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Nigel Cooke, in his studio, Kent. ©Lens and Pixel (.co.uk)
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Exhibition
Nigel Cooke: Painter's Beach Club
19 Jan 2019 – 24 Mar 2019
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Jerwood Gallery is an independent charity. Your ticket price contributes towards our running costs and joins with support from Jerwood Foundation, Arts Council England, Hastings Borough Council, our Members and Supporters to enable us to display our exhibitions and run our outreach programmes.
For ticketing prices: jerwoodgallery.org/visit/openinghours +44 (0)1424 728377
Address
- Hastings Contemporary
- Rock-a-nore Road
- Hastings
England - TN34 3DW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The 20, 100 and 101 buses from Hastings train station stop at the Stade bus stop which is a short walk away.
- Hastings Contemporary is approximately 15 minutes’ walk from Hastings train station. Direct train services run regularly to London, Brighton and Ashford International.
Nigel Cooke is one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists, pushing the boundaries of painting. The New York Times describes Cooke’s work as having ‘magic realist illusion, post-apocalyptic fantasy and extreme shifts of scale’.
About
Best known for his monumental paintings, Cooke explores the meeting point between memory and imagination, abstraction and figuration, and natural and manmade environments. For this exhibition Cooke has drawn inspiration from Jerwood Gallery’s seaside location and the spaces between the shoreline, sea and sky.
Painter’s Beach Club will also include an exhibition Cooke is curating entitled Telescope. Intriguingly, Instagram has played a key role in helping Cooke to decide which artists to include: “I was following this idea of the ocean voyage as a metaphor for the artistic journey into the unknown. The studio is like a ship and I had this funny idea that looking at Instagram - as painters do in the studio - was like using a telescope.”
