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ART SHOP is closed for business in the real world but very much alive a kicking online.

Unlike me who is feeling absolutely exhausted. Thank you so so much to everyone who helped make this shop happen, to those who came to see me, bought art, talked art and supported the artists. Your energy and joy has been a dream!

ART SHOP will be back…

ART SHOP is also my opportunity to proffer my work to all and sundry. You’ll find Mexican inspired drawing and prints along with “The Big Man of Folkestone” which is helping fund my scheme…

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Confronting in their apparent simplicity. These works play with ideas of contradiction. Failure and success, confidence and disappointment…

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Beautifully confronting, Archival prints of Bean’s performance work are now available in the ART SHOP. Limited to editions of 3 only…

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Q***r Joy, dissent and social justice. Racheal’s work is instantly recognisable, accessible and punchy. ART SHOP has been restocked with zines, badges and the infamous riso prints including the new one addressing Stella Braverman’s poisonous divisive bullsh*t…

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Expressively surreal and vibrant. These works are dreams of running off to Mexico, being free to live a colourful life. ART SHOP has a selection of original drawings, paintings and sculptures by the Canterbury based artist…

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Vividly elegant ladies, works on found textiles and paper. Drawing, painting and collage…

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The artists palettes and paintings are back in all their expressive vibrancy and gay predicaments…

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The world of .jarrett

Original paintings, drawings, ceramics and screen prints of these voluptuous beauties…

Before he returns to his native Poland is coming back to the ART SHOP for a special studio sale comprising of archival drawings and found ceramic pieces. Everything must go!

His work is a representation of the phenomenon of contradiction. Failure and success, confidence and disappointment. Vulnerability as a force not a weakness…

I’m overjoyed the queen of the zines is coming back to the ART SHOP and she’s got a few treats for you!

Racheal’s been very busy of late. Her show “We Are Safe Here” is currently on over in Margate until 2nd September and her work has been appearing on billboards across the UK.

Rachael’s expansive practice embraces feminist and q***r politics and encompasses events, workshops, performances, drawings and ceramics. Rachael’s work can be seen ***rbritain and in the archives of the

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Say hello to who is joining the ART SHOP crew for the first time. These vividly camp and beautifully kitsch creations are exuberantly fun. Megan scours the charity shops for unloved heirlooms and bric-a-brac to revive and reinvent. Less is never more with these popping hand painted homewares…

Really happy to announce that those blue gods by are returning to Folkestone after being recently exhibited at The Q***r Museum in Vienna and the Herbert Read Gallery in Canterbury.

Krishna is a Tamil-Canadian q***r visual artist and graphic designer who is obsessed with blue. He sees it as a metaphor for remembering and forgetting q***rness relating to his learned understanding of q***r identity. In his practice, he creates representation of hybrid identities. He weaves concepts and materials relating to Hindu epics and myths, comic book superheroes, Disney princesses and gay adult material.

The bejewelled gods or men are confronting, lustful and glorious. They form a protest, a sense of belonging and a way to exist without shame…

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This golden artist is making their ART SHOP debut with a selection of prints from their performance archive. They’ve been so supportive of the ART SHOP over the past few years so I’m ecstatic they are joining the crew.

is an interdisciplinary artist, working across performance & time-based media, writing, curating & design.

These seemingly disparate areas of their practice are connected through a fascination of making & creating spaces, demolition & undoing of structures, both psychologically, socially & physically.

They are interested in the synthesis and friction between gender constructs, capitalist power structures, ecology & permaculture. 
 
Their practice explores the interconnections of these through a fiercely political body & heart, rooted in the land and deep listening to people & communities…

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is back in the ART SHOP once again with an audacious collection of palettes.

Gavin’s work is expressive, exploring themes of homosexuality, its subcultures, expectations and stereotypes that encompass the “gay experience” Gavin’s practice also encompasses more traditional aspects of painting including still life and landscape which are tackled in a very non traditional manner. Whatever his subject his work is joyfully luscious full of layered textures and beautiful colour.

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I’m so happy to announce is returning to the ART SHOP with a new collection of works on paper and vintage textiles including this wondrous shirt.

Over the past few months we’ve been popping over to see each to have a rummage around vintage shops, have a good natter and eat chips. We may have had a sherry or two but haven’t quite made it out dancing. She’s been exceptionally busy running art classes in her community whilst trying to fit in the painting around family life. On top of all that she’s also taken up burlesque with an owl.

Her work is a dreamland of colour and whimsical characters that charm and baffle in equal measure. She draws in ink using seagull feathers, paints with the audacity of a child wandering off paper and canvas onto tablecloths, clothes and any other surface she see’s fit…

Also joining the ART SHOP crew for the first time is Katherine Silvera-Sunley aka

Katherine is an artist whose hand built ceramic vases, statues and various other art objects harbour a dreamlike quality with their hand embellished and highly detailed illustrations. Each piece is a unique expression of her inner self. Each piece is a one off. No reproductions!

Her love of ceramics grew out of the desire to bring life to her drawings and create something more tangible and tactile than a two dimensional painting. She was a collector of small trinkets and ceramic objects and often found herself thinking wouldn’t it be nice if she could make this object or that trinket. That’s where her journey in ceramics began.

Katherine’s call to create came when she was a little girl growing up in a house on Old Stoney Hill Road in Kingston, Jamaica. She loved drawing and then painting and used that to fuel her playful imagination. Before settling in Wales, Katherine moved between the UK, Jamaica and Europe.

She always found it hard to move from country to country with all her paintings. Whilst living in Malta she decided to do a workshop in ceramics. This was a revelation and when she left Malta she was finally able to travel with all her creations from then on - no man was left behind…

ART SHOP is back next Friday with some brilliant new artists joining the crew. First up, .jarrett

I first met Daisy last Christmas during the ART SHOP & Partners extravaganza. She had not long arrived in Folkestone and has been loving it ever since. Even the sideways rain hasn’t dampened her spirit!

South London born and raised, Daisy teaches printmaking at an adult education community college in Richmond and is a graduate of the Royal College of Art.

Daisy’s work is first and foremost about women and the female experience. Daisy is interested in themes of body image, nature, folklore, the surreal and gendered stereotypes which all feed into her work. She works across media often working with a mix of printmaking techniques and painting. Working with both oil and watercolour in an expressive and painterly way to create dreamlike often humorous portraits of
women…

Don’t panic on the front! Everything’s gone a bit mad with ART SHOP and so all that nonsense is sadly having to take a back seat for now unless I can be cloned. However the scheming is very much continuing! It was always going to be a long game anyway especially as there is no money.

However there will be some Merch in the ART SHOP which will help raise some funds to help get some of the mischief off the ground 😉😈💋

The 8th ART SHOP is only a couple of weeks away. Am currently on the train to London to collect some brilliant new paintings from and I’ve been having a trip down memory lane.

I set the shop up after moving to Folkestone and getting locked down within a couple of months. It was a way of reaching out and meeting people, getting out of my cupboard size studio and showing art my way.

Since then it’s evolved with over 30 artists sharing their work, trusting me and coming along for the ride. It’s been bloody good fun! We offer artworks of all kinds and all price points to make our work as inclusive and accessible as possible. It’s all about love, colour and making people stop and think. The shop is a space of dissent and exists to tell our stories, peddle our wares and enable us to continue creating!

ART SHOP will be back on The Old High Street this August at Gallery 66 with some familiar faces and some brand new ones!

Lots of deadlines and spinning plates. Hopefully this one will be ready in time…

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Monsters in the must mean the ART SHOP is coming soon!!!

Some little smiley experiments from a very exciting collaboration for

Congratulations and big love to on their opening today. Brilliant project space in the centre of Folkestone to work, drink and commune.

As part of their offering there is a print shop carrying a variety of work by local artists including me. These are the works available some of which are exclusive!

It’s hard to be inspired by most of those standing for Parliament. There is little faith in the system but it’s the only system we have at the minute. So for the love of whatever you hold dear, VOTE VOTE VOTE! And don’t forget your ID if you’re off to a Polling Station.

contemplating, plotting and pi***ng about is continuing alongside so many other things. So many plates are spinning. Possibly too many and we’re all feeling a bit dizzy but today we managed to have a get together to develop an idea or two…

Sun is shining and things are heating up…

Have you signed up yet? We’re looking for creatives, non creatives, people with spaces, people without spaces, people who want to collaborate, make a statement, provoke and connect with their community. The curious, the disenchanted the ones who think art isn’t for for them and couldn’t give a f*ck. We want you all!!! Link to the festival website in the bio!

Notes from the last “Thingy”

More discussions on creativity, history, development of ideas and mischief…

Thanks to again for their support with the venue and to everyone who came to see us. More on this front soon!

This Sunday we’re having another “Thingy” at the Urban Room in town. We’re going to continue asking the question “What would you create for Folkestone if you were given the opportunity?”

But also we’re going to talk about the artworks we already have in this town and our relationship with them. How do we feel about art being arguably imposed upon us? What happens when that art just becomes part of the furniture and we become blind to it? Do they loose their relevance? Do they need to evolve, have a bit of a makeover or be removed completely?

Pop in for a natter, a bit of play and pi**in about. Who knows where it’ll all lead?

The Colour Of Water by Spencer Finch (2024 update by Southern Water)