3RD JUNE TO 21ST JULY
Showcasing local artists and creatives,
come and see what your creative community
has been dreaming up!
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Art is everywhere and nowhere more than our local Hastings & St Lens Neighbourhoods. The Shop Front Gallery is a paid opportunity for local artists to showcase a piece of work and give access to all to experience a wide variety of local artist work- whenever you want!
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come and see our lastest artist: Victoria Oldman's 'i am'
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Tuesday 3rd June - Sunday 21st July (evolving weekly)
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24hours just walk by
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Afri-Co-Lab, 3 Marine Court, Tn38 0DX
ABOUT'i AM'
'I Am' is a six-week, evolving art installation that weaves together physical and digital forms to explore personal and political themes of policed identity, chosen family, and self-determination.
This living work resists fixity, embracing transformation as both process and subject - reflecting the fluid, often contested nature of identity in contemporary society.
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At its core, 'I Am' interrogates how identity is shaped, constrained, and negotiated under societal scrutiny. It speaks to the experience of being categorised, surveilled, and isolated - and through its changing form, becomes a metaphor for the ongoing labour of selfhood, especially for those whose identities exist beyond normative boundaries.
Community emerges as a vital force within the installation as viewers are invited not only to witness, but to return, reflect, and engage - and in doing so, becomes a testament to the power of becoming on one’s own terms.
Check back here weekly to see more images of this work and how it evolves. ​
I Am Week 1
I Am Week 2
I Am Week 3
I Am Week 4
I Am Week 5
Check back next week for week 6 - the final installation of I am
or head to afri-co-lab now to see for yourself
Artist Connect is an opportunity to build and grow your creative community.
Join us for this monthly night for and by artists. Each month an artist will present a part of their work or practice. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and then a fun social where you can make new connections, finally meet that person you have been following on socials, find others who are mixing up their practice, emerging onto the scene, or perhaps just working outside of the mainstream flow.
The room will be full of other curious creative folk. It's also your chance to connect. We will be inviting and reaching out to artists, opportunity makers, art commissioners and gallery curators. Discover local emerging or evolving artists from Hastings to Eastbourne as they share their work, current practice, or the story of what has brought them to this point!
Friday 20th June
6:30pm
Artists Connect with Victoria Oldman
Artists Connect
Victoria is a Hastings-born queer woman, activist, and co-founder of Trans Pride Hastings. With a background in prop making and game design, her creative practice has taken many forms and her drive to explore new mediums a bedrock. Creating has long been an integral part of her life — as a means of survival, self-expression, and experience-led connection.
Victoria’s work is rooted in identity, resistance, and queer pride. Drawing from years of hands-on making and the energy of grassroots activism, she explores themes of visibility, belonging, and the unapologetic occupation of space. Her practice often includes found objects, textiles, music and interactive media, blending the personal and political to form intimate, thought-provoking and engaging projects.
Through her art, Victoria aims to create space for those navigating the margins - offering moments of recognition, reflection, and radical affirmation. Each work becoming part of an on-going and changing conversation: deeply personal, defiantly queer, and fundamentally hopeful.
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Follow Victoria and the Journey of this piece