Amanda Thesiger trained in painting at Maidstone Art College, the Royal Academy Schools and as a scholar at the British School at Rome. She works in mixed media and is involved in many projects as an arts educator. Thesiger’s work is rooted in natural history, and she combines a process-led [...]
Anna Falcini is a visual artist who investigates ephemeral and intangible phenomena to reveal mysterious things; the atmosphere of an estuarial landscape or the potential for conversations through the archive with the Welsh artist, Gwen John. Falcini often attributes these things to “feelings in the air” and uses her sensing [...]
Anna-Marya is currently based in Dover. She has an MA in Theory and Practice of Transnational Art from Camberwell, and likes to draw, perform, take pictures, use textiles and sometimes make art. She has had residencies in Cyprus, Japan and Hungary, and has a long association with recycling and community [...]
Carole Day is a student at The University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, where she is studying for an MA in Fine Art. She is interested in drawing, printmaking and creating sculptures based on human and organic forms.Carole has worked extensively with community groups in her previous career in [...]
Cas Holmes trained in fine art at UCA and later received research Fellowships form the Winston Churchill Trust and the Japan Foundation to study in Japan. Her interest lies in the issues relating to the environment and to the land. Stitch, cloth and memory combines with paint, mark and image, [...]
Cathy Rogers is an artist who uses film and photography making work in the form of site-specific installations, screenings and interventions exploring visual representations of place, time, filmic and photographic materiality. She has a BA in Design and Public Art from Chelsea College of Art (UAL) an MA in Artists’ [...]
Christine Gist is a practising artist and independent curator living in Hastings, East Sussex who works along the south east/south coast and mainland Europe. She lived in the USA for many years where she received a BFA Sculpture from University of Washington, Seattle and an MFA Sculpture from Yale University [...]
Clare Smith's mixed English/Chinese heritage informed her perspective on issues of identity and categorisation.
Colin Priest is a London-based practitioner and educator. Projects evolve around wayfinding, lively location-led research and the continual negotiation of landscapes on a site-by-site basis.
Daniel Dressel’s work deals with issues that revolve around class, identity and migration, often in search of situa-tions and scenarios that have the potential to transcend borders and class differences through the use of different networks and coping strategies – a more positive outlook in a sense of community. This [...]
Dominic Pillai is a multidisciplinary artist working across moving image, sound, and the written word. He is also an experienced project leader and educator. Dominic's work has been showcased globally, most notably the Cannes Film Festival, Folkestone Triennial and Normal? Festival of the Brain. Trained as a visual anthropologist, Dominic [...]
Edda Salander-Jones has been with DAD from the beginning and is responsible for its strong visual branding and graphic design.
Elliot is a Dover resident who works in Creative Arts Education and on commercial creative projects that involve illustration, design and photography. He studied Fine Art at Reading University.
Dr Emily Peasgood (born 1981 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire) is an award-winning composer, sound artist and visual artist. She creates research-led and site specific interactive artworks for galleries and public spaces, ranging from large scale community events to intimate sound installations. Peasgood uses intricate sound and technology design to invite connection with people [...]
Based in Ramsgate, Emily graduated in 2000 with a BA(HONS) in Fine Art. A painter and textile artist she exhibits regularly in Kent and further afield with her mainly figurative artworks.
Gabor Stark is an architect, urbanist and educator, living and working in Berlin, Germany and Canterbury, UK.
Lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. He studied photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Bernd Becher, who with Hilla Becher was highly influential in the development of the new German photography exemplified by the work of Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff and often referred to as [...]
Helen Lindon is an artist, climate activist, film maker, performer, gardener and voracious reader.
Ian’s creative practice has been inspired by a critical engagement born of many years as an interdisciplinary academic/practitioner working in the fields of biodiversity conservation, environmental education, and anthropology.
Joanna Jones paints and draws and actively pursues a strategic role for the arts in the places that she lives.
Joseph Black lives and works at his studio in Kent. He trained at Camberwell College of Art, graduating with a BA Hons in painting in 2015, followed by a Masters Degree in the History of Art from The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2016. Joseph Black’s work combines technical precision [...]
Kate Beaugié is a light sculptor; she works with our human, primal connection to light and shadow and it's resulting connection to being. Her sculptures and installations are made from various materials including burnt wood, gold leaf, water and the alternative photographic process, photogramy.
Kate France grew up in Sussex and studied music and literature before deciding to perform and create live art. She founded The Grand Opera of Oklahoma with Andrew Davenport, and their work was shown in theatres and art spaces in Britain, the USSR and France. In 1992, she moved to France, [...]
I am preoccupied with space. My conception of space is both physical and experiential, real and metaphysical. An early interest in the created reality of the theatre has been of lasting influence in my work. I work with performers, sound engineers, light engineers to create a site-specific live performance. I locate and explore hidden spaces within the urban environment as [...]
Kim Plowright is an artist with an interdisciplinary practice involving drawing, teaching, performance lectures and digital storytelling.
Korinna McRobert is an artist who works with performance, video and installation. She graduated from the University for the Creative Arts, Maidstone and has collaborated with DAD on a number of projects since she was a student, including Watermark (2010), where she worked as part of the film crew for [...]
Laura J. Padgett's work explores unoccupied spaces, both real and theoretical, to reveal truths that are often overlooked. Like her subject, her work itself occupies the spaces between photographic storytelling and installation, between language and image, between history and current affairs.
Leah Thorn is a spoken word poet, who works in collaboration with film-makers, dancers and musicians. At the heart of her poetry is the autobiographical exploration of identity and of issues of liberation. She is published through performance, film and anthologies and magazines in England and the United States.
Louisa Love is a Dover-born contemporary artist working experimentally in sound, music, writing, installation, performance and collaborative/curatorial activity.
Louise Webb is a Dover-based artist, curator and researcher who has worked throughout Kent, the UK and has shown internationally. Louise has recently been investigating the importance of listening spaces in communities and is interested in alternative learning spaces. She is researching the importance of conversation, listening, arts administration and work ethics. Looking [...]
A bricolure/ archivist/ artist/ collector. Experimenting with the relationship between digital experience, lived experience and souvenirs as a way to share projects with different audiences. I often work location specifically and an interested in how to facilitate a dialogue between people in different parts of the country and world. My [...]
Marcia Teusink is an artist and art educator with two decades' experience teaching art in museums, schools and other places.
Mike Tedder is a graduate of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, now based in Dover, with a passion for mixed-media collage, photography and design. His work is inspired by many stimuli such as a dream, an emotion, language, something suddenly remembered, a song, or the experience of a particular moment. [...]
Nicolas Deshayes is a French-born sculptor who has lived and worked in Dover since 2018. He was educated at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London.
Nicole Mollett is a multi-disciplinary socially engaged artist. Nicole's practise includes drawing, sculpture and performance using Magic Lanterns. Nicole is interested in public art and the role culture plays in communities.
Nienke Eernisse is a geographer who is inspired by landscapes and nature, and their human interaction. She translates this into textile pieces and collages.
Nozomi Watanabe received a BFA from Joshi University of Art and Design, an MFA from Tama Art University and MA Fine Art from University for the Creative Arts. In recent years, she has expanded her work to create cross-media works including installations, videos, photographs, written works, and large-scale projects that [...]
Philippa’s time-based practice explores process and subtleties within space and time. Emphasising the idea of reliving, or repeating moments that in reality can never truly be repeated. Alongside Philippa’s practise she founded Threads, a nomadic, artist-led Gallery.
Polysemic is a cultural design practice established by Christopher Daniel to help people and organisations shape the next chapters in their stories.
Richard is Guyanese born, raised in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada, now living in the Alkham valley, Dover UK. Richard loves to create.
I take my first point of reference from crowds and large gatherings of people, looking for the detail in the ordinary but also the commonality within the group. Photographs are used to still movement and to reveal details, these photographs are then used to create drawings.I sew these drawings onto [...]
Samuel is an artist and printmaker, he explores comparisons in the food industry and makes work to champion those food manufacturers who take their practice seriously and passionately. He continues to explore ideas about our environment, health and food security.
Just to say I like Dover and feel part of it. There are ups and downs but in general I feel the joy of living, communicating and creativity of my position. I have met with great companionship not least from Virginia and including Joanna. My drawings are an expression [...]
Steph O'Connor is a Dover based visual artist and teacher who promotes creativity and equality of opportunity. She uses art as a well-being tool for the children with whom she works and advises across schools on inclusion, creativity and open access.
Thurle’s delicate paper reconstructions stem from an interest in the systems and structures of language, the ordering of knowledge, the collecting, storing and accessing of words.
Uwe Derksen (UKD) was born and grew up in Emmerich (Germany), a small border town of the lower Rhine region, not far from where Joseph Beuys grew up and had his first studio. His first encounter with the arts was in the early 60s, through the local artist Hein Driessen, [...]
A local artist, born in Dover, she is inspired by Taoist and Zen concerns of oneness and unity. Her work attempts to achieve a balance through materials and process, chance and choice, chaos and order, spontaneity and intuition.
Wendy has a BA in Textile Fine Art with the OCA. Her recent degree work, titled Isolation and Loneliness, identified the use of stitch, cloth and paper as a voice when words don’t come easily. Her specialist area is water soluble technique with organza, abaca tissue and free-machine embroidery
