exhibited at the gallery, including Sir Quentin Blake who lives locally.

 

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  • Bookbinding

    WORKSHOP: Japanese Bookbinding

    Hastings Contemporary Rock-a-Nore, Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Create your own hand-stitched journal. Join Hannah O’Hara for a hands-on workshop exploring this ancient craft. You’ll design and stitch your own unique notebook using the traditional four-hole binding technique. Perfect for sketches, photos, writing, or simply admiring. Always on the hunt for the perfect notebook? Want a beautiful place to collect your thoughts, drawings, […]

    £35 – £40
  • Lost and Found

    DEMONSTRATIONS: Lost and Found: Endangered Crafts of Sussex

    Hastings Contemporary Rock-a-Nore, Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Net making, knot tying, natural dyeing, block printing and basketmaking. Meet expert artisans specialising in heritage crafts, hear their stories, and try your hand at skills passed down through generations.  Net making and knot tying: Hastings, home to one of Britain’s oldest fishing ports, has a seafaring history that stretches back to Viking times. Local […]

    £12 – £15
  • Hastings Contemporary

    The Sun Feeds the Wind / Undersea

    Hastings Contemporary Rock-a-Nore, Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    New director Kathleen Soriano, former artistic director of the RA, kicks off her reign at the seaside gallery with an enticing double bill.In the (downstairs) Foreshore Gallery The Sun Feeds the Wind is a partnership and exhibition collecting and displaying the living histories of the under-threat fishing community of Hastings. Curated by artist Mary Hooper […]

  • Immortal Apples

    Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs

    Hastings Contemporary Rock-a-Nore, Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Prize to the most intriguingly titled exhibition of 2024 goes to Hastings Contemporary. The works in this blockbuster show, that explores the still life genre, are drawn from two of the UK’s most important collections: the Ingram and the David and Indrė Roberts. It juxtaposes world-class contemporary sculpture, video and installation against traditional still- life […]

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    Hastings Launch Party – RSVP

    Hastings Contemporary Rock-a-Nore, Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Join ROSA at the beautiful Hastings Contemporary to celebrate the launch of our autumn issue! RSVP below.

    Free

  • Quentin Blake: A Hundred Portraits

    Hastings Contemporary Rock-a-Nore, Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Iconic illustrator Sir Quentin Blake is no stranger to Hastings, having lived in an ancient house in the Old Town for forty years. Don't just take our word for it - Blake himself has described the seaside town as his "spiritual home". It is an appropriate place, then, to host this very special exhibition of […]

    £5 – £11

  • Elias Sime: Eregata እርጋታ

    Hastings Contemporary Rock-a-Nore, Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    A first major solo show in Europe for the Ethiopian multi-disciplinary artist, who weaves everyday materials into lyrical abstract compositions, ‘alluding to the frictions between tradition and progress, human contact and social networks, nature and the man-made, and physical presence and the virtual.’

  • Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings

    Hastings Contemporary Rock-a-Nore, Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    One of the recurring motifs in Birmingham-born painter Hurvin Anderson’s work is a hometown barber shop, a subject he first depicted in 2006, and has returned to regularly since, exploring different styles and techniques, drifting from figuration to abstraction and raising questions about memory, identity and nationhood. That series forms the mainstay of this show. […]