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.
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 […]
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 […]
| 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 […]
| 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 […]
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. […]
| 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. […]
| Hip-Hop Something by Lee Saffery | Hip-Hop Something is an audio & visual space created in order to highlight the essential impact that the music genre has had on race issues. “Hip-Hop Something started with my love for the music genre. In a town where Hip-Hop is so underrepresented I wanted to make […]
| Live experimental sound and art workshop 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. The sound and art […]
The CRATE UCA GRAD AWARD is an annual Award given by CRATE to selected UCA Canterbury Fine Art Graduates and is part of CRATE and UCA's long history together, with many of CRATE’s founders, trustees and programming team having studied at UCA. The GRAD Award usually takes places during the summer, shortly after the Fine […]
| Wind-Breaker Mural by Rory Strudwick | The Wind-Breaker Mural is a giant windbreaker with an abstract representation of Margate’s growth as a town across the past 10 years. With this painted onto one side of the piece and facing the town, I will set it up to create various windless patches for people […]
| Boxing Series II by Freya Tewelde | Screening at Pie Factory Margate 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. The blue background […]
| Lost for Territory by Freya Tewelde | Screening at Pie Factory Margate 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 reaching out […]
| Tunnel Vision by Sprankenstein | Tunnel Vision installation by Sprankenstein, artist, animator, explores the hidden history of subterranean London, and speculates on the city’s future. Through a series of meetings and discussions, the artist took inspiration from the work carried out by engineers from Mott MacDonald, Buro Happold, and research carried out at […]
| Participate (the diversity fayre) by Geoffrey Chambers | Participate is an immersive art event, very much like a school sports day or village Fair typical in Thanet. Join in, fill out ‘the check your privilege’ questionnaire and enter your bubble. Participate. To take part in Participate: The Diversity Fayre, you must be available […]
| A skate-dance performance by Bob Chicalors & Tanya Loretta Dee | An elusive, non-immersive skate dance improvisation along Margate seafront at some between 5 - 6pm on Saturday 10th October. There will be no audience as such, but perhaps you'll catch a fleeting glance of Bob and Tanya performing a carnivalesque teacher-student routine […]
Make Noise For Equality: a panel discussion of race, identity and the world with the C4E collective, including a series of performances. Canvas 4 Equality presents to you: Make Noise For Equality, a two day event featuring a panel discussion amongst the Canvas 4 Equality collective supported by an interlude of musical and poetry performances on […]
| An Ode to Our Town by Brigitte Aphrodite | An ode; a love poem, a spoken-word vignette to Margate’s sights to see, cultural places, sung and unsung heroes – a beautiful fun tapestry adding to the rich history of works about Thanet! Favourite hidden haunts, surprising meet up places, characters, cafes, independent shops. […]
| 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 […]
