HASTINGS.- Hastings Contemporary has announced its wide-ranging programme of exhibitions for 2024…

Elias Sime: Eregata እርጋታ
16 March - 8 September 2024

The Ethiopian multi-disciplinary artist Sime (b.1968) comes to the UK with his first major solo show in Europe, and the touring exhibition Elias Sime: Eregata እርጋታ will feature at Hastings Contemporary in the Spring. The exhibition will focus on the last decade of Sime´s career with over 25 works displaying large-scale abstraction works, ceramic installations and sculptural assemblages.

Still / Life*
21 September 2024 - 16 March 2025

In autumn, the complex genre of still life art will be explored. Drawing from two of the UK´s most significant collections, the Ingram Collection and the David and Indrė Roberts Collection, the exhibition will be a wide-ranging show of more than 30 works, charting an evolution through decades of fascination with the domestic objects and basics of everyday life.

Isabel Rock: Our Cell
21 September 2024 - 16 March 2025

Recipient of the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award in 2023, Isabel Rock (b.1981) will bring the winning exhibition design to Hastings Contemporary in a show that combines drawing, woodblock collages and interactive spaces. The space will draw on the exact dimensions and layout of a real cell found in HM Prison Bronzefield, the largest female-only prison in Europe, which was where Rock spent a month following a climate-change protest.