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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Gabor Stark is an architect, urbanist and educator, living and working in Berlin, Germany and Canterbury, UK.
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.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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.
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.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
