Finally made it back to Bexhill and to @delawarr to see these brilliant shows by @jeninemarsh and @sayanchanda 💫
One of the saddest things about leaving DLWP last year was not being able to see these two commissions through to completion, so it’s incredibly special to finally experience them fully realised and transforming the galleries.
Huge congratulations to the artists, and to @joaorodriguesconceicao and @ned_mcconnell in making these exhibitions happen ⭐️
Thank you to everyone who joined us at last night’s opening of Citra Sasmita: 🔥𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘬𝘺🔥
We are grateful to everyone involved in bringing this exhibition to life, and especially to Citra Sasmita for sharing her art and the rich mythologies, cosmologies, and spiritual traditions that shape her practice.✨
The exhibition is curated by Kristina Ketola Bore and Heather Jones, and is generously supported by Fritt Ord.
𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘬𝘺 is on view until 16 August 2026.
📷 Helle Navratil
🔹At the start of the year, Kunsthall Stavanger welcomed its newest director, British-born curator, Joseph Constable.
🔹British-Palestinian journalist and writer Jad Salfiti spoke with Constable about the legacy he’s inheriting, the future he envisions, and the nimble-fingered task of ushering a nearly century-old Kunsthall into a new era.
🔹Read now via link in bio or via contemporaryartstavanger.no
@josephconstable@kunsthall_stavanger@jadsalfiti
Photo: Jorge Antony Stride
Announcing the publication of ‘Laetitia Yhap: Drawings From Times of Change’, one of the last projects I developed @delawarr that was realised out of the exhibition of Yhap’s work that took place in 2024.
The book focuses on drawings made by the artist between 1976 and 1984 depicting the fishermen of The Stade Beach in Hastings, and includes a foreword by Yhap and an essay by me. The book has been beautifully designed by the brilliant @clare_noon_ 💫
If you’re in East Sussex next Sunday, my former colleague and co-editor of the book, @joaorodriguesconceicao will be in conversation with the artist at 12pm, DLWP.
Photo courtesy Hales London and New York
Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy is now open @delawarr !
Bringing together works made over four decades, this is the first survey of Parsons in Europe and places her bold, experimental and playful paintings and sculptures in conversation with the Pavilion’s beautiful, architecturally-unique galleries that I’ve been lucky enough to work in over the last four years.
Parsons’ practice has long inspired me for its spontaneity and immediacy - an intuitive pursuit of the invisible energy that everyday life vibrates with. For the artist, ‘there is nothing more permanent than the invisible…to be alive is to be aware…to find the truth…and not impose it on others. There are no laws to truth. It’s in our bones, like the earth and the sun and the sky. It’s creation’.
Immensely grateful to @alisonjacquesgallery , @alexandergrayassociates , and the Betty Parsons and William P. Rayner Foundation for their support in bringing this project to the Pavilion, as well as to The Bridget Riley Art Foundation, The Spencer Wills Trust and Gwyn Metz.
On view until 18 January 2026.
📷 Rob Harris
✨️ We are excited to announce the appointment of Joseph Constable as the New Director of Kunsthall Stavanger ! ✨️ Welcome to the team, Joseph! 🎉
Constable joins the Kunsthall from the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, UK, where he has led the visual arts programme as Head of Exhibitions. During his tenure, he has curated a series of acclaimed exhibitions, including 𝘏𝘦́𝘭𝘪𝘰 𝘖𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘤𝘢: 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘶𝘯 (2023–24), an immersive exploration of one of Brazil’s most influential artists; 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘰 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘴𝘦𝘯: 𝘈 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵 (2023), a multidisciplinary commission examining trans intimacies and kinship structures; and 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘢 𝘒𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯: 𝘚𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 (2024), a site-specific response to the Pavilion’s distinctive architecture. In 2023, he facilitated the arrival of Tschabalala Self’s monumental sculpture 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 at the Pavilion.
Reflecting on his new position, Constable remarked:
“I am thrilled to take up the role of Director at Kunsthall Stavanger, an institution with an inspiring history of artist-led, interdisciplinary programming, shaped with care and rigour by its Founding Director, Hanne Mugaas. As 2025 marks a century since the inauguration of the Kunsthall’s historic spaces, I look forward to building on this extraordinary legacy; collaborating with and learning from the team, while continuing the institution’s commitment to artistic experimentation. The coming years represent an exciting period of growth, and it is an immense privilege to lead this transition by engaging with artists, audiences, and partners on local, national, and international levels.”
📷 Caitlin Lock
‘E-Minor’ is a new short film by artist Callum Hill, commissioned by DLWP and currently on view in the First floor gallery. It is a powerful, erratic and destabilising watch, characteristic of Callum’s approach to filmmaking, which moves fluidly between psychological enquiry, gender, politics and poetry.
It has been wonderful to follow Callum’s practice for over a decade and to realise this exhibition together after working together on several film productions over the years 💫
On view until January, the film is accompanied by a brilliant text by @emilylabarge that sensitively captures Callum’s poetic collage of archival, 16 and 35mm footage, all beginning from the grinning face of a clown on a lino tile found in the artist’s grandparents’ basement in Staten Island.
‘E-Minor’ is commissioned by @delawarr with production funding from @canada.council
Photos: Rob Harris
Congratulations to Nat Faulkner!
A privilege to be on the panel for this year’s Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze London, together with @martinclark76 and @ginabuenfeld 🙏
Excited for Nat’s show @camdenartcentre next year!
@nat_faulkner@brunette_coleman@friezeofficial ✨
Install shots courtesy of Brunette Coleman, London. Photography by Jack Elliot Edwards.
Two weeks into @mikesilvapainter ’s solo exhibition @delawarr . Discovering Mike’s work during the pandemic and getting to know these intimate paintings, which are both fleeting and resonant in their beauty, has been a total pleasure. Encountering Mike’s work is an incredibly focusing experience. To me, they have always felt quietly radical in the queer sensibility that suffuses the spaces that Mike depicts; there is a sense of rest, play and leisure here that reminds me of Hélio Oiticica’s notion of ‘active laziness’ that was an important part of the solo exhibition we presented here this time last year. The twelve works that are presented in the Ground floor gallery - most of them new - respond beautifully to the space’s ever changing light.
A huge thank you to Mike for being so amazing in working with us on this exhibition, and to @approachgallery and @antonkerngallery for their support in making it happen.
We also made a new book to accompany the exhibition, designed by the amazing @rolandbrauchli , together with our touring partners @mead_gallery , where a new iteration of the show will be presented next spring, curated with the brilliant @tomellmer .
Mike Silva runs at DLWP until 19 January 2025.
Photos: Rob Harris
There are just two weeks left to see Your Banner, Your Story, a powerful and joyful exhibition by @stitch_for_change in collaboration with @therefugeebuddyproject . Stitch for Change is a patchwork, sewing and embroidery storytelling project bringing together people seeking refuge and local volunteers to share their stories.
Artist facilitators @janeymoffatt and @erinlewiz have been working with a group, predominantly women, who are all involved with the Refugee Buddy Project in various ways. Across eight sessions the group explored storytelling, hand stitching and garment making inspired by the rich and diverse histories of handmade protest banners and protest in fashion. The participants were supported in telling their stories by Lily and Lauren of @storytime.site
Thank you to the many people involved in this momentous project, especially to those who came together at @delawarr to tell their stories through the workshops, the brilliant catwalk show during Refugee Week 2024, and this exhibition! On view until 21 July in the North Staircase and Rooftop Foyer 🧵🌈✌️
Photo: Phoebe Wingate
