Penthouse is delighted to present Well, an exhibition of exquisite new mixed media works alongside an early video by internationally renowned artist Elizabeth Magill. These precisely scaled mixed media paintings employ Magill's now signature layering of hand painted and photomechanical printing processes. They depict a wide-ranging language of sublime yet tainted landscape, glimpsed figurative situations […]
Katherine Bernhardt, José Luis Vargas A new show at the Carl Freedman Gallery, with works on display from Puerto Rican painter of the supernatural José Luis Vargas, and from Katherine Bernhardt, who is renowned for her abstract works incorporating unconventional items such as cigarettes, basketballs, tacos, and socks.
A session exploring the importance of crits, hosted by Resort Studios and in conversation with Jess Jordan-Wrench, Anna Skutley & Umut Gunduz. * Crit - a space for peer support and collaborative knowledge exchange, giving artists a platform to discuss, critique and question. You will first hear from Mercedes Workman from Resort Studios with an […]
Phien O’ Phien considers himself an ‘idearist’ rather than an artist. He attempts to bring his ideas to life via the medium of contemporary art. His work often comments on social issues. His show last year at the Tate Modern revolved around eviction of people from their own land.
| clouds have two faces by Alexandra Walton | ‘clouds have two faces’ is an exhibition of poetry interventions at Little Swift. Quoting poets, writers and speakers from across the globe. Bringing words together in a time we can’t come together ourselves. Each representing a member of the LGBTQ+ community, they speak on love, […]
We will be sharing excerpts of everyday racism stories, that will be displayed on shop windows all around Margate. You will also be able to take a free post card from the stores. Find posters in shops around Margate, including: Ralph’s The Margate Bookshop The Kitchen Scissortail Coffee Madam Popoff Breuer and Dawson Handsome Freaks […]
| Expressions of Love by Jas Dhillon | A display of screen printed dupattas in Punjabi, as a love story to those that left their lands in pursuit of safety, security, prosperity & adventure, & to those that had to let them go. Born from a desire to preserve the poetic blessings from her […]
| A Different Lens is an online event by Thread and Word for the Margate Bookie and Margate NOW 2020 | https://cgeomap.eu/adifferentlens/ It connects to how we overcome challenging events in our lives, through the writing of visually impaired authors. Artists’ responses to the texts form a virtual walk around Margate through an interactive […]
| Crazy Universe by Yifan He | Crazy Universe is an interactive web-based program tackling experiences of political disorientation. Visitors may find themselves navigating through a chaotic and overloading space where out-of-context information packed in cropped images, abrupt texts and animated 3D objects swirl and float past them into an unidentifiable blur. crazyuniverse.space Read […]
Shirt Notice is a project put together to engage with local artists and the community, to raise funds and awareness in support of People Dem Collective. Taking inspiration from recent global protests against racism, we have 20 artists local to Margate, exhibiting an 'upcycled' T-shirt into wearable (or not) artwork. The exhibition will […]
Come drum up the coastal winds with Kensei Taiko and learn the basics of Japanese drumming! Taiko is a full body, holistic experience...it's soul enriching, physically exhilarating and an ancient art form! Come feel the deep vibrant pulse. Learn the basics of Japanese drumming, bring out the spirit of the drums and awaken dragons. […]
UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED | Boxing series by Freya Tewelde | Outdoor Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space A figure in a morph-suit and wearing boxing gear, boxing an invisible–self or other as we all being hurt by this invisible force especially 2020…and how […]
| Work. Workers. Working. by Joana Nastari & Jess Edwards | A verbatim audio installation by writer & activist Joana Nastari, directed by Jess Edwards. Everyone has been affected by lockdown – we explore the specific experiences of sex workers. How have they adapted? How has their industry changed, how, like all of us, […]
RETURN ADDRESS part of the CRATE UCA GRAD Award 2020 Here, the space brings together an interim show where works meet for the first time ‘post’ lockdown. Post- lockdown has seen extreme precautions and restrictions to enable a steady restart of society and controlled regulation of the pandemic to allow some common activity to safely […]
| Nowadays by Canterbury School of Visual Arts and Creative Industries at Broadstairs College | Margate NOW 2020 are excited to host a visual arts exhibition of students from Canterbury School of Visual Arts at Canterbury College and students from Creative Industries at Broadstairs College. They have responded to the theme Margate NOW – Margate as […]
| Colour Blind by Leondre Ansah | Colour Blind is an exhibition at Resort Studios. An exploration of the questions ‘If you don’t see the colour of my skin, how can you see me?’ If you don’t see a person’s colour then how do you see the struggles that black and brown people have […]
UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED | Boxing series by Freya Tewelde | Outdoor Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space A figure in a morph-suit and wearing boxing gear, boxing an invisible–self or other as we all being hurt by this invisible force especially 2020…and how […]
| THEO IS THEO IS THEO by Cynthia Lawrence-John | Installation in the window of Werkhaus Margate and Instagram project @cynthialawrencejohn Summer 2017. I remember it only too well...Wincing in pain at the bite marks which littered my arms, chest, in fact every part of my upper body. The bite marks being an expression […]
| Colour Blind by Leondre Ansah | Colour Blind is an exhibition at Resort Studios. An exploration of the questions ‘If you don’t see the colour of my skin, how can you see me?’ If you don’t see a person’s colour then how do you see the struggles that black and brown people have […]
Canvas 4 Equality have curated a display in the windows of Margate Arts Club. This project has been supported by POW! Thanet as part of Margate NOW 2020.
| Free Speech Equaliser 9000 by Crab Museum | What is the Free Speech Equaliser 9000? When exercising your freedom of speech, do you find that other people's voices overpower your own? Or perhaps your voice drowns out other people's? Enter the Free Speech Equaliser 9000, the world's first communication enhancement system. Using the […]
This is a 2-week pop-up gallery & shop, to begin an ongoing project which will hopefully find a permanent home when the time is right. I really just want to meet the town! My work is loving, open, often queer, and I've been experimenting with Margate-specific works, inviting a response to my new home […]
| The death of George Floyd by Sebastian September & Mandalorian Revisited 2020 by Asa Chandler | Outdoor Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space “Three words ‘BLM’ I wanted to help support black & brown people because I felt bad for George the way he died a slow painful death was not […]
Join us for a first look at The Margate Kebab Map, a playable, documentary game highlighting various kebab restaurants in Margate. | The Margate Kebab Map by Anna Skutley & Umut Gunduz | The Margate Kebab Map is a multi-media documentary project highlighting a group of restaurants often overlooked or excluded by cultural profiles […]
| The Margate Kebab Map by Anna Skutley & Umut Gunduz | The Margate Kebab Map is a multi-media documentary project highlighting a group of restaurants often overlooked or excluded by cultural profiles of Margate. While they are seldom reviewed by local magazines, such restaurants are long standing staples of the food industry. We […]
| Lost for Territory by Freya Tewelde | Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space Lost for Territory is a looping video installation with sound (hymns) which explores a 48 seconds vision in the future. It is a reflective study on present–day territories which navigate and equally roll through our everyday diasporic experiences. Partly […]
| Boxing Series II by Freya Tewelde | Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space A figure in a morph-suit and wearing boxing gear, boxing an invisible–self or other as we all being hurt by this invisible force especially 2020…and how the narrative falls short of clarity but lands more interesting on distortion. […]
| Live experimental sound and art workshop for kids & families led by Megan Metcalf! | You are invited to attend this fabulous live experimental sound and art event led by Margate artist Megan Metcalf in collaboration with sound experts Jo Miller of Solasta Sounds and Margate Social Singing Choir, led by Hughie Gavin. […]
| Boxing Series II by Freya Tewelde | Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space A figure in a morph-suit and wearing boxing gear, boxing an invisible–self or other as we all being hurt by this invisible force especially 2020…and how the narrative falls short of clarity but lands more interesting on distortion. […]
| Lost for Territory by Freya Tewelde | Screening at CRATE Studios and Project Space Lost for Territory is a looping video installation with sound (hymns) which explores a 48 seconds vision in the future. It is a reflective study on present–day territories which navigate and equally roll through our everyday diasporic experiences. Partly […]
