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08/09/2026

Announcement! Flatland is delighted to announce a new commission by artist, writer, and researcher Sean Roy Parker roy for 2026.

Parker is responding to our developing project Flatland: Circulate - a reuse project which contributes to Flatland’s Environmental Action plan 2026-2032, that continues Flatland’s commitment to a circular practice of making, commissioning, and designing our leading work in our immediate local ecology. This project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund’s Environmental strand includes the development of a reuse materials library, artist-led community workshops in partnership with Sidley’s The Pelham and a week long residency of Sean Roy Parker in Bexhill-on-Sea in September 2026.

The reuse library will become a site for thinking through the movement, function and afterlives of materials: considering how resources circulate between artists, organisations and the communities around them.

Parker’s crucial and critical practice sets the foundations for a pliable and urgent exchange between Flatland: Circulate and the materials, systems and practices that exist in our artistic ecosystem of East Sussex. Circulate is both a practical proposition and a working model for responsible material futures in a time of hyper-production.

The residency will lead towards a new commissioned response developed by Parker for Flatland, alongside a series of propositions that will help shape the future life of Circulate.

Sean Roy Parker is an artist, writer and researcher based between Derbyshire (UK) and Vilnius (LT), specialising in improvisation and holistic system design. His slow, low-tech praxis explores material lifecycles and interspecies intimacy, typified by social projects exposing complex food systems under the moniker Fermental Health. He has written two poetry pamphlets, was a resident at Wysing Arts Centre in 2023, and received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation award in 2024.

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28/08/2026

🎉 We have been awarded funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to bring Flatland: Circulate Materials Reuse Library to life!

Through workshops, artist led activity, material collections and community making, we’ll explore how materials that might otherwise become waste can be kept in use and transformed into something new.

Working with artists, makers, young people, local residents, cultural organisations and businesses, Flatland: Circulate will bring materials, skills and ideas into circulation.

Culminating this autumn with a public opening of the Reuse Library and a showcase of artworks made from reclaimed materials.

More updates soon 👀

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25/08/2026

EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT:
David Gilbert, Slips
03.10.26 - 16.01.27

Flatland Projects is proud to present a major new commission this Autumn by Los Angeles based artist David Gilbert, marking the artist’s first exhibition in the UK. The exhibition follows and connects with the release of the artist’s first monograph, Lilies published by Zolo Press in early 2026. At Flatland, Gilbert presents a body of photographs taken in his domestic studio. Cut paper which hangs, dangles, bends and slumps is the central material depicted in these photographs, and the images act as portals into the temporal sculptural sets constructed by Gilbert.

This commission has been generously supported by Arts Council England, The Bridget Riley Art Foundation, and Rother District Council. Curatorial research has been supported by Fluxus Art Projects, and integral support has come from the David Gilbert supporters circle: Elizabeth Rickard Shah, Marla and Jeffrey Michaels and Chris Sharp Gallery, LA.

David Gilbert (b. 1982, New York, NY) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include Stationery, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, 2026; I Capture the Castle, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2025; Flutter, North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston- Salem, 2024; Fairy Tale, Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, 2024; Heaven and Earth, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, 2023; My Heavens, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022; and The Great Outdoors, Gallery 12.26, Dallas, 2020.

21/08/2026

It’s here!

‘Heav(Garden)’ by Tawfik Nass 🆕 We had so much fun at the launch last weekend thank you to all who joined us to celebrate, it was a very special evening! The publication is now available to purchase from our online shop.

B5 paperback
Custom holographic sticker

Design by Amy Mock
Proofread by Phil Tolmie Phil Tolmie

‘Heav(Gard)en’ gathers nine years of writing by researcher Tawfik Naas. Developed alongside his research practice, these texts began as a place to hold what could not always be housed within physical works: fragments, metaphors, observations, and moments that continued to ask for form after an artwork had reached its limits.

Published alongside Manifestations for an Eternal Spring at Flatland Projects, Heav(Gard)en offers another way of entering Naas’ research into the ways we observe, remember, and (re)experience history. Rather than functioning as documentation or explanation, the writings operate as parallel sites of enquiry, where history, family, religion, landscape, and language are encountered through metaphor, repetition, and return.

Across the collection, words shift in meaning, ideas reappear in altered forms, and moments of reflection give way to daydream. Together, the texts trace the evolving methodologies that have shaped Naas’ practice over the past nine years, inviting readers to move through research as a living landscape that continues to unfold.

With thanks to our generous supporters and funders  Arts Council England Rother District Council Rother Arts

From tawfik with love

Elaine Mullings and tawfik posing with their B.A.R.C. Books publications

Book seller extraordinaire kitty mccarron I’ll take 2 please

21/08/2026

13/08/2026

Join us for the final week of Manifestations For An Eternal Spring and the launch of the artists first published book ‘Heav(Gard)en’ by tawfik - this weekend we celebrate the closing weekend with the

This weekend: BARC Publishing Launch: Heav(Gard)en byTawfik Naas

Book Launch

Flatland Projects / BARC
Saturday 15th August, 16:00-19:00

Heav(Gard)en gathers nine years of writing by artist Tawfik Naas. Developed alongside his research practice, these texts began as a place to hold what couldn’t always be housed within physical works: fragments, metaphors, observations, and moments that continue to ask for form after an artwork has reached its limits.

This event has step free access.

📷 Alina

12/08/2026

BIONIC STEP (2022) by Nina Davies is coming to Flatland this SATURDAY 15th AUGUST for CEREMONIA for the ❤️✨‼️

CEREMONIA: Nina Davies + The Statue of Liberty Big Band

Performance

Flatland Projects
19:30-21:00 (arrive 19:15)

Flatland is delighted to host a performance programme featuring London-based Canadian artist Nina Davies, presenting Bionic Step, plus the 18-piece Statue of Liberty avant-garde big band, devised by award-winning Bexhill-based sound artist Ed Baxter. Free!

This event has step free access, there will be limited seating available due to the length of the evening.

Image courtesy of Nina Davies.

09/08/2026

[ANNOUNCEMENT] 📣

Flatland is delighted to present on the occasion of the Bexhill Art Weekender ‘Not repeat as in replicate, repeat as in ritual’, a film screening of 3 moving images works curated by Olivia Du Vergier. Screening at Flatland Projects 15th & 16th August 2026, 11:00-16:00.

Featuring (in image order): ‘Intermittent and Continuous’ (2025) Olivia Hird; ‘Like Dadima Like Smriti’ (2019), Smriti Mehra; & ‘The ghost of Mr. Bawky’ (2025) Esther Carlin.

In the space that contains your absence, where patterns repeat. Retrace your steps, walk the
same route, remember every turn, hold the remnants in your hands, pick them up, bear their
weight, feel their form, turn them over again and again, put them back, store them away,
find them again one day.

In all three of the films featured in this programme, we find repetition woven with memory. Repeated words, sounds, gestures, habits. A father and daughter revisit old material, piecing together a shared story. A granddaughter weighs up her inheritance. A woman moves through a vast landscape, blending past and present as she listens. Through the redoing comes a new doing.
In the space that contains your absence, where patterns repeat. Not repeat as in replicate, repeat as in ritual.

Olivia Hird is a self-shooting filmmaker, facilitator and researcher, bridging creative and care-based approaches, working across nonfiction film and community mental health. Trained in visual anthropology, Olivia’s practice is guided by personal stories that explore how people relate to place, time, themselves and each other. Her films have been screened at BAFTA and BIFA qualifying festivals.
Olivia has taught at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester (2025), worked as Production Manager for Open City Documentary Festival (UCL), participated in the HOME Artist Film Lab (2022), HOME Artist Lab (2024) and the Sheffield DocFest Filmmaker Challenge (2026).

De La Warr Pavilion

Smriti Mehra is an artist and educator from Bangalore, India, based in London. Working primarily with moving image, alongside photography and installation, her practice explores memory, identity, labour, material cul

05/08/2026

Only 11 more days left of Tawfik Naas’ monumental commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ we have been overwhelmed by the visitor figures for this exhibition, returning visitors who spend time in this contemplative body of research which Naas has graced the South Coast of England with.

The gallery is open Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 12-4pm.

Thank you to our supporters: Arts Council England Henry Moore Foundation Grants Rother District Council

04/08/2026

Canvas Magazine have highlighted Tawfik Naas ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ in their global round up of exhibitions to see in August 2026! Thank you Canvas team for including this really special commission. A new publication will be launched of Naas’ research next weekend on Saturday 15th August for the - come and join us in the gallery to celebrate this landmark commission.

Manifestations for an Eternal Spring has been supported by Arts Council England Henry Moore Foundation Grants and Rother District Council.