Space Interrupted
20 February - 8 March 2015
Private View: Thursday 19 February, 6-9pm
Limbo Arts, Substation Project Space, 2 Bilton Square, High Street, Margate CT9 1EE
Gallery opens Friday-Sunday, 12-4pm
Space Interrupted is an exhibition of projected video and installation works by artists Zoe Fudge, Sharon Haward and Rachel Wilberforce that span LIMBO’s project space - a former electricity substation - interrupting and overlapping its utilitarian qualities to create an assemblage of real and imagined functions and meanings.
Space Interrupted is part of an on-going collaboration between artist Sharon Haward and curator Clare Sheppeard.
Events in conjunction with the exhibition include a 'Point and Shoot' workshop led by Sharon Haward and Rachel Wilberforce on 24th January at 12 & 3pm. The tour is accompanied with information provided by Margate Museum and all are welcome, just don't forget your camera! To book a place contact spaceinterrupted@yahoo.co.uk
Then on the 8th March join the artists and Clare Sheppeard in conversation with writer and curator Mark Waugh. Tickets are free, but limited. Book a place here.
Music Portraits
16 January - 1 March 2015
Vortigern Margate, 6 Lombard St, Margate, England, CT9 1EJ
Gallery opens Friday-Sunday 11am-5pm
At Margate's only photography based gallery, Vortigern Margate, music photographer Pat Pope exhibits some of his portraits of musicians from Lou Reed to the Gallagher brothers.
Pope is an experienced and prolific photographer, both in the music industry and beyond. His website biography reads 'His work in music and portraiture has appeared in many publications worldwide and he has a photograph in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Pat is regularly commissioned by record companies both for CD artwork and press and publicity shots as well as working alongside design and advertising groups. His pictures have been used in many books including volumes on Oasis, Dave Gilmour, Gilbert & George, David Bowie and The Verve. As well as music clients Pat has photographed actors and politicians including Richard E Grant, Rufus Sewell, Luc Besson, Edward Woodward and Tony Blair.'
Whilst at Vortigern you can also browse and purchase some of the gallery's carefully curated rare photo-books, which you can view on line and get a taster for here.
Self
24 January - 10 May 2015
Turner Contemporary Rendezvous, Margate, Kent CT9 1HG
Gallery opens Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm, admission free.
Amidst the current craze and haze of selfies, Turner Contemporary has delved into the world of the Self Portrait with a new exhibition simply titled Self. Exhibiting over 100 works, from Sir Anthony Van Dyke's last ever Self Portrait dated 1640-01 to contemporary portraits by Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin, with Lucien Freud and Andy Warhol in between to name but a few, Turner Contemporary are asking us to 'be challenged, surprised, and think differently.'
'In this extraordinary new exhibition, Turner Contemporary becomes a frame through which self-portraiture is re-evaluated in the 21st century, sparking conversations on history, celebrity, collecting, gender, mortality and contemporary approaches.
Artists have been recreating their own image for centuries. From self-advertisement and preserving legacy, to figurative studies, political commentary and biographical exploration self-representation, has shaped Western art.'
On Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays at 11.30am you can attend a free art tour, and on Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm there are Spotlight Stories where Turner Contemporary staff personally select an artwork to share with you which has inspired them, so there are plenty of ways to explore this pertinent exhibition.
It's worthwhile keeping an eye on the Turner Contemporary website, as the gallery runs a programme of events and learning opportunities in conjunction with their exhibitions.
Sadie Hennessy Presents: Souvenirs of Cliftonville
7 - 22 February 2015
Private view: Friday 6 February 6-9pm with rare vinyl DJ Emmet Keane- Creation.
Resort Studios Gallery Pettman Building, 50 Athelstan Road, Cliftonville, Margate CT9 2BH
Gallery opens Saturdays and Sundays 12-4pm or by appointment
Whitstable artist Sadie Hennessy's three month residency at Resort Studios is culminating in an up coming exhibition of her work at the Resort Gallery. Resort called out to artists in the summer of 2014 asking for proposals which were inspired by the studio's home of Cliftonville which would contribute to the regeneration of the area.
Sadie Hennessy presents: Souvenirs of Cliftonville is an exhibition of 14 specially commissioned portraits of local Cliftonville residents, which will be displayed in a custom-made souvenir shop. Each portrait celebrates a different aspect of Cliftonville, and draws upon the subjects' memories of living and working in the area.
The artist has incorporated found ephemera from Cliftonville's heyday in the finished portraits and each portrait is a one-off digital collage. Postcards of the exhibition, real souvenirs of Cliftonville and other artist's editions will be available to purchase at the show.
The residency was sponsored by a number of local organisations including Margate Arts Creativity Heritage, Thanet District Council and Kent county Council. For a full list of sponsors please contact Resort here.
Picasso & Matisse
30 January - 1 March 2015
Private view: 30 January 6-8pm.
UpDown Gallery Satis House, 11 Elms Avenue, Ramsgate CT11 9BW
Gallery opens Thursday - Sunday 11am - 5pm
UpDown Gallery in Ramsgate is holding an exhibition of prints by Picasso and Matisse.
The exhibition is but a small selection from their vast oeuvre. Printmaking formed an integral part in each artist’s development of ideas and style, imagery that is now recognised around the world. Each artist produced 1000’s of prints during their lifetimes, and with paintings now soaring into the increasingly inaccessible 10’s of millions this has created a competitive market for their prints.
On the artists' relationship, UpDown's press release says It could be called a rivalry, a dialogue, a chess game—Matisse himself once compared it to a boxing match. But it also became the abiding friendship of two titans who, daring to paint the ugly, transformed our sense of beauty in art.
The gallery's owner and curator Kate Smith offers an arts consultancy service and a collectors club, so this could be a great opportunity to add an already collectible artwork to your walls.
You can contact the gallery directly with enquiries here.
Anthony Giles: Escape to the Sea
17 January - 15 February 2015
Margate Gallery, 2 Lombard Street, Margate CT9 1EJGallery opens Tuesday- Saturday 11am – 5pm, Sundays and Bank Holidays 12-4pm
Margate Gallery is currently holding an exhibition of Anthony Giles’ paintings, most of which are started en plein air and then ‘worked-up’ over several months in the studio. As a landscape painter he spends much of his time looking at every colour, shadow and reflection of the world around him to then transfer those moments onto canvas.
Somehow a rain soaked canvas, that has sand and grass blown into it, holds onto some of the magic of the moment, and that is exactly what Anthony wants from his work. The essence of that moment in Nature when he’s totally absorbed in capturing the image that surrounds him.
The gallery will be hosting a Meet the Artist event on Saturday 24th January from 12-4pm. You can read more information on Anthony Giles and preview some of his works from the exhibition here.
If you know of any other exhibitions opening up in the CT9 area in January which you think I ought to know about, please contact me at here.
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