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Artwave 2026: NOCTURNE
Saturday 5 & Saturday 19 September 2026
NOCTURNE was our Artwave 2026 event, and saw the premiere of Beautifully Damaged, our first feature film. We enjoyed incredible food and cocktails from the FyrFly horsebox bar, then settled in around the fire as the film played outdoors in the garden after dark. The turnout was more than we could have hoped for. Thank you to everyone who came.
Beautifully Damaged is Felicity Stuart-Menteath’s sensory expression of how she understands the world: the beauty in it, and the damage that sits right alongside it. The concept was brought to life with filmmaker Adrian Peckitt, with music written, performed, and produced by Nava Kazemi. Together they whittled down hours of archive footage and filmed out on the farm and across Hamsey, Felicity’s home and the inspiration behind Menteath. Shots of local farming sit against the beauty industry’s idea of perfection, and everything that’s wrong with it. Adrian then shaped it all in the edit.
Beautifully Damaged looks at the marks experience leaves on people, landscapes and memory, and at home, not as a place but as a feeling of safety and belonging. It moves between humanitarian archive, nature, ritual and the beauty industry’s idea of perfection, and asks what happens when we begin to see beauty differently.
Adrian Peckitt: Photography Exhibition
Alongside the film, Adrian exhibited a selection of his photographic work, on show all day and into the night on both Saturdays.
Adrian is a photographer and filmmaker, co-creator of Beautifully Damaged, and the photographer behind Menteath’s latest body of imagery. The exhibition carried our ongoing collaboration around landscape, material, body and place from the daylight hours through to the screening after dark.
The Day Around It
The film was the heart of NOCTURNE, but the garden was open from midday.
There was drumming, breathwork, gentle movement, The Sacred Healing Garden, and seated massage with Clare and Yolanda. Adrian’s photography was exhibited throughout.
Savino of Giannella Olive Oil bringing his amazing olive oil from Puglia to host tastings of this beautiful oil which we also use in our Smoked Bay Body Ritual. FyrFly ran the bar from midday until late.
The Food
Both evenings celebrated the first year of Foodwave alongside Artwave, with a guest chef each night, and both were epic.
Saturday 5 September: Theo Sanchez
Theo, one of the founding members of Michelin-reviewed Dill in Lewes, is a maverick who isn’t afraid to push the limits of food and artistry. He created a series of sweet and savoury bites in response to the light installation, each one built around fermentation and moving between black and white, changing colour and different intensities.
Saturday 19 September: Mikey McDuffie
Just days earlier, Mikey and his brother had hosted Downs to Table, the Foodwave supper club celebrating food grown, reared, caught, foraged and made within 20 miles of Lewes. At NOCTURNE we were lucky enough to get a second round, with Mikey serving some of those dishes again as a free feast for everyone in the garden.
Thank You
To Adrian and Nava, to Savino, Theo Sanchez, Mikey McDuffie, Clare and Yolanda, to FyrFly, Foodwave and Artwave, and to everyone who came out to Hamsey.
We had the best time and can't wait for next year!
