7-12 August 2026
Open 12-4pm, or by appointment

CRATE, 1 Bilton Square, Margate CT9 1EE

Accompanied by an exhibition text by Anna Moss.

There is a peculiar magnetism to the British seaside, found not only in the salt air but in a nostalgia that feels both collective and deeply personal. Having grown up on the coast, the artist’s relationship with the seaside has been shaped by its rhythms and rituals, fostering a lasting fascination with these spaces and the people who inhabit them. The seaside emerges as a landscape of simple pleasures and quiet absurdities. Fish and chips drenched in vinegar, sugar-dusted doughnuts, and clouds of candy floss exist alongside fading piers, flashing neon, and arcades where the hum of machines mingles with traces of sand.

Its allure lies as much in this eccentric theatre of leisure as in the beauty of the coastline itself. Drawn to places that exist between performance and authenticity, fantasy and familiarity, the artist explores the seaside as a space of reinvention. Examining how memory becomes embedded in place and how landscapes associated with pleasure and escape can hold both personal and collective histories, shaping who we are and who we might become.