A Generous Space
Hastings Contemporary ASP Exhibition
Stepping from the train, I am greeted with horizontal drizzle. This is my first visit to Hastings: it’s a wintry Sunday and the town is deserted. I make my way down a steep hill until I reach the high street. This too is mainly empty: everyone driven away by the typical English weather or nursing the typical English Sunday hangover.
The only person in sight is a busker. He is wearing comedy glasses and moustache, louchely holding an old-fashioned microphone, and singing fantastically out of tune.
The seafront is filled with soggy fish and chip shops, sea food shacks, and the empty shells of ice-cream parlours; the vendors only have seagulls for company. The frantic rhythm of the waves and the clacking of the boat masts hurries me towards my destination: Hastings Contemporary, to see the Artist Support Pledge exhibition A Generous Space.