Jerwood Gallery

Artist Maggi Hambling (winner of the 1995 Jerwood Painting Prize) joined us on site to mark the occasion of the ground-breaking by digging the first soil out of the ground. Council leader Jeremy Birch said, ‘The Jerwood Gallery is important for Hastings as it will add to the cultural quality of the town. It’s all about attracting an additional visitor market … Jerwood will put Hastings on the cultural map’.

The work on site is now proceeding on schecule. The first element to be completed was the drilling of the probes for the ground source heat pump heating and cooling systems. There are 11 of these probes, which go down 120 metres into the bedrock. This system will meet nearly 70% of our heating requirements and all the cooling for the building.

This is all part of our strategy to make the Jerwood Gallery as energy-efficient as possible, using renewable resources and passive enviromental design. Altogether, annual emissions are projected to be around 27 tonnes CO2 per annum – around 70% less than an average museum of similar size.