The bowling alley is a great equaliser, a refuge for the outcast and awkward. Providing all the equipment for different ability levels, you just have to turn up and play. Weekends with dad provide the backdrop for a story of longing and of working class aspiration as American culture collides with British luxury.

Samuel Vilanova and Stuart Rayner turn to the shop front window as a landscape, abundant in fantastical beings, pastoral iconography and popular references.

This show brings together photography & video work to tell a series of stories about the Isle of Thanet, from artists Jo Murray, Dominic Rose, Jon Spencer and Heather Tait.

In this community writing workshop, Undertow asked local people to write postcards to the places they have loved. Reading them together we are able to see the love affairs that go into shaping the rich perspectives that make up our community.

Charlee M. Piper’s Fight Like Hell is both a requiem and a beacon of hope.

A collection of found, re-purposed and spray painted house bricks.

c-lines Agata Dixon-Smith June & July 2024 Agata Dixon-Smith is an Architect and Artist living in Margate.

Lily Hughes presents The Cleaner – a portrait of one artist’s labour in Margate’s Airbnb industry.

A Leak in the Party Room is an exhibition of spontaneous, expressive ‘outpourings’ by self-taught abstract expressionist painter Meera Palia, shaped by experiences of grief, change, perimenopausal mayhem and a love of music and dance.

Big Trees of Thanet - a new project by the Margate photographer, Heather Tait.

Stuart Leech will be presenting work from his long term project Canto which explores the East Kent border, the closest coastline to mainland Europe.

Anka Dabrowska is a queer artist working and living in London. Her installation HOPE & GLORY is a mixture of drawings, collage, sculptures and placards embracing themes of queer empowerment, identity, belonging, environmental issues, architecture and regeneration.

A community art project of 1000+ tiles made by the people of Thanet.

Jon Spencer's installation is part of a larger piece of work produced for the shop windows of Rodić Davidson Architects. This was on display at their studio on Bury Place, Bloomsbury in central London in 2020 and 2021.

Utilizing working drawings from ‘Birds & Bags’ which was shown during the 2021 Pride Art Trail and starting from a white washed surface the images were gradually revealed to the street.

A collaboration with Colourful Margate & Cliftonville Primary School showcasing 54 cherry blossom paintings made by children from various classes at the school.

Margate based Artist Dominic Rose presents a series of prints as well as a large format artist’s book, charting his recent walk along the Thames Estuary from London to Margate

A selection of old coke cans, collected from the streets of Thanet. A pop art piece using this iconic brand, reminiscent of Warhol of course, but also a comment on the rubbish left in our towns.

Margate Reimagined was a present day vision of Margate with an alternative past. Bringing together heritage both real and imaginary this project speculated about a town that might have been, or could yet become.

An installation by Heather Tait based on her project Reconstructing Reality, in which alternative newspaper headlines appeared around Margate.

To coincide with the Margate Festival 2016 we experimented with turning the whole of the shop front into a camera obscura.

We were delighted to be one of several venues across Thanet showing one of the fabulous banners made by various local groups (in our case Drapers Mill School) with Artist Jessica Voorsanger for POW 2019.

As part of the inaugural Here We Are festival we hosted a photography exhibition co-produced by Amnesty International & Magnum Photos, I Welcome as well as a pin badge making workshop ¡Radical Buttons!

An exhibition by illustrator M. Oliver, inspired by the spontaneity, humour and playful power of music and dancing. Including an animated loop presented as a kinetic sculpture in the Shop Front window.

In collaboration with the Margate Festival we hosted a show of tintype photographs by Rob Ball - these wonderfully evocative images were all taken at the celebrations to mark the 80th birthday of the Walpole Bay Tidal Pool.

We joined more than 50 theatres, arts venues and community spaces across the world, including the Liverpool Everyman, Bath’s Walcot Chapel, Aberdeen Performing Arts in the UK, and venues in Zambia and Canada, Latvia and New Zealand, to host readings.

A journey in memory and myth along the circular lay line created by the Isle of Thanet’s orbital bus route, featuring work by Jo Murray, Dominic Rose, Tanya Royer and Jon Spencer.

‘Eat My Words’ a neon and mixed media installation by Margate artist Annie Nichols, originally shown at the Barbican Centre, as part of the Fish Island Labs showcase, Interfaces.