The Jerwood Gallery is an exciting project to create a permanent home for the Jerwood Collection, and a new regional venue for the Jerwood Visual Arts programme on the Stade in Hastings. Developed and fully funded by the Jerwood Foundation, the ambition is to create a major new cultural venue with regional and national importance, contribute to the regeneration of Hastings, and build fruitful partnerships with local organisations.
The Jerwood Foundation’s aim for this project is to put the Jerwood Collection on public display for the first time, and bring the work of the UK’s best young artists to the Hastings community through the Jerwood Visual Arts programme. The building will be purpose-built to create the best possible environment for experiencing art, with a design that responds sensitively and creatively to the unique site on the Stade, and engineered to be as environmentally efficient as possible, with CO2 emissions of around 40% compared to a standard gallery design.
The Jerwood Foundation has always viewed the arts and education as fundamentally related. The gallery will maximise the benefit to local communities through outreach activities and encouraging the use of the gallery by local schools, colleges and other community groups. The new gallery will contain a purpose-designed education space designed to accommodate a variety of activities, and the programme will be linked to the new community facilities and events space being created as part of the wider Stade project.
Hastings, UK
