Lost Margate explores how how art has overwritten poverty in a seaside town. Evolving from award-winning poet Connor Sansby's latest collection Where the Land Forgets Itself, Sansby is now working with artist-curator Dan Thompson and museum designer Kate Kneale on a week-long exhibition titled Lost Margate, which happens in the first week of February. Rather than a straightforward exhibition about gentrification, Thompson has taken the idea that different waves of people who’ve arrived in the town mourn a different version of the town, as it is constantly rewritten by newer arrivals - a process Sansby compares to the tide washing in and out.
Featuring a series of prints from New York-based Ellen Harvey’s The Disappointed Tourist (the originals are currently on show at Chicago Architecture Center), contact sheets from a 1990s photographic survey by French photographer Gérard Uféras, and artefacts like Patrick Abercrombie’s 1920s regeneration plans for East Kent, a collection of seaside ceramic souvenirs from Stoke-on-Trent’s Goss factory, and a stool made of wood from the listed 1921 Scenic Railway rollercoaster.
Thursday 5th February
Lost Margate exhibition open 2-5pm
Photo-scanning 2-5pm
Friday 6th February
First Friday: Lost Margate - Marine Studios, 17 Albert Terrace, CT9 1UJ 6-9pm
First Friday: Lost Margate - Pie Factory, Exhibition 11am-5pm, 6pm-9pm
Saturday 7th February
Lost Margate exhibition open 11am-5pm
Lost Margate History Walk with DanThompson - Margate Station to Pie Factory, 11.15am, lasts approx 1 hour
Postcard Making Workshop - 11am-5pm
Sunday 8th February
Lost Margate exhibition open 11am-5pm
Connor Sansby reading 3-4pm
Monday 9th February
Lost Margate exhibition open 11am-5pm
Exhibition tour by curator Dan Thompson 1pm
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