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Flatland is pleased to announce our partnership with Matt’s Gallery, and KARST as part of the next chapter of ‘Doorway Guardians’, a year-long touring collaborative project by artist Annie Whiles @annie.whiles

The project continues to Bexhill at the entrance of our gallery joining an ongoing collaborative exchange of three large woodcarvings by Whiles. The sculptures are moving between partner venues across the year - occupying thresholds, entrances, and shared spaces, inviting touch, encounter, and exchange.

Opening on 9 May at Flatland Projects the presentation coincides with the opening of ‘Manifestations For An Eternal Spring’, a new commission by Tawfik Naas @torfhick , launching the same weekend (on view until 16 August 2026 the weekend of @bexhillartweekender ).

At Matt’s Gallery, London, Whiles’ woodcarving will be on show alongside ZYX, a new sound installation by Anna Barham (3 -28 June 2026) and at KARST, Plymouth alongside Faunal Succession, the first institutional UK exhibition by Lucía Pizzani (12 June - 1 Aug 2026).

Doorway Guardians was developed by Whiles with support from Arts Council England (Developing Your Creative Practice grant) and Goldsmiths, University of London. The exhibition is a partnership between Matt’s Gallery, London; KARST, Plymouth; and Flatland Bexhill with support from the Henry Moore Foundation and Arts Council England.

@mattsgallerylondon @karstgallery
@annie.whiles ❤️

Commission Announcement:
‘Manifestations For An Eternal Spring’
Tawfik Naas @torfhick
09 May – 16 August 2026

Flatland Projects presents a new commission and the first institutional solo exhibition by researcher Tawfik Naas.

Developed as a choreography of research, the exhibition unfolds across the gallery as a series of encounters. Sculptural bodies—“Orchards”—appear in states of emergence and transition, holding past and present in tension rather than resolution.

Working through the framework of “Returning,” Naas considers what it means to encounter history again—not as something fixed or distant, but as something that continues to move through material, space and the body.

This new commission marks a significant development in Naas’ wider research, shifting from extraction toward the experience of return itself.

Public Opening: 09 May 2026, 14:00–18:00
Flatland Projects, Bexhill-on-Sea

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Tawfik Naas Manifestations For An Eternal Spring has been generously supported by essential funds from the Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council England, Chalk Cliff Trust and Rother District Council, with additional support from the De La Warr Pavilion.

@henrymoorefdn_grants #ArtsCouncilEngland @rother_district_council #ChalkCliffTrust

Tawfik Naas ‘Manifestations for an eternal spring’ is open today through to Saturday 12-4pm!

Flatland Projects is proud to present
Manifestations for an Eternal Spring, a new
commission and the first institutional solo
exhibition by Libyan researcher Tawfik Naas.
Developed through an ongoing body of
research, the exhibition unfolds as what Naas
describes as a choreography of research.
Rather than a fixed installation, works are
positioned across the gallery as sites of
encounter, held within a wider conceptual
framework the researcher terms Returning. For
Naas, returning is not a simple act of looking
back. It operates across three simultaneous
positions:
- The return from (the distance created by
time)
- The return to (the moment of re-encounter)
- The middle of (the present position that
holds both states at once)
The works in the exhibition occupy the middle
of, resisting resolution and instead sustaining a
state of entanglement.

Image: Detail of Contact Binary: Francobollo Libico (2026), Libyan Postage Stamps, Water-Resistant MDF

📷 @phoebewingrove

@henrymoorefdn_grants @aceagrams @rother_district_council

[Announcement] Flatland is delighted to announce a one night only presentation this Friday evening of ‘An Unanticipated Delight’ An experiential travelling exhibition by Matt Jones.

Over thirty years, Matt Jones has been quietly building one of the most intimate and wide-ranging photographic documents of human life in our time — a personal archive of what it means to be alive and paying attention. Subjects range from David Lynch, Ryan Gosling and Mia Khalifa to cowboys, construction workers, waitresses and fairground workers. No hierarchy. No editorial agenda. A love letter to humanity in all its diversity.

Please join us in the back courtyard of Flatland Projects, Bexhill-on-Sea (2 stops on the train from Hastings) with drinks and a community celebration of human kind via the medium of film, photography, and music.

An Unanticipated Delight has toured globally featuring in a growing list of cities:New York,
Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, London, Paris
Milan, Rome & now Bexhill!

Matt Jones has spent thirty years at the forefront of fashion photography and brand image-making. Portrait subjects include
Barack Obama, Beyoncé, Julia Roberts, Kristen Stewart, KAWS, Brian Eno, Joaquin Phoenix and Ryan Gosling. Covers for Vogue, i-D, V Magazine, Elle and The New York Times Magazine. Album covers for Coldplay, Estelle and Kano. Campaigns for Fendi, Chanel, Moschino, Nike and many more.

❤️

Key details: This Friday 22 May, 6-8pm at Flatland Projects, 20 Beeching Road, Bexhill on Sea, TN39 3LJ.

‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ the first institutional solo commission by Tawfik Naas is officially open to the public following a highly successful opening weekend.

The gallery is open 12-4pm Thurs, Fri, Sat and open by appointments the rest of the week. The show runs until the 16th August and closes as part of the Bexhill Art Weekender.

This new commission by Flatland Projects has been generously supported by essential funds from the Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council England, Chalk Cliff Trust and Rother District Council, with additional support from the De La Warr Pavilion.

For any press enquiries please email or direct message this account.

@torfhick
📷 @phoebewingrove

‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ the first institutional solo commission by Tawfik Naas is officially open to the public following a highly successful opening weekend.

The gallery is open 12-4pm Thurs, Fri, Sat and open by appointments the rest of the week. The show runs until the 16th August and closes as part of the Bexhill Art Weekender.

This new commission by Flatland Projects has been generously supported by essential funds from the Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council England, Chalk Cliff Trust and Rother District Council, with additional support from the De La Warr Pavilion.

For any press enquiries please email or direct message this account.

@torfhick
📷 @phoebewingrove

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

Wonderful people at the weekend celebrating our latest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles arriving in Bexhill on their UK tour in partnership with @mattsgallerylondon & @karstgallery 🔮☀️💘

📷 @alinas.snaps 🩵✨

💛📸 Tawfik Naas at Flatland Projects

@torfhick
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💛📸 Tawfik Naas at Flatland Projects

@torfhick
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💛📸 Tawfik Naas at Flatland Projects

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💛📸 Tawfik Naas at Flatland Projects

@torfhick
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💛📸 Tawfik Naas at Flatland Projects

@torfhick
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💛📸 Tawfik Naas at Flatland Projects

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💛📸 Tawfik Naas at Flatland Projects

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💛📸 Tawfik Naas at Flatland Projects

@torfhick
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[From the archive:] The first ever Flatland exhibition in the cellar of Borough Wines, Robertson Street, Hastings. Scalands a group exhibition including @louisnewby @tanoasasraku@izzydubois & @ex.sses ( @_earwaxx ) (September 2018) as part of @coastalcurrentsfestival

I had many hopes and dreams for the gallery at this time, full of the diy spirit which underpins everything still today despite the growth of the organisation, I honestly would have never dreamt that what it is today would be the asset it is to the artistic eco system of East Sussex. I am immensely proud of what Billy and I started back then, and still now. I am currently writing the agenda for our first official board meeting this week coming and doing lots of reflection as we gear up towards fundraising for our 10 year celebrations in 2028. 🖤

#FlatlandForever

2026 Artist Writing Forum! Apply Now! Link in bio 📖🐛

for more info head to our website! flatlandprojects.com/opportunities

Deadline Friday 15th May @12 midday

New sensory bags designed for our newest commission ‘Manifestations for an Eternal Spring’ by Tawfik Naas and ‘Doorway Guardians’ by Annie Whiles designed by our Programme Assistant Kitty McCarron.

Our sensory bags include tactile materials, water cubes, Libyan stamp reproductions, seeds, a magnifying glass and a contemplative sand timer to support slower, multi-sensory ways of experiencing the exhibitions.

The bags connect directly to the artists’ materials and research, inviting visitors to engage through touch, reflection, grounding and close observation.

Image description: A sensory bag toolkit is arranged across a muted green-grey exhibition plinth at Flatland Projects. The objects include a magnifying glass, a small green sand timer, a strip of oak wood, a block of water-resistant MDF, blue glass water cubes, packets of sunflower and dahlia seeds, and reproductions of Libyan postage stamps featured within Manifestations For An Eternal Spring by Tawfik Naas. The materials are carefully spaced across the textured surface, echoing the contemplative and research-led atmosphere of the exhibition.

@torfhick @annie.whiles @k.mccrrn

Opening party tomorrow 14:00-18:00 all welcome! ☀️🩵✨

New additions to our Bexhill Artist Research Centre ( BARC ) !!!

- Crip Time by Susanne Pfeffer, wonderfully suggested by BARC regular @florence_curates 💚

- @poppymjones first monograph, spotlighting ninety works made over the past four years. Her exhibition ‘Frozen Sun’ runs until the 31st May at @townergallery 🎈

- @sophybarber first monograph published on the occasion of her solo exhibition ‘Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, never long wet, never long dry’ at @hastings.contemporary 🌞

BARC is open alongside the opening times of our exhibitions ( 12 - 4 , Thursday - Saturday ) and free to book.

Alongside these new additions, BARC houses our founding collection of circa 1000 artist catalogues, artist made publications, and archival material which is available for artists and our creative community to access.

New additions to our Bexhill Artist Research Centre ( BARC ) !!!

- Crip Time by Susanne Pfeffer, wonderfully suggested by BARC regular @florence_curates 💚

- @poppymjones first monograph, spotlighting ninety works made over the past four years. Her exhibition ‘Frozen Sun’ runs until the 31st May at @townergallery 🎈

- @sophybarber first monograph published on the occasion of her solo exhibition ‘Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, never long wet, never long dry’ at @hastings.contemporary 🌞

BARC is open alongside the opening times of our exhibitions ( 12 - 4 , Thursday - Saturday ) and free to book.

Alongside these new additions, BARC houses our founding collection of circa 1000 artist catalogues, artist made publications, and archival material which is available for artists and our creative community to access.

New additions to our Bexhill Artist Research Centre ( BARC ) !!!

- Crip Time by Susanne Pfeffer, wonderfully suggested by BARC regular @florence_curates 💚

- @poppymjones first monograph, spotlighting ninety works made over the past four years. Her exhibition ‘Frozen Sun’ runs until the 31st May at @townergallery 🎈

- @sophybarber first monograph published on the occasion of her solo exhibition ‘Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, never long wet, never long dry’ at @hastings.contemporary 🌞

BARC is open alongside the opening times of our exhibitions ( 12 - 4 , Thursday - Saturday ) and free to book.

Alongside these new additions, BARC houses our founding collection of circa 1000 artist catalogues, artist made publications, and archival material which is available for artists and our creative community to access.

Matt’s Gallery, KARST, and Flatland are pleased to announce the next chapter of Doorway Guardians, a year-long touring collaborative project by artist Annie Whiles.

The project continues with Flatland Projects, Bexhill joining an ongoing collaborative exchange of three large woodcarvings by Whiles. The sculptures are moving between partner venues across the year - occupying thresholds, entrances, and shared spaces, inviting touch, encounter, and exchange.

Opening on 9 May at Flatland Projects the presentation coincides with the opening of Manifestations For An Eternal Spring, a new commission by Tawfik Naas, launching the same weekend (on view until 16 August 2026).

At Matt’s Gallery, London, Whiles’ woodcarving will be on show alongside ZYX, a new sound installation by Anna Barham (3 -28 June 2026) and at KARST, Plymouth alongside Faunal Succession, the first institutional UK exhibition by Lucía Pizzani (12 June - 1 Aug 2026).

Doorway Guardians was developed by Whiles with support from Arts Council England (Developing Your Creative Practice grant) and Goldsmiths, University of London. The exhibition is a partnership between Matt’s Gallery, London; KARST, Plymouth; and Flatland Bexhill with support from the Henry Moore Foundation and Arts Council England.