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). Dungeness beach is known for both the imposing (and distinctly Ballardian) now-defueling Dungeness A & B nuclear power-stations, and the late Derek Jarman's desolate fisherman's lodge Prospect Cottage. The area mapped by the 536 chart includes Battle, Bexhill, Camber, Cooden, Eastbourne, Fairlight, Hailsham, Hastings, St Leonards, Newhaven, Pett and Rye.
At present there are seventy-six artists represented in the collection: Kristina Alexander, Emily Allchurch, Amy Austin, Russell Baker, Lesley Barker, Jennifer Barton-Grimley, Richard Best, Deborah Bowness, Derek Brown, Ruth Bullock, Zoe Childerley, Oliver Crowther, Rona Cruisey, John Dilnot, Joseph Dilnot, 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, Nick Hill, Laura Hindmarsh, John Holdcroft, Terry Hulf, Patrick Adam Jones, Sadie Jones, Khadija Khan, Victoria Kiff, Marina Kim, Amanda Knight, Julia García López, Jo Love, Anne Lydiat, Sam Marc McGoun, Sexton Ming, Jude Cowan Montague, Madeleine Morgan, Tim Nathan, 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, Shuby, Maxine Simmonds, Charlotte Snook, John Stezaker, Julian Sutherland-Beatson, Richard Swann, Geraldine Swayne, Dawn Timmins, Emma Turpin, Monika Veriopoulos, Viv Walkington, Alice Walter, Georgie Wheeler, Louise Whitham, Gary Willis and Chris Wright.
Dr Henry Bond
I am a now-retired Sussex-based former photographer and non-fiction author. You can see my photos that are in the Tate Gallery collection if you look here. And you can look here to read more about my doctoral thesis as was published by MIT. You can review and download the 536 chart here. To get in touch with the 536 Art Collection please use this email.
Morning Paintings
There are two solo exhibitions of my Morning Paintings forthcoming in spring 2026. The first show will be at Project 78 in St Leonards (curated by Patrick Adam Jones) and the second one will be at Unit 2 in St Leonards (curated by Bee Nicholls). If you subscribe to the gallery mailing lists you will receive all the relevant invitation information and dates in due course.
