Chris Coombes Photography

24/07/2025

'Open to All', evening: Friday, July 25, 6–8pm. See you there ...

09/07/2025

Photopia International Photographic Exhibition 2025 — Hidden Assets

To be held at the Hastings Arts Forum, 20 Marine Court, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0DX, UK
23 July – 3 August: Gallery open Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm
‘Open to All’ Evening: Friday 25 July, 6pm to 8pm
Meet the artists: Sunday 3 August, 2pm to 4pm

Please visit the Hastings Arts Forum gallery to see the work of the wonderfully accomplished artists.

Exhibiting Artists:
Lottie Quinn, Sophie De-Roe, Caroline Fraser, Hannah Osinoff, Agnieszka Szuba, Leslie James Moran, Lara Tremayne, Emma Hoey, Olivia Buley, David A Steele, Eddon Jose Sarmiento, Kat Mahale,
Jeff Grice, a nameless street photographer, Janet Healey, Justine Devenney, Raffi Jacobs,
Jiajie Zheng, David C Scothron, Gregory King, Sarah Marland, Vivien Oldfield, Segun Akinremi,
Joanna Goodwin, John Fullerton, Agness Clark, Sherrie Fisher, Angela Moreno, Padma Kalraiya, Imogen Bloor, Paul Frank Francis, Kseniia Chumakova, Ian O'Leary, Ann Chown and Heatherli A.

04/05/2025

For full details and a link to apply, please click photopia.org.uk/Open-Call or photopia.org.uk

24/03/2025

We are pleased to announce the upcoming International Photopia Photographic Exhibition in partnership with the Hastings Arts Forum. For full details and how to apply, please see www.photopia.org.uk/Open-Call or via www.photopia.org.uk

12/02/2025

Hastings Arts Forum – New Members Show - Open from today

12 February until 2 March

Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

Open to All to Evening: Friday 14 February, 6 – 8 pm.

I am thrilled to be part of the New Members Show, showcasing my work alongside such talented artists. I invite you to visit and encourage you to join us for the 'Open to All Evening' on Friday, the 14th. The exhibiting artists would greatly appreciate your visit to see their fabulous work.

Exhibiting Artists:
Caroline Anderson-Jones, Marie Connery, Chris Coombes, Tony Delany, Naomi Elfred-Ross, Morokoth Fournier des Corats, Martine Hans-Jorie, Jim Healey, Jane Hicks, Jane Higginbottom, Kath Keep, Deborah Lanyon, Brett Manley, Sarah Martin, Leslie Moran, Marie Pearson, Laurence Perera-Chandler, Melisande Perera-Chandler, Darren Quinnell, Consuelo Radclyffe, Clair Rowe, David Scothron, David Scott, Brij Paul Sharma, Mark Shepherd, Jules Thompson, Amanda Westbury, Tiffany Wey, Katie Whitbead, Graham Whittal and Jay Yeomans.

12/07/2024

Living Light—Photopia International Photographic Exhibition
23 July - 4 August – Gallery open Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm
Open Evening: Friday 26 July, 6pm to 8pm

Hastings Arts Forum, 20 Marine Court, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0DX

Please visit the exhibition and attend the Open evening. It will be lovely to see you ...

24/04/2024

This is Photopia's final call for our Open Call for its Summer 2024 exhibition, which will be held at Hastings Arts Forum from July 23rd to August 4th, 2024.
We invite photographers to submit their work on the theme: 'Living Light'.
"As photographers, we live with light, and everything we capture is illuminated by light. Our photographers' challenge is creating images that convey and expand this wonder."
Submission is open to everyone, regardless of background or experience.
We are also pleased to be able to offer two free bursary places to applicants under 25 years old.
Full details can be found on our website. Then please submit via the link.
photopia.org.uk/open-call-summer-2024
Deadline for submissions is 11.59pm Sunday, April 28th.

14/04/2024

Photopia is pleased to announce our Open Call for its Summer 2024 exhibition, to be held at Hastings Arts Forum from July 23rd to August 4th, 2024.

We invite photographers to submit their work on the theme: 'Living Light'.

"As photographers, we live with light, and everything we capture is illuminated by light. Our challenge as photographers is to create images that convey and expand this wonder."

Submission is open to everyone, regardless of background or experience.

We are also pleased to be able to offer two free bursary places to applicants under 25 years old.

Full details can be found on our website and the link in our bio.
photopia.org.uk/open-call-summer-2024

Deadline for submissions is 11.59pm Sunday, April 28th.

27/07/2023

Last two days of the Photopia Summer Exhibition 'The More We See', down in The Stade Hall, Rock-a-Nore, Hastings.

Open daily, 10am - 5pm until Friday 28th.

All Welcome...
www.photopia.org.uk



An excellent review from an external critic:

The More We See

Photopia Summer Exhibition
The Stade Hall, Rock-a-Nore, Hastings

"What a delight to see the Photopians putting on another very visual and exciting exhibition.
The third Photopia exhibition at The Stade Hall brings the everyday and ordinary to our attention.

Do go and see and experience the exploration of vivid light and elegant shadows in the common cut-throughs between buildings and the eerie vulnerable feeling of standing still at night on the seafront while the car lights whiz by.

Experimental cyanotype techniques, flamboyant carnival colour, and elegant Victorianesque walks through the woods (we may even see fairies!).

There are stories untold; a very lonely pram on a vast expanse of beach, an inexplicably misplaced piece of an ordinary brick wall - a view of a man on the platform through a large, murky window.

However, one story is told distinctly - the politics of dirty water and pollution is given prominence and rightly so in this community—until July 28th."

Denise Franklin

07/07/2023

The More We See—Photopia Photographic Exhibition
18th – 28th July 2023, 10am – 5pm
Invitation—Private View—Friday 21st July, 6.30pm onwards.

The Stade Hall, 20 Rock-a-Nore Rd, Hastings TN34 3DW

The More We See will be our fourth exhibition at The Stade Hall, Hastings.

Please visit the exhibition and attend the Private View evening.

It will be lovely to see you ...

25/03/2023

24/03/2023

Announcing our upcoming Photopia photographic exhibition. We hope to see you at The Stade Hall. Our private view is on 7th April - 6:30pm —8:30pm.