Celia Hempton

In autumn 2024, @phillidareid_grapestreet presented a poignant exhibition of #celiahempton’s artworks after a significant period of inner reflection; after motherhood; it was after the ends of the ends of a generation’s painful growth. It still is one of the best painting shows that I’ve seen by a mid-career artist in a gallery in Britain. Explore the shifts that led to this period— the artist’s inner world this #easterweekend before we announce what is coming up on #episode2 of #studiovisit. The link is in bio. An #artPost21 production in association with @tabari_artspace by yours truly and @levin.haegele . Thank you @hempton . Thank you @phillidareid .

Revisiting Celia Hempton’s UK first solo institutional exhibition ‘Ocean Terminal’ as part of our new In Conversation Series. This episode was filmed in front of a live audience in Bexhill on Sea. Now available to listen to the full episode on Flatlands Spotify channel. Ocean terminal ran from 10th May - 26th July 2025 and was generously supported by essential funds from @aceagrams , @rother_district_council @delawarr @talentaccelerator_ and the ministry of communities, housing and local government. [image description shows a series of works from Celia Hempton’s exhibition with red text taken from the In conversation.]

Today is the last day to see ‘Ocean Terminal’ by #CeliaHempton at Flatland Projects in Bexhill on Sea! We are open 12-4pm @eeshcam our wonderful Curatorial assistant is available to show you the show and talk all things Celia Hempton! There is so much to reflect on with this show, we have exceeded our exhibition visitor figures, connected with more new audience members than ever before! ❤️❤️ 📸 @phoebewingrove

It’s the few days to see my exhibition Ocean Terminal at Flatland Projects in Bexhill, closing this Saturday 26th July 2025

Reflecting on a gorgeous afternoon spent on Saturday with an ‘In Conversation’ with #CeliaHempton & our Director, Ben Urban - an amazing turn out amidst thunder storms and rain showers; artists, curators, writers local and from a far joined us to mark the end of the penultimate week of Celia’s monumental commission ‘Ocean Terminal’ that has graced our gallery this Summer. If you haven’t seen the show yet, this is your last week to do so, we are open Thursday - Saturday 12-4pm! Huge thank you to our team for producing the event! Head of Artist Development: Amy Mock @amy_mock_ Event Producer: Eeshan Banerjee @eeshban Sound Engineer: Rachel Irons @rachel.beert Photographer: Alina Khrebtova @alinasartplace All photos taken by @alinasartplace Alina Khrebtova 💫 Copyright Flatland Projects. 🩵 📸 @alinas.snaps

Event announcement: In conversation between Celia Hempton & Flatland Director, Ben Urban - Saturday 19th July 2025 - 1pm - 2pm - Free, booking required. We are extremely excited to invite you to join us for a free in-conversation event between artist Celia Hempton and Flatland Projects / Beeching Road Studios, Director. This event coincides with the final week of ‘Ocean Terminal’ Hempton’s first UK institutional solo exhibition recently commissioned at Flatland Projects with support from Arts Council England, Ministry of communities, housing and local government, Rother District Council, Phillida Reid and De La Warr Pavilion. To sign up for a free ticket please order a free ticket via our website site. (See the link on our profile) There is a limited number of tickets for this event so please do complete your ticket order in a timely fashion. Ocean Terminal’s survey of personal, public, and live spaces testifies to the expansive, gestural painterly language that Hempton is known for. Encompassing ways of looking from the remote or digital to the up-close and immediate, the installation asks how we inhabit, disrupt, and are shaped by events and our surroundings. Celia Hempton (b. Stroud, UK. Lives and works in London) has been included in group exhibitions including ‘The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970 - 2020’, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2024 - 2025), ‘British Art Show 9’ (touring), Aberdeen Art Gallery and The Box, Plymouth (2021 - 2022) and ‘My Life in the Metaverse’, Abu Dhabi Art, Manarat Saadiyat, UAE (2022). Solo presentations include ‘Transplant’ at Phillida Reid, London (2024); ‘Celia Hempton’, Southard Reid, London (2020); Art Night with ICA London (2016); Gwangju Biennale (2014). ‘Ocean Terminal’ runs from 10th May - 26th July 2025 and is open 12-4pm, Thursday - Saturday.

If you are heading to @delawarr today for the opening weekend of #AllanWeber ‘My Order’ & @claudia_alarcon_puntana & Silat ‘Tayhin’ make sure to see another brand new commission for Bexhill at our gallery @hempton #celiahempton ‘Ocean Terminal’ which in the artists words “has been made in consideration of the coast as a margin where our structured human-made environment exists in constant negotiation with the movement and unpredictability of the ocean.” Also, amazing @alinasartplace is in the gallery today 12-4pm to greet you and show you around the exhibition! Also why not ask her about her current participation in our Young Creatives Collective residency in partnership with @therefugeebuddyproject @peter_marlow_foundation @delawarr - we are so proud to be apart of this amazing creative ecology where internationally renowned artists commission occupy our neighbourhood alongside our artist development work between all of our incredible community partners! ❤️❤️

This Thursday 29th May 2025…🩷 Curated by Dr. Omar Kholeif Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Souad Abdelrassoul | Sonia Balassanian | Huguette Caland | Saloua Raouda Choucair | Sarah Cunningham | Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian | Simone Fattal | Hugh Hayden | Celia Hempton | Paul Heyer | Susan Hiller | Lubaina Himid | Leiko Ikemura | Anuar Khalifi | John Latham | Haroon Mirza | Otobong Nkanga | Luísa Correia Pereira | Laure Prouvost | Michael Rakowitz | Chelenge van Rampelberg | Hrair Sarkissian | Sean Scully | Gor Soudan | Magda Stawarska | Liliane Tomasko | Miko Veldkamp | Barbara Walker “The show is my love-letter to London, a city that I have continually returned to over the last four decades. It is a journey of retreat and surrender that will be familiar to millions in search of a sense of longing and belonging — of home, of sacred space. Finding My Blue Sky invites spectators to indulge in the sensuous curve of artistic endeavors that exist in their own culturally situated space of dreaming—one that allows us to sketch myriad possible routes to modernity, and with this, new ways of looking altogether.” – Omar Kholeif, PhD, curator of Finding My Blue Sky Finding My Blue Sky is an exhibition conceived as a constellation, at once epic and polyglot, personal and searchingly political. Curated by Dr. Omar Kholeif, this ambitious group show at Lisson Gallery features over twenty artists from diverse nationalities and eras, including several making their London debut, alongside twelve new commissions. The show elides biographical and cultural difference in overlapping personal narratives: it is at one level a self-reflexive statement, akin to a diary or memoir, evolving out of Kholeif’s formative interactions and new encounters with artists, and his own diasporic heritage (as the son of Egyptian and Sudanese parents). At another, it invites viewers to participate in the creation of meaning – to dream of their own aesthetic politics. Accordingly, the parallel title in Arabic has a distinct inflection: “What is the World that you Dream of?”

Make sure today you come over to Bexhill today to see ‘Ocean Terminal’ by Celia Hempton. If you are heading to @delawarr to see Jackie Irvine’s new performance, head to us and avoid the rainy weather first and explore this new commission in our gallery space, and then head to Three Legs brewery for a beer before heading over to DLWP this afternoon at 14:30 (tickets accessible via DLWP box office). An extract from ‘Ocean Terminal’ press release: Ocean Terminal’s survey of personal, public, and live spaces testifies to the expansive, gestural painterly language that Hempton is known for. Encompassing ways of looking from the remote or digital to the up- close and immediate, the installation asks how we inhabit, disrupt, and are shaped by events and our surroundings. Image: ‘Transplant’ (2025) oil on canvas, 40 x 35cm Photo taken by Ben Westoby, courtesy of the artist. Flatland Projects is open 12-4pm (Thursday - Saturday)

Flatland Projects is delighted to present ‘Ocean Terminal’, a new commission by British artist Celia Hempton; the artist’s first UK institutional solo exhibition. Ocean Terminal brings together new works that consider the coast as a margin where our structured human-made environment exists in constant negotiation with the movement and unpredictability of the ocean. Through paintings made in situ on demolition and building sites, as well as from online weather surveillance cameras and from encounters with the human body, the artist deepens her exploration of the act of transgression and trespass, whilst speaking to the emotional currents of the inner psyche. Hempton’s work often confronts, activates and reorients the dynamic of a given situation through the act of painting as a form of temporal performance. ‘Ocean Terminal’ is open to the public Thursday - Saturday 12-4pm and open by appointment Sunday - Wednesday until 26th July 2025. Image: Installation view of ‘Ocean Terminal’ by Celia Hempton (May 2025) Image taken by Phoebe Wingrove, and courtesy of the artist and Flatland Projects. This exhibition has been generously supported by @aceagrams @rother_district_council @delawarr @mhclg Special thanks to @phillidareid_grapestreet

📢 Opening this Saturday 10th May: Celia Hempton ‘Ocean Terminal’ This Saturday 10th May please join us in celebrating the public opening of ‘Ocean Terminal’ by British artist Celia Hempton. Our celebrations will take place between 14:00 - 17:00, which marks the opening of this brand new commission and the opening of our Summer programme, with the unveiling of new adaptions to our building, and an open studios event which takes place alongside this new gallery commission. ‘Ocean Terminal’ marks Hempton’s first UK institutional solo exhibition, presenting new works which consider the coast as a liminal space, where our structured human-made environment exists in constant reference to the movement and unpredictability of the ocean. Through paintings made in situ on demolition and building sites, as well as from online weather surveillance cameras and from the human body, the artist deepens her interest in the act of transgression and trespass, whilst speaking to the emotional currents of her/our internal psyche. Hempton’s work often confronts, activates and changes the dynamic of a given situation through the act of painting as a form of temporal performance. Pictured here: ‘Demolition - South Facing, Penfold Street, London, 6th April 2025’, (2025), oil and debris on linen, 180 x 140 cm. Photo by Ben Westoby, and courtesy of the artist and Phillida Reid. @aceagrams @delawarr @beechingroadstudios @rother_district_council @talentaccelerator_ @phillidareid_grapestreet