Áine Belton originates from County Meath, Ireland. She has been living and working in Ontario, Canada since late December 2015. Áine completed her M.A. in Fine Art at UCA Canterbury in 2012. She received her B.A. in Fine Art from I.A.D.T., in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin (Institute of Art, Design and [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Having always had a love of needlecraft, Bev works with textiles to create her art. She uses textiles because of the very tactile nature of the medium. She uses stitch to make marks, and her sewing machine is an integral part of the furniture. The materials she uses are diverse, [...]
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, [...]
Clare Smith's mixed English/Chinese heritage informed her perspective on issues of identity and categorisation.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Melanie Chalk is a ‘Returning’ artist, enjoying making Art after a lifelong career as a florist, having gained an A level in Art back in the seventies. She enjoys trying new techniques but has settled now on Mixed Media pieces, Mono and Collagraph Printing, Collage, with Fabric and stitch as [...]
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. [...]
Nienke Eernisse is a geographer who is inspired by landscapes and nature, and their human interaction. She translates this into textile pieces and collages.
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.
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.
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.
