Changing Spaces II showcases eight HAF Members’ work, with a wide variety of styles and media. Exhibiting Artists are Jane Wilson, Jane King, Anne Lydiat, Clio Pinkney, Kate Lord, Mark Roberts, Mark Glassman and Bill Greenhead
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A fascination with psychology, philosophy and spirituality informs Sara Lavelle’s work which focuses on portraiture and figuration. She has been involved in a number of joint and solo shows this year, including the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition held in the Mall Galleries, London. She was recently a finalist on Sky Portrait of the Year Award 2019.
Mhairi Lockett draws inspiration from the DIY-ethos. She uses hand-painted typography, rhyme, rhythm and moving image to advocate for social change and to encourage people to take action. She explores the role of art as protest and as a part of community-led action. She believes that art and craft are synonymous with personal and political power.
Jess Levine: Works on Paper
Jess Levine showcases her recent mixed media collages and abstract paintings.
These works are visual landscapes, rich in colour, texture, detail, light and surface decoration.
The artwork is intuitive, painterly and sensitive to the qualities of the materials used.
Bums, Boobs and Slightly Bonkers Too!
Dawn Timmins creates brightly coloured, light-hearted images of fisher folk, plump ladies, angels and hares in acrylic paint.
Using a naive and individual style, she has a body of collectors of her paintings, including portrait commissions, both locally and nationally.
She returns to Hastings Arts Forum for a second solo exhibition with another collection of work inspired by her quirky sense of humour and positivity – aiming to bring a few smiles!
Insight
An exhibition of five artists whose journey follows on from the drawn line and mark making with an experimental approach. Showing the development of ideas culminating with the use of varied media for example clay, print, stitch and paint.
A group show from Helen Rawlinson, Yvette Glaze, Claire Eva Burton, Jane Sarre and Sarah Seymore
Self Portrait Exhibition
An exhibition of self-portraits from Hastings Arts Forum members
Open Evening 8th March 2019 6.30 – 8.30pm
Hastings Arts Forum’s Creative Christmas Fair 2018
The Forum’s Christmas Fair is an opportunity for members to show and sell thier handmade arts and crafts in our elegant and popular venue. Always well attended, the event it seen by many as a traditional part of their Christmas shopping experience.
Creative Christmas is a curated show, exhibitors are selected based on the quality and uniqueness of their work, ensuring a broad range of beautiful, high quality artefacts.
For expressions of interest, please request an application.
Contact April Yasamee – ayasamee@gmail.com
Not the Final Major Project
Photohastings and Brighton Photo Fringe present Not the Final Major Project, a collaborative exhibition as part of a season celebrating photographic practice throughout the South East.
Inspired by Brighton Photo Fringe’s mission Developing New Ways of Seeing, this group show brings together some of the best emerging talent from fine art and photography degree courses around the country, to showcase the latest contemporary themes of photography. Recent graduates and early career artists have been selected due to their engagement with the many conceptual, aesthetic and technological possibilities of photography.
Rejecting the daunting ‘finality’ attached to leaving University, this exhibition is a platform to encourage further exploration of the medium and to continue exhibiting beyond the graduate show.
Monumental : Katherine Reekie
Monumental
An exhibition of surreal landscape paintings and drawings by local artist Katherine Reekie.
This collection of recent and past works explores our fascination with the monumental. From standing stones to topiary, the world is covered in impressive examples of humanity’s ability to create art in the landscape. Katherine presents a series of imagined scenes that explore the strange and powerful effect that scale and environment have on our perception. Her intention is not to depict reality but to nudge people to question and consider it.
Wavelengths – A novel exhibition on Virginia Woolf
100 years ago Woolf had published her first novel. Today she is considered one of the foremost modernist female writers of the 20th Century, a pioneer of streams of consciousness narrative; her work, themes and concerns remain uncannily relevant to today’s society.
This all female group of nine contemporary artists seek to interpret Woolf’s written work on themes of memory, the passage of time, the corrosion and rejuvenation of life, the status of women in society, the consequences of war and existentialism. The exhibition will include installation work, sculpture, photography, sound and video works.
Woolf was strongly connected to the South East having lived, written and died in East Sussex, close to her sister Vanessa Bell; both part of the Bloomsbury Group. Woolf had associations with Sissinghurst, Knole, Sevenoaks and Rye, to the source of the river Ouse that makes its way from Sheffield Park through Lewes to Rodmell, where Woolf lived for much of her life.
Below are brief statements about the nine artists.
Jane Cordery’s artworks and installations evolve by linking human fragility with environmental and socio-political impacts. Particularly interested in liminal states she examines contemporary dichotomies, such as: connection and disconnect, cohesion and fragmentation, inclusion and marginalisation. Often seeking historical parallels, she acknowledges the importance of memory. A process based artist, she works with a variety of material and methodologies.
Kit Forrest recreates stories from the past, intertwining her own personal experiences. Fascinated by stories that are uncomfortable, ingrained beneath the surface, wound tightly into our subconscious yet affecting our day to day lives, she carefully unpicks them, processing as she makes. Utilising found imagery and material steeped in tradition she gradually allows the subconscious to communicate visually.
Sonia Griffin’s practice explores ideas and materials of our product and fashion based culture and how historic values are attached to these. She uses the traditions of modernism to convey a thought or obsession that she is exploring. This exploration does not aim to end with a message for viewers but seeks to visually convey elements of our world differently.
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Rachel Hornsby is drawn to the spirit of folklore, songs and literature that has inspired or captured the imagination of others through the generations. The gift to evoke a texture, object or feeling is what she seeks to capture and make manifest, bringing form to the mental imagery conveyed. Her work takes a variety of forms, often inspired by found objects that connect thought and memory
Frederique Jones‘ is interested in what lies beyond our immediate perception of things and seeks to bring these imperceptible happenings forward. She chooses her materials and methods to fit with the object of her investigation, which is essentially process-led and often characterised by repetition. Her work may combine empirical elements, chance or mathematical algorithms and ranges from small scale, wall-based pieces to larger sculptural installations.
Sam King’s artwork responds to both interior and exterior landscapes, often in combination; an interplay between two worlds. Her focus is drawn to a specific element, place or time which she feels compelled to share, the rest becomes obsolete; a mental process of selection and omission. She works with both physical materials and digital media, resulting in videos and paintings that sit between genres – paintings which are also photographs, videos which are also deliberate interventions.
Lorrain Mailer initiates fragile sculptures and installations where the material often unassuming, ephemeral or transparent subtly draws the viewer through a language of visual association. Her objective is for the viewer to unpick meaning, interpret the work and draw their own conclusions on: contemporary discrepancies, double standards, complacency and values maintained in our society.
Carolyn Morris questions: how our encounters with the physical world are shaped by the objects we use, the ‘rules’ or assumptions we adopt in relation to them – which may be deeply embedded in us, how these come to determine the space we occupy, the seeming passivity of the object waiting to be handled and the change of direction that is suggested through human intervention.
Venetia Nevill is drawn to sensory and experiential work to express an intuitive connection with the world. She is inspired by the rhythms of nature, with its cycles of birth, life, death and renewal. Her ecologically informed installations are homage to this elemental connection and to the notion of transformation and healing through the recycling process.
100 years on and what have we got?
This show takes a realistic/critical look at the situation of women today, since the momentous, hard won vote of 100 years ago.
The artists, eighteen to eighty and from all over the country, have come together to produce work that reflects their own ideas of what that situation is now, through a variety of media – posters, paintings, prints, constructions and sculptures.
Alongside this work Hastings Women’s Voice is organising films, talks, debates and entertainments to give the public the opportunity to share this acknowledgement of an important centenary.
RE-POSE
A group exhibition of four artists whose work explores aspects of the human condition.
Malcolm Glover
The photographs in his Steam Baths series were taken over a 10-day period at The New Docklands Steam Bath in Canning Town, London.
Malcolm’s work has been published and exhibited both internationally and throughout the U.K. His work has been purchased for public and private collections.
His photographic work has two strands to it. The first side of his work is documentary based, which encompasses diverse communities and subjects in their urban and rural environments.
Current ongoing work uses digital technology to produce large-scale constructed prints. The prints are comprised of multiple images shot throughout the day and then stitched together to create a single image of the subject matter.
Lydia Moon
“Throughout my artwork I try to capture a sense of movement and depth. Using layers upon layers of paint and wax, with each layer bringing forth a perfect dance between paint and paper, I try and convey a controlled sense of movement. My paintings are primarily abstract figures, capturing figures dancing across the canvas.
When working on my sculptures I also try to portray the same sense of beating energy. My work includes dynamic, sweeping brush strokes of water colour, ink and wax that characterize much of my artwork.
Working in my studio I often work in a meditative state working on many paintings and sculptures at a time, this allows me to work with multiple mediums allowing me to visualise and manifest various dimensional creativity all at one time. Connecting myself within a world of paint and materials.”
Alistair Kendry
Alistair studied Fine Art at Corsham: Bath Academy and Postgraduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Art.
His work explores the transience nature of self -identity and the semiotics of dislocation through his paintings in mixed media and gold leaf. He has work in private and international collections and has had extensive exhibitions in London and the South –East.
Charlotte Lambert-Gorwyn
This series aims to capture the unconscious movements we make in our sleep, with a single exposure lasting from sunrise till the subject wakes up. In a society saturate with images and a sense of self awareness, I felt a draw to creating something less controlled in a space usually kept private.
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