Bratby Selection Day at the Jerwood – our pictures take part!

‘Everything but the Kitchen Sink including the kitchen sink’. That’s the title of the forthcoming John Bratby exhibition at the Jerwood, coming in January 2016. They invited people to submit their own Bratbys for the…

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Folkestone Triennial and Chapman Brothers at the Jerwood

An artistic interlude after last week’s theatricals…. Our old friends Sue and Graham came down from Birmingham to Folkestone to see the Triennial, and we drove over on Friday to meet them there and bring…

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Jerwood and De La Warr exhibitions, the Hastings fountain – but what is art?

A new exhibition at the Jerwood, another at the De La Warr, and our restored fountain – lots of  things to see!      At the Jerwood, ‘Drawn Together: Artist as Selector’ shows work from people…

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Ansel Krut at the Jerwood Gallery: too slight, too much empty space

After several months of good behaviour, and even producing a ‘Members’ Blog for the Jerwood website, I’m afraid Battleaxe is, again, not happy.     We went down to view the new Ansel Krut ‘Verbatim’ exhibition. …

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Bad day chez Hastings Battleaxe

What a day…..      It started off fine. I went down to the Jerwood Gallery in the morning to have my photo taken. A while ago they asked for a blogger who was a Jerwood…

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