Come and meet three of the nine acclaimed exhibiting artist-photographers for an informal conversation about their work, their creative process and what it is about Hastings and East Sussex that inspire them.

This is an excellent opportunity to see the exhibition over a glass of wine within Tadgh Mae Gallery’s intimate surroundings.

Admission is free, but as space is limited, booking is essential. Email info@tadghmae.com to reserve your ticket.

About the speakers:

Emily Allchurch
Hastings-based artist Emily Allchurch received her MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 1999. Her complex digital photo-collages, often referencing Old Master paintings and prints, have been exhibited, and held in public and private collections, worldwide.

‘Closer to Home’ is Allchurch’s response to being largely confined to her home county of East Sussex during the Coronavirus pandemic. From photographs she took on her daily walks she created a set of 12 digitally-collaged landscapes following a calendar year, not only in celebration of the natural world, but also as a reminder of its precarious fragility.

Richard Butchins‘ artistic practice began from 2016. He worked commercially in television prior to this but found it too prescriptive as a means of expression. Butchins uses photography to explore disability in an ableist world, to articulate disability’s meaning, challenging prejudices, foregrounding disabled perspectives.

Among other things he uses cut flowers and religious iconography as metaphors for ecological crises, disability’s internal dilemmas, symbolizing traumatic loss & the need for specialized care to maintain quality of life.

Bob Mazzer is a British street photographer who lives in St Leonards-on-Sea. His photographs of people on the London Underground were collected in the book Underground (2014).

Mazzer has also photographed people in Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea.

His work has been described as ‘a myriad view of Britain, part social history archive, part homage to nature and humanity’.