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We are delighted that the third instalment of Laetitia Yhap’s evolving donation to Bexhill Artist Research Centre (BARC)...
03/06/2026

We are delighted that the third instalment of Laetitia Yhap’s evolving donation to Bexhill Artist Research Centre (BARC) was collected today. Yhap is selecting from her personal archive of books and printed material which portrays her career long reference library. These books will be added to the collection over the coming weeks. 🖤

TAWFIK NAAS ‘MANIFESTATIONS FOR AN ETERNAL SPRING’ 🖤 as part of this major new commission by Naas our exhibition text in...
29/05/2026

TAWFIK NAAS ‘MANIFESTATIONS FOR AN ETERNAL SPRING’ 🖤 as part of this major new commission by Naas our exhibition text includes an in conversation with Ben Urban our Director a short exchange about abstraction, symbolism, and research ✨

In conversation between Tawfik Naas &
Ben Urban:

BU: Tawfik, your work for me has always been
clear in the way it utilises symbolism: water
retardant mdf has recurred over the last 9
years as a material which holds function but
also acts as metaphor to your Uncle’s scientific
resistance to the Great Man Made River under
Gaddafi’s regime, and seeds have sat within
your work as means to talk about rebirth,
growth, and ecological life cycles both political
and natural. Do you see symbolism as a way to
explore slippages between fact and fiction?
TN: A symbol can hold a very specific history
that can be projected onto it, while also
remaining open enough for others to enter it
through their own understanding. The Venn
diagram (Vesica Piscis) is a good example. It
has origins in early Christian thought, in ideas
around the interconnectedness of the divine
and human realm, but for me it becomes a
way of thinking about overlapping identities,
multiple positions, and the experience of
existing between things rather than within a
single, fixed state.

Some of our guests today for the Bexhill Cultural Network pre-summer meeting! We discussed & expression of interest to...
28/05/2026

Some of our guests today for the Bexhill Cultural Network pre-summer meeting! We discussed & expression of interest to 🖤 great to see such great representation from across the town! This year’s Bexhill Art Weekender has even more community organisations represented and so many amazing free events to enjoy this Summer! 15th & 16th August! 💚❤️🖤

Our current exhibitions ‘Manifestations for an eternal spring’ by Tawfik Naas, and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles a...
23/05/2026

Our current exhibitions ‘Manifestations for an eternal spring’ by Tawfik Naas, and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles are featured in exhibitions guide. 🩵

‘AN UNANTICIPATED DELIGHT’ by A one night only exhibition that opened and closed last night.Over thirty years, Matt Jon...
23/05/2026

‘AN UNANTICIPATED DELIGHT’ by

A one night only exhibition that opened and closed last night.

Over thirty years, Matt Jones has been quietly building one of the most intimate and wide-ranging photographic documents of human life in our time — a personal archive of what it means to be alive and paying attention. Subjects range from David Lynch, Ryan Gosling and Mia Khalifa to cowboys, construction workers, waitresses and fairground workers. No hierarchy. No editorial agenda. A love letter to humanity in all its diversity.

Thank you to all our community members and friends of the gallery for coming. ❤️

Tawfik Naas ‘Manifestations for an eternal spring’ is open today through to Saturday 12-4pm! Flatland Projects is proud ...
21/05/2026

Tawfik Naas ‘Manifestations for an eternal spring’ is open today through to Saturday 12-4pm!

Flatland Projects is proud to present
Manifestations for an Eternal Spring, a new
commission and the first institutional solo
exhibition by Libyan researcher Tawfik Naas.
Developed through an ongoing body of
research, the exhibition unfolds as what Naas
describes as a choreography of research.
Rather than a fixed installation, works are
positioned across the gallery as sites of
encounter, held within a wider conceptual
framework the researcher terms Returning. For
Naas, returning is not a simple act of looking
back. It operates across three simultaneous
positions:
- The return from (the distance created by
time)
- The return to (the moment of re-encounter)
- The middle of (the present position that
holds both states at once)
The works in the exhibition occupy the middle
of, resisting resolution and instead sustaining a
state of entanglement.

Image: Detail of Contact Binary: Francobollo Libico (2026), Libyan Postage Stamps, Water-Resistant MDF

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[Announcement] Flatland is delighted to announce a one night only presentation this Friday evening of ‘An Unanticipated ...
19/05/2026

[Announcement] Flatland is delighted to announce a one night only presentation this Friday evening of ‘An Unanticipated Delight’ An experiential travelling exhibition by Matt Jones.

Over thirty years, Matt Jones has been quietly building one of the most intimate and wide-ranging photographic documents of human life in our time — a personal archive of what it means to be alive and paying attention. Subjects range from David Lynch, Ryan Gosling and Mia Khalifa to cowboys, construction workers, waitresses and fairground workers. No hierarchy. No
editorial agenda. A love letter to humanity in all its diversity.

Please join us in the back courtyard of Flatland Projects, Bexhill-on-Sea (2 stops on the train from Hastings) with drinks and a community celebration of human kind via the medium of film, photography, and music.

An Unanticipated Delight has toured globally featuring in a growing list of cities: New York,
Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, London, Paris
Milan, Rome & now Bexhill!

Matt Jones has spent thirty years at the forefront of fashion photography and brand image-making. Portrait subjects include
Barack Obama, Beyoncé, Julia Roberts, Kristen Stewart, KAWS, Brian Eno, Joaquin Phoenix and Ryan Gosling. Covers for Vogue, i-D, V Magazine, Elle and The New York Times Magazine. Album covers for Coldplay, Estelle and Kano. Campaigns for Fendi, Chanel, Moschino, Nike and many more.

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Key details: This Friday 22 May, 6-8pm at Flatland Projects, 20 Beeching Road, Bexhill on Sea, TN39 3LJ.

Weekends Big Flea in Bexhill 🩵
17/05/2026

Weekends Big Flea in Bexhill 🩵

‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ the first institutional solo commission by Tawfik Naas is officially open to the ...
14/05/2026

‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ the first institutional solo commission by Tawfik Naas is officially open to the public following a highly successful opening weekend.

The gallery is open 12-4pm Thurs, Fri, Sat and open by appointments the rest of the week. The show runs until the 16th August and closes as part of the Bexhill Art Weekender.

This new commission by Flatland Projects has been generously supported by essential funds from the Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council England, Chalk Cliff Trust and Rother District Council, with additional support from the De La Warr Pavilion.

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[From the archive:] The first ever Flatland exhibition in the cellar of Borough Wines, Robertson Street, Hastings. Scala...
10/05/2026

[From the archive:] The first ever Flatland exhibition in the cellar of Borough Wines, Robertson Street, Hastings. Scalands a group exhibition including & .sses ( ) (September 2018) as part of

I had many hopes and dreams for the gallery at this time, full of the diy spirit which underpins everything still today despite the growth of the organisation, I honestly would have never dreamt that what it is today would be the asset it is to the artistic eco system of East Sussex. I am immensely proud of what Billy and I started back then, and still now. I am currently writing the agenda for our first official board meeting this week coming and doing lots of reflection as we gear up towards fundraising for our 10 year celebrations in 2028. 🖤

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