Olivia Strange ‘It Softens The Blow, That Deep Melodic Bliss’

Liminal Gallery 34 Fort Hill, Margate

Pulling together the multifarious strands of Strange’s practice "It Softens the Blow, That Deep Melodic Bliss" explores notions of escape and survival through snapshot moments of euphoria and pleasure, as an act of resistance. The work celebrates the freedom and intimacy found within singular moments...

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Dirty Linen

Crate 1 Bilton Square, Margate, KY, United Kingdom

Via an installation of painting and expanded painting, Russell Chater presents a (homo)erotic narrative with nods to both the autobiographical and art historical; the spiritual and the sexual. Thoughts around surface, touch, display and concealment are teased - with works, perhaps ultimately, a reflection on...

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Queer Tartan Register Launch

Fez, Margate 40 High Street, Margate

Queer Tartan at Fez, Margate. Tartan subverted into magical beads to launch the Queer Tartan Register for queer brands, communities and allies.

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Margate Black Pride Art Show Fundraiser Private View

Cliffs 172 Northdown Rd, Margate

Margate Black Pride stands as a testament to the power of unity and celebration within LGBTQIA+ communities of colour. Since its inception in 2022, it has evolved into a vital platform for honouring and uplifting individuals of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American, Pacific Islander, and...

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BLOCK exhibition Anka Dabrowska

Faith in Strangers Faith in Strangers, Margate, KY, United Kingdom

Anka Dabrowska is a queer artist working and living in London. Her exhibition BLOC is a mixture of drawings and collages embracing themes of queer empowerment, identity, belonging, environmental issues, architecture and regeneration.

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You Are Safe Here by Rachael House

Oast 68 Northdown Road, Margate

Elaborately decorated 'Welcome' tiled panels create a clarion call to gather and a promise of refuge and protection.

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Desire

Vendelmans 14A Arlington House, Margate, United Kingdom

Desire pairs the work of two wildly different artists: French photographer Laure Albin Guillot (1879-1962) and Swedish painter Eugène Jansson (1862-1915). Through a selection of their work - photography of female nudes and drawings of male nudes respectively - we contemplate the roles of artist and sitter,...

The Missing Pieces

Salon 101A Northdown Rd, Margate

Currently based in Ramsgate, David Tovar focuses on portraiture and human figures. After the pandemic cut short his art studies at the London Fine Arts Studios, he continued learning on his own, which allowed him to focus his practice on the topics and community he...

Fight Like Hell

The Shop Front 161 Northdown Road, Margate, United Kingdom

Charlee M. Piper's Fight Like Hell is both a requiem and a beacon of hope. The exhibition features works in progress that have been part of Charlee's previous solo exhibitions. The centrepiece of the exhibition honours the lives of gender-diverse folx who have been lost...