Coastal Currents 2020

Coastal Currents 2020 1

COVER 

“Without our eyes to see what would 

really be the difference between us, 

we all need a nose to breath and a 

mouth to eat. 

We celebrate colours and say how 

beautiful they are or do we? We are all 

just different shades of the same colour. 

Well what a strange year, so a 

strange Coastal Currents to boot 

But here we are and most importantly the creativity still abounds. 

So we have pulled together a mix of whatever you creatives were 

clever enough and brave enough to put on. Plus a few things we 

couldn’t resist doing. 

So we hope it will tide you over a little but we aren’t stopping here… 

We will continue to support culture on the coast through this 

tricky time, so get in touch with ideas, inspiration 

and collaborations. 

Support artists and musicians through Covid-19 with commissions 

and audiences. 

Yet the dictionary defines black as owing 

to the absence of light and white as the 

antagonist of black. Words have power 

they are seeds that when planted 

they grow. 

Let us put eyes and words aside and 

celebrate being human because we all 

bleed and we all hurt, we can hate but 

we can love also. 

Choose love, choose life.” 

Buchard Bakundukize 

BIOG 

I’m a simple kinda man with a simple 

kinda plan, I like to keep it low key. 

The complications of life can often take 

away from the simplicity of the beautiful, 

I like to stay simple. 

CONTENTS: 

4 Becky Beasley - Black Lives Matter 

6 Becky Beasley - Commission opportunity 

8 Opening Party 

10 Ben Fenton - Artist in Residence at the Observer Building 

12 Benjamin Phillips - Bexhill Public Art Project 

14 Caleb Madden - The Flailing Sprawl at the Observer Building 

16 Tracey Meek - Isolation Boxes 

18 Life After Covid Film Commissions 

20 Calan Hilton - Ident Commission 

22 TJ Hughes Mural - Eastbourne 

24 DIGITAL OPEN STUDIOS COMMISSIONS 

50 Graffiti House - St Leonards 

52 Elizabeth Duckett - Poised for Success 

54 Morrisons Mural update 

56 Amy Fellows - Misfortune Teller 

58 De La Warr Pavilion 

60 Amy Fellows - Colour Cut out and Curate 

62 Art Wave 

64 Michael Hambridge 

66 Hastings Art Forum 

68 OPEN STUDIOS AND EVENTS 

88 Full Frontal 

92 West Street Installation 

96 Stella Dore 

98 MSL: A Derelict Choral -Remixed & Remade 

100 Black Shed Gallery 

101 Stewart Walton 

102 The Crown 

103 Dirty Old Gallery 

104 Objects of the ID 

106 Project 78 

107 Caitlin Lock 

108 Audiotrope 

110 Arts on Prescription 

111 Studioink 

112 Brewing Brothers 

114 Beatnik 

Coastal Currents is 

devised and managed 

by Sweet & Dandy Ltd. 

sweetanddandy.co.uk 

Donate: We are now independent 

and rely on your donations to 

make this festival happen. 

Help us support the Festival now at 

gofundme.com/coastal-currents-2020 

We are very grateful for all artists, 

organisers and advertisers who have 

contributed to CC 2020. Designed by 

Luke Herriott at StudioInk.co.uk. 

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Coastal Currents 2020 in solidarity 

with Black Lives Matter 

The CC2020 Black Lives Matter Solidarity 

Commissions were initiated in 2020 

in active allyship with our local black 

community. The Commissions are intended 

as an active signal to a longer process of 

healing and conversation, connectedness 

and collaboration between us creatives 

here in Hastings, as well as our audiences 

and the wider area, and as a moment 

of accountability for Coastal Currents. 

I hope they will encourage a widening 

and deepening of each of our individual 

communities and create new connections 

between the many diverse creative 

individuals we are so lucky to have here. 

Self-education through reading, looking 

at ones own life and friends, spending and 

employment habits are all ways to start to 

make changes. These are all activities I have 

undertaken thoroughly myself these last 

months and my world has expanded and so 

much new joy and friendship and colleagues 

been found therein. It has been a wonderful 

experience personally to look at my own life 

and habits and make seemingly small but 

significant changes. For further new local 

research networks, I recommend looking 

out for the newly established community 

organization, SHADE: St Leonards & Hastings 

Alliance of Diverse Ethnicities who can 

be followed on Facebookfacebook.com/ 

shadenetwork. 

Firstly, to speak about our CC2020 Cover 

design which was made for us by architect 

and artist, Buchard Bakundukize. 

Buchard and I became friends in the last few 

months. He studied at Kingston University and 

established himself as an architect working for 

the local architectural firm, Iain Exley. During 

our conversations I found a kindred spirit in 

Boo, in his love of research, space, detail and 

restraint. His care not only for producing the 

cover artwork for our CC2020, but also for the 

conversations we had a long the way have 

been one of the joys of this process. 

So, thank you, Boo, for trusting me and for 

your spirit and philosophical mind and for 

your artwork. 

We had one entry for the Black Artists’ 

Portrait Photography Prize from artist, 

Babalola Yusuf. Babalola is an artist who has 

recently trained as a teaching assistant and 

Artist-in-Residence at Bexhill Academy. He 

previously worked on a child-led regeneration 

project with Turner Contemporary called 

‘Pioneering Places’ in Ramsgate. Studied 

Building Surveying at Plymouth University & 

UWE . He is interested in multi-disciplinary 

spaces and the development of creative 

communities. His Pechakucha talk from 

earlier this year can be viewed here: 

pechakucha.com/users/babalola-yusuf#show 

Many thanks also to our panel of judges for 

agreeing to judge this inaugural prize. Firstly 

to Fizzel Castro, a young but established 

locally-based Black portrait photographer; 

to established and well known local 

photographic artist, Grace Lau, and finally 

to Sean O’Hagan, who also lives locally and 

is well known internationally for his writing 

about photography for the Guardian and 

the Observer. The last word here, of course, 

however, goes to Babalola Yusuf. Thank you 

to you for your trailblazing submission and 

I look forward very much to following your 

work and career. 

There remains so much to be done within 

the structure of our local Arts Festival 

and we can each be a part of this. Due to 

no response to the Local Black History & 

Research Commissions, the Commission 

will be left open within the Coastal Currents 

online platform and it is my hope that over 

time research questions will be raised and 

research alliances formed. 

So too, the Black and Ethic Register will 

remain online and ongoing. My dream is to 

watch these areas of the community around 

Coastal Currents grow as it itself grows in its 

own approach to structural issues which so 

many organisations are now understanding 

in themselves in the light of the Black Lives 

Matter Movement. 

And what of the Black flower seller woman 

in the historic photograph I included as an 

example of the type of research question 

one might like to pursue in the Local Black 

History & Research Commissions? 

All will be revealed in October during 

Black History Month! 

Love love, as my new friends have taught 

me to sign off, 

Becky Beasley 

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COMMISSION OPPORTUNITY 

Coastal Currents 2020 in solidarity 

with Black Lives Matter 

COMMISSION 10A: LOCAL BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE RESEARCH 

This lovely engaging commission attracted no applicants so we thought 

we would give it as much time as we can for some entries to be sent in in 

time for in the Coastal Currents brochure… 

You have until 30 September to apply. Don’t be shy! We’d love to hear 

from you and trusted active white ally Becky is available to support your 

research or learning about how to research local histories. It is a fantastic 

opportunity and new stories need telling. 

Do share it with your friends. Or tell us we really didn’t hit the mark and 

we will re-think. 

COASTAL CURRENTS AND BECKY BEASLEY ARE PARTNERING ON A 

SET OF COMMISSIONS FOR BLACK RESIDENTS AND CREATIVES IN 

THE SOUTH EAST, INSPIRED BY COASTAL LIVES. 

WE HAVE 2 COMMISSIONS OF £100 EACH to develop LOCAL BLACK 

HISTORY & CULTURE RESEARCH with mentoring (as required) from a 

local, diverse network facilitated by Becky Beasley. 

Do you have a question about a piece of local black history you would 

like to find out more about? For example, who is the black lady in this 

photograph from 1904? Who are her descendants today? What question 

do you have that you would like to find out more about? 

EACH SELECTED COMMISSION WILL GET... 

VIRTUAL PRESENTATION OF COMMISSIONED WORK 

PROMOTION THROUGH COASTAL CURRENTS: WEBSITE & SOCIAL 

MEDIA OPPORTUNITY TO DO A LIVE STREAM ON FACEBOOK SOCIALS 

PLEASE UPLOAD YOU PROPOSAL QUESTION AND CONTACT 

DETAILS BELOW 

DEADLINE 30 SEPTEMBER 

APPLY tinyurl.com/commission10a 

1904, Image from: RICHARD POLLARD 


JOIN US FOR AN EVENING CELEBRATION ONLINE OF THE 

OPENING NIGHT OF COASTAL CURRENTS 2020 

FRIDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER - LAUNCH NIGHT VENUE: FACEBOOK.COM/COASTALCURRENTS 

We know this year is strange, so we are going with it. 

As long as we can help support the creative economy we will keep going! 

6PM - 6.10PM 

DIGITAL OPEN STUDIOS 

Join us for the launch of our new Digital Open Studios series 

created with filmmaker Mark French. Kicks off with an 

unmissable film about the Hastings icon Leigh Dyer. 

@leigh_dyer 

Continues at 6pm every day for the first 11 days of the Festival. 

6.10-7.10PM 

LA VERITA - OMNE + TRIUM = QUATRUM 

Inspired by the latin principle ‘Omne Trium Perfectum’ 

(everything that comes in 3 is perfect), this dance 

piece by Belgian couple La Verita questions about the 

definition of perfection. 

@laveritadancecompany 

9-10PM 

HUNT AND DARTON 

Two friends on a mission to play, to make art, to create entertaining 

experiences to change the way we look at the world. Coastal Currents 

veterans - tune in to laugh, interact and experience these powerhouses! 

@huntanddarton 

10.45 - 11PM 

THE PINK SUITS 

10-10.45PM 

BEATFOX 

Experience a ride like no other with a live beatboxer who can blow your 

mind. BeatFox has played on some of the largest stages and held a 

residency at The Box as well as performed at The British House in the 2016 

Olympics representing UK Music. 

@beatfoxuk 

Unmissable action from this fantastic duo. The Pink Suits are a Queer 

Feminist Punk Rock & Rage duo based in Margate. 

7.10-8PM 

LAUNCH OF COASTAL CURRENTS WITH ISOLATION STATION 

LILY KIM interviews some of the artists involved this year - live 

DJ NIKKI 

8-9PM 

DJ NIKKI BEATNIK 

DJ Nikki Beatnik is an international DJ Producer & Musician who is 

consistently quoted as one of the best DJ’s in the UK. 

“DJ Nikki is so dope” Kelis 

“Arguably the hottest female DJ in the UK” Idol Magazine 

“Nikki got the party Poppin” Diddy 

@djnikkibeatnik 

12MIDNIGHT 

HEIDI BURSON 

Incredible singer/songwriter from Nashville, live just for you. “With a powerfully 

dynamic voice and a riveting live band, Heidi Burson recalls the best of soul, 

motown, jazz, and RnB with impressive fluidity. She is an absolute force both 

on and off the stage. An extraordinarily gifted performer, She may be one of 

the most captivating and feel-good shows you’ll ever see.” 

— Acme Radio Live 

11-12PM 

MISS BETSY ROSE 

Number 1 Burlesque dancer in the UK gives Coastal Currents a private 

performance. Really one of the most beautiful women in the world, inside and out. 

@missbetsyrose 

8 coastalcurrents.org.uk @heidiburson 


Ben Fenton 

Artist in Residence for the Observer Building 2020 

Ben Fenton has been invited to be the Artist in 

Residence at the Observer Building during Coastal 

Currents 2020. He will be working in the meeting 

room at the front of the building next to the iconic 

scroll and will create an exciting new work which 

will be mounted within that same room once the 

building has been renovated. 

The idea started from the paintings that Ben did 

as studies of the old interior of the building before 

renovation. The old view will be visible in the new 

space, bringing a piece of history into the fabric 

of the new building. 

Artist Ben Fenton, originally from Dungeness but 

now a beloved Hastings resident, has forged out 

a successful career in London for more than 12 

years, but wanted to return to the Romney Marsh 

to get away from the distractions of living in the 

capital and seek new inspiration and challenges for 

his work. Ben’s stunning paintings can be found in 

private collections all over Europe and the UK and 

he continues to exhibit in diverse spaces in London, 

Kent and East Sussex. 

@benfentonartist 

benfentonartist.moonfruit.com 



BENJAMIN PHILLIPS 

The Summer of Discontent 

Benjamin Phillips is an artist and illustrator 

based in St Leonards, a multidisciplinary 

creator making illustrations for books, record 

covers, t-shirts and branding while also making 

his own art across the mediums of painting, 

printmaking, ceramics and writing. 

For Coastal Currents 2020 Benjamin has 

created a new series of prints that will be 

displayed over 10 promenade poster sites in 

Bexhill, running between Gynde Gap Beach 

and De La Warr Pavilion. 

This collection of work is entitled ‘Summer of 

Discontent’ and reflects on this time of intense 

anxiety that we are all currently living in. 

A journey of worries, exploring topics such as: 

social distancing from family, societal chaos 

and the internal struggles of self isolation. 


THE FLAILING SPRAWL 

OBSERVER BUILDING 

ALLEY LEVEL 

5/6 & 12/13 September 11am - 4pm 

(book your FREE 15 minute 

immersive slot online) 

tinyurl.com/flailingsprawl 


Sound and video installation spread 

over 4 days. 

William James, the so-called Father of 

American Psychology once said, “my 

experience is what I agree to attend to”. 

Fine, but what about that which attends to 

us? As media theorist Mckenzie Wark has 

recently responded, “But where does this 

William James come from and with whom 

does it think it is agreeing?” 

Contained within Werner Herzog’s 1976 

film Heart of Glass there is a strange and 

singular sequence which invites us to attend 

to the contested ground of attention itself. 

Accompanied by mesmerising imagery of 

a tumultuous waterfall a narrator describes 

sensations of overwhelming disorientation. 

Ripped from a low-res YouTube video and set 

within a larger sonic intervention submerged 

beneath the weight of the Observer Building 

in Hastings, the video now includes digital 

artifacts: chunks of data plunging down 

amongst the falling water, enmeshing 

compression noise into the grain of the 

original celluloid. As the scene continues the 

narrator (as if channelling some alien agency 

from the waterfall itself) evokes a process of 

re-orientation. Oppression, disorientation, 

and dread, transform into a moment 

of escape and elevation. 

The Flailing Sprawl ingests Herzog’s poetic 

meditation. Extracted, remixed, degraded 

and compromised by its journey through the 

internet, the short section of film now acts 

as a diagram. Reconsidering the specific 

dissonances at play within a plurality of 

perspectives and across a disparate range of 

unequal positions within the Sprawl, can we 

reorientate our mode from censor to sensor, 

and find new ways to attend to that which 

attends to us? 

Caleb Madden is a UK based multidisciplinary 

artist, creative producer, and 

researcher who works at the intersection 

of noise and theory. 

Saturday 5th September - LIVE STREAM 

facebook.com/coastalcurrents 


ISOLATION 

BOXES 

BY ARTIST: TRACEY MEEK 

This year Coastal Currents have twinned 

with artist Tracey Meek from to create 10 

very special isolation art boxes. These are 

like a creative craft chain letter and have the 

intention to fight loneliness in isolation. 

Creating beautiful things with your 

neighbours and collaborating with 

strangers. You can see some of the 

previous creations here 

REGISTER HERE TO TAKE PART! 

ST LEONARDS: 

tinyurl.com/stleonardsisobox 

HASTINGS: 

tinyurl.com/hastingsisobox 

BATTLE: 

tinyurl.com/battleisobox 

RYE: 

tinyurl.com/ryeisobox 

BEXHILL: 

tinyurl.com/bexhillisobox 

EASTBOURNE: 

tinyurl.com/eastbourneisobox 

Tracey Meek is a mixed media artist, working 

with a range of mediums; 2D/3D collage, 

painting, abstract sculpture and installation. 

Colour and composition are an integral part 

of her work, which is intuitive in process and 

content, an immediate extension of herself 

and her response to surroundings. 

Tracey has over 10 years of participatory 

experience, delivering creative workshops 

in schools and within communities, as well 

as working collaboratively with peer groups. 

‘I see opening up creative practice as a 

valuable source of learning for both artist and 

participant, more often than not this leads to 

further insight and development.’ 

‘Isolation Art Mail is a community intervention 

in the shape of a collaborative chain letter 

/ art trail. A unique way of combating 

loneliness felt through self isolation during 

the Covid-19 crisis. A letter through the post, 

only it’s not a letter, it’s a piece of unfinished 

art that you are invited to contribute to. 

A way of connecting creatively, sharing 

experience and feeling like we are part of 

something, that we are not alone.’ 

When I came up with the concept for 

Isolation Art Mail, it was a response to the 

idea of being alone, as well as the Covid 

crisis itself. I wanted to help and I felt it was 

a good time to take a look at what it means 

to be isolated, and consider those that 

deal with this every day. I was aware that 

there were a lot of digital activities being 

offered and while I felt that this was great, 

I knew it could potentially isolate some 

people further; if they had no access to the 

internet or just weren’t comfortable with 

that method. It was about finding a way of 

connecting people creatively, with more of 

a tactile approach, and bringing a collective 

voice into an otherwise quiet space. 

@isolationartmail 

16 coastalcurrents.org.uk

LIFE AFTER C19 FILM COMMISSIONS 

SUNDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 

5-6PM AT FACEBOOK.COM/COASTALCURRENTS 

Hastings Filmmakers respond to life after lockdown 

with 4 very different films. 

A Date with Co-Vid (9 mins). 

Ben Cole directs this romantic comedy about a first 

date with all the trappings of social distancing which 

the couple have to overcome. 

For you must come to my dance (1 min). 

Nichola Bruce & Sam Sharples’ disturbing frenetic 

dance ritual invokes the last manic fling of society as 

it once was. 

Hastings Summer (4.30 mins). 

Vincent Rowley’s shimmering evocation of this year’s 

glorious seaside summer, featuring stunning shots of 

the town as it emerges from lockdown, with a selfcomposed 

orchestral score. 

One Day Without Harm (5 mins). 

Anonymous Bosch’s idiosyncratic film collage of 

found footage and photography. A dystopian vision 

of a future under Covid. 

NEW 

“WE” Director Jody Sabral’s new film explores the 

relationship between three friends, meeting online 

during lockdown, which reveals hidden differences 

that run deep in the context of ‘Black Lives Matter.’ 



COMMISSION FOR A 

COASTAL CURRENTS IDENT 

WINNER: Calan Hilton from Bexhill 

Hilton is a young artist who enjoys working with a range 

of media including paint, pencil and pen as well as 

digital and photographic processes to bring ideas to 

life, and more recently sculpture; characterised by an 

emphasis on detail, and a surreal quality. 

“I’m excited to create something that reaches a broader 

audience and contributes to the local arts scene.” 

“I went for as straightforward and literal a representation 

of Coastal Currents as possible to make it clear and 

easy to watch. Coastal landmarks around the college 

are represented in a painterly style, which is constantly 

moving to echo the motion of the sea.” 

calanhilton869.wixsite.com/portfolio 

instagram.com/calanmakesstuff 



TJ HUGHES MURAL 

Eastbourne Town Centre 

Pics coming soon...watch this page 

Collaboration piece by Sussex artists: 

REQ 

@reqimage 

HELEN HIETT 

@helensink 

DREW COPUS 

@droobie_art 

ASTBOURNE 

LOTTIE NORTON 

@lottienortondesign 

ETIENNE LE COMTE 

@etiennemlecomte 

ESIK 

@bigweaselgunzz 



DIGITAL 

OPEN 

STUDIOS 

This project came from an idea that 

Director Tina Morris has wanted to bring to 

fruition to capture the uniqueness of the 

artists from this coastal area. 

With Filmmaker Mark French, we have 

produced 12 Open Studios films to allow 

you to follow a “digital open studios trail” 

this year. 

These well-known Hastings artists who 

have continued working during lockdown 

are shown in a unique and personal way. 

Friday 4th Sep 

6pm - Leigh Dyer 

Saturday 5th Sep 

6pm - Peter Quinnell 

Sunday 6th Sep 

6pm - Becky Beasley 

Thursday 10th Sep 

6pm - Alexander Brattell 


6pm - Nancy Odufona 


6pm - Malcolm Glover 


6pm - Felicity Truscott 


6pm - Drew Copus 


6pm - Ben Urban 


6pm - Nigel Crockett 


6pm - Fizzel Castro 


6pm Linda King 

A behind closed doors look at their 

studios, and insightful interviews with 12 

contrasting creatives. 

With thanks to the Arts Council England 

and National Lottery Covid funding. 




LEIGH DYER 

ARTIST AND SCULPTOR 

PREMIERE FRIDAY 4th September at 6pm 

On facebook.com/coastalcurrents 

Leigh Dyer is a beloved Hastings sculptor born and bred 

here specialising in stainless steel metal sculptures. His 

public commissions include: Lake sculpture near Hastings 

Museum and Art Gallery Peace Gardens in Alexandra Park, 

Hastings Clover Tree in the Old Town, Hastings “Run” 

sculptures at Denmark Hill, London, and of course the 

Giant Winkle and Winkle Island, Hastings as well as the 

brand new but already legendary gates on Gotham Alley. 

@leigh_dyer 




PETER QUINNELL 

ARTIST 

PREMIERE Saturday 5th September at 6pm 


Trained at Chelsea and the Royal College, Quinnell has 

been a collage and assemblage illustrator and artist 

for almost 30 years. Formerly half of legendary collage 

duo Archer/Quinnell, he has been working solo since 

1998, to immense commercial and critical acclaim. 

Quinnell’s fine art work has appeared in hundreds of 

exhibitions and he has made 2D and 3D illustrations 

for over a thousand clients, including record 

labels, fashion and other magazines, newspapers, 

TV companies, advertising, shop window display, 

display sculpture, book publishers, etc. His work has 

appeared in several books on collage and illustration. 

Previous clients include: M&C Saatchi, More, J Walter 

Thompson, New Scientist, Coley Porter Bell, GQ, Apex, 

Dare, Headron, Just 17, Point Blank, Men’s Health, 

Lowe Howard Spink, Mojo, Joshua, ID, Penguin, The 

Face, Harvey Nichols, Pan Macmillan, Paul Smith, Little 

Brown, Toni & Guy, Random House, Trojan Records, 

Serpent’s Tail, Southern Fried Records, Toyota, 

Financial Times, Red Bull, Sunday Times, Sainsbury’s, 

The Observer, Tesco, Guardian, Channel 4, HMV and 

many many more. 

@peterquinnell 




BECKY BEASLEY 

ARTIST 

PREMIERE Sunday 6th September at 6pm 


Becky Beasley (born 1975) is a Hastings-based artist who works 

in sculpture, installation and photography to delve into the 

ambiguities and essential opacity of human experience. Key to 

her working processes is the idea of burrowing: a digressive and 

exploratory practice focusing on everyday moments of intensity 

and private revelation. From these moments, she slowly produces 

objects, images and environments that make perceptual that which 

is often at the limit of language: the overlooked, the minor or the 

silenced. Beasley’s endeavour has a quiet political charge, hopeful 

of enabling human beings to relate to one another in deeply 

private experiences of life and otherness, perhaps otherwise 

indescribable. Over the past decade, she has developed a literary 

or virtual way of working, finding inspiration in various forms 

of literature, from Herman Melville’s short stories to Laurence 

Sterne’s stream-of-consciousness novel Tristram Shandy. Central 

to this approach has been an investigation into the question of 

manifesting ‘the image’ out of the literary, which is for her an 

essentially non-visual, ‘imageless’ genre. 

Solo exhibitions and performances include Plan B Gallery, Berlin; 

80WSE Gallery, New York; Towner Gallery, Eastbourne; SKUC 

Public Gallery, Ljubljana; South London Gallery, London; Leeds City 

Gallery, Leeds; Spike Island, Bristol; Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, 

London and Tate Britain, London. In 2018 Beasley published her 

writing, ‘Two Plants in a Dip’, through the Artists’ Research Centre 

(ARC) Writers’ programme. The text weaves together a weekend 

spent in Southend with her mother with her relationship with 

alien plant expert, Eric Clement, reflecting on the future 

through maternal love, friendship and botany. 

FROM: phf.org.uk/artist/becky-beasley 




ALEXANDER BRATTELL 

PHOTOGRAPHER 

PREMIERE Thursday 10th September at 6pm 


“I document the sensation of seeing, fixing moments of 

heightened awareness in a search for resonance beyond subject 

matter. My photography is a personal animism preoccupied 

with shapes of thought and the revelatory nature of peripheral 

vision. It is the recognition of an alphabet of sensation that lies 

beneath the threshold of language. 

A spirit of place often emerges from the work, but at its core is 

the impulse to articulate the nature of experience and maintain 

contact with the miraculous within the mundane. 

I continue to work in a traditional way, printing my own images 

in a darkroom. This transmission of light, the analogue journey 

via the latent image to the final print, remains for me the most 

effective simulacrum.” 

brattell.com 




NANCY ODUFONA 

ARTIST 

PREMIERE Friday 11th September at 6pm 


b.1992, London 

nancyodufona10@gmail.com 

I moved to Hastings when I was thirteen; 

I graduated from Goldsmiths BA Fine Art 

in 2014, where my work explored the 

relationship between the performer, audience 

and the stage. 

After graduating I won the Goldsmiths’ College 

Graduate Scholarship at HFBK, Hamburg 

-during which I experimented collaboratively 

with large-scale sculpture and slapstick with 

another female artist. 

Since moving back to Hastings in 2015 I 

have worked using different mediums, 

such as spoken word, paint, screen printing 

and ceramics. 

I am currently working with mixed media and 

ceramics, exploring the transformative quality 

of an object through observing the silhouette 

and the effects of positive and negative space. 

@oh_missnancy 




MALCOLM GLOVER 

PHOTOGRAPHER 



Malcolm Glover is an international photographic artist, 

whose work has been widely published and exhibited. 

Already an established documentary photographer 

he has, more recently, diversified into creative digital 

works, creating panoramic photographic timescapes 

and video portraiture. 

Glover has work in several public and private 

collections, including: 

National Museum of Photography, Bradford 

Welsh Archival Centre, Caernarfon 

Welsh Industrial Museum, Cardiff 

Rochdale Art Gallery 

Oldham Art Gallery (The British Contemporary 

Photographers Collection) 

Wrexham Museum 

Vital Arts (St Brats Hospital, London) 

National Paintings in Hospitals Arts Collection 

Whitechapel Hospital Arts Collection 

Kowitz Private Art collection 

malcolmglover.co.uk 




FELICITY TRUSCOTT 

ARTIST 



Truscott’s art practice has three elements, 

exploration, relationship and transformation. 

As a hands-on maker, Truscott works intuitively with 

materials in response to the landscape. 

Hastings Borough Council, with support from the 

Interreg North West Europe programme, is working 

with Groundwork South to deliver a new sustainable 

straw bale Visitor Centre for Hastings Country 

Park. Capturing the process of the build will help 

to promote sustainable public buildings. This will 

be the first straw bale building constructed in the 

borough of Hastings and local artist Felicity Truscott 

was chosen as Artist in Residence for the build. 

Drawing on elements of protection and shelter, 

Felicity used natural materials to create a suspended 

woven structure. The residency focused on the 

building and location as a starting point,researching 

native birds like the Kestrel, and 

the inherent qualities of their wings which 

enablevthem to function so effectively. 

felicitytruscott.com 




DREW COPUS 

STENCIL ARTIST 



Street artist based in Hastings and St 

Leonards, known for amazing pieces 

such as the Queen of Queens Road 

and the Robertson Street Lobster. 

@droobie_art 




BEN URBAN 

ARTIST 

PREMIERE Friday 18th September at 6pm 


Ben Urban is an artist and curator. Co-founder of Flatland Projects, an 

incredible new project space set inside the Source BMX park; a former 

victorian bathing pool on Hastings sea front. Through focussing on 

collaborative projects Flatland offers a programme of contemporary 

emerging art for the South East of England. 




NIGEL CROCKETT 

ARTIST 



Nigel is a sprightly gentleman who loves the 

great indoors. 

He is constantly amazed at how absurd 

humans are including himself. 

Favourite quote is from Vanity Fair - “ … a 

world where everyone is striving for what is 

not worth having.” 

Favourite artist - René Magritte 

Favourite biscuit - gingernut 




FIZZEL CASTRO 

PHOTOGRAPHER 



Fizzel Castro (b. 1988, South London) is an established 

Hastings-based portrait and social photographer who works 

commercially to commission and also on personal photographic projects. 

He trained in Photography at Brighton University. 

fizzelcastrophotography.com 




LINDA KING 

Props maker/scenic artist/painter 

and decorator/gallery owner/fruit 

picker/barmaid/mural painter/life model/ 

batik maker/ and community artist of the 

highest order, Linda is an exceptionally 

talented creative. 



Currently embarking on the second year of 

a 3 year BA designer/maker course which is 

accredited by University of Brighton hosted 

by East Sussex College, Hastings, King plans 

a creative reboot to formally learn the rules 

of process and technique of Ceramics, Glass, 

Metal, Printmaking, Textiles, Design, Drawing 

and Contextual Studies... and then break them. 

inkylinda@gmail.com 

@inkylinda 



GRAFFITI HOUSE, ST LEONARDS 

COVID-19 PROJECT 

GRAFFITIHOUSE.CO.UK 

Coastal Currents has created an interior for a new 

stylish house which can be rented for short stays 

and holidays. 

REQ, Helen Hiett and Drew Copus collaborated 

to create a two storey staircase work and other 

feature areas such as the fireplace. 

The staircase was illustrated with mice who had 

run amok ruining the precious Mona Lisa and 

transforming it into the Mousa Lisa. 

Thanks to the Owners of Number 9! 

Images courtesy of Alexander Brattell 



A Talented 

Seamstress 

Poised for 

Success 


Elizabeth Duckett, the twelve 

year old student from St Leonards 

Academy who wowed Coastal 

Currents crowds with her textiles in 

2019, has become the first person to 

receive a textiles scholarship to Battle 

Abbey School. 

Just weeks before she puts the 

uniform on for the first time, we spoke 

to her about her journey into sewing, 

and what she’s looking forward to 

most about her new school. 

A good pencil skirt can change your life 

Elizabeth first made it onto the radar of both 

Coastal Currents and Battle Abbey when she 

entered an upcycling competition hosted by the 

school in July 2019. 

“My mum saw the opportunity and thought it 

looked good. I almost didn’t apply as there were 

only a couple of weeks to the closing date, but 

I did have an idea about what I wanted to do, 

so I set to work” she explains. 

Elizabeth took a pair of her mum’s old black 

jeans and transformed them into a pencil skirt 

with bright red details and a kick pleat. 

She didn’t win but she did get the attention of 

the judges, including Coastal Currents director 

Tina Morris, and the Battle Abbey staff including 

headteacher, David Clark. 

“They came to find me” she says, “Tina said she’d 

be interested in hosting me as part of Coastal 

Currents and Mr Clark suggested applying for a 

possible place at the school.” 

As part of the application process Elizabeth was 

invited to the school open day and an art and 

textiles based taster day. “I got to try one of the 

machines and we made sketches for bird boxes. 

It was all about experimentation and I’ve never 

been in an environment where they did that 

before - it felt really exciting.” 

Tina Morris’ offer to host her as part of Coastal 

Currents didn’t sink in right away either. “I didn’t 

really know what it was, but then she sent me 

an email in July asking if I wanted to take part 

and so I started manically making stuff.” 

“I had a stand at Sussex Coast College which 

went really well. I got the feel of what it’s like to 

have my own business, it was really motivating 

- a really good experience.” 

Chanel and the Great British Sewing Bee 

Elizabeth’s love affair with textiles began with 

the Great British Sewing Bee. “I was seven 

and I was just really interested in it - all these 

people making all these things - so my mum 

lent me her little sewing kit and I started 

making little things out of felt. My parents saw 

me persisting with it and so when I was nine or 

ten they brought me a sewing machine.” 

This machine was a little daunting and no-one 

else in the family did any sewing, so her mum 

put the word out for a sewing teacher. She 

found Sandra Lamberti, who Elizabeth has 

been seeing every week ever since. “This has 

given me a lot more experience”, she says. 

Another source of inspiration for Elizabeth, 

who has just been awarded her Bronze Arts 

Award, is Chanel. “I like her story. It shows that 

it doesn’t matter what background you come 

from. Chanel is such an iconic brand, but most 

people don’t know she was taking inspiration 

from mens clothes and that she did sportswear 

for women. The clothes are very elegant but 

they’re mainly about being comfortable. 

I like that it’s about women’s empowerment, 

making their own style instead of doing 

what’s expected.” 

Elizabeth has been sewing a lot during lock 

down, reviving her business with a range of 

face masks. “I also just made a pleated tennis 

skirt inspired by the Great British Sewing Bee. 

I make a lot of my own clothes - and alter 

things if they don’t fit or say, straps need 

strengthening. I really like being able to help 

other people out too, with alterations”. 

Asked if she sells much on line she says she’s 

thinking about it, but then reminds me “I am 

going to have to focus on school now”. 

Follow Elizabeth on instagram to see what 

she makes next! @duckettcreations

MORRISONS’ MURAL - BY REQ 

QUEENS ROAD, HASTINGS 

Check out the latest Coastal Currents 

refresh that had taken place on the 

previous 2018 mural. 

Big thanks to sponsors Love Hastings 

and the Covid-vision of John Bownas 

54 coastalcurrents.org.uk Coastal Currents 2020 55 

image by Alexander Brattell

F 

Coastal Currents Cut-0ut and keep 

Cooty Catcher or misfortune teller 

Head Ache 

Dr. 

Herbal Remedies 

*inc. body lice, 

rat fleas and 

worms 

Tooth Loss 

Keep it clean! 

Wash your 

hands! 

Rest 

Cooties!* 

New 

Spectacles 

From his home on Hastings 

Seafront let Dr. Zoltar 

diagnose, treat and 

(possibly) cure your ills... 

After use this cooty 

catcher can indeed be used 

to catch cooties. Remember: 

catch it, bin it, kill it! 

*Dr Zoltar is not a real doctor, or human. 

Bird Flu 

R.I.P 

It’s Scrofula, 

Kings’ Evil! 

Syphilis 

Just falling 

apart... 

Stay at 

Home 

Autopsy, 

unfortunately 

Folding instructions: 

1. Cut out the square 

2. Fold and re-open along the 

diagonal lines (marked pink, right) 

3. Fold in half vertically and 

horizontally (marked in green) 

reopening after each fold 

4. Fold each corner into the centre, 

leave folded 

5. Turn over 

6. Fold each corner into the middle 

again 

7. Fold along the horizontal and 

vertical creases again 

8. Put your forefingers and thumbs 

in the four point and play. 

zzzzzz 

R.I.P 

let’s party! 

Vaccine 

Arm Ache 

Extreme 

Fatigue 

Chicken Pox 

1 st 

Healing touch 

of H.R.H 

Cut along this line 

Amy Fellows 

artist and illustrator 

Amy Fellows would usually show in Coastal Currents 

in the upturned little boat by the Fisherman’s Museum, 

but this year has decided to make you some Covid-safe 

interactive content you can print and play with. 

Inspired by the current pandemic, you can make your 

own origami paper picker - also known as a Cooty 

Catcher by some. 

Or perhaps you want to cut out and pop up some of the 

iconic arts installations of the past. 

Make a table-top Festival! 

@amy_fellows 


WELCOME BACK 

Free Exhibitions 

Zadie Xa: Child of Magohalmi 

and the Echoes of Creation 

Marc Bauer: Mal Être/Performance 

Café bar overlooking the sea 

Rooftop terrace 

DLWP shop & Music’s Not Dead, 

Bexhill’s independent record store 

Book your free General Admission ticket online at dlwp.com 

Bexhill on Sea 

East Sussex 

SOUL II SOUL 

GREATEST HITS 

Saturday 13 March 2021 

THIS IS THE KIT 

Thursday 18 March 2021 

STEWART LEE 

SNOWFLAKE/ TORNADO 

Thursday 25 March 2021 

GOLDFRAPP 

+ SPECIAL GUESTS 

Tuesday 6 April 2021 

JOHN GRANT 

WITH SUPPORT FROM TEDDY THOMPSON 

Thursday 13 May 2021 

LIGHTNING SEEDS 

JOLLIFICATION 25TH ANNIVERSARY 

Saturday 29 May 2021 

THE FLAMING LIPS 

+ SPECIAL GUESTS 

Sunday 25 July 2021 

RICHARD HAWLEY 

+ STUDIO ELECTROPHONIQUE 

Friday 30 July 2021 

TOOTS & THE MAYTALS 

ALL DAY BEACH-SIDE FESTIVAL 

Saturday 28 August 2021 

dlwp.com 

Bexhill on Sea 

East Sussex 

PHOTO CREDIT : BURST PHOTOS 


SOLD 

OUT 

NEW 

EVENT

Colour, Cut-0ut , curate 

Reimagine your Coastal Currents highlights from 

your own home, garden or around Hastings 

REQ 

Smudge 

Colour your own seascape 

Design your own 

mural on the West Hill 

Shelter! 

You will need, scissors (and an 

adult), colouring pencils, lollipop 

sticks or skewers, tape or sticky 

tack. 

We’d love to see your highlights 

from home using the #myccfest 

Peter Quinnell 

Street Art 

Colour and cut out... 

ATM 

Green Eyed Flower Bee 

Shuby 

Street Art 

Look out for bees in your garden and send us 

your photos #ohbeeATM 

Drew Copus 

The Queen of Queen’s Road 

Colour and cut out... 

1. fold here 

2. Cut along 

pink line 

Isaac Cordal 

#LittleMenofRockaNore 

Clod Ensemble’s 

The Red Ladies 

Cut out and attach to 

lollipop sticks or skewers... 

3. fold here 

Leigh Dyer’s 

The Landing 

Morag Myerscough 

Belonging 

Colour, cut out and mount your mini placard 

on a lollipop stick or skewer! 

Cut out and hide around your home! 

Colout, cut out and brighten 

up any inanimate object! 

Strange Cargo 

My Heart Belongs to 

Hastings 

fold here 

Always fancied that in our back garden...

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL 

ARTISTS AND MAKERS 

5th - 20th 

September 2020 

Trails around 

Lewes, Newhaven, 

Seaford and the 

surrounding villages 

Plan your visit online 

artwavefestival.org 

@artwavefestival 


Image by Rob Cheatley 

Well...there is one man I have always been a little in love with. 

A man who has single handedly changed the arts landscape of 

Sussex and certainly beyond. 

An inspiring, caring, thoughtful, creative, fun, funny, 

wordsmith of a dude, who worked tirelessly at the Council. A 

really valuable piece of the creative mycelium that will be lost 

now he is no longer our cultural ambassador. 

Covid-19 stole his leaving party, his laptop left in a sealed bag 

at the end of his driveway. 

It made us move on too fast. 

But Coastal Currents would not have been Coastal Currents 

without him. 

He is sewn into the fabric of public art. He has bettered the 

lives of so many young people. 

So Michael, I love you and miss you. A public declaration. 

Tina Morris 

Michael Hambridge has always reminded me of Jack Nicholson… 

not in a creepy “Here’s Johnny!” kind of way, but because he is 

a maverick choice to be a Public Arts Officer and that’s no bad 

thing 

– he embraces life like an artist does. 

He would go sea-swimming at lunchtime directly opposite 

Muriel Matters house, 

He still loves DJ-ing and partying and he was always rigorously 

efficient at attending every single art event across the town. 

Michael has always been a great champion of the Hastings 

Creatives email list – 

he realised it was a good way of keeping in touch with the 

town’s artists and designers. 

MICHAEL 

HAMBRIDGE 

I would often get a phone call from the HBC switchboard 

after everyone else would have gone home and it would be 

Michael wanting to talk to me about the latest hot topic of 

conversation amongst the creative community or to tell me 

about a new creative in town who he’d told to sign up to 

Hastings Creatives. 

That’s how I like to think of Michael: “Champion”! 

Erica Smith 



HASTINGS ARTS FORUM 

Hastings Arts Forum is a volunteer run, independent art gallery and registered charity. 

It promotes the work of its artist members, and supports visual arts for the benefit 

of the local community. 

The Forum provides a professional gallery space to support these aims 

where artists can exhibit and sell their work – offering the community 

the opportunity to engage in the vibrant local art scene, through the 

constantly changing programme of events. 

MEMBER BENEFITS INCLUDE 

Being part of a vibrant friendly local arts community 

Volunteering opportunities 

Members only exhibitions 

Competitive commission rates 

Reduced-rate gallery hire 

Members’ online gallery with links to artists media 

Social media promotion for exhibitions 

Local business discounts 

Priority newsletter 

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP 

£38.00, £35.00 over 65, concession £22.00 

CONTACT 

www.hastingsartsforum.co.uk 

Email: admin@hastingsartsforum.co.uk 

20 Marine Court, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0DX 

Tel:01424 201636 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 

About The Gallery, exhibitions, taking part in our busy programme of events 

and varied opportunities for volunteering, please contact us directly at The Gallery 

or via our website. You can also follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. 

The Gallery is open from 11am to 5pm, Tuesday to Sunday 


OPEN STUDIOS 

AND EVENTS 

DATES VARY 

The brave have endeavoured to open their spaces for you. 

Support artists and venues during COVID-19 who are managing to put on events or exhibitions for you. 

This year, that is what Coastal Currents is. A way to support anyone who can still bring culture to the 

coast under unusual circumstances. 

Buy a work, contact an artist to tell them you love their work, make connections. 

The following pages contain community listings that are not funded or organised by Coastal Currents. We cannot be held responsible 

for accident or injury at events and activities organised by external individuals and groups during Coastal Currents. 



Work in Progress @ Zuzushii Arts Lab 

26, White Rock, Hastings, TN34 1JY 

Four artists; Two days each. Window Installation art. View the 

daily progress of the artists works through the gallery window 

on White Rock. Optional, restricted socially distanced entry 

11-5pm to chat with the artists. 

Covid compliant. 

Curated by April Yasamee. 

Jaf Yusuf 

April Yasamee 

19/21 Sept - Jaf Yusuf 

Digital animation: jafyusuf.com 

22/23 Sept - April Yasamee 

Installation: aprilyasamee.wordpress.com 

24/25 Sept - Greig Burgoyne 

Performance: greigburgoyne.com 

26/27 Sept - Maggie Scott. 

Installation: maggiescottonline.com 

Greig Burgoyne 

Maggie Scott 

Opening Hours: 19-27 September 11am-5pm 



Matt Hardman Open Studio 

54 Ferry Road, Rye, TN31 7DN 

hardmanmatt1@gmail.com 07967 914178 

My paintings are about adults as children and children as 

adults and the complicated relationships between different 

personalities. I use my experiences to make images that have 

an emotional tension. 

The paintings are not literal but the work tries to convey an 

atmosphere of fate, passive anxiety, humour, frustration and 

possibilities. 

@hardman9 

matthardman.co.uk 

Opening Hours: 12/13 and 19/20 September 11am-5pm 



Brian Mander - Respire:Suspire 

Hastings beach opposite Harold Place, TN34 

brianmander.1st@googlemail.com 07801 710178 

An installation of figurative sculpture on Hastings beach by 

Brian Mander. 1920: The confined fears of Miss Nellie Moore 

were asphyxiation and drowning having witnessed life’s breath 

taken from those she had cared for and loved, and of all those 

young seamen whom she so vividly imagined at war. Waiting 

on the harbour arm, she busied herself with sorting pebbles 

in concentric circles by colour and size, trying not to look 

seaward but eventually she could not help herself. Thoughts of 

those hapless ghosts overcame her like a rolling fog. She held 

her breath again without drama, without thinking. Voiceless. 

No one noticed. No one was there to notice, no one close 

enough to sense the paused unconscious rhythm of inhalation 

and exhalation of the cold scouring sea air into her lungs. 

Nellie’s ungloved hand beneath her scarf gently squeezed her 

throat between forefinger and thumb. The discomfort was 

momentary but the memories that had caused her discrete 

gesture of self harm throttled her. 

Opening Hours: 24/7 from 1 September until 31 October 



The Empty Sardine Can Gallery 

facebook.com/theemptysardinecangallery 

shedart@mail.com @theemptysardinecangallery 

07719 383701 

I’ve exhibited works at the bottom of the garden for many 

years so that people using the public footpath can have a 

gander. There are many that return just to see what I’ve been 

up to. Creating the tiny gallery in the back-gate seemed a 

logical next step. I can now invite other artists to show their 

work as well. Opening a new venue during the pandemic 

might seem a tad strange but it’s outside and visitors can 

easily maintain social distancing. There will be no grand 

opening and no private views. It’s just there. Please come 

and visit. Full details on how to find us are on our Facebook 

page - @theemptysardinecangallery. If travelling by car 

please note that you must park, considerately, in the village 

and go down the rough track to the gallery on foot. 

During Coastal Currents 2020 season, my studio might 

be open - text me on the day. 

Open all hours 



Catherine Hambridge Designs 

The Yard, Unit B2, Britannia Enterprise Centre, TH34 1RT 

chdjewellery@outlook.com catherinehambridgedesign.com 

@catherinehambridgejewellery 

Independent Contemporary Jeweller. 

Catherine Hambridge is a designer and maker of silver and gold 

contemporary jewellery. After studying Design and Craft (BA 

Hons) at Brighton University she now hand makes all her own 

creations in her sunny Hastings studio, creating delicate and one 

of a kind feather etched pieces of jewellery. Catherine hand draws 

each design with her distinct style creating unique and elegant 

jewellery to treasure forever. 

Opening Hours: 5/6 September 11am-4pm 



Objects from the id’ XV 

Rock a Nore Gallery, 23 Rock-a-Nore Rd, Hastings, TN34 3DW 

phillipcosham6@tiscali.co.uk phillipcosham.co.uk 

01424 444955 

Group of artists; Phillip Cosham, Nigel Plumb, Tim Riddihough, 

Steve Rutter, Siobhan Tanner, Anna Thomson plus invited artists. 

This diverse group return in 2020 to plummet deep into their 

imaginations to bring you ‘Objects from the id’ XV. 

Work includes painting, print, ceramics, photography, 

film and sculpture. 

Level Access. 

Opening Hours: 19 - 27 September 

Sat-Sun 11am - 5pm / Mon-Fri 1pm -5pm 



Annie Soudain 

5 Firehills Cottages, Lower Coastguard Lane, Fairlight, TN35 4AD 

annie@anniesoudain.co.uk anniesoudain.co.uk 01424 812447 

I use my immediate surroundings and my imagination to create 

images of paintings, linoprints and fabric collages. Most work 

based on landscapes and seascapes of the local area. 

The 2021 calendars are available. 

Either email annie@anniesoudain.co.uk or phone 01424 812447 

to order. Available to collect or can be posted. 

Phone to make arrangements to visit! 



Sophie Shaw 

Treatments : What We Find 

and What We Bring 

Electro Studios Project Space, Seaside Road, 

St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0AL 

sophieshawart.com electrostudiosprojectspace.co.uk 

A mysterious set of glass plate negatives found by chance inspires 

this meditation on the elusive nature of the past and the power of 

legacy. This exhibition of prints and paintings provides a glimpse 

into an ongoing project, which brings rigorous research together 

with a little bit of fantasy. 

Preview: Saturday 10 October 1 - 4pm 

Opening Hours: 10/11 October 1 - 6pm 



WANTED ARTISTS! 

‘Arts Hub Space Opportunity’ 

Artists: Sharon Haward and Amanda Jobson, are curating a 

temporary space at Priory Meadow Shopping Centre Hastings of (2) 

exhibitions during Coastal Currents 2020 Festival – They wanted to 

support other Hastings based artists after Covid-19 and collaborate 

and offer this arts hub space for art exhibitions for artists. The 

guidelines are any theme of mixed art, painting, photography, 

sculpture, and installation. With a (Maximum groups x 5 artists) 

All artworks can be for sale but the transactions must take place 

after the exhibition finishes. 

All exhibitors must wear a facemask, and invigilate during 

the exhibition. 

Opening hours: 12 Noon to 4pm weekdays 

Monday to Friday & Saturday 

Opening/ Weekend 12 September 

Please get in touch via email - info@amandajobson.co.uk 

Arts Hub - temporary space At Priory Meadow Shopping Centre Hastings 



FULL FRONTAL: 

Back to Nature 

Debenhams store, Terminus Road, Eastbourne town centre 

View this exciting new project for Eastbourne; a curated and 

themed exhibition of artworks to be shown on the front of 

empty shop windows in the town centre. The artworks are 

being produced as large-scale vinyl window displays to be 

viewed from the street. 

The project has been created to support Eastbourne’s town 

centre recovery during the easing of Covid-19 restrictions. 

The eleven artists are: 

Jennifer Binnie 

Rowan Corkill 

Elizabeth Doak 

Jim Hobbs 

Hoop Editions 

Nicholas Pace 

Angel Rose 

Shinewater School 

Isobel Smith 

Nick Snelling 

Jason Williams 

Artists were asked to consider the significance of the natural 

world to human life, health and well-being and look at beliefs, 

superstitions, folklore and magic that have always been 

associated with sickness, healing and nature: natural remedies 

and quack cures, elixirs and potions, the miracles and monsters 

of medicine, as well as the benefits of getting back to nature, 

engaging with wildlife and the landscape. 

From Friday 28th August 2020 onwards 

FULL FRONTAL: Back to Nature is 

a project developed and produced 

by Eastbourne’s FULL FRONTAL 

EASTBOURNE team (part of 

Eastbourne Culture Group) as a 

cultural contribution to the town 

centre’s recovery from Covid-19 

restrictions. The project has 

been developed by Eastbourne 

Culture Group in partnership with 

Eastbourne Borough Council and 

Towner Eastbourne. 

The exhibition will be sited 

in prominent empty shops in 

Eastbourne’s Terminus Road. 



Sinéid Codd 

Mezzanine Floor, Observer Building 

sineidcodd.co.uk @sineidcodd 

A fuller acquaintance with the archipelago 

an ongoing series of island like sculptures, born 2019 

Responding to the times we are living through, ‘a fuller 

acquaintance with the archipelago’ invites the viewer to navigate 

a co-created Lilliputian world. As observation gives way to 

imagination, it is possible to mentally inhabit the fossilized and 

fragile cast sculptures as a series of islands surrounded by sea. 

All islands are separated from each other, but some stand alone, 

while others are in pairs or groups. The now evident architecture 

and topology of the mostly bleached islands may suggest 

abandonment associated with a dystopian world. 

Modelling an idea of the individual within the collective, through 

viewers’ curiosity and engagement, the installation elicits 

questions and ideas around community and relationship as well as 

culture and environment. 

Opening Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 5/6 and 12/13 

September 10am - 4pm, or by appointment with the artist, email: 

sineidcodd@mac.com 


WEST 

STREET? 

A collaboration of work from the artists of 

West Street, Hastings, all based around the 

forgotten history of this little backstreet. 

All works viewable day and night 

during September for Coastal Currents 

Arts Festival. 

With Jilliene Sellner, Lorna Crabbe, 

Kate Iles, Megan Donfrancesco Reddy, 

Leigh Dyer and Adam Dando. 

Friday 4th September Join us for a late 

night opening at the Dirty Old Gallery to 

celebrate this strange little area of our town. 

Gallery open 6-9pm 

Covid restrictions apply. 

31A WEST STREET, HASTINGS, TN34 3AN 

@theweststreetinstallation 

MEGAN DONFRANCESCO REDDY 

After graduating with a BA Hons in 

Contemporary Fine art At Brighton University 

Megan took on a studio on West street with 

the grumpy little ferret, Adam Dando. Megan 

dabbles in clay and creates sculptures that 

depict the human body, mostly concentrating 

on one single part like the nose or breast. 

Megan is at the start of her artistic career 

but has already exhibited at the De La Warr 

and many local exhibitions. 

Living at the edge of the sea in Fairlight 

has given Megan access to the clay that 

is buried around her which she has begun 

experimenting with its firing properties. 

KATE ILES 

“By working with found objects and 

images, I am constantly looking to 

capture anticipated memories; the 

small and everyday, connecting us all 

- my work evolves out of the need to 

preserve a moment - a mourned dog, a 

dreamlike state, a snippet of conversation. 

Discarded artefacts, lost treasures, and if 

you’re really lucky, tiny fairy lights are all 

assembled and given a new home” 

‘Forgotten’ (lit window installation) 

@kate_iles_box_maker 

kateiles.co.uk 

JILLIENE SELLNER 

Jilliene Sellner is a Canadian composer, 

curator and researcher whose work most 

often explores the impact of human 

activity on the environment and vulnerable 

populations. At 33 West Street she will 

recreate former resident Professor Thomas 

Boucher’s (actor, champion swimmer, 

firefighter, Mason and grocer) self 

designed coat of arms. 

@jilliene_sellner 

instagram.com/jilliene_sellner 

Megan is also co founder of The Dirty Old 

Gallery, A popular independent art gallery 

on the back street of Hastings Old Town. 

“My intention for the West Street installation 

is to create mini homages to the businesses 

that once kept the street bustling. You can 

see the footprints of the old buildings that 

once catered for businesses such as Ice 

merchandise and libraries but now they 

are long forgotten. My sculptures will be lit 

with candles during the night, like ghostly 

shadows dwelling in the doorways.” 

Insta - mmrdr 

hello@thedirtyoldgallery.com 



For artists who normally spend hours 

staring at a canvas or a lump of metal, 

painstakingly planning each next decision, 

can only bring excitement (slightly 

mixed with fear for those close to them) 

when you hear of Leigh Dyer and Adam 

Dando’s contribution to the West Street 

installation. 

As INCURVA STUDIOS steps into a new 

chapter of its life Leigh and Adam have 

decided to spend 12 hours straight in the 

battered old art studio creating sculptures 

to hang from the sky (the outside wall) of 

LEIGH DYER 

Walking around Hastings and 

St Leonards, you would be hard pressed 

not to have seen examples of Leigh’s 

metal handiwork – with large metal 

creatures adorning Butler’s Gap, Porters 

Wine Bar, Queen’s Arcade and the 

Dragon Bar to name but a few, as well 

as countless gates (Trinity Wholefoods), 

fittings (Capsule) and railings (Hastings 

Arms). But his work is not just local, Leigh 

has made vast sculptures that have been 

shipped off around the world spreading 

his fan club far. 

Completely self-taught, Leigh has been 

working with metal since 1998, having 

studied exhibition and interior design at 

Hastings College. One of his most 

popular work (having taken over a year 

to complete) is the giant Winkle now 

adorning Winkle Island in The Old Town. 

@leigh_dyer 

ADAM DANDO 

Adam is a home grown Hastonian creative! 

Initially trained as a graphic designer at 

Brighton University and then London College 

of Communications, Adam has gone on to 

explore a creative path by having regular 

one man shows in the local area for the 

last ten years. 

Versed in a variety of styles and mediums, 

Adam continues to re-invent and refine his 

craft from show to show. 

Keep up with current works, show dates 

and studio sales by following Adam on 

these platforms. 

@adamdandoart 

Facebook.com/adamdandoarts 

Image: Alice Denny 

INCURVA STUDIO. 

The work will then be on show night and 

day during Coastal Currents. 

LORNA CRABBE 

Side Step pop-up gallery 

Lorna Crabbe is an artist who has lived and 

worked on West Street for the past thirteen 

years. Her work spans artists’ books, installation, 

handmade objects, painting, drawing & print 

all with a link to archives, obsessive collecting 

& re-imaging the past. Her house has been 

in turn a furniture warehouse, an ice store, 

various shops, a space for filleting fish and an 

occasional gallery. It is tucked behind the rooms 

where Rossetti stayed before his marriage to 

Lizzie Siddal in 1860. In 2018 Lorna instigated 

and led a year-long research project on West 

Street funded by the Arts Council and the 

Heritage Lottery to delve into the forgotten 

and unrecorded histories of the street and its 

residents. This resulted in a weekend of live 

events, an archive of research material, a street 

party and the West Street Chronicle’ publication. 

Past works made especially for the street 

include the West Street Petting Zoo and a 

pencil sharpening service. 

During September Lorna will run the Side Step 

pop-up gallery on her doorstep, displaying 

new artwork related to her West Street 

research. Follow Lorna on instagram for 

updates on display days. 

@lornacrabbe 

lornacrabbe.comweststreethastings.co.uk 



Saturday 12 September 

running through to the end of the festival 

Sliding Light 

Rebecca Child is a prop 

and puppet maker. She has 

worked in theatre, film and 

live performance with a 

focus on community arts 

and outdoor events and 

is currently doing an MA 

in Sequential Design at 

Brighton University. 

Rebecca has made a 

series of evocative and 

dreamlike animations using 

a mix of Stop Motion, image 

manipulation and montage. 

Her inspiration for the work 

has been the songs: 

The Murder of Captain 

Aldridge, Unholy Trinity, 

Doin’ the Rope-Walk Tangle, 

four Eagles. 

Access the work here: 

Pick and Unpick 

Mary Hooper is a visual artist 

working in digital and mixed 

media. Her practice is sitespecific, 

using a wide range 

of materials and processes to 

create installations, objects 

and visual poems. 

Mary has created a soundpoem 

using the voices of 

Hastings’ people giving the 

listener a sound world to 

tap into based on the lyrics 

of the ballad, ‘Doin’ the 

Rope-Walk Tangle’ and her 

research into rope making in 

Hastings and elsewhere. 

Follow MSL on social media 

to find the rope graffiti and 

do the ‘rope walk tangle’. 

mslprojects.co.uk/a-derelict-chorale-commissions 

Follow MSL for updates: 

Instagram: @msl_hastings 

Facebook: @mslhastings 

Twitter: @MSLHastings 

MSL’S Smart Heritage digital map brings the history of 

Hastings’ America Ground and Trinity Triangle to life online 

through art and heritage projects: smart-heritage.co.uk 

A Town Was Silent 

Juliet Russell is a musical 

director, composer, singer 

and choir leader. She has 

composed for many genres 

including beatboxers and 

rappers, Bhangra & Brass 

bands, Dance, Theatre 

and Choirs. 

Her work has been 

performed internationally 

in over 30 countries, ranging 

from The National Theatre 

and British Museum to 

Mayan temple sites, the 

Millennium Dome and 

football stadiums worldwide. 

She has created a musical 

response using vocal 

acapella harmonies, breath 

and rhythm and sampling 

of contemporary beatbox. 

Her inspiration has been 

the song, ‘Four Eagles’. 

Photographs of Rebecca Child and Mary Hooper by Sam Sharples. 


Painting courtesy of East Sussex Libraries and Information Service

Gallery Shop Website 

theblackShedgallery.org.uk 

Learn more 

Stewart Walton 

Artist Stewart Walton 

07833 Artist177337 

stewartwalton.com 

07833 @stewart_walton 

stewartwalton.com 


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HANNAH KYNOCH 

“Public House” 

S E L F P E R C E P T I O N S & P E R S O N A L 

P O I N T S O F V I E W 

An installation by Joe Fawcett at the Dirty Old Gallery 

4th September - 4th October 

31a West Street TN34 3AN 

4th September - The gallery will be open 11am - 9pm 

E M B R O I D E R Y | O I L P A I N T | T A P A S T R Y 

wwww.thedirtyoldgallery.com 

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‘Objects from the id’ XV 

Rock-a-Nore Gallery 

23 Rock-a-Nore Road, TN34 3DW 

19th - 27th September 2020 

Saturday / Sunday 11am-5pm 

Monday / Friday 1pm-5pm 

‘Objects from the id’ XV 

Phillip Cosham 

Ceramics, printmaking and photography. - Work related to 

childhood, film noir, film, the 'Excitement of the City' and space. 

www.phillipcosham.co.uk 

Email: phillipcosham6@tiscali.co.uk 

Nigel Plumb 

Mixed media, prints and text. “Enigma is the lifeblood of the 

image” 

www.nigelplumb.com 

Email: plumb@hotmail.co.uk 

featuring 

Phillip Cosham, Nigel Plumb, Tim Riddihough, 

Steve Rutter, Anna Thomson, Siobhan Tanner 

Tim Riddihough 

Sculpture, mainly wood, ceramics, paintings and collage. 

Facebook: Tim Riddihough 

Email: timriddi@btinternet.com 

Tel: 01424 813294 

Steve Rutter 

My work uses whatever media are appropriate or available at 

the time. I can be inspired by almost anything. I am currently 

using ceramics as a starting point for projects. 

www.steverutter.com 

Email: steverutter59@googlemail.com 

Anna Thomson 

Ceramics imbued with a sense of discovery. Inspired by themes 

of repetition, variation, architecture and erosion. 

www.annathomson.co.uk 

Instagram: @annajthomson 

Email: contact@annathomson.co.uk Tel: 07931304253 

Siobhan Tanner 

Experiments with light, dark, colour and space, something 

beyond words. 

www.siobhantanner.com 

Instagram: @siobhantanner 

Email: siobhanmtanner@hotmail.com Tel: 07817762395 


www.project78gallery.com 

Caitlin Lock 

Portrait of Dawn Joseph 

Caitlinlock.me 


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