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📣 OPEN CALL Collective Books FairWe are inviting small presses, self-published artists, zine makers & collectives to tak...
04/06/2026

📣 OPEN CALL
Collective Books Fair

We are inviting small presses, self-published artists, zine makers & collectives to take part in our book fair at VOLT, Eastbourne on Saturday 12 September 2026 (12–5pm).

Tables are available on a pay-what-you-can (£5–£80) basis

All contributions support artist performances on the day.

🔗 Apply via the link in bio 
🗓️ Deadline: 12 July 2026

✨ Come and be part of a vibrant day of independent publishing 📚

🪱This Saturday join artists Tanvi Kant and Natalia Janula to imagine a speculative island and create fibrous beings with...
03/06/2026

🪱This Saturday join artists Tanvi Kant and Natalia Janula to imagine a speculative island and create fibrous beings with a platter of tactile materials.

🗓️ Saturday 6 June 2026, 2-4pm
📍VOLT gallery, 67-69 Seaside Road, BN21 3PL
🎟️Free, drop-in

This is a hands-on workshop inviting you to play inspired by the artists’ work within our current exhibition The Thinking Hand.

Tanvi Kant is an interdisciplinary artist exploring embodied memory through playful, tactile engagement with materials. For The Thinking Hand, raw materials hang from the ceiling, ready to be foraged, handled and remade.

Natalia Janula is a Polish-born artist and researcher based in between London, St Leonards (UK) and Warsaw working across installation, sculpture, kinetics performance, archive, photography and sound. I often work collaboratively with the goal to build a reciprocal ecosystem with individuals from various disciplines.

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Images: (2) Picking, Unpicking, Tanvi Kant (3) Soft Encounters, Natalia Janula, Flatlands, 2026

Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch the Archive is underway ✨Over the past months, Polly Wright, Danit Ariel, Ricardo Reveron B...
02/06/2026

Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch the Archive is underway ✨

Over the past months, Polly Wright, Danit Ariel, Ricardo Reveron Blanco and Jazz Swali have been immersed in the Tessa Boffin archive, held across the University for the Creative Arts and The estate of Tessa Boffin/The Gupta+Singh Archives.

Through this research, they have been asking: what does it mean to activate an archive as a generative, collective space, one that speaks to the urgencies of q***r and feminist communities today?

We’ve begun working closely with the artists selected from the Open Call, Sophie Mak-Schram and Leah McLaine, on their commissions that respond to Boffin’s images, pedagogy and politics. We continue to delve into the archive and support the artists through the production of new work - stay with us as this unfolds.

Image 1: (from left to right) Charan Singh, Leah McLaine, Sophie Mak-Schram and Sunil Gupta
Image 2: (from left to right) Jazz Swali, Polly Wright, Ricardo Reveron Blanco and Danit Ariel

Find out more on www.devonshirecollective.co.uk

This project is co-commissioned by Devonshire Collective, Aspex Portsmouth, BACKLIT and Photoworks. Supported by Jenni Crain Foundation, The National Archives, Paul Mellon Foundation and Arts Council England. With thanks to The Estate of Tessa Boffin/ The Gupta+Singh Archives and Hales, London and New York and University for the Creative Arts Special Collections.

Congratulations to on her inclusion in this year’s Summer Exhibition, selected by artist . Her work ‘Carrier Bag’, pic...
01/06/2026

Congratulations to on her inclusion in this year’s Summer Exhibition, selected by artist .

Her work ‘Carrier Bag’, pictured here in photo 1, was commissioned as part of her solo exhibition ‘The Fuddling Gossips’ at DC in February 2025, her first institutional solo exhibition.

The exhibition comprised a series of new works that engaged with gossip as a form of connection, inspired by social spaces of youth and shared studios as sites of communal making, thinking and doing.

1) ‘Carrier Bag’, 2025, Ceramic, Slip and Glaze.
2) Portrait of Carla Wright
3) Installation view of ‘The Fuddling Gossips’. Photo by Rob Harris

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT We’re thrilled to have received a £42,500 grant from Arts Council England through the Touring Projects st...
29/05/2026

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT
We’re thrilled to have received a £42,500 grant from Arts Council England through the Touring Projects strand and funding from the Paul Mellon Centre to realise Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch the Archive.

The tour will launch at Devonshire Collective on 18 July 2026 before travelling to Nottingham, Brighton and Portsmouth.

This national touring project, initiated by Devonshire Collective and developed with Photoworks, BACKLIT and Aspex, brings together artists and curators to engage with the work of Tessa Boffin, whose practice spans photography, writing, performance and activism which challenges dominant narratives around gender, sexuality and visibility.

Find out more on www.devonshirecollective.co.uk

This project is co-commissioned by Devonshire Collective, Aspex Portsmouth, BACKLIT and Photoworks. Supported by Jenni Crain Foundation, The National Archives, Paul Mellon Foundation and Arts Council England. With thanks to The Estate of Tessa Boffin/ The Gupta+Singh Archives.

Image credit: Shi-shi Ladouche, Stolen Glances opening 08/09/1992, Camerawork. UCA Tessa Boffin Archive. The estate of Tessa Boffin/The Gupta+Singh Archives and Hales, London and New York.

📚Collective Book Club🕰️18.06.2026 | 5:30-7pm📍Volt, Eastbourne For our next Collective Book Club, this time hosted within...
27/05/2026

📚Collective Book Club
🕰️18.06.2026 | 5:30-7pm
📍Volt, Eastbourne

For our next Collective Book Club, this time hosted within The Thinking Hand exhibition, we will be talking about Do Your Own Thing by the artist and musician . The book details his experiences of the best underground arts scene you’ve never heard of—Do Your Own Thing, a project run by learning disability arts organisation Heart n Soul. Looking at the transformative potential of working to support creative young people make the music and art they want to, this book contributes essential new voices, reflections and considerations to the established ideas of ‘Do It Yourself’ culture.

Phoenix’s book, written with a disarming and idiosyncratic voice, asks what our often reductive understanding of DIY aesthetics might mean in light of questions about access, support and who gives permission to whom to make art, guiding us through the kind of project only spoken about in funding reports and transforming it into a polyphonic, collaborative and joyful work of art.

Do Your Own Thing is available to buy on our shop: https://www.devonshirecollective.co.uk/product/do-your-own-thing

This is an informal and friendly gathering, readers are also welcome to bring a text of their own choice to share with the group. Free, all welcome, booking link in bio.

Interested in becoming a Supporter and receiving a quarterly Book Club treat posted directly to your door? Sign up now via the link in bio 📚

     

The Thinking Hand is in full swing! Join us over the next few weeks to join in the exhibition including these special ev...
26/05/2026

The Thinking Hand is in full swing!

Join us over the next few weeks to join in the exhibition including these special events:

🎯 East Sussex Association of Play with - Friday 29 & Saturday 30 May 2026, 12-3pm
🥁The Thinking Hand: History stretches out in front of me pt. 3 - A gathering with Richard Phoenix, Shepherd Manyika and Maria Marzaioli
Saturday 30 May 2026, 3-5pm
🪱 Forage installation and create your own piece to be curated by within the exhibition
✍️ Visit whilst in residence next week

Date for the diary: Sharing celebration, Wednesday 10th June, 3 - 7pm ✨💫

The Thinking Hand is a process-led exhibition by artists Tanvi Kant, Richard Phoenix, Tom Pope and Anne-Marie Watson. The project unfolds through participation and exchange, engaging with our neighbourhood and local communities, turning Devonshire Collective’s gallery into a site of shared making.

Join us this Saturday 30 May, 3-5pm, at VOLT gallery for The Thinking Hand: History stretches out in front of me pt. 3A ...
26/05/2026

Join us this Saturday 30 May, 3-5pm, at VOLT gallery for

The Thinking Hand: History stretches out in front of me pt. 3
A gathering with Richard Phoenix, Shepherd Manyika and Maria Marzaioli

This event continues the trios performing together and celebrates the release of their new cassette release Amati/Amici - now available from shop!

“Incidental music oh go ((hot pink))’ is the collaborative project of artists Richard Phoenix, Shepherd Manyika and Maria Marzaioli. The pieces here combine turntable, spinners, violin, pedals, handmade piano-guitar and mixer. The resulting recordings form a kind of scratchy, looping improv — with occasional squeaks and scrapes that keep the brain listening…” - Charlie Behrens

Look forward to seeing you there 👋

Looking for something creative to do this half term? Artist has transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into a playscape...
24/05/2026

Looking for something creative to do this half term?

Artist has transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into a playscape of funnels, spheres, and tubes - open every day 23 May to 31 May.

Experiment with different shapes, textures and sounds to see what you can create. Make an obstacle course for objects to roll down in unexpected twists and turns. Plus, watch India’s short film ALL THE FEELINGS for ideas to keep playing and exploring objects at home.

Scroll to 2) to see a photo of India’s exhibition Challenging Behaviours at DC in 2024. The exhibition comprised multisensory environments and tactile artworks that encourage intergenerational play.

Join us for a two part workshop designed by artist Tom Pope taking inspiration from local pub games 🎯🗓️ 29 & 30 May 2026...
15/05/2026

Join us for a two part workshop designed by artist Tom Pope taking inspiration from local pub games 🎯

🗓️ 29 & 30 May 2026, 12 - 3pm

You are invited to join The East Sussex Association of Play (ESAP) a newly formed research group, founded by Tom Pope for East Sussex with one rule: there are no boundaries on where the play might take the association. Through field trips, research and development sessions, play is embraced and interrogated in all its forms.

Launching within The Thinking Hand exhibition ESAP will hold its first gathering:

In the first session on Friday 29th May 2026, the group will explore the area surrounding the gallery to experience first-hand local pub games.

During the second session, Saturday 30th May 2026, the group will experiment and develop a new pub game together for Eastbourne.

You are welcome to sign up for both days, or for one. Email [email protected] to register your interest and to find out more.

This is a free, informal and social event. Refreshments will be provided. No prior knowledge of pub games is required.

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