“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.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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.
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.
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, [...]
