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 [...]
Preferring self employment and wishing for a more creative life, during the 90s, Caroline started her own business as a specialist antique restorer of dolls and teddy bears, running an independent shop. Around the same time, she became an award-winning and published poet.
Dan Simpson is a spoken word poet and compère, poetry projects and events organiser, workshop facilitator and writer. He is the current Canterbury Laureate and hosts The Word House in London, alongside co-producing and co-hosting regular events Stand Up & Slam and The Anti-Slam. He has performed at places and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.” [...]
Nicola Dunsbee is a young curator, writer, workshop leader and artist from Dover. She is interested in making space in the art world for marginalized identities. She has written about queer identities, feminism, mental health and chronic illness. In 2018, she organized the programme of events for Folkestone’s successful International [...]
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.
