After-school art club for 5-7 year olds led by artist Sara Melin, with watercolour, salt and plaster activities inspired by the exhibition Edge.
Brill kicks off at Hastings Contemporary on Wednesday 4 November, and it's a five-week run for the After School Art Club, aimed at 5-7 year olds. Local artist Sara Melin leads the sessions, which run every Wednesday from 4pm to 5pm on 4, 11, 18 and 25 November, and then on 2 December. It's a drop-off session, so you can leave them to get stuck in and pick them up an hour later.
The whole thing is built around the gallery's exhibition Edge, and that's where the sessions get their direction. Over the five weeks, the children work through a few different ways of making: coastal-landscape weaving, drip drawing with watercolour and salt, and making plaster imprints of marine life. It's not just one thing repeated; each week brings a new technique, and all the materials are provided, so there's nothing you need to bring along. The studio runs as a drop-off, and the café coquina stays open until 5pm, which is handy if you're waiting nearby.
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It sits within the wider programme at Hastings Contemporary, the gallery on the shingle beach at Rock-a-Nore, a coastal space devoted to ocean futures and sustainability. If you've got older children, the 8-12 age group are pointed towards Herring: a microscopic adventure instead. For the 5-7s, the cost is £65 for the full five weeks, with sessions running 4pm to 5pm on Wednesdays from 4 November to 2 December.
