Model and Monument, an exhibition of work by Stephen Blowers opens at Crate Project Space

Model and Monument, an exhibition of work by Stephen Blowers opens at Crate Project Space in Margate on Friday April 1st from 6 - 9pm and is then open Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd April 11am - 5pm.

Perceptions of Margate are being reshaped by redevelopment work in the town. New energies and aspirations are unfolding out of existing narratives of the town as a seaside resort. The exhibition contrasts the development in Margate of the new Turner Contemporary with a building traditionally associated with Margate, Dreamland.

For further information contact: stephenblowers@hotmail.com

Event - Circuit Drive Thru Cinema at Dreamland - Saturday 26th 4pm-9pm

I nearly missed this! I must be off the radar for some news snippets. Circuit Drive Thru Cinema arrives at Dreamland this Saturday 26th March from 4pm to 9pm. Artists are invited to participate by exhibiting in their cars. More info at Marine Studios

Red - new exhibition at CRATE

A new exhibition at CRATE featuring Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Installation and Video.

RED brings together new works made in 2011 by Margate-based artists Tom Swift and Mark John Smith.

Private view: 19 March 2011 6PM – 9PM
Exhibition continues: 19, 20, 26, 27 March 11am – 5pm

RED aims to explore the interdependencies between: gallery – museum, location and place.

Although the works on show were conceived and produced separately, they share both a common aesthetic and conceptual approach.

Tom Swift’s practice relies on a ‘make and do’ ethos. The final works shown are a reduction of this process.

Mark John Smith’s practice is concerned with the juxtaposition of the ‘elite’ with the mundane. His sculptural works include essences from 1960’s Minimalism. These key historical aesthetic signifiers are then represented through the engagement and appropriation of utilitarian objects sourced from the everyday.

TOM SWIFT
tomswift76.blogspot.com
highwallmargate.blogspot.com

MARK JOHN SMITH
markjohnsmith.com
facebook.com/markjohnsmith

Appointments are available for those requiring alternative viewing times. Please email: markjohnsmithstudio@me.com to book.

Crate Studio and Project Space
6 Bilton Square Margate CT9 1DX
Charity No: 1105867
Company Limited by Guarantee 5163003

Crate is designed to give artists access to affordable space and resources.

For further information on Crate visit: www.cratespace.co.uk

Looking for Photos of Youth Culture in Margate for Exhibition

The lovely ladies at Helterskelter, the newly opened vintage shop at 13 Market Place in Margate's Old Town, are looking for photographs to include in an exhibition about Margate youth culture which is set to take place in November at the shop.

They're looking for photographs of people from the 1950s onwards, when the subjects in the photos were young, with interesting clothes and/or set in interesting places in Margate.

Contact Katharine at: kj.elvinhelterskelter@hotmail.co.uk

Or pop into the shop at 13 Market Place.

Pushing Print

Starts tomorrow, running from 10th October to 1st November at Ingoldsby, Pie Factory and The Old Town Gallery in Margate Old Town. More info: http://pushingprint.co.uk/

Private View: Michelle Morris

On Friday 5th of June there is a the opening of the artist Michelle Morris' exhibition at her studio on the Harbour Arm.

Glimpse exhibition final day

The Margate UK flickr group exhibition has its final day tomorrow on Sunday 19th April. It's had well over 1000 visitors over the last two weeks. I'm told there is an impromptu gathering to send her off from about 2pm onwards. There's a nice series of interviews with the exhibitors on the Glimpse Blog. See if you can detect a common theme. ;-)

Glimpse Margate

There's a photographic exhibition coming to the Margate Harbour Arm on April 3rd.
Glimpse seeks to celebrate the Margate UK Flickr group's website postings from the first two years, up until January 2009, and how the members of this online community came together through their photographs of Margate. The exhibition is as much about the people and the collection as the individual images themselves. Some people have never exhibited before, some are artists, some are native to Margate, some were just visiting.

What counts is that they came to Margate, were inspired to take a picture and motivated to share it. Glimpse will run until Sunday 19 April. The opening night event is on Friday 3 April, from 5pm-9pm, with delicious food to try from The Indian Princess restaurant. For more information go to the Glimpse blog at: http://glimpsemargate.blogspot.com/

And that's not the only thing on in town that night. The same Friday has the Turner Contemporary Project Space opening of their new show: The Sound of Music, which explores the links between art, sound and music. Featuring 30 works in a variety of media from artists including John Cage, Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller, Turner Prize nominee Angela Bulloch and Pierre Huyghe, all selected from the collection of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais in Dunkirk. Alongside Sound of Music, Turner Contemporary presents Crossroads, a new video installation by David Blandy. Crossroads investigates the mythology surrounding the legendary Robert Johnson, a bluesman with three gravestones, 29 recorded songs and only two known photographs, who reputedly sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads. The Sound of Music and Crossroads will run until Sunday 14 June.

Also, for one night only local artists will transform the interior of the Substation Project Space into a fantasy stage-set which will encompass both the audience and the evening’s musical performers. Headline act, French-Swiss two piece Vialka, proclaim themselves to be a “Turbo-folk mini-orchestra”, and promise to thrill the audience with their cabaret-influenced punk rock. Support comes from Margate’s Neverest Songs, Faversham’s Tikoloshe, and Canterbury/Brighton act Savlon. In addition, the local Roadkill Fanzine will be holding a stall at the venue, selling ‘zines, T-shirts and drawings. Tickets for this event are £4.50 payable on the door.on the night.

Andy Warhol's TV

Went to the Andy Wahol's TV exhibition at Substation on Friday night where they've re-constructed the inside of Kate Jackson's shop, Style Counsel. I think Margate really misses shops like Kate's. There was a time, not so long ago when there were quite a few antique and second hand vintage shops in the Old Town. This was before my time unfortunately. The exhibition has a nice twist to it, where kids can get a £5 voucher to take up to Scott's, another of my fave haunts in Margate and pick up an item and bring it back to the exhibition. The kids then get to keep the object after everything is finished.