Ben Branagan:
Some Rocks Are Harder Than Others
Exhibition
Common Clay
Beeching Road Studios
10:00-17:00
An exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and designer Ben Branagan. Some Rocks Are Harder Than Others presents recent ceramic works exploring representations of the figure and the body, developed through experiments with hand-building, casting and carving.
This event has step free access.
Common Clay Members:
Ceramic Sale
Shop
Common Clay
Beeching Road Studios
10:00-17:00
A special sale of a wide range of handmade ceramics by Common Clay members. Set up to provide a shared, open and experimental making space for a community of artists working with clay, Common Clay offers artist memberships, a wide range of classes, community workshops and residencies.
This event has step free access.
Steven Gregory:
Excalibur 7.62
Exhibition
The Old Ambulance Station
Beeching Road
10.00–17.00
Don’t miss South African-born, Hastings-based artist Steven Gregory’s monumental bronze sculpture in the gardens of The Old Ambulance Station, a thriving artists’ community on Beeching Road, just a stone’s throw from Flatland Projects.
This sculpture has step free access on the pavement.
Your Station, Your Community
Exhibition
Bexhill Station (Waiting Room)
Saturday 15 August 10:00-17:00
Sunday 16 August 10:00-17:00
A display of artworks at Bexhill Train station created by local young people as part of Your Station, Your Community with De La Warr Pavilion. Marking 200 years of the railway, the project brings together young people and professional artists to improve the station environment, develop new skills, and create a shared visual language that reflects the identity of Bexhill.
This event has step free access.
Footbridge Gallery @ BAW
Exhibition
Bexhill Youth and Community Centre,
Station Road
10:00-16:00
Footbridge Gallery @ BAW brings Bexhill's unique al fresco gallery to life this Bexhill Art Weekender, with participatory art experiences for adults and children, the chance to meet some of 100 artists featured in the current gallery, and live entertainment from musicians and performers of all backgrounds. Children's activities include hat-making, Drawing, Sculpture-making and an eye-spy.
The accessible, disability-friendly Youth Centre — just across the road from Footbridge Gallery — will be offering refreshments (cakes by Sandra!) and nearby parking.
This event has step free access.
To Improvise A Mountain:
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates
Exhibition
De La Warr Pavilion
10.00–17.00
De La Warr Pavilion presents To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates, a Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition from Southbank Centre which includes a staggering variety of artworks by Bas Jan Ader, Pierre Bonnard, Lisa Brice, Samuel Fosso, Peter Hujar, Kahlil Joseph, Zoe Leonard, Glenn Ligon, Toyin Ojih Odutola, The Otolith Group, Jennifer Packer, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Walter Sickert, Édouard Vuillard, David Wojnarowicz, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye herself.
This event has step free access.
Anna Maria Nabirye:
Letter Press Works
Exhibition
Do Your Ideas
Beeching Road Studios
10:00-17:00
An exhibition of multi-disciplinary artist Anna Maria Nabirye’s letterpress works, accompanying her residency at Written In Print Imprenta print studio. The Do Your Ideas workshop will be transformed into an exhibition space for the weekend, celebrating the beginning of Anna Maria’s residency and launching Written In Print Imprenta.
This event has step free access.
Bexhill Artrium Artists Weekender
Shop
Bexhill Artrium
17 Parkhurst Road, Bexhill
10.00–16.00
Bexhill Artrium is a vibrant gallery and gift shop showcasing over 20 talented local creatives in one venue, including Wendy Dudeney, FlolliePop Designs, Amanda Westbury, The Crafty Wife, Marie Connery and Sarah Palmer.
Art Can Be For You
Exhibition
Love Art By Sea / The Middle Room
21 London Road
11.00–19.00
The Middle Room is a room for art, designed to exhibit and promote work from artists local and further away. Art Can Be For You presents a print and ceramic exhibition by artist Pippa Davismoon. Also included are works by local artists Marcia Bennett Male, Maria Connery, Daniela Maria Gargiulo and Ellie Brifitt; and a collective textile piece by a group who meet each week at The Sara Lee Therapy Centre in Sidley.
Entrance to Love Art By Sea has a ramp into the shop, and the Middle Room Gallery has one step down to access.
Sovereign Shoals:
Pop-up Exhibition
Exhibition
Bexhill Museum / HFPS
Bexhill Museum Park-side Studio
11.00–16.00
Beneath the visible sea lie lost structures, ancient geology and living memory. Bexhill Museum’s Park-side Studio opens for a weekend pop-up exhibition featuring sound and video work around the Royal Sovereign Shoals and the former Lightship and Lighthouse Platform.Developed by artists Yasmin Ornsby and Mary Hooper with members of Hastings Fishermen's Protection Society.
This event has step free access.
iBex Art Studio
Open Studio
Terminus Road
11:00-15:00
Come and explore the studios of Sarah Evans, Eddie Knevett, mox•pots and Sarah Van der Gucht - working artists who specialise in ceramics, painting, mixed media and more.
Accessed by steps.
Daniela Maria Gargiulo:
Bexhill Noir
Zine
Across Bexhill
All day
Bexhill Noir is a new zine by local artist Daniela Maria Gargiulo, launched in multiple venues as she wends her way through the Weekender. This pocket-sized publication invites readers to enter the inner life of the town at night via a series of exquisite artworks.
This event is happening all around Bexhill in venues which are
largely step free access.
Adrienne Hunter:
There She Goes My Beautiful World
Exhibiton
Three Legs Taproom
Beeching Road
12:00-22:00
Adrienne Hunter works with acrylic and oil sticks on paper to create dream-like landscapes that remind us of old fairy tales. Loose washes of acrylic are applied, like watercolour, to wet paper in an instinctive way. She then uses oil sticks to tease out shapes which turn into landscapes and strange buildings. The process is intuitive,not planned.
This event has step free access.
Curated by Olivia du Vergier: Not repeat as in replicate, repeat as in ritual - films by Smriti Mehra, Olivia Hird & Esther Carlin
Screening
Flatland Projects Residency Studio
Beeching Road Studios
12:00-16:00
In the space that contains your absence, where patterns repeat. A programme of three films each exploring repetition woven with memory. Curated by Olivia du Vergier, artist-in-residence with Flatland Projects and De La Warr Pavillion.
This event has step free access, but the external ground is brocken tarmac noted for wheelchair users. Seating is provided due to the run time of the screening.
Annie Whiles:
Doorway Guardians
Exhibition
Flatland Projects
12.00–16.00
Doorway Guardians is a series of three large woodcarvings by sculptor Annie Whiles. They combine the imagery and culture of British seaside destinations with the media and methods of sacred painted medieval carvings, while also echoing the artist’s memories of moulded-plastic charity collection boxes of the 1960s and ’70s.
This event has step free access.
Tawfik Naas:
Manifestations for an Eternal Spring
Exhibition
Flatland Projects
12.00–16.00
Manifestations for an Eternal Spring is a new commission and the first institutional solo exhibition by researcher Tawfik Naas. Across the space, a series of sculptural bodies referred to as “Orchards” appear at different stages of formation. These works deliberately resist completion. Some emerge as if mid-evolution; others are flattened through light or colour, diffused or partially obscured.
This event has step free access.
Sophie Barber in Sidley
WHAT DOES A GARDEN MEAN TO YOU?
At Sidley Hub(Sidley Hub, Sidley Recreation Ground)
For Sidley Hub opening times please visit heartofsidley.co.uk
We’re making a new garden at the Sidley Hub, designed by artist Sophie Barber – and we’d like you to help us imagine what will grow. Pick up an activity sheet available at the Sidley Hub all weekend and explore what a garden means to you: a memory, a feeling, a place, a plant, or something else entirely. Your stories and thoughts will inspire the garden.
The painting ‘Close to You’ (2026) by Sophie Barber will also be on display for you to see.
This event has step free access.
Run to Chase Your Dreams
Workshop
Living Communities
Living Room
81 London Road
12.00–16.00
Creative drop-in workshops inspired by the theme “Run to Chase Your Dreams.” Explore a range of hands-on creative stations, including building your own drawing machines, making spinning zoetropes to bring your ideas to life through animation, and experimenting with a variety of art materials and techniques. With activities designed for all ages and abilities, there’s something for everyone to enjoy—drop in, get creative, and be part of the Bexhill Art Weekender.
One step to access this venue.