The Shop Front Community Gallery and Studio is located in the Cliftonville area of Margate on the East Kent Coast
Our shop window is given over to show work & project outcomes by a range of artists, community groups and others.
August & September 2024
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Charlee M Piper
October & November 2024
Past collaborations
Lily Hughes
Lily Hughes presents The Cleaner – a portrait of one artist’s labour in Margate’s Airbnb industry.
Meera Palia
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.
Heather Tait
Big Trees of Thanet - a new project by the Margate photographer, Heather Tait.
Anka Dabrowska
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.
Thanet Tiles of Joy
Thanet Tiles of Joy Jayne Wright Thanet Tiles of Joy a ceramic art project connecting our community in clay. Make your own tile! Saturday 17 & 24 [...]
By the Light of a Silvery Moon
By the Light of a Silvery Moon Jon Spencer Jon Spencer's installation is part of a larger piece of work produced for the shop windows of Rodić [...]
Bird Spotting
Bird Spotting Thelma Spiers Thelma Speirs has created a work covering the entire front window of the space. Utilizing working drawings from ‘Birds & Bags’ which was [...]
Cherry Blossom
A collaboration with Colourful Margate & Cliftonville Primary School showcasing 54 cherry blossom paintings made by children from various classes at the school.
Margate Reimagined
Margate Reimagined Margate Festival 2019-20 Margate Reimagined was a present day vision of Margate with an alternative past. Bringing together heritage both real and imaginary this project [...]
Reconstructing Reality
An installation by Heather Tait based on her project Reconstructing Reality, in which alternative newspaper headlines appeared around Margate.
Cliftonville Camera
To coincide with the Margate Festival 2016 we experimented with turning the whole of the shop front into a camera obscura.
POW Festival
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.
Players and Steppers
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.
The Itinerant
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.
Cultural response to climate emergency
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.
Eat My Words
‘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.
Lily Hughes
Lily Hughes presents The Cleaner – a portrait of one artist’s labour in Margate’s Airbnb industry.
Meera Palia
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.
Heather Tait
Big Trees of Thanet - a new project by the Margate photographer, Heather Tait.
Anka Dabrowska
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.
Thanet Tiles of Joy
Thanet Tiles of Joy Jayne Wright Thanet Tiles of Joy a ceramic art project connecting our community in clay. Make your own tile! Saturday 17 & 24 [...]
By the Light of a Silvery Moon
By the Light of a Silvery Moon Jon Spencer Jon Spencer's installation is part of a larger piece of work produced for the shop windows of Rodić [...]
Bird Spotting
Bird Spotting Thelma Spiers Thelma Speirs has created a work covering the entire front window of the space. Utilizing working drawings from ‘Birds & Bags’ which was [...]
Cherry Blossom
A collaboration with Colourful Margate & Cliftonville Primary School showcasing 54 cherry blossom paintings made by children from various classes at the school.
Margate Reimagined
Margate Reimagined Margate Festival 2019-20 Margate Reimagined was a present day vision of Margate with an alternative past. Bringing together heritage both real and imaginary this project [...]
Reconstructing Reality
An installation by Heather Tait based on her project Reconstructing Reality, in which alternative newspaper headlines appeared around Margate.
Cliftonville Camera
To coincide with the Margate Festival 2016 we experimented with turning the whole of the shop front into a camera obscura.
POW Festival
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.
Players and Steppers
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.
The Itinerant
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.
Cultural response to climate emergency
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.
Eat My Words
‘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.
Lily Hughes
Lily Hughes presents The Cleaner – a portrait of one artist’s labour in Margate’s Airbnb industry.
Meera Palia
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.
Heather Tait
Big Trees of Thanet - a new project by the Margate photographer, Heather Tait.
Anka Dabrowska
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.
Thanet Tiles of Joy
Thanet Tiles of Joy Jayne Wright Thanet Tiles of Joy a ceramic art project connecting our community in clay. Make your own tile! Saturday 17 & 24 [...]
By the Light of a Silvery Moon
By the Light of a Silvery Moon Jon Spencer Jon Spencer's installation is part of a larger piece of work produced for the shop windows of Rodić [...]
Bird Spotting
Bird Spotting Thelma Spiers Thelma Speirs has created a work covering the entire front window of the space. Utilizing working drawings from ‘Birds & Bags’ which was [...]
Cherry Blossom
A collaboration with Colourful Margate & Cliftonville Primary School showcasing 54 cherry blossom paintings made by children from various classes at the school.
Margate Reimagined
Margate Reimagined Margate Festival 2019-20 Margate Reimagined was a present day vision of Margate with an alternative past. Bringing together heritage both real and imaginary this project [...]
Reconstructing Reality
An installation by Heather Tait based on her project Reconstructing Reality, in which alternative newspaper headlines appeared around Margate.
Cliftonville Camera
To coincide with the Margate Festival 2016 we experimented with turning the whole of the shop front into a camera obscura.
POW Festival
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.
Players and Steppers
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.
The Itinerant
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.
Cultural response to climate emergency
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.
Eat My Words
‘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.