The Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours list 2022 has given the nod to several people involved in the Visual Arts, including a knighthood for the filmmaker Isaac Julien, The installation artist Cornelia Parker OBE and the Illustrator Sir Quentin Blake joining the elite Companions of Honour.
1 June 2022
The 24 large-scale drawings in the show form two emotive series, Children and Dogs, and Children, Birds & Dogs,
Wed-Sun 10am-5pm
Quentin Blake and Victor Pasmore Hastings Contemporary: I’m standing for the first time inside the Hastings Contemporary
13 September 2020
Hastings Contemporary mount beautifully curated intimate exhibitions of both British and now international artists. They are currently showing a retrospective exhibition of the Modern British artist Victor Pasmore as well as a large scale show of drawings and paintings by Quintin Blake depicting migration.
14 August 2020
The YBA artist Tracey Emin becomes a CBE, Quentin Blake Receives a Knighthood and the Sculptor Richard Long an OBE… Read More
29 December 2012
A star-studded charity art auction featuring exclusive works by Quentin Blake, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Michael Craig-Martin, Howard Hodgkin, Patrick Hughes, Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker, Bridget Riley, and others is to take place from 7 November until 21st November
5 November 2019
Hastings Contemporary, (the former Jerwood Gallery) launched as an independent gallery on Tuesday with three notable exhibitions, Roy Oxlade alongside works by his tutor David Bomberg, Contemporary Danish Artist Tal R, and new works by artist/illustrator Quentin Blake.
4 July 2019
Kathleen Soriano has been named interim Director of Hastings Contemporary beginning January 2025. The new head is an independent curator,… Read More
19 December 2024
Liz Gilmore, the Director of Hastings Contemporary, is stepping down from her role after 14 years to become CEO of… Read More
20 November 2024
Freedom from Torture has announced the 13th edition of its biennial art auction, Drawing a Line Under Torture.
23 October 2023
The October round-up of exhibitions in the Hastings area features Hastings Contemporary and Project 78 in St Leonards on Sea.
17 October 2023
Presenting the much-coveted Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2021. This is our way of acknowledging our industry’s hard work and achievement, as we see it.
29 December 2021
Hastings Contemporary has announced their reopening exhibition for the 27th May with a spectacular summer show ‘Seaside Modern’
29 April 2021
The Jerwood Gallery in Hastings is to relaunch as Hastings Contemporary: Independent gallery for the South East on 6th July with a major presentation by international contemporary painter Tal R, alongside British artist, Roy Oxlade (the late husband of Rose Wiley)
26 March 2019
BARTHOLOMEW BEAL FAS – There’s a paradoxical situation in the art world right now, Both here in Britain and, according to what I see on the Web, abroad.
18 September 2017
If you’re planning on leaving the metropolis for your staycation, Artlyst has put together a selection of the best UK… Read More
19 July 2016
The Art Car Boot Fair is all revved up and ready to go to the seaside with stacks of art,… Read More
12 July 2016
The Victoria and Albert Museum’s annual Illustration Awards will be substantially increased for 2016, in honour of the late Moira Gemmill,… Read More
17 November 2015
GV Art on Chiltern Street presents Automatic Art: human and machine processes that make art. The subject of this exhibition… Read More
23 August 2014
With summer well and truly here, the Royal Academy of Arts’ annual Summer Exhibition launches the great British salon, with… Read More
5 June 2014
An important collection of Beatle John Lennon’s autograph drawings and manuscripts produced by the artist for his critically acclaimed books:… Read More
17 March 2014
Face Brition creates portrait of The Queen by The Prince’s Foundation for Children Tonight Buckingham Palace was lit up by… Read More
19 April 2012
Diamond Jubilee Artists Tracey Emin Gavin Turk and Yinka Shonibare contribute self portraits for Face Britain Auction Face Britain, one… Read More
19 April 2012
Tracey Emin, Brian Eno, Gavin Turk, and Brian Ferry Get Behind Face Britain One of the largest online collaborative art… Read More
23 December 2011
COLLECT A PIECE OF ART HISTORY FOR JUST £45 It’s November again and this means it’s time for the RCA… Read More
1 November 2010
Jude Cowan Montague explores Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach at Hastings Contemporary.
3 June 2021
A new group show curated by Scott Robertson featuring the artists, Ryan Gander, Katerina Kamprani, Scott King, Aidan Moffat, Jonathan Monk, Lynda Morris, Simon Newby, Mark Spelman and Ian Whittlesea opens at Project 78 in St Leonards E. Sussex 12 September.
4 September 2020
Messum’s are holding a survey exhibition of Miles Richmond’s work at their Cork Street gallery in Mayfair. Happily the show… Read More
15 October 2015
The Tate have released information showing that the organisation has become one of the largest arts organisation in the world… Read More
27 September 2012
