As part of the Coastal Currents Arts Festival a round of Open Studios and houses was visited by AWG in this last week and we attended a busy opening of the Indian Miniature paintings at the Hastings Museum .
Opening of Indian Miniature Exhibition, Hastings Museum
21 stunning Indian Miniature paintings on loan from the collection of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich. Spanning a period of over two hundred years (1650-1850) the exhibition includes studies of animals, illustrations to Hindu sacred text, Persian mystical poetry, portraits of rulers and pictures of court celebrations. The exhibition runs until 6 December.
Open Studios visited included the Stables at Fairlight where many of the featured artists had a very successful selling period.
We visited The School Creative Centre in Rye which has taken over the old Freda Gardham school. This is now the home of more than 10 professional artists and makers as well as a Theatre production company.
Grant Braithwaite, Open Studio
The School Creative Centre, Rye
September 18th, 2009 | Tags: centre, Indian, sainsbury, school | Category: Museum, Rye | Leave a comment
The start of September was marked by a sudden shift in the temperature, gales on the coast and cool nights but the very popular Coastal Currents Arts Festival was launched with a packed house including event organisers, artists, councillors, the mayor and many others at the Hastings Town Hall.
Coastal Currents launch 2009, Hastings Town Hall
There is a huge amount of arts activity and a focus on a visual arts projects including outdoor theatre, art trails, talks, open studios featuring more than 100 artists and the Shot by the Sea Film Festival co-ordinated by Project Art Works. The Festival finishes on the 30 September.
Hastings Old town hosted their last ‘First Thursday’ event of 2009 on the 3 September with increasingly more galleries and other venues extending their opening hours and the Weekend gallery opened with an exhibition of work by Anne Batty, Alastair Knights, ceramicist and Emiko Aida.
Anne Batty - 'In hope we greet the stranger'
September 4th, 2009 | Tags: mayor, townhall | Category: Festival, Film, Open Studios | Leave a comment
