Jenine Marsh, new wishes., 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Cooper Cole, Toronto.
De La Warr Pavilion is delighted to announce new wishes., the first solo presentation in the UK by Canadian artist Jenine Marsh.
Jenine Marsh is an artist who uses sculpture and installation to explore themes of agency, mortality and value. Coins and other paraphernalia of exchange and contact are central to her practice, subjected to processes of destruction and transformation that cultivate illicit and intimate responses to the shared conditions of end-stage capitalism.
For new wishes., Marsh will transform the Ground floor gallery into a civic landscape centred on a large-scale fountain in a state of transition. The fountain will appear under construction, out of service or in decay, conceived in dialogue with the Pavilion’s modernist architecture and its role as a civic space. Coins and taxidermy pigeons will appear throughout the gallery and within the fountain itself. The pigeons act as quiet messengers of urban life, evoking movement, neglect, and the traces of human presence, while the coins gather as points of contact, carrying the weight of both hope and exchange. Together, these elements form a space that moves between stillness and change, linking the everyday act of wishing to the material conditions of life.
Marsh approaches this gesture as a ritual of belief, exchange and sacrifice, while exposing its contradictions within contemporary systems of value. Through acts of reconfiguration and transformation, she reimagines coin-wishing as a quiet expression of speculation—evoking a present suspended between what is wished for and what is left behind.
Fragments of urban detritus such as receipts, junk mail and newspapers will be embedded within the structure, echoing the accumulation of waste in our shared environments. Out of this debris, coins will emerge as focal elements, appearing squished, folded or pierced. The coins used in the exhibition are bronze counterfeits cast through a lost-wax process and electroplated to resemble circulated currency. As altered copies, they unsettle familiar ideas of worth and disrupt the ways coins perform economic value, suggesting that value itself is always performed. These transformations strip the coins of monetary function while allowing them to register human gestures and experiences, revealing what our material remains hold about us.
Jenine Marsh (b. 1984, Calgary, Alberta, Canada) has exhibited her sculpture and installation work widely in galleries and institutions such as the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario (2025), the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, New York (2025); the Goldfarb Art Gallery, Toronto (2024); Ensemble, New York (2024); Prairie, Chicago (2024); Ashley, Berlin (2024); the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2024); Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2023); Union Pacific, London (2023); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2023); Joe Project, Montreal (2023); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Essex Flowers, New York (2020); Franz Kaka, Toronto (2019); Centre Clark, Montreal (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019), Entrée Gallery, Bergen (2018), and Lulu, Mexico City (2015). She has served as artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts (2009, 2010, and 2022), at AiR Bergen at USF Verftet, Bergen (2018); Rupert, Vilnius (2017); and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT (2011). Marsh’s work has received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, Partners in Art, the Chalmers Arts Fellowship, the Toronto Arts Council, and the Ontario Arts Council. Jenine received her BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2007, and her MFA from the University of Guelph in 2013. She is currently a doctoral candidate at York University.
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- By Rail
Direct trains go from London Victoria, Brighton and Ashford to Bexhill.
There are also trains from London Charing Cross, changing at St. Leonards Warrior Square and from London Bridge or Charing Cross going to Battle. Battle is only a short taxi journey away (15 mins approx).
Visit www.nationalrail.co.uk for up-to-date train travel information. - Taxis
Town Taxis: 01424 211 511
Parkhurst Taxis: 01424 733 456 - By Car
If driving from the London area:
Take the M25, then A21 to Hastings. Turn off at John‘s Cross and follow the signs to Bexhill.
OR
Take the A22 to Eastbourne, go across the Bishop roundabout to the A271 and follow the signs to Bexhill and the seafront. The De La Warr Pavilion is on the Marina.
From the Brighton area:
Follow the A27 out of Brighton until you arrive in Bexhill On Sea. - Parking
Please be aware the Rother District car park outside the De La Warr Pavilion operates paid parking until 10pm. After this time parking is free. There is also limited free car parking along the seafront.
Within the limits of this Grade One listed building, the De La Warr Pavilion strives to be fully accessible with a range of facilities to support your visit.
Assistance Dogs are permitted into the building.
Please contact the Box Office on 01424 229 111 to arrange a visit.
Facilities for disabled visitors
- Ramped access at the front of the building
- A low counter at the Box Office and Information Desk
- Disabled toilets on two floors
- A lift to all floors
- Accessible galleries on both floors
- An accessible Café
- Spaces for wheelchairs in the auditorium for seated events
- Ramped access in the auditorium for events during the day
- Ramped access into the Studio
- Two travel wheelchairs are available for use at the De La Warr Pavilion. To reserve, please call our box office and information desk on (01424) 229111 or ask a member of staff on arrival. The chairs are provided on a first come, first served basis and are intended for use inside the Pavilion. Please contact us for more information.
Facilities for blind or visually-impaired
- Large print season brochures
Facilities for the hard-of-hearing
- An T-Switch induction loop in some areas of the auditorium (please indicate when booking as this facility is not available on the balcony)
- British Sign Language interpretation tours of the building and exhibitions are available on request.
Sensory Bags
- Sensory bags will be available from the Ground floor or First floor gallery and contain supportive items for people with neurodivergence, anxiety or sensory sensitives.Sensory bags include:
One set of ear defenders
A selection of fidget toys
One soft foam stress ball
A set of 6 coloured paddles
One light up magnifying glass. You can sign one out and bring it back before you leave.
Sensory bags are funded by UK Government.