13 – 22 October 2023
Hypha Gallery, Priory Meadows Shopping Centre,
Hastings

We’ve all crossed many rivers – physical and metaphorical to get to where we are today. Here to There to Here: Hastings is the second iteration of a project first shown as part of the Riverside Artists Group exhibition Many Rivers to Cross at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London in September 2022.

This time, artists Mike Abrahams, a member of Hastings Art School, and Francesca Giuliano invited people who live, work or study in and around Hastings (a place where migration feels very present) to answer four simple questions: 

• where do you live? 
• where were you born?
• where are your ancestors from?
• where do you dream of? 

What did these answers reveal?

At the macro level the piece represented a story of migration, diversity and aspiration. At the micro level it aimed to encourage a sense of connection, introspection and empathy… “I too have a story”.

The work was made on site, over a week from over 100 public responses and was supported by Hastings Art School and Hypha Studios.