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Taking Time
Vanessa Farinha, Sarah Gomes Harris, Alastair Laas, Richard Lockett, Flo Wright, Katalina Caliendo, RJ Fernandez, Joan Glasgow Ashton, Tanvi Kant
22.02.25 - 15.03.25
Flatland Projects is delighted to present Taking Time, a group exhibition presenting nine artists in dialogue with one another across the themes of language, memory, community, and the built environment, responding to Bexhill as a site of creative practice, reflection, communal thinking and connection. Taking Time is a physical manifestation of each artist’s time spent in Bexhill during Beeching Road Studios’ development based programmes. Taking time is related to a sense of home, a place you can actually take that time in, time you need to know both yourself and your surroundings. The works and their sentiments reflect a sense of community and responsibility towards your neighbours, and understanding space as a place of being and collaboration.
Just over five years ago, on the 18th of January 2020, Flatlands presented Gathering Container, an exhibition of ceramics by members of Common Clay’s former Hastings studio. That show marked an important moment in the gallery’s history, bringing together makers, community, and conversations around touch, connection, and materiality. Now, in 2025, we present Taking Time, an exhibition that reflects on how far we’ve come while keeping close to our community and participants that have supported the gallery along this journey. This exhibition comes together with our partnership working at it’s very core; development programmes for artists produced by a town wide approach in Bexhill to make artistic careers more viable in the local area. This exhibition marks the participation of Vanessa Farinha, Sarah Gomes Harris, Alastair Laas, Richard Lockett and Flo Wright having spent a year on the DLWP X Flatland Studio Development Programme, and Katalina Caliendo, RJ Fernandez, Joan Glasgow Ashton and Tanvi Kant having been a part of the Common Clay X Working Class Creative Database residency.