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Archives for:  June 2010

Articulating Change at Stone Squid Gallery

GXJacques writes:

For anyone negotiating the enigmatic world of art instillation, this is a show to experience. Installation is all about experiencing— space, form, light, and in the case of Rossella Emanuele’s Articulating Change, time.…

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Posted 1:08 pm Wednesday, June 30, 2010 In: Visual Arts

Project Art Works (PAW) put on a really beautiful show recently at the Arts Forum. PAW had mentored six artists with learning disabilities and complex needs over 18 months. The artists were given the opportunity to work intensively in an artist studio …

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Posted 12:58 pm In: Visual Arts


Up on the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion are SIXTY bodies, almost reminiscent of the Civil War scene in Atlanta in Gone With The Wind, but minus Scarlett O’Hara.  They are of course cast from the one original Gormley, in

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Posted 12:22 pm In: Arts News

A Fashion Archive

The small London fashion house Swanky Modes was a cutting edge presence in Camden Town for two decades from 1972. Judy Dewsbery, now of The Beacon, SoCo, DAB Arts, kimono shows and many other Hastings arts initiatives, was a …

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Posted 9:26 am Friday, June 18, 2010 In: Hastings People

MODERN TIMES : RESPONDING TO CHAOS De La Warr Pavilion. Selected by film-maker, painter and curator Lutz Becker, it includes a mass of superb drawings, prints and collage, exploring the recurring tension between figuration and abstraction. Presented non-chronologically, it  encompasses movements such …

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Posted 9:20 am In: Visual Arts

Tina Malina’s  St Leonards Diary

May 1st 2010

Moving my third home to St Leonards On Sea has probably definitely been one of the best decisions I have ever recently made. It’s as if St Lens was waiting for me to …

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Posted 9:11 am In: HOT Gossip

Old Masters visit Hastings

Katherine Reekie’s sensational Art on the Beach last week at the Arts Forum was a LOL treat. She has imagined what a string of master artists would make of Hastings seafront. Breughel’s hunters trudge past a trawler, Picasso …

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Posted 8:44 am In: Visual Arts

Almost Summer already

Tidy Tom’s been too busy on the allotment to write about it

Right, first of all I’d like to apologise about the lack of any updates to this column in ages.  It’s partly due to just being busy, changing …

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Posted 11:33 pm Thursday, June 17, 2010 In: Green Times

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