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It is Independent Bookshop Week, and Collective Books, our bookshop at VOLT, is a good reason to visit in person or brow...
18/06/2026

It is Independent Bookshop Week, and Collective Books, our bookshop at VOLT, is a good reason to visit in person or browse online. Proceeds are split equally between participating artists and DC, and go straight back into our programme.

Here’s a selection from our catalogue ✨ Shop the full range via the link in our bio.

1: Tom Pope, Terminating Martin Parr, £40 
2: Miguel Sicart, Play Matters, £24 
3: Stephen Nachmanovitch, The Art of Is : Improvising as a Way of Life, £16.99 
4: Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play : Improvisation in Life and Art, £12.99 
5: Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry : An Economy of Gifts and Abundance,£14.99 
6: Ella Finer, The Cosmic Oval, £8.99 
7: Sara Baume, handiwork, £9.99
8: Pablo Helguera, Education for Socially Engaged Art, £9.96
9: Val Wilmer, As Serious As Your Life : Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977, £14.99 
10: Pete Brown, Clubland : How the Working Men’s Club Shaped Britain, £10.99 

To celebrate Independent Bookshop Week you could win a £250 Bookshop.org digital gift card with your books, 13-20 June.W...
18/06/2026

To celebrate Independent Bookshop Week you could win a £250 Bookshop.org digital gift card with your books, 13-20 June.

Winners will be contacted via email following the competition close.

Looking for some reading inspiration? Take a look at some of our recent bestselling titles. Thank you for supporting independent bookshops with us.

Link to our Collective Books bookshop.org in bio 🔗📚

It is Independent Bookshop Week, and Collective Books, our bookshop at VOLT, is a good reason to visit in person or brow...
17/06/2026

It is Independent Bookshop Week, and Collective Books, our bookshop at VOLT, is a good reason to visit in person or browse online. Proceeds are split equally between participating artists and DC, and go straight back into our programme.

Here’s a selection from our catalogue ✨ Shop the full range via the link in our bio.

1. Richard Phoenix, Do Your Own Thing, £12.99

2. Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, £9.99

3. Emily Haworth-Booth, Mare, £16.99

4. Beth Pickens, On Artists And Hopelessness, £12

5. Jen Calleja, Dust Sucker, £8 

6. Clare Whistler, An ABC for the Heart, £12

7. Yoel Noorali, The Kingdom, £15

The Thinking Hand - Reading Group led by artist James William Murray 📚🗓️Friday 19 June 2026, 11am - 2pm📍VOLT gallery, 67...
13/06/2026

The Thinking Hand - Reading Group led by artist James William Murray 📚

🗓️Friday 19 June 2026, 11am - 2pm
📍VOLT gallery, 67-69 Seaside Road, BN21 3PL
🎟️Free, book your place as spaces are limited

Join this special reading group event led by artist James William Murray. The readings, inspired by the current exhibition and The Thinking Hand, will create shared ground to discuss artistic and interdisciplinary practice.

Carefully selected, we will share time together on the day reading aloud, talking about our practices and reflecting on ideas in the passages in the texts.

Reading Group builds on James William Murray and Polly Wright’s previous work together at Brighton CCA hosting a bi-monthly Reading Group in order to think collectively about theory and art in an informal, accessible and generative way.

Image: Touched, James William Murray, 2020

Congratulations to DC alumna whose solo exhibition Nalini opens at this Saturday 13 June as part of a touring exhibit...
09/06/2026

Congratulations to DC alumna whose solo exhibition Nalini opens at this Saturday 13 June as part of a touring exhibition.

Spanning India, East Africa and the UK, Nalini traces the interconnected histories of my mother, grandmother and myself. The series explores ancestral connections across generations and geographies, revealing how our histories, memories and bodies remain deeply intertwined.

Commissioned by Firstsite, a new work has been created for the exhibition and will be presented publicly for the first time.

Arpita’s solo exhibition ‘from one dream to another’ at DC in 2023 comprised collaborative work produced with group of young men from refugee and
asylum seeker backgrounds in Eastbourne. The exhibition was produced in partnership with and supported by

Visit our website archive to learn more! ✨

📣 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.

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