536 Art Collection
Victoria Kiff The Landscape is Kissing You, 2024.
Victoria Kiff In Search of a Geode (detail), 2024.
Amy Austin Chameleon Skin, 2024.
Alice Walter Salad Days Become Fruit Days, 2023.
Joseph Dilnot Soldier and Poet, 2023.
Geraldine Swayne Big Lips No.2, 2024.
Emily Allchurch Closer to Home, 2021.
The Baron Gilvan Unseated Rider 2, 2019.
Philip Sanderson Half Nelson, 2022.
Zoe Childerley The Watchmen (detail), 2024.
Ella Guru Lamentation, 2022.
Sam Marc McGoun Flowers, 2024.
Joseph Emilien China Blue, 2018.
Matthew Plummer Apple Trees, 2014.
Marina Kim Claire III, 2023.
Derek Brown Paparazzi, 1989.
Eric Ravilious Fire Engineer from High Street, 1938.
About the collection
536 or, in full, The Admiralty Chart 536 Art Collection, is a collection of contemporary art comprising works created by artists residing in, or responding to, the geographical area covered by the Admiralty nautical navigation chart number 536. The chart documents the Strait of Dover and the portion of the English coastline that tracks east from Beachy Head to Dungeness.
The verdant Beachy Head is, ironically, infamous as the most popular suicide spot in Britain (by number of jumpers from the cliff-top annually). Whilst Dungeness is known for both the imposing nuclear power station on the beach, and the late Derek Jarman's desolate fisherman's lodge Prospect Cottage. The area mapped by the 536 chart includes the towns and villages of: Battle, Bexhill, Camber, Cooden, Eastbourne, Fairlight, Glynde, Hailsham, Hastings, Newhaven, Ninfield, Pett, Pevensey Bay, Rye, St Leonards, and Uckfield. Review and/or download the 536 chart here.
The Artists
At present there are eighty-five artists represented in the collection: Kristina Alexander, Emily Allchurch, Amy Austin, Russell Baker, Lesley Barker, Jennifer Barton-Grimley, Andy Becker, Richard Best, Deborah Bowness, Derek Brown, Ruth Bullock, Zoe Childerley, Oliver Crowther, Rona Cruisey, John Dilnot, Joseph Dilnot, Marylyn Edwards, Joseph Emilien, Rachel Evans-White, Morokoth Fournier des Corats, Frank Francis, Tirzah Garwood, The Baron Gilvan, Joan Glasgow, Fay Godwin, Mark Godwin, Ella Guru, Lily Gutierrez, Hattie Hambridge, Martine Hans-Jorie, Richard Heslop, Laura Hindmarsh, John Holdcroft, Terry Hulf, Patrick Adam Jones, Sadie Jones, Khadija Khan, Victoria Kiff, Marina Kim, Linda King, Amanda Knight, Julia García López, Jo Love, Anne Lydiat, Sophie Malpas, Sam Marc McGoun, Michelle Mildenhall, Sexton Ming, Jude Cowan Montague, Madeleine Morgan, Rick Moye, Tim Nathan, Emma Pegg, Richard Phoenix, Matthew Plummer, Marie Probert, Matthew Radford, Bruce Rae, Alan Rankle, Eric Ravilious, Katherine Reekie, Kirsten Reynolds, Margaret Roberts, Robert Sample, Philip Sanderson, Helen Savage, Paul Sayers, Shuby, Maxine Simmonds, Charlotte Snook, John Stezaker, Julian Sutherland-Beatson, Richard Swann, Geraldine Swayne, Dawn Timmins, Emma Turpin, Monika Veriopoulos, Viv Walkington, Alice Walter, Anne-Marie Watson, Georgie Wheeler, Louise Whitham, Gary Willis, Chris Wright, and John Wright.
Dr Henry Bond
The owner and chief curator of the collection. Read a recent interview conducted by Alex Leith for Rosa art magazine here. Bond is a former photographer and non-fiction author. Review examples of Bond's photography held by Tate here. Details of Bond's doctorate as published by MIT can be found here. There are two solo exhibitions of Bond's recent Early Morning Paintings upcoming in spring 2026. The first show will be at Project 78 in St Leonards (curated by Patrick Adam Jones) and the second exhibition will be at Unit 2 in St Leonards (curated by Bee Nicholls). A catalogue raisonné of the first two-hundred and forty Early Morning Paintings is currently being prepared for publication by Rogue Gallery Press, under the direction of publisher Ray Gange.
Contacting 536
Artists working within the 536 catchment area are encouraged to keep the Collection informed about upcoming exhibitions. To get in touch with the 536 Art Collection please use this email.
