Cliftonville
75. Open Studio - Hannah Joy King
Visit the home studio of artist Hannah Joy King right on the edge of the old town. Hannah makes abstract figurative paintings and drawings that isolate human gesture and explore the language of bodily weight and form. See finished pieces, works in progress, chat about her process, or peek through some archives. Previously a secondary school art teacher, Hannah is now a full-time artist and is opening her Margate studio to the public for the first time.
FLAT 3, 85 TRINITY SQUARE, MARGATE, CT9 1QD
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Friday–Sunday 1pm–4pm
76. Undoing: An Exhibition Of Works On Paper - Twinkle Troughton
Twinkle Troughton presents a selection of works on paper through which she explores the myth of the English Landscape. Green and Pleasant lands formed of flora and fauna from around the globe, often introduced as a result of colonial pursuits, are depicted with dissolving and corroding paint, as myth, landscape and paint are 'undone', whilst parallel themes which revere nature and contemplate it's sensory, healing and psychological effects come to the fore.
MARGARET BRYAN GALLERY, THE MARGATE CAVES, 1 NORTHDOWN RD, MARGATE CT9 1FG
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
PV Sat 6.30-8.30pm, Sat-Sun 11am–4pm
77. Animistic Wonder - Kieran Rook
Kieran Rook presents his solo show ‘Animistic Wonder’. On view at the gallery Joseph Wales in Margate, this exhibition debuts a cycle of new paintings by Rook, experimenting with surreal narratives that unfold intuitively on the canvas, depicting bodies, animals, and hybrids in sometimes absurd dream-like scenarios and disorienting spatial compositions. He reimagines fragments extracted from his inner life while envisioning worlds within worlds that bear uncanny resemblance to our own.
JOSEPH WALES STUDIOS, 2A DANE HILL, CT9 1QP
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
PV Fri 6–9pm, Fri-Sun 11am –6pm
78. In Her Steps - Mercedes Lucy
Tiled, public installation on the front steps of my home.
These steps honour women who lived before 1900, when this house was built.
Most are British, many connected to Margate & Kent & some from around the world.
These women shaped us, yet their stories are largely unrecorded.
History remembers the privileged few—working women have mostly been forgotten.
Women have been judged, dismissed, and denied, because of their gender.
The labour of these women made daily life possible; the labour of women today, still makes daily life possible.
Women fought to be seen, to be taken seriously. And still, the labour and endeavours of women go unnoticed.
This is a step to noticing the work of women in our homes, neighbourhoods, towns, cities and around the world every day.
25 DANE HILL ROW, CT9 1QW
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
24hrs a day
79. TKE STUDIOS
TKE STUDIOS, 99 VICTORIA RD MARGATE CT9 1RD
Tke Studios Presents, Ziah Ziah
This event marks the culmination of our 2025 Performance Artist in Residence, Ziah Ziah. Across two nights, Ziah will present a new live performance developed during their time at TKE Studios, bringing the residency to a close.
Open: 24th and 25th January from 7pm
Tickets: https://www.traceyeminfoundation.com/events
Tracey Emin Foundation Presents Victoria House Residency, Noah Berrie + Catherine Ward
This exhibition brings together Ward and Berrie in a shared exploration of place, time, and material transformation along the Margate coast.
Open: Saturday 24th Jan 12pm–5pm Sunday 25th Jan 12pm–5pm
Accessible, Not suitable for under 18s
80. Another - Zoe De Caluwé
Zoe de Caluwé is exhibiting a series of ceramic works in the shop window of Smith and Sun. The title refers to both the multiplicity of identity and the ways we relate to one another. These works investigate the performance of gender and the use of disguise through the artist's own experience and identity.
7 THANET RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 1UA
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
PV Fri 7pm, 24hrs a day
81. Tanat, Tanetus, Thanatos: In Search Of Albion’S Isle Of Fire And Death - Imogen-Naomi Herd
At the easternmost point of Kent resides its land-bound island: Thanet. Once an island, situated precariously closer to central Europe than its own Capital, it makes sense it was a frequent doorway for each wave of invasion from the Continental and Scandinavian. The impact of this legacy today is captured in the continuous dispute concerning the etymology of Thanet. This surrealist window diorama installation considers the themes of perception, identity, liminality, belonging, translation, myth-making, folklore, and forgetting. The piece uses the unique topography of the isle to explore the fertile potential of an apocryphal folk-etymological lens. What lost stories of ambition and identity remain within these forgotten names?
DOUBLOONS, 32 NORTHDOWN RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2RW
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri- Sat 10-5pm, Sun 10am– 4pm
82. Compact - Katie Parker
Compact is a mixed-media sculpture that merges two objects: a luxury cosmetic powder compact and a bear trap. Fabricated in acrylic, steel, and textile materials, it’s both seductive and unsettling.
Katie Parker’s work explores how women’s lives are shaped by visible and invisible systems of control, using sculpture and installation to disrupt familiar forms and reframe how we see them.
DROPS, 46 NORTHDOWN RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2RW
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sat 1-9pm, Sun 1pm–5pm
83. Sonia Mcnally'S Tabernacle Of Miracles - Sonia Mcnally [As Madame Zonia]
'Sonia McNally's Tabernacle of Miracles - Fortune Telling & Mobile Pop-Up'
Fortune Teller Madame Zonia, Seer's Eye and Quick Wit, will answer your questions on Love, Money, Career, Health. Mobile pop up, selling works of art. [10% of fortune telling proceeds will be donated to 'Crisis' Homeless Charity].
Directions: 3 min walk down to the seafront from the Lido car park - or - 8 min walk from the Turner take a right along the seafront promenade to the car park just beyond the Winter Gardens and below the Lido.
SONIA MCNALLY'S TABERNACLE OF MIRACLES - FORTUNE TELLING CART AND MOBILE POP UP, FORT LOWER PROMENADE (CAR PARK), MARGATE, CT9 1JS
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sat 12-7pm, Sun 12-5pm
84. Beatrice Larkin Woven Textiles - Beatrice Larkin
Beatrice Larkin is a textile designer based in Margate. She specialises in woven textiles, accessories and interior products. Her fabrics are recognisable for their softened geometric patterns in a pared down colour palette, all woven in the UK.
Bea’s hand drawn sketches run through all her woven designs. The marks made when she first put pen to paper are still noticeable in the finished fabric. The Jacquard loom allows her to create intricate patterns, picking up these inky lines and blotches, broken geometrics and blurred edges.
During Off Season she will be exhibiting and selling her woven textiles as well and demonstrating hand weaving on her 24 shaft Harris loom.
UNIT 5 REAR OF 42-60 ETHELBERT ROAD CT9 1SB
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 11–3
85. Epoch Textiles Open Studio, Sophie Reeves
Epoch Studio is opening their studio up for the day. Come see the loom, some new + archive pieces and say hello.
EPOCH TEXTILES, UNIT 3 REAR OF 42-60 ETHELBERT ROAD, MARGATE, CT9 1SB
Accessible, Not suitable for under 18s
Sat 10am –6pm
86. Modern Monstrosity - Elizabeth Firbank
Work in progress: collecting visual echoes of Blemmyae, medieval mythological beasts. Found imagery that explores a continuity in our behaviour from medieval 'media' to present day, generating monsters with our fear of otherness and our territorial nature
THE RAG AND BONE MAN UNIT 4 REAR OF 60 ETHELBERT ROAD CT9 1SB
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri 12–2pm, Sat 10am–4pm, Sun 10am–3pm
87. Continuation - Angelo Iannucci
Display of old and new work. A continuation of showing work from my first solo show at Margate Pride. It's me encouraging myself to continue and explore/develop my artistic practice and themes without the high pressure of expectations. Using painting, ceramics, drawing, print and mixed media. You're welcome to come for a tea and a chat and sit in my creative shop front living room. I hope to create a more relaxed and playful display and learn along the way.
60 NORTHDOWN ROAD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2RL
Accessible, Not suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 9am–5pm
88. Madeline Drew This - Maddy Vian
Inspired by a childhood drawing from 1997, illustrator Maddy Vian invites you into a conversation with her four year old self about drawing with creativity, joy and anxiety. With live window drawing and a whimsical display of prints and originals, this exhibition aims to delight and embolden your inner child.
ON A WHIM, 20 CLIFF TERRACE, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 1RU
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 11am–4pm
89. Not The Sea - Joel Bird
A series of paintings and sculptures by Margate based artist Joel Bird. Exploring art as a means to 'stop thinking', a way to allow our subconscious to contemplate and work it's way through complicated thoughts or feelings. Organic compositions use figurative elements to translate the complex dialogue between the conscious and subconscious. Drawing inspiration from the Margate coastline, a place of contradictions bleak and beautiful, always different, always the same. a reminder that life is brief, that one day we will have no thoughts and that everything carries on, a ballast to the indulgences of human introspection.
Surrounded by water, it is not the Sea I hear, but eternity.
10 CLIFTON PLACE, CT9 2BJ
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 12–6pm
90. Crocodylus Above - Lily Prigent (Aka Lily Mixe)
For the ‘Off Season’ Margate Art Festival 2026, Lily transforms Off Licence into a cabinet of curiosities. A crocodile installation suspended from the ceiling of the bar draws on the 17th-century tradition of displaying crocodiles within cabinets of wonder, where they functioned as symbols of awe, fear and the unknown, while window paintings welcome visitors into the space and blur the boundary between street, bar and exhibition.
Ancient yet instantly recognisable, the Crocodile reflects Lily’s ongoing fascination with mythic symbolism: brutal but majestic, both predator and protector, it embodies the untamed forces of nature, highlighting the fragile balance between chaos and order. By embedding this creature within the already eclectic interior of Off Licence, the exhibition connects Lily’s practice to the character of the space itself, allowing the bar to operate as a living museum where history, myth and contemporary life collide.
MARGATE OFF LICENCE 1 ETHELBERT TERRACE, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 1RX
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri 3–10pm, Sat 1–10pm, Sun 2–7pm
91. Ships In The Night - Rosie Reed And Finbar Ward
A collaboration by Rosie Reed and Finbar Ward in their new gallery space, in which they will continue to host a programme of exhibitions throughout 2026.
31 ETHELBERT ROAD, MARGATE, CT9 1SH
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri 6–8pm, Sat-Sun 12–6pm
92. Open Studios- Cecilia Bonilla, Kristen Healy, Alice Hewitt, Emma O’Rourke, Pam Tait
Bonilla’s practice spans collage, video, sculpture and installation. Themes of domesticity, our relationship with the natural world, ideals of beauty, ‘life-style’, and other social constructs are questioned, corrupted and undermined through minimal, yet skilful assemblage and modification.
Kristen Healy’s current paintings reflect on her long history with Margate, capturing snapshots from Margate’s glorious technicolour past alongside observations of the town’s quiet beauty today.
Alice Hewitt is a miniaturist and sculptor. After over a decade of working in theatre in London, Alice returned to Margate, studied painting and ceramics, and began to create miniature sculptures that reframe the narrative of quotidian objects.
Emma O’Rourke is an Irish diaspora artist. Her practice focuses on instinctive drawing and painting using layers and transparency to depict unnatural forms.
Pam Tait reimagines textiles as psychedelia- a gathering of garments and bed covers in patchwork and appliqué. There is no limit colour-wise, all materials are repurposed.
31A CLIFTON GARDENS CLIFTONVILLE MARGATE CT9 2BL
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 12-5pm, Meet the artists Sun 3–5pm
93. Window Over The Bay - Stuart Rayner, Lily Buchanan
Window Over the Bay is an exhibition that brings together new works by Margate based artists Lily Buchanan and Stuart Rayner.
These new works explore horizon lines and views from rooms of the artists’ imagination. They explore the magical quality of everyday things, just as Vashti Bunyan depicts in her song that gave the exhibition its title.
Objects, symbolising feelings of contentment, inhabit windowsills looking out to familiar yet dreamlike views. Everyday objects become active through being charged with memories and their own potential consciousness. They act as clues in the artists’ personal folklores. It’s Rayner’s and Buchanan’s way of saying that everything, even the smallest of things, has meaning. The works tell stories of slow time that is full of wonder in its balance of the whimsical and melancholic.
OAST, 68 NORTHDOWN ROAD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE, CT9 2RL
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 7.30am–2pm
95. Winter Show - Group Exhibition Featuring Contemporary Painting By 26 Artists
Featuring 26 of our resident artists this exhibition showcases the exciting talent promoted at The Lido Stores. All work is recent, executed within the last twelve months, and affordably priced under £400 and available for removal on the day of sale. The sold work is replaced periodically, creating a moving and fluid display that changes throughout its duration. Join us for the final curation featured during Off Season.
THE LIDO STORES, 2 ETHELBERT TERRACE, MARGATE, CT9 1RX
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 11am–5pm
96. Gay Audacity - Group Show
A group show curated by Maxi Bopp featuring 20+ queer creatives based in Margate. Each participant will be providing one work that strays from their usual discipline.
61 NORTHDOWN RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2RJ
Accessible, Not suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sat 10am–6pm, Sun 10:30am–5pm
97. Bon Volks Off Season Programme - Rachelle Francis, Billie M Vigne, Kit Proudfoot, Marie Doinne
Bon Volks presents a three-day, free-to-access exhibition of drawings and textiles in posthumous dialogue by Rachelle and the late Diana Francis, accompanied by live readings and a participatory making workshop. Open throughout the Off Season weekend, the exhibition will be punctuated by short scheduled readings within the space by Marie Doinne and Kit Proudfoot and a collaborative textile–metal workshop between Rachelle and Billie M Vigne, creating moments of gathering, reflection and hands-on engagement.
BON VOLKS STUDIOS, 12 PARK LANE, MARGATE CT9 1RQ
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 12-5pm
98. Past It (Part 2) - Lewis Simpson
London became an ever-expanding worry that warped my sense of what could be. The impulse to move to Margate was sudden, a step away from the idea that simply surviving in the city was a purpose.
Though my practice was always meant to focus on the present, I had been too overwhelmed to recognise the specific moments that held meaning. But even with three jobs here time seemed to open and my everyday finally had space to settle.
These paintings simply couldn’t have happened in Central, emerging from small, ordinary moments that surfaced in this widening freedom. They are singular stamps of clarity that shape this ever-expanding sense of peace.
MORI MORI 80 NORTHDOWN RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2RE
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Private View: Thursday 22nd January 6-8pm
Fri-Sun 12–3pm 6–9pm
99. Out Of Fashion - Thelma Speirs, Paul Bernstock, Dan Chilcott
Out of Fashion is a group show of three artists. Thelma Speirs is showing new painting work. Paul Bernstock's work incorporates ceramics and textiles. Dan Chilcott's medium uses knit.
DAN'S BASEMENT 9 ATHELSTAN ROAD MARGATE CT9 2BD
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri 12-8pm, Sat 12-8pm, Sun 12- 6pm
100. Ordinary Ghosts - Anderson Asteclines, Brogan Bertie, Casey Walshe
"Ordinary Ghosts" brings together new work by 3 Margate artists — Anderson Asteclines, Brogan Bertie, and Casey Walshe — each of whom lives or has lived on Athelstan Road. Installed within the domestic environment of Casey’s flat at 15 Athelstan Road, the exhibition presents paintings shaped by the street’s layered histories: its communities, daily activity and its ghosts and spirits.
Anderson’s gestural approach anchors his paintings in immediacy, allowing ghostlike figures to surface through intuitive mark-making. Brogan’s practice is grounded in connection and observation, painting directly from life to evoke intimate portraits of those around him. Casey’s work looks at flowers and plants as symbolic markers of a personal queer history woven into the rhythms of the home.
Together, the artists offer a portrait of place, with many works made specifically for this setting. Visitors will encounter Athelstan Road through the sensibilities of those who know it from within.
FLAT 3 15 ATHELSTAN ROAD, CT92BD
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 12-4pm
101. THE LAST LIGHT
THE LAST LIGHT, 85 NORTHDOWN RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2RJ
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Margate Jewellers Collective Present : Lunar Caustic / The Devil’S Metal, Margate Jewellers Collective, Featuring Rosita Bonita, Rebecca Gladstone, Billie Grand & Billie M Vigne
Four artisan jewellers mine their unique creative visions to explore & animate alternate realms; each telling tales in precious metals and accompanying media.
Open: Friday 23rd January Midday to 11pm, Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th 11am to 11pm.
U B Me, Valentina Attolini, Jamie Brown, Chris F Clark, Lux, Max Goffe, Elias Høve, James Kingman, Sophie Reeves, Margate Jewellers Collective
The Last Light is proud to present U B ME, an exhibition that provides a sizzling snapshot of our creative community.
Fri-Sun 12pm–11pm
102. Katie Parker - Open Studio
Visit Katie Parker in her studio as she opens her space to the public for the first time.
100-102 NORTHDOWN ROAD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE, CT9 2RE
Accessible, Not suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 12pm–4pm
103. Sculpture / Oil Paintings - Samuel George, Clara Frain-Atallah
This group show brings together SG’s deliberately non-functional objects and Clara Frain-Atallah’s narrative paintings, revealing how material, ritual, and domestic labour carry meaning through absence, repetition, and staging.
MARGATE HOUSE, 6 DALBY SQUARE, MARGATE, CT9 2ER
Accessible, Not suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 12-10pm
104. 13 Tides - Helina Tesega
13 Tides is an observation of the changes we move through in order to remember our natural rhythm... how we hold, release, and return over time.
122 NORTHDOWN ROAD, CT9 2RB
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri 12–8pm, Sat-Sun 10am–5pm
105. Torrential Flood Of Heavy Spinners - Jack Lavender & Kris Lock
An exhibition of new works by Jack Lavender and Kris Lock, Torrential Flood of Heavy Spinners finds the soft red fluorescence of a giant sun in a different time.
11A ARTHUR ROAD, MARGATE CT9 2EN
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
PV Fri 5-8pm, Sat 12pm–5pm
106. Thrills & Regressions - Eve Jefferies
Thrills & Regressions is a multifaceted video installation combining three works by Eve Jefferies; Wandergeselle, The Riddles of the Peninx and Male Artist.
15 GREENWICH HOUSE, 30-24 ARTHUR ROAD, MARGATE, CT9 2EN
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Film playing Fri-Sat 4pm, 5pm, Sun 3pm, 4pm
107. Nuiseance - Dan Watt
A collection of 365 drawings from the Kent coast.
FAITH IN STRANGERS, 17 ETHELBERT CRES, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2DY
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sat 6pm-2am, Sun 12–5pm
108. Special Interest - Ted Rogers, Dre Spisto
Ted Rogers and Dre Spisto invite you to join the LIVE filming of our first episode of “Special Interest”, - a collage of conversations connecting obsession, love and art.
FLAT 4, 7-8 CLARENDON ROAD, CT9 2QL
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Sat 9–11am
109. Relics From Battleaxia - Sadie Hennessy
In the wood-panelled stockroom of Cliftonville's famous vintage-clobber emporium Tat Agent, there is a collection of Relics from Battleaxia; a priceless hoard of treasures, unearthed in 3025 and believed to date back to 2025.
TAT AGENT, 156 NORTHDOWN RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE, CT9 2QN
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 12–5pm
110. Human Remains - Katie Blythe, Ffion Colquhoun O’Brien, Bev Howard, Jonathan Hughes, Lily Hughes, Patrick Lears, Chloe Mckenzie, David Nettleingham, Iain Purves, Dominic Rose, Ellis Smith, Louise Frances Smith, Rebecca Truscott-Elves, Anastasia Tory, Willow Winston
Human Remains is a celebratory group show of 15 local sculptors, presented by Thanet Experimental, transforming everyday objects into a playful, speculative museum of meaning and imagination.
SALON, 101A NORTHDOWN ROAD, MARGATE, CT9 2QY
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 10am–5pm
111. Wetlands - Rosie Carr And Remy Hunter
New works on paper by Rosie Carr and Remy Hunter.
MARGATE YOGA STUDIO, 160 NORTHDOWN ROAD CT9 2QN
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri 2–6pm, Sun 12–5pm
112. Other Echoes - Emma Falconer, Dolmen Dweller
Pizza, art and music at 101 Social.
101 Social is an inclusive community and arts centre serving authentic Italian sourdough pizza with vegan and gluten-free options, and a selection of Italian wines and beers.
Other Echoes regularly presents experimental music and sound art at 101, and will be holding a paid gig on Saturday the 24th (see link for tickets). We will also be showing work throughout the weekend from Emma Falconer, an illustrator from Kent inspired by vintage book art, hauntology and analogue printmaking processes; with prints, cards, books and comics for sale.
Friday evening: Exhibition private view + normal pizza and bar service
Saturday daytime: Illustration exhibition
Saturday evening: Other Echoes #28- experimental heavy music and sound art with Dolmen Dweller, Bone Ringer, Jimmy No Shoes and more (Ticketed event- £12 standard, £6 low income)
Sunday: Community vegetarian lunch 12-2 (pay what you feel) + exhibition
101 NORTHDOWN ROAD, CLIFTONVILLE CT9 2QY
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri ticketed, Sat-Sun 7pm
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/other-echoes-28-off-season-special-tickets-1978122589916
113. At Home - Clare Evans
Shown at Ghost Papa, this exhibition features two large oil portraits of musicians painted at ease in their own spaces, capturing an intimate balance of vulnerability, strength, and painterly freedom.
GHOST PAPA, 105 NORTHDOWN ROAD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE, CT9 2QY
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri- Sat 10am–6pm, Sunday 11am–5pm
114. That's Revolting! - Rebecca Strickson
Rebecca Strickson gets revolting over the last 10 years of making stuff she's angry about.
CLIFFS, 172 NORTHDOWN RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2QN
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
PV Fri 6–9pm, Fri- Sat 8:30am–3pm, Sun 9am–2:30pm
115. Show Me To The Back Room - Rory Draper
Irish artist Rory Draper has spent three years exploring queer spaces through oil paintings –the small moments that occur in them and his relationship to these areas. Recently relocated to Margate, his focus has shifted to cruising spots. This exhibition shows that transition. First you encounter one of his queer space pieces where he's the voyeur, watching with you. Then you enter the back room, where he steps into the paintings.
The two backroom works show scenes from a sauna from his hometown, where he honed his cruising skills. These were spots he gravitated towards; places where finding his desires grounded him.
CAMP, 125 NORTHDOWN ROAD, MARGATE CT92QY
Accessible, Not suitable for under 18s
Fri 6pm–12.30am, Sat 2pm–12.30am, Sun 4–10.30pm
116. Soft Descent: An Early Evening Of Errant Writing - Dre Spisto
Performance artist and curator Dre Spisto brings together an early-evening programme of experimental film, music, writing, and performance to mark the closing of this year’s Off Season, with line-up updates shared via Instagram.
CAMP 125 NORTHDOWN ROAD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE, CT9 2QY
Accessible, Not suitable for under 18s
Sun 7–10pm
117. Resort Open Studios - Resort Studio Members Charlie Evaristo Boyce, Will Clarke, Nick Morley, Josie James, Uli Jaeger, Adam Lucy, Ultramarine Flowers, Alia Hamza, Jamie Hickling
Join us at Resort Studios for our next Open Studios event as part of Off Season Margate.
RESORT STUDIOS, 24 CLARENDON RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2QJ
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Sun 12–4pm
118. Reframed - Richie Disaster
Creating designs for an assortment of preloved and random frames, rather than finding frames for artwork. Giving new life to old frames and working to set perimeters.
LOWLIFE, 139 NORTHDOWN ROAD MARGATE CT92QY
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri 8am–7pm, Sat 9am–5pm, Sun 12–4pm
119. Grand Soft Opening, Kit Griffiths, Shaun Stamp, Evie Prichard
The grand soft launch of Margate’s grandest softest space. The arts venue at No. 41 Sweyn Road has not yet been named, but it already has plenty of personality. A bohemian studio cum gallery cum vintage shop, where artists and their friends can afford to be beautiful. We’ll be hosting workshops, parties, exhibitions, salons, queer events and games nights. Please join us to celebrate and warm this gorgeous 1892 space, with an exhibition of artwork all weekend, and an informal opening party on Saturday 24th from 5.30pm
41 SWEYN ROAD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE, CT9 2DD
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sun 11am–5.30pm
120. Adam Hogarth: "Battle Cat"
The artwork exhibited in Battle Cat is an anthropological study of a fictitious community that hangs onto life 900 years after a global mass extinction. Set at Jarman’s Point (formally the coastline connecting Folkestone to Dungeness), to a backdrop of cataclysmic sea-level rises and a mass extinction of most animals, humanity has regressed to a new dark age. Within the work, Hogarth intertwines his own personal experiences with new religious movements that echo a naïve vision of the past, distorted by the disaster. These common tales of war, peace, death and love are tales than span aeons, from our collective past to our defunct future.
ARK - CLIFTONVILLE CULTURAL SPACE, ALBION RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2HP
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri 12–5pm, Sat 10:15am–5pm, Sun 10am–5pm
121. Pillow Talk- Paloma Proudfoot & Nicolas Deshayes, Call When You Reach- Madinah Farhannah Thompson
Pillow Talk brings together Nicolas Deshayes and Paloma Proudfoot in a new series of ceramic and cast-metal installations that sensitively explore the fragile states of the human body.
Call When You Reach presents a new body of work by Madinah Farhannah Thompson, examining isolation, alienation, and racial trauma, and how these experiences can fracture one’s connection to the physical self.
VIKING HOUSE, CLIFTONVILLE AVENUE CT9 2AH
Not accessible, Not suitable for under 18s
PV Fri 5–8pm, Sat-Sun 12–5pm
122. Stick Around - Max Boxer; Poppy Cockburn; Jemma Channing; Henry Collins; Daniel James Demuth; Tim Gomersáll; Kit Griffiths; Imogen-Naomi Herd; Shringi Kumari; Tara Li-An; Lindsay Marsden; Carson Parkin Fairley; Hannah Prime; Ben Sanders; Dan Thompson
Stick Around is a group show bringing together a range of Thanet-based artists working with collage. The exhibition explores the ways the art form can provide vital relief from the pain of mental health challenges.
Slicing, tearing, arranging and rearranging materials can be a therapeutic, meditative, healing process. Collage provides easy access to creative practice for everyone, and often makes use of found or low cost materials.
Cutting out images, shapes, words and colours can help us stop cutting into ourselves, mentally and physically. It can help quiet the mind and keep our fingers busy. It can provide an outlet for our emotions, and calm us down. It can help us process and shift our perspective. It can provide hope.
Stick Around will show at Salon from 8th–18th January, followed by a showcase at The Grain Grocer for Off Season, 23rd–25th January.
THE GRAIN GROCER, 216 NORTHDOWN ROAD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE, CT9 2QU
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sat 8.30am–5pm, Sun 9am–4pm
123. Baby, It'S Cold Out There - Jay Rechsteiner, Lily Hughes, Charles Williams
In this collaborative exhibition by Charles Williams, Lily Hughes and Jay Rechsteiner titled Baby, It’s Cold Outside, visitors enter a domestic space where comfort and disturbance sit close together. Paintings, objects and video occupy a setting that normally shelters us from the world, yet the works shown here allow the outside to seep in. They draw on humour, conflict, memory and everyday habits, and reflect the different ways we piece together our sense of reality from what reaches us at home.
The exhibition is open during the day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Friday, Jay Rechsteiner serves spaghetti as a deliberate gesture, making a simple meal part of the shared experience. On Saturday evening, poetry readings and a selection of short films build on the themes of the exhibition, contrasting the warmth of the space with the stories and images we carry from the wider world.
24 PRICES AVENUE, MARGATE, CT9 2NT
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Fri-Sat 12- 7pm, Sun 12-5pm
124. Hoo - Dominic Rose & Jon Spencer
The Hoo Peninsula on the north coast of Kent protrudes out into the Thames. Two standing stones mark the end of the river and the beginning of the Thames Estuary. Despite the sea walls, the peninsula is largely marshland, sparsely populated, with much only accessible on foot. On the opposite bank, giant container ships, from all over the world, unload their cargo 24 hours a day at London’s biggest port, London Gateway. Just beyond the peninsula the SS Richard Montgomery lies on the river bed with a cargo of explosives from WWII.
SHOP FRONT MARGATE, 161 NORTHDOWN ROAD, MARGATE CT9 2PA
Accessible, Suitable for under 18s
Gallery Fri-Sun 12–4pm, Shopfront 24hrs a day
125. Bugs - Emma Payne, Connection Stories - Joshua Bond,
Bugs presents Emma Payne’s giant pastel and charcoal drawings of human-sized insects, while Connexion Stories features paintings inspired by Riddley Walker and Philip Guston that explore the absurd ways we try to make sense of the world.
RIDING WINE CO. UNIT 2, 220 NORTHDOWN ROAD, CT9 2 RP
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Fri 3–11pm, Sat 1–11pm, Sun 1–5pm
126. Glimpse - Niki Duffy
Niki will present his most recent work: a series of studies and oil paintings that explore the inner consciousness and its relationship to outer reality. Drawing on his own experiences in dreams and altered states, the works meditate on how these states offer glimpses into other worlds that coexist with our own yet remain just out of reach. The exhibition will take place on the upper levels of The Albion Rooms. A bar will also be open during exhibition hours.
THE ALBION ROOMS, 31 EASTERN ESPLANADE, MARGATE, KENT, CT9 2HL
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Fri 4pm–9pm, Sat 12–6pm
127. Eyes Bigger Than My Belly - Lindsey Mendick
As children, Lindsey Mendick and her sister waited for the bus outside a local jewellery shop, pressing their noses to the window and pointing out the engagement rings they imagined owning one day. In Eyes Bigger Than My Belly, that early longing is reimagined as a theatrical rodent heist staged in S.T. Jewellers’ windows. Rats and mice enact human impulses, wreaking havoc in their gluttonous desire for sparkle and luxury. Drawing on infamous jewellery thefts and cinematic capers such as Ocean’s Eleven and The Thomas Crown Affair, the work uses humour and excess to critique greed, consumer desire, and the capitalist systems that endlessly produce and withhold objects of value.
S.T. JEWELLERS, 181 NORTHDOWN RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2PA
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24hrs a day
128. Sleepless Nights - Ishilla Aleksandra
For the Off Season festival 2026 the Orchid Room is hosting Ishilla Aleksandra’s multi media art installation titled ‘Sleepless Nights’.
Ishilla Aleksandra is a non-binary artist, born in Warsaw, Poland and currently living and working in Margate, UK. They graduated from BA (Hons) Fine Art Mixed Media at University of Westminster in London in 2021. Since 2025 they are part of the TURPS Margate. Aleksandra’s work focuses mainly on exploration of non-binary and trans identity, as well as skin and body as sites of constant exchange and transformation. Working mostly with paint and fabric, they depict new memories, based on their dreams and imaginary self-portraits. Their interest in psychoanalysis led them to use free association in the process of making art. Their work questions the relationship between body and desire and their implications on social constructs and belief systems.
THE ORCHID ROOM 234-236 NORTHDOWN ROAD MARGATE CT9 2QD
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Fri-Sun 11am–5pm
PV Sun 3–5pm
129. Precipice - Grace Phyllis Silver_Smith, Ishilla Aleksandra, Rory Draper
Precipice brings together three artists whose practices hover between becoming and unravelling, between memory and myth, between the body as anchor and the body as question. In the off-season hush of Margate when the town itself feels suspended, waiting for its next tide we meet the cliff-edge as both metaphor and material: the moment before the leap, the breath before the shift, the shimmer of desire before it takes form.
Together, these practices form a constellation of thresholds: bodily, mythic, erotic, social. Precipice asks what it means to stand at the edge of identity, history, or desire not in fear, but in fierce anticipation. It invites viewers to linger in the in-between, to honour the unstable, to witness transformation in its moment of trembling possibility. Words by Grace Phylis Silver _Smith
236 NORTHDOWN ROAD NORTHDOWN RD CLIFTONVILLE MARGATE CT92QD
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Fri 12:30–6:30pm, Sat-Sun 10:30am- 5:30pm
130. SÈTE
Tableau - Lily + Jonny Hughes
A freeze frame of Margate midwinter in ceramic sculpture, capturing the romance of spending the quieter months together despite frosty fingers, icy winds and budget freezes. This installation in an old tobacconist’s window is a celebration of the easily overlooked attractions that continue to serve the community all year round.
The Harlequeens - Pik Ceramics
The Harlequeen collection is a series of porcelain moonjars hand-built by Carolina, an Argen-Chilean ceramist whose work is inspired by geometry’s unlimited boundaries, from hypnotic checkerboards and harlequin patters to flowing spirals.
100 Hours - 100 Hours
100 Hours (AKA Jo Evans), whose work has captivated audiences with its power to calm, brings her natural textile works to Sete. Her delicate hand-stitched collages are housed in her meticulously hand-crafted oak frames, presenting fully formed objets d’art. Each piece showcases meticulous attention to detail and unwavering commitment to her craft, and with titles such as Vital Meds and Food Stuffs, they find a fitting home in Natalia Ribbe's former sweet shop. We know that Sete's customers already appreciate genuine craftsmanship, so this feels like a perfect pairing.
SÈTE MARGATE, 238 NORTHDOWN ROAD, MARGATE CT9 2QD
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Fri 4–11pm, Sat 12–11pm, Sun 12–9pm
131. Monkey Gets Pizza - Gabriela Max
This project involves a creating of a mural/wall painting for Casa Pizzeria in Northdown Road, the home of Authentic pizza napoletana. The subject of the artwork is Monkeys eating Pizza, joining the Amazon Monkey Figure to the Italian Culture, as the artist is Brazilian and pursue Italian blood. The idea is to bring children and adults joined to a playful and joyful piece of art, where the monkey as the main figure is having a great time by enjoying a piece of pizza napoletana.
CASA PIZZERIA 189 NORTHDOWN ROAD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE, KENT, CT9 2PA
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Fri 5- 9pm, Sat 3- 9pm, Sun 4-8pm
132. Sā - Shringi Kumari, Nadia Eloise, Billie Dee, Grace Saint, Chris Vervain
Sā - The root note that births all breath, vowels, the sounds of music and ragas.
Sā | सा art gallery celebrates the union of our universal rhythm with 5 artists who dance to a common tune.
SĀ ART GALLERY, 191 NORTHDOWN RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2PA
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Fri-Sun 11am–6pm
133. Intertidal - Xander Linger
‘Intertidal’ is a love letter to the Thanet coast – the chalk, the water, the omnipresent winds and all the organisms, like us, that inhabit it.
These photographs were made with my young daughter in tow, wading through the rockpools and slipping on the seaweed while peering into these ephemeral ecosystems that appear and disappear with the ebb and flow of the tides.
The negatives themselves were developed using the Thanet seaweed that washed up on my local Cliftonville beaches. This is done for both reasons of sustainability – in an effort to move away from the traditional, more toxic photo chemicals – and to allow these ecosystems to play an active role in the creation of the artworks.
THE TAP ROOM, NORTHDOWN PARADE, 4 PRICES AVE, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2NR
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Fri 4–11pm, Sat 2–11pm, Sun 2–10pm
134. In Good Company - Megan Metcalf
A colourful pick-me-up to lift you from the Jan blues. This cheerful window art, created with vibrant coloured tinted film, celebrates the warmth and light found in PICNIC and the simple joy of having a good time with company, even in January.
PICNIC, 3, NORTHDOWN PARADE, PRICES AVE, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2NR
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24hrs a day
135. The Living Room Gallery / Decolonising The Kitchen - 5 Artists Including Tara Garden And Grady Grafica
Come explore Jo and Tara’s home overlooking Walpole Bay!
A living room turned gallery showcasing five artists working across printmaking, painting, 3D art, and poetry. Each artist has their own wall to display their latest work, with prints available to purchase. Write and contribute your own poem and take part in an anonymous poem exchange
A complete sensory kitchen installation exploring home, culture and belonging through food shaped by colonisation, migration and ritual. Learn how and where our food comes from, reflect on our relationships with land and each other, eat and contribute recipes to our kitchen wall
Explore the work, maybe write a poem, learn something new and eat something tasty - We'd love to see you.
FLAT 6, GRANVILLE COURT, LEWIS CRESCENT, CLIFTONVILLE CT9 2LQ
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Fri 5-7pm, Sat 11am–4pm
136. Hanging Out Hang Out? - Smok Gang
Penthouse, Margate is pleased to present Hanging Out Hang Out? an exhibition by SMOK GANG visible from the outside of the now permanently closed Penthouse, Margate.
PENTHOUSE MARGATE 34 HAROLD ROAD CT9 2HT
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24hrs a day
137. Porch Gallery & Zine Library
Margate's new street zine library debuts alongside some of my paintings in my lil 1960s porch. Bring your own comics and zines to swap or simply take some to enjoy.
23 NORTHDOWN AVENUE, MARGATE, CT9 2NW
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Fri-Sun 12-5pm
138. Deep Down, So Bright - Josephine Baker
Combining drawings and small sculptures with a large central relief work, in Deep down, so bright, Josephine Baker furthers her interest in the overlap between the emotional and the infrastructural. The title is both a saccharine expression of positivity, and a reference to “ancient sunshine”, a poetic scientific phrase used to describe coal, oil, and natural gas. Using readily-available building materials such as asphalt roofing, copper cabling, and plaster, Baker explores the way extraction industries are embedded in our cities and built environments, and the way that both feelings and fossil fuels invisibly shape and determine our world.
Josephine Baker’s work has been included in institutional exhibitions internationally, including at the British Museum, Gustav Luebcke Museum (Hamm, Germany), and MACA (Beijing). Recent solo exhibitions include: Editors, Gallery daSein, Shenzhen (2025); Prime Movers, Nir Altman, Munich (2024); Water-resistance, St. Chads, London (2023); Frieze London Focus
WELL PROJECTS, 217 NORTHDOWN ROAD, MARGATE CT9 2PF
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Sat 5–8pm, Sun 12–5pm
139. Margate Arts Club Group Show - Various Artists
A group exhibition that brings together artists throughout Margate. Encouraging a creative and inclusive space for anyone to exhibit their creations - whatever the medium, whatever the idea. Live performances, paintings and drawings, sculptures, music, anything goes. The afternoon will be dedicated to exhibiting the artwork, with time for chatting and connecting over the pieces, and the evening will roll into an after party to kick off the Off Season weekend.
276 NORTHDOWN RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2PT
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Friday 23rd, afternoon exhibition and nighttime after party
140. The Revolution Is You: Prophetic Confrontations - A Trail Within The Trail - Lux
The Revolution Is You is an ongoing text-based public art project by Lux.
Hand-painted words appear as interruptions in everyday space, meeting the viewer where they are. Urgent, tender, demanding, loving. They ask nothing except presence.
Together, these Prophetic Confrontations act as urgent blessings, asking their witness: how much of the way we see ourselves was shaped by other people’s fear, shame, or silence? And what if something softer, freer, already exists underneath, waiting to be noticed?
Follow the trail within the trail to encounter each piece as it appears. Let it land in whatever way makes sense to you, or not at all.
This project grows through what it awakens in others and viewers are invited to share reflections anonymously via the QR codes attached to each artwork.
PROPHETIC CONFRONTATION NO 1: THE INTERNATIONAL FOOD CENTER, IN THE CAFE'S SEATING AREA, NORTHDOWN RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2PJ PROPHETIC CONFRONTATION NO 2: THE LAST LIGHT (PUB), DOWNSTAIRS, 85 NORTHDOWN RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2RJ PROPHETIC CONFRONTATION NO 3: THE MULBERRY TREE, 53 DANE RD, CLIFTONVILLE, MARGATE CT9 2AE
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141. Reflections - Hayley Tompkins
Hayley Tompkins (b. 1971, Leighton Buzzard, England) works across painting, painted objects and installation, creating a practice where colour, gesture and material converge, charging the everyday with heightened presence. Her work approaches painting as transformation rather than representation: surfaces are soaked and scarred, fluorescent layers collide with deliberate brushwork, and spontaneity meets control. This tension between sensual and structured, playful and serious, positions painting as a thinking process, an active engagement with time, material and form.
Central to this presentation are works that extend painting into objects. Containers and items linked to touch and use carry colour and texture, grounding the work in human scale and familiarity. Alongside these, panel paintings hover between decision and hesitation, their rhythms interrupted by stillness. Together, the works ask viewers not to analyse, but to inhabit painting as experience, relation and touch.
ROLAND ROSS, 231 NORTHDOWN RD, MARGATE, KENT CT9 2PJ
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Fri-Sun 12–5pm
142. Meera Palia - Abstract Paintings - Open (Back Of) House & Shed, Meera Palia
Open (back of) house & shed – Abstract expressionist painter, scribbler and collage artist, Meera Palia warmly invites you in for a cup of tea, biscuits and a relaxed offering of her most recent paintings, ideas, works in progress, new giclée prints. All available at local/studio prices.
Meera’s spontaneous, gestural and expressive outpourings vary from minimalist to maximalist reflections of moods, ideas and ways of being constantly in flux, shaped by experiences of grief, mid-life change, questions of identity, hormonal mayhem and her love of music and dance.
With a deep appreciation for raw and improvised art forms, Meera aims for the painting equivalent of a jazz jam, prioritising the energy, authenticity and process of free mark-making over achieving a polished composition or choreographed act, a celebration of the vulnerability, therapeutic value and empowerment contained in the act of painting without a defined outcome in mind.
22 WYNDHAM AVENUE, MARGATE, CT9 2PR
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Fri-Sun 12pm–3pm