“A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.” Spike Milligan Alma Tischlerwood studied with Günter Fruhtrunk at the Munich Academy and briefly Philosophy at Goldsmiths University of London. After graduating in Germany the artist received among other awards a prize for painting and a scholarship from the city [...]
Anne Muddiman is a highly dedicated, inspirational and passionate Performing Arts Specialist. A motivational Teacher, Facilitator, Creative projects leader, Performer and Musician. Specialising in working creatively with children, young adults and teachers. Experienced Further Education College Manager leading three key Performing Arts programme areas. An experienced Teacher Trainer.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Musician Dave Robinson founded the Vinoteq wine bar and venue for the all things creative: Whether it is music, poetry, talks, films or just a space to meet with friends old and new, we try to make your visit with us both productive and enjoyable. And there is a selection [...]
Diederik Smet is manager at Destination Dover, an organisation that works to promote Dover as a tourist destination, rather than only as a place of transition and journeying. With its dramatic coastline, its intriguing art and architecture, the magnificent castle, and great transport connections, Diederik is enthusiastic about the town’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Greg Ireland is a composer, songwriter and sound artist currently exploring the relationship between sound, space and social history. Taking influence from folklore he creates contemporary music and soundscapes that investigates the relationships between people, the land and their histories and stories.
HA!Man (Francois le Roux) “I was born in South Africa, tenth generation French Huguenots. Both my father and mother were very musical, my mother with a music degree, my father untrained. But it is my father who stimulated me into discovering the piano myself, before the notes came. Eventually this [...]
Helen Lindon is an artist, climate activist, film maker, performer, gardener and voracious reader.
Joanna Jones paints and draws and actively pursues a strategic role for the arts in the places that she lives.
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 [...]
Kristin O’Donnell’s work focuses on the intersections of history, memory, and art, with a particular focus on the performativity of memory, embodiment, representation, identity, and the politics of war commemoration. Kristin is currently working towards a PhD through an AHRC TECHNE NPIF funded studentship entitled ‘Performing Emotional Histories: Centenary Commemorations [...]
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 [...]
Australian violist Lucas Levin is an active performer and teacher. Outside of music, Lucas has diplomas in acting and French, and a Bachelor of Science and creates websites and mobile apps.
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 [...]
Marjorie Van Halteren is an American sound artist and poet living in Northern France, partners in weather with Dover! She moved to Flanders after a career in radio and has contributed two Between the Ears to Radio 3, as well as a commission for Radiophrenia, Glasgow in 2019, “Hexagon Heart.” [...]
Macedonian-born composer/violinist Mihailo Trandafilovski studied at Michigan State University, USA (BMus) and the Royal College of Music, UK (MMus, DMus). His work has been supported by the Macedonian Ministries of Science and Culture and the British Government (Chevening scholarship), amongst others; awards include the Panče Pešev Award for best new [...]
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. [...]
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.
Paul Dagys became a published poet at the age of 16, then declared victory and moved on to the slightly more practical field of photojournalism, influenced by the words of Ernest Hemingway, who said newspaper work was good for a writer, though if you do it for too long you could [...]
Richard is Guyanese born, raised in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada, now living in the Alkham valley, Dover UK. Richard loves to create.
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 [...]
Tom is a Creative Producer based in London with three strands to his practice – theatrical events, live music, and formal conference or research events. He regularly produces dynamic, interdisciplinary projects which share an element of social conscience.
Underground Pearl is the collaborative practice of artists Loren Beven and Katryn Saqui. Inspired by seaside poetics and nautical traditions, the beach is their main studio and exhibition space. Specialising in illuminations and magical transformations their locally sited practice engages with history in contemporary ways through forming unexpected relationships, prompting [...]
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, [...]
