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2010-07-27T06:06:00.000-07:00

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I Am Local

2009-11-13T03:54:00.000-08:00

Full service lauches Saturday the 14th November 2009 www.iamlocal.net

I Am Local Launch Party
Saturday the 14 November
The Old Bank Bar
Tontine street
6.00pm - till late

Come and celebrate the launch of "I am Local" a new way to access creative independence.

The "I am Local" mapping service provides a free online creative index and social network for artists, venues and organisations across the region.
The index is a live, online and printed resource, continuingly growing and expanding with new information. Get on down to the Old Bank Bar on Tontine Street to start plotting.
Register now at www.iamlocal.net

Regional Book Of Beasts

2009-11-11T09:57:00.000-08:00

“Wipe Out And Freak out”

Get creative at Chalk De Ville the interactive drawing experience.

The medieval Book of Beasts work shop encourages participants to explore uncanny creatures to create there own ultimate monster. A photographic image will be produced helping form Shepway’s very own regional book of mythical beasts.

Free workshops delivered by Club Shepway artist Matt Rowe.
Max five students per work shop ages 6 - adult

To book please email clubshepway@gmail.com
Find out more and download the resource pack at: http://chalkdeville.blogspot.com

Art Car Bootique

2009-09-27T05:43:00.000-07:00

THE ART CAR BOOT FAIR
GOES WEST
SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 10-6 PM
Art Car Boot Fair Projects and Pretty Taxing present
THE ART CAR BOOTIQUE
at Tom Dixon’s exciting design week extravaganza ‘The Dock’
Portobello Dock, 344 Ladbroke Grove, London W10 5BU
(corner of Ladbroke Grove and Harrow Road)

The Art Car Bootique will distill the Art Car Boot Fair’s winning combination of fine art art and high end frivolity into a ‘best of the boot fair’ event at the cobbled canalside delights of Portobello Dock and Tom Dixon’s design week extravaganza. All manner of artworks, artwares and services direct from the car boot from artworld luminaries and emerging talents including Sir Peter Blake, Nick Reynolds, Gavin Turk, Pretty Taxing, Scrawl Collective, Club Shepway and the House of Fairytales ( featuring works from Fiona Banner, Simon Bill, Sir Peter Blake, Mat Collishaw, Enrico David, Ian Dawson, Jeremy Deller & Alan Kane, Simon English, Bert Gilbert, Harland Miller, Cornelia Parker, Simon Periton, Paula Rego, Jane Simpson, Bob & Roberta Smith, Kiki Smith, Francis Upritchard, Rachel Whiteread). Fine art, street art, limited edition prints, cool sculptures, art for kids and live while-you-wait portrait painting plus lots of arty entertainments.

The Dock, 21st – 27th September, is an emporium of creative talent curated by Tom Dixon and sponsored by Derwent London. Part of London Design Festival 2009, the event takes place at the new Portobello Dock development in Ladbroke Grove and plays host to a series of stand alone exhibitions, installations and pop-up shops spanning food, fashion, art, design and new media. For more info see www.portobellodock.com.

Chalk De Ville

2009-08-29T02:47:00.000-07:00

Currently under development at the B&B Project Space is Chalk De Ville. The Project will be up and running some time in November as part of the Folkestone Book Festival.
Chalk De Ville has been kindly Sponsored by East Kent Live Lit

"Salvation" sets the theam for Tourture Garden summer ball

2009-07-15T06:21:00.000-07:00

"Salvation" By Matt Rowe sets the theam for Tourture Garden summer ball 2009
Divers helmet built entirely on site at the B&B.

Bathing Bauties vis re edit

2009-07-12T10:28:00.000-07:00

Vintage B&B

2009-07-07T17:03:00.000-07:00

Pretty Things Phil May and Skip Alan
Originally uploaded by folkestonegerald

Stumbled across this Picture featuring the B&B Project Space back when it was a tobacconist.

Vernacular Spectacular

2009-05-05T06:50:00.001-07:00

Fresh from the printers is Club Shepways first Publication Vernacular Spectacular available November 2009 from the B&B Project Space 14 Tontine Street Folkestone and rennies seaside modern ...

Shady Seaside Pavilion and the Leaning Tower of Tat

2009-05-02T13:24:00.000-07:00

Club Shepway Sea Side Pavilion

collecting canvas and rope sample's from Sharp and Enright in Dover to cover the shady seaside pavilion. This shop is 100% nautical.

The Booth of Misfortune

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Menagerie

2008-09-09T17:15:00.000-07:00

Menagerie

Featuring Works by: Haily Bates, Benjamin Flecture, Vicky Foster and Matt Rowe

Thought out the summer the B&B Project Space Presents Menagerie an exhibition platform for artists to explore kentish flora and forna from coast to countryside.

Uncanny exhibits include: reconfigured road kill, the retirement home for china dogs, a hand whittled furniture tree and a beach made from genuine imitation shingle.

pictured above Mark Dion emersed in kentish flora and forna at the B&B Project Space 2008
© Matt Rowe

Jacqui Chanarin display show case

2008-08-31T16:07:00.000-07:00

A show case of resent ceramic works by Jacqui Chanarin

in the B&B cabinets has been generated a lot of interest,

see more here: http://www.eyestorm.com/search/keyword/artist/Jacqui_Chanarin.html

2008-03-23T15:34:00.000-07:00

Folkestone 2008
Vernacular Spectacular

Club Shepway has been given the opportunity to use Folkestone’s historicfunicular lift throughout the Triennale of 2008. The space, comprising the carriages and the lower entrance, is available for the fourteen consecutive weekends of the town’s international art event.

We hereby invite artists and performers, individually or as groups, to develop artevents and interventions suitable for this unique and idiosyncratic venue. The lift offers panoramic views to the foreshore below and over to France. The lift is the remaining survivor of a series of lifts, developed during the 1880s,by the Folkestone Pier and Lift Company Ltd. It’s purpose was to overcome the peculiar geography of Folkestone’s seafront and to connect the different social worlds of the foreshore and Leas.

Remember, the lift takes 40 seconds to travel from the foreshore to the Leas. So,we are offering a captive audience, but only for a short while! It’s a little and often kind of thing. Club Shepway invites you to collaborate with us and to re-invent this uniquespace as a contemporary art event during the summer.

Foreword

Folkestone’s Leas Lift was built in 1885. The Folkestone Pier and Lift Company Ltd developed the lifts as a means of connecting the coastal parkland promenade, called the Leas, with the foreshore and seafront below. This was especially important, as the particular geography of Folkestone, with its cliff-top parkland setting, had conspired to make the journey from resort to seafront unnecessarily irksome.

The new lifts moved people up and down the cliff with every convenience. The Leas Lift is a modest example of Victorian engineering ingenuity. It is a funicular, or rope, tramway whose two cars operate in a balanced system powered by water and gravity. Similar lifts may be found at regular intervals around the English coast. Indeed, there were once several similar lifts in Folkestone.

The foreshore area of Folkestone developed as a slightly separate entity from the town’s residential resort. The resort and Leas were distinguished by Victorian gentility. The foreshore, in contrast, was associated with the pleasures of seabathing, switchback and pier.

So, the funicular railway made a connection between two worlds, each defined by very different codes. The hedonism of the foreshore amusements, even if only enjoyed vicariously, challenged the stiff manners of the resort. The tension between these worlds, experienced by every traveller between above and below, made the near-vertical journey all the more exciting. The Leas Lifts are an exciting new art space defined by time and movement.Club Shepway welcomes our colleagues and friends to work and share this space throughout the summer. We hope you enjoy the ride.

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Naughty But Nice

2008-03-23T15:20:00.000-07:00

Naughty But Nice

"Simon Kennedy is a sculptor at home in the backroom of a seaside joke shop and under the canvas of the big top. Mischievous, playful, roguish, he is an artist of the anomalous, a dedicated observer of the under current with his feet planted firmly beneath the pier. Here, amongst the peculiar debris of our lives, adrift in an emotional landscape of greasy chip-forks and lost ice-creams, we find art with the kind of disreputable perfectionism we might expect from the needle on a tattoo artist's gun..... "

www.simonkennedy.org

www.sasprojects.org

©Matt Rowe

O DreamLand

2008-03-23T14:56:00.001-07:00

August Bank holiday 2007, Transition Gallery have teamed up with Club Shepway in Folkestone to present O Dreamland, a contemporary arts festival that takes a subversive yet affectionate look at the seaside.

The title is taken from Lindsay Anderson's short Free Cinema documentary made in 50s Margate about the Dreamland pleasure park. The film focuses on the partying day-trippers, juxtaposing them with some of the more grotesque elements of a typical amusement park.

Curated by Cathy Lomax, O Dreamland features over 20 artists who each respond to the subject in a uniquely contemporary way. The event will be centred around a 1930s 'Modern' house in Greatstone, Kent, which overlooks the English Channel to the front and the curious Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Light Railway to the back. The house is itself an interesting counterpoint to some of the more kitsch elements on show and embodies ideas of architectural modernist utopias.

Work on show will include Matthew Rowes' handcrafted shingle beach, Lucy Harrison's flag, Cathy Lomax's painting's of beauty queens, Sophie MacCorquodale's film portrait of Rhyl, Ruth Calland's alter ego Dame Batlove's psychic performance on the beach and much much more

This pertinent event comes at a time when many of our seaside towns are in crisis. In between the creeping gentrification and crumbling deprivation the spirit of the seaside is being lost. O Dreamland addresses this in a defiantly un rose-tinted way.

Miss Honey Lulu
© Matt Rowe 2007

Vicky Butterfly Miss Club Shepway 2007
costume by Lady Lucie
© Matt Rowe 2007

Mobility Parade competitor with Dame Batlove
see more images from O Dreamland

B&B Referbisment

2007-09-14T16:30:00.000-07:00

This week saw the start of the B&B's rebirth. A shiny new shop frontage crafted out of fine mahogany will replace the salt stained and weather worn previous Edwardian exterior.

The Lads working on the build have uncovered some fantastic signage from when it was a tobacconist..

the finished product

Souvenir Swap Shop

2007-08-31T15:43:00.000-07:00

Souvenir Swap Shop

Artist Victoria Foster, in conjunction with Club Shepway,
is collaborateing with Kent Coast Residents to translate their personal, domestic experiences of the seaside towns through the creation of a series of alternative souvenirs.

To take part please click here to download Souvenir Swap Shop info pack.

like this project why not visit the Club Shepway Picture Postcard Archive click here
Image © Club Shepway 2007

Souvenir Swap Shop
Victoria Foster
www.hugging-for-the-english.blogspot.com

Seaside Modern

2007-08-31T15:39:00.000-07:00

The English seaside is often thought of as environmentally blighted, socially segregated and economically depressed. Andy Tuohy's literally sees this world in a different light.

Familiar icons of seaside architecture are represented so as to draw attention to the progressive potential of building design and to the utopian ambitions associated with seaside resorts and their development.

These pictures are the beginning of a project that re-examines relatively recent architecture along our coast and draws attention to the quality, sophistication and wit of seaside modernism.

The project acts as a powerful argument against the prevailing orthodoxy of decline and, at the same time, warns against any knee-jerk retreat to historical pastiche.

The Return of H.M.S. Challenger

2007-08-31T15:31:00.000-07:00

30th June - 12th Jully Thursday - Sunday 12-6pm

Private View: - Friday 30 June 6 -9pm
Opening Times: - Thursday - Sunday 12-5pm

The Return of H.M.S. Challenger is the second group show organized by the o-collective, presenting the work of three emerging artists Mark Hayward, Victoria Foster and Ceci Lombardi. The show has been curated by Marco Palmieri and Ceci Lombardi.

In the form of traditionally bound monographs, black and white bill board posters, videos of simple animated drawings, hand made porcelain barnacles, the artists have created what seems to be an exhibition presenting the discoveries and studies of a group of explorers of the late 19^th Century. It is the conflicting relationship between science and fiction, history and myth, research and imagination which links the works of these artists.

Grockles At Sea

2007-08-31T15:30:00.000-07:00

Grockles At Sea

20 April - 4 May 2007
Thursday - Sunday 12-6pm

Private View: - Friday 20 April 6-9pm
Grockles at Sea is an exhibition curated by Ceci Lombardi and Marco Palmieri exploreing ideas of redundancy, recycling and regeneration. The selected artists will present a new body of work which investigates these issues through the use of craft-based techniques, kitsch paraphernalia and second-hand materials.

Bingo

2007-08-31T15:29:00.000-07:00

Bingo sees Petro transform the interior of the B&B.
Expanding themes derived from his graffiti on to domestic decorative surfaces,
though the application of repeat patterns and motifs.

rock shop images

2007-04-01T15:14:00.000-07:00

Dome demolition

2007-02-19T14:43:00.000-08:00

Early Feb 13th 2007 was the day when we all had to say R.I.P to JG's. The dome has finaly been cleared out.
By luck Matt Rowe of Club Shepway was there to document the event.
hear is a couple of pic's a small fraction of the documenty images taken of it.
Part of the club shepway Social archive..

Rotunda images

2007-01-04T03:22:00.000-08:00

cumming soon an exhibition of works derived from documentary images of Folkestones Rotunda fun fair. Featured images span the final two years of the fun fairs demise, final season and demolition.
The show will commence in early 2007 and be held at the B & B project space in Folkestone.

The Four Winds Cafe

2006-10-29T09:24:00.000-08:00

Image by Matt Rowe

10th March - 2nd April
At the B & B Project Space
14 Tontine Street Folkestone
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With impending demolition the Four Winds Cafe is re-appropriated and celebrated in the work of local artists.Symbolic of the archetypal sea side cafe, the british weather, the formica and the continual flow of local customers, the current exhibition seeks to document the four winds aesthetic and historical significance within the local arena.
The Four winds has been central to many throughout their experience and memory of the seafront gaining iconic status, and igniting a nostalgia for the great myth of the British summer.

Fallen From Grandeur Photographic Archive

2006-10-29T08:49:00.000-08:00

All Images © Matthew Rowe 2006

All Images © Matthew Rowe 2006

Presenting an on going documentary archive of the sites, people and aesthetics of the once grand sea side destination of Folkestone & the shepway district, helping to preserve and access the rapidly changing social culture of the area.

Retirement Home For China Dogs

2006-10-29T07:57:00.000-08:00

Got an old china dog going begging?
if so Matthew Rowe of
Go Go Whippet fame, will take it off your hands.
please send any china dog ornaments to:

Go Go Whippet Sea Side Pottery
14 Tontine Street
Folkestone
Kent
England
CT20 1JU

Anual Sea Side Reveiw

2006-08-31T15:22:00.000-07:00

The Club Shepway Annual Seaside Review will showcase the work of a dozen emerging contemporary artists from around the British Isles, working in a wide range of media and disciplines.
For this exhibition, selected artists have made work in response to the changing cultural identity of the British seaside resort, with a focus on the regeneration of the South East in particular.Opening Friday 1st December 2006, and remain open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the month of December from 12pm - 5pm or by appointment.

Pop Life

2006-08-31T15:18:00.000-07:00

Pop Life

Sullivan reference Pop ideals such as the simulacrum, desymbolisation of an object,
She traces images of flowers from Gardener's World Magazine onto walls, floors, ceilings;
one on top of the other addorning the walls of the B&B with exotick folage, creating a visual mantra.

POP Life (timed intervention)
Niamh Sullivan
Carbon Paper

Cloud Castle Lake

2006-08-31T15:04:00.000-07:00

Cloud Castle Lake

Located in empty buildings along Folkstone's historic Tontine Street, Club Shepway brings together a collection of artists films.

Each screened in a separate space the works become segments of an expanded narrative, uniting the empty shop units with flickers of celluloid. Seducing the viewer with a journey down a street, an empty shop window, and the intimacy of an open door letting you walk in.

Film works range form the documentary view of Amy Fenecks eco structures, to the dislodged everyday of Alex Le Feuvre's "Grace"

The visual encounters combine to dislodge the ordinary and reveal the unseen, opening a walk down the street into an expansive visual journey

Lido
Amy Feneck
8mm Film still

2006-06-10T15:09:00.000-07:00

The Four Winds Cafe

10th March - 2nd April
At the B & B Project Space
14 Tontine Street Folkestone

With impending demolition the Four Winds Cafe is re-appropriated and celebrated in the work of local artists.

Symbolic of the archetypal sea side cafe, the british weather, the formica and the continual flow of local customers, the current exhibition seeks to document the four winds aesthetic and historical significance within the local arena.

The Four winds has been central to many throughout their experience and memory of the seafront gaining iconic status, and igniting a nostalgia for the great myth of the British summer.

Ideal Home Improvement Exposé

2006-03-31T14:59:00.000-08:00

Ideal Home Improvement Exposé

This first show at the B&B Project Space will open the gateway for interaction with the vibrant heritage of the Shepway area. Visitors will have the opportunity to view an array of local artefacts. These objects have been reassembled to satisfy the needs of modern society, by resident skilled craftsmen Joseph Burthe and Matt Rowe.