The artists created new culturally-specific artworks and collaborated to produce a distinctive, large-scale, multi-media show. Working in different mediums, the themes explored include: migration, Black lives in coastal towns, relationships with the sea, climate justice and racial injustice, fast fashion and the Black presence in crafts.

WOH speaks to and engages with the Black and wider communities in Hastings. Complementing the show in the Foreshore Gallery will be a range of creative activities, events and discussions. We Out Here was complemented offsite with a series of community-based activities and workshops which aimed to encourage art engagement.

The project was led by local artist Lorna Hamilton-Brown RCA MBE – known as the ‘Banksy’ of the knitting world for her use of the medium for social commentary. For WOH, Lorna created a new ‘WE MEK’ knitted magazine cover – The Windrush 75 Issue.

It featured the celebrated author of Small Island, the late Andrea Levy and commemorated the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush carrying passengers from the Caribbean to the UK.