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 [...]
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, [...]
Based in Ramsgate, Emily graduated in 2000 with a BA(HONS) in Fine Art. A painter and textile artist she exhibits regularly in Kent and further afield with her mainly figurative artworks.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Steph O'Connor is a Dover based visual artist and teacher who promotes creativity and equality of opportunity. She uses art as a well-being tool for the children with whom she works and advises across schools on inclusion, creativity and open access.
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.
Wendy has a BA in Textile Fine Art with the OCA. Her recent degree work, titled Isolation and Loneliness, identified the use of stitch, cloth and paper as a voice when words don’t come easily. Her specialist area is water soluble technique with organza, abaca tissue and free-machine embroidery
