The Mint House, Pevensey

Opening reception: Saturday 19th September 4pm -7 pm

Open Thursdays to Sundays and by appointment.

Lore: Art, History and Stories at The Mint House

Lore brings together a group of artists at The Mint House, a remarkable 16th-century Grade II* listed building that is currently being restored. With its long and layered history, the building is being reimagined as a new cultural space where history, folklore, creativity and community can come together.

Curated by Patrick Adam Jones and Peter Fillingham, Lore invites artists to explore what happens when a historic building becomes a new shared space. The exhibition considers the many stories that a place can hold — from documented history and personal memories to folklore, rumour, imagination and fiction.

The exhibition will place existing artworks alongside new, site-specific works made in response to The Mint House and its surroundings. Each artist was invited to explore the building in their own way, drawing on their personal interests, experiences and areas of knowledge.

The artists were given access to parts of the building that are not currently open to the public. Working within a limited period of time, they explored the building and its locationthrough conversations, interviews, research, observation and experimental fieldwork. They looked closely at its architecture, materials and surroundings, as well as the stories and histories connected to the site.

The resulting works reveal some of the layers hidden within the building. They invite visitors to look again at familiar ideas about history and place, and to consider how buildings, objects and stories can change over time — and how new stories can emerge from them.

The title Lore refers to knowledge and stories passed from one person to another, often through memory, tradition and storytelling. It reflects the exhibition's interest in the space between what we know, what we remember, what we are told, and what we imagine.

Peter Fillingham describes The Mint House as:

“a palimpsest — a reused and altered building that still bears the traces of its earlier forms and histories.”

For the artists, these traces have become a starting point for exploration and making. Lore offers an opportunity to encounter The Mint House not simply as a historic building, but as a place that continues to evolve — shaped by the people, stories and creative ideas that pass through it.

Participating Artists

Judith Dean

Laura Emsley

Edwina Fitzpatrick

Mark Ingham

Sara Trillo

Mario Rossi

Peter Lewis and Makiko Nagaya

Matt Hale

Jonathan Whitehall

David Goldenberg

Rupert Norfolk

Dan Damarre

Henry Coleman

Esther Collins

Jamie Atherton

Howard Sooley

Charlotte Cullinan

Alice Walter

Craig Wood

David Lewis

Marie Roux

Mark Spelman

Gihan Karunaratne

Richard Phoenix

Scott Robertson

Simon Barker

Patrick Adam Jones

Dan Howard-Birt

Peter Fillingham

Passing Through Nature to Eternity

Curated by Lorna Ough

24th October- 8th November

Free Entry

‘Passing Through Nature to Eternity’
A one off exhibition by BrockmanPage and Mark Daniels
Curated by Lorna Ough
24th October until 8th November

The natural world exists, it’s our place within it that proves problematic.
In the shadows of memory and the corners of our stories this natural world embraces us and we can find a home again .
How can we re-enter paradise? Even in the most nature denuded environments you can still sense the seasonal change in what was once wilderness.
Maybe that fox in Lidl car park or oak sapling growing out of a derelict factory’s chimney.

Come and explore this fantastical world in the atmospheric setting of The Mint House, workshops from the artists to be announced!