Hastings Arts Forum

09/02/2026

THE TELL TALE ROOMS REDUX Andrew & Eden Kötting

18 Feb – 1 Mar
Open evening: There is no open evening for this event but there will be a chance to meet the artists times to be posted.Father-Daughter collaborators Andrew & Eden Kötting will be presenting paintings/drawings/sculptures/collages/bookworks and a VR Experience under the heading of THE TELL TALE ROOMS REDUX – a show which has already toured the UK in various guises to over 8 Galleries.

Andrew Kötting is a British artist, experimental filmmaker, writer, and Professor of Time Based Media, known for his idiosyncratic and autobiographical work. He frequently collaborates with his daughter, Eden Kötting, a neurodivergent artist with Joubert Syndrome, who is a central inspiration for much of his work. Together, Andrew and Eden have created a unique body of work that blends their individual artistic perspectives into a compelling exploration of perception, family, and the world around them. The Tell-Tale Rooms provides the opportunity for an immersive journey through their imaginations into both a Virtual and Real world, where we might discover
paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures, films and animations.

“The visionary climax to the collaboration between Andrew and Eden Kötting, from sea
to forest to the cosmos, comes when you are strapped into a VR headset for a
hallucinogenic hyper-reality tour around Louyre, their hideaway Pyrenean farmhouse.
Those who are able to enjoy this experience are the truly privileged: disorientated,
discombobulated, shaken and definitively stirred. Furniture shrinks and grows: the full
Alice in Wonderland theme park experience. The far side of the looking glass. The baby
Eden, in lustrous black and white, sleeps within her virtual space, filling a wall.
Photographs come to life. Drawings wink. The Tell Tale Rooms are an elegy for a
marvellous place that it is no longer feasible to sustain and occupy. Is this the opening of
a new chapter in the father/daughter entanglement? Another tall tale plotted by those
figures in their helmets, somewhere up above us?”
Iain Sinclair – From his essay Plentitude of Muchness

05/02/2026

THE TELL TALE ROOMS REDUX Andrew & Eden Kötting

18 Feb – 1 Mar
Open evening:
Father-Daughter collaborators Andrew & Eden Kötting will be presenting paintings/drawings/sculptures/collages/bookworks and a VR Experience under the heading of THE TELL TALE ROOMS REDUX – a show which has already toured the UK in various guises to over 8 Galleries.

Andrew Kötting is a British artist, experimental filmmaker, writer, and Professor of Time Based Media, known for his idiosyncratic and autobiographical work. He frequently collaborates with his daughter, Eden Kötting, a neurodivergent artist with Joubert Syndrome, who is a central inspiration for much of his work. Together, Andrew and Eden have created a unique body of work that blends their individual artistic perspectives into a compelling exploration of perception, family, and the world around them. The Tell-Tale Rooms provides the opportunity for an immersive journey through their imaginations into both a Virtual and Real world, where we might discover
paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures, films and animations.

“The visionary climax to the collaboration between Andrew and Eden Kötting, from sea
to forest to the cosmos, comes when you are strapped into a VR headset for a
hallucinogenic hyper-reality tour around Louyre, their hideaway Pyrenean farmhouse.
Those who are able to enjoy this experience are the truly privileged: disorientated,
discombobulated, shaken and definitively stirred. Furniture shrinks and grows: the full
Alice in Wonderland theme park experience. The far side of the looking glass. The baby
Eden, in lustrous black and white, sleeps within her virtual space, filling a wall.
Photographs come to life. Drawings wink. The Tell Tale Rooms are an elegy for a
marvellous place that it is no longer feasible to sustain and occupy. Is this the opening of
a new chapter in the father/daughter entanglement? Another tall tale plotted by those
figures in their helmets, somewhere up above us?”
Iain Sinclair – From his essay Plentitude of Muchness

18/12/2025

Last Day of our Winter Salon: Friday 19th December!
Open 11 to 4pm. Still lots of lovely gifts: original prints, cards, artists books, calendars, ceramics and paintings.

29/11/2025

27/11/2025

HAF Winter Salon 2025 is now open!

We have artists' books, handmade Christmas Cards, Prints, Paintings & Ceramics; with plenty of affordable gift ideas.

Join us on Friday 28th November for our Open Evening, meet the Artists & enjoy a glass of mulled wine, from 6 to 8pm.

01/12/2024

Today Meet the makers and artists @ Hastings arts forum come and join us for Mince pies and mulled wine, with and without alcohol today between 2 & 4 Pm