2026 introduced Jaywick Open as an annual public happening with artworks emerging through conversation and local materials: landscape, embodied experience, social concerns, collective exploration
An experimental art school by the sea, Jaywick Open was led by artist Anna Hart, with Sarah Cole, and...
Sarah Allen and the Jaywick Goddesses
Shepherd Manyika – ‘Listen to Seaweed’, a wandering sound device, developed in part through a workshop with local musician David Brown
Annis Joslin - ‘Tuning In’, a video work made on the beach with Camera Obscura and lumen prints
Dara Rigal – ‘Caution: Handle with Care’ extended a spring pothole enquiry to the beach through a conversation with the ebbing tide
Vince Hart – ‘Colour as Material’ introduced pigment making from local stone & clay
Anna Hart – ‘Reading Aloud’, revisited AiR’s collective listening at the bus stop
Olly Treadgold – ‘Don’t Forget your Part Hat’ performed the pathos of missing the party on the beach
Annis Joslin
Dara Rigal
The Many-headed Beasts of Grief
Shepherd Manyika
Olly Treadgold
Vince Hart
Anna Hart
Photos: Emma Firebrand, Sarah Cole
Many thanks to the team at Sunspot, Jane Stewart, Rainy Bakes catering, Jaywick Community & Resource Centre, The Jaywick Martello Tower, everyone who took part and / or came to the event.