Liz Gilmore Legacy Fundraiser
In recognition of Liz Gilmore’s 14 trailblazing years as the founding Director of Hastings Contemporary, we invite you to honour her legacy of creative and innovative programming with a contribution to the Liz Gilmore Legacy Fundraiser.
Contributions will support the creative ambition and vision of future Hastings Contemporary Directors, building on Liz’s remarkable track record and ensuring the gallery’s continuing success.
Please consider supporting this campaign and being part of our future.
14 Years of Visionary Leadership
As founding Director, Liz Gilmore has transformed the gallery, overseeing its construction and its transition from Jerwood Gallery to Hastings Contemporary. She secured a 99-year building lease, an innovative and diverse exhibitions programme, and led the Pearls of the Sea schools programme, which has engaged thousands of primary children in Hastings and St Leonards. Liz has been instrumental in the regeneration of Hastings.
Programme highlights have included Rose Wylie’s Big Boys Sit in the Front (2012) which represented the 76-year old’s first major institutional exhibition, leading to her subsequent debut at Tate and The Serpentine; Jake and Dinos Chapman’s In the Realm of the Unmentionable (2014-15), nominated for a Museums & Heritage Award; Paula Rego’s The Boy Who Loved the Sea and Other Stories (2017), shortlisted for a Sky Arts Award; Keith Tyson’s Turn Back Now (2017); and Barbara Walker’s Vanishing Point (2018-19) and Project Art Works’ Ignition residency (2021), both of which earned Turner Prize nominations. Recent high-profile exhibitions include Soutine | Kossoff (2023), Nengi Omuku’s The Dance of the People and the Natural World and Hurvin Anderson’s Salon Paintings (both 2023-24).
If you have any questions or prefer to make your donation by another method, for example by cheque or bank transfer, then please contact:
Leah Swain, Head of Development
leah.swain@hastingscontemporary.org | +44 (0)1424 728374