Hastings Hue No. 9 is a high density polyethylene blue. A common variety, seen around the world that is found in a multitude of colours and forms.

This is a small record of a celebration of the Summer Solstice with local people around Stephen Turner’s Exbury Egg in 2016. We found a CD of ‘Love is All Around by’ Wet Wet Wet amid the sea of fly tipped waste surrounding the Exbury Egg at a derelict Finsley Gate Boatyard in Burnley. After getting a permit to use the soundtrack we made our own video record of the moment.

I returned for a second celebration this Summer and intend to be there again for a third event in 2018. This is living public art, an expression of local culture that has specific and recurring seasonal presence.

There is only one week remaining to see the exhibition currently showing at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings until October 15th, 2017.

 

 

 

Hastings Hue Number 8

Blistered, flaked and faded yellow
Industrial plant for hauling boats
Up the shingle from the sea

Hastings Hue Number 7

A small downy feather on a white upturned boat

A breath of a breeze

poised for flight

 

Hastings Hue Number 6

A small BIC Green boat

sunk down on the shingle beach

No Pens to be seen

 

Hastings Hue Number 5 is a somewhat common raw white. The remains of dead huss and dog fish were scattered liberally along the foreshore as luncheon for the gull and insect population.

Along the foreshore here on the Stade in Hastings the recycling of steel is in progress as the natural state of the metal as its oxide is nurtured by a saline onshore breeze and tidal spume.

Distressed daisy fabric is worn away on the Stade in Hastings.

The real thing is self renewing

 

RYE Blue is a Hastings Hue (No3)