Hey folks, We have had an excellent run for the past three months, and as the exhibition has finally come to an end, we have … Read more
Category: Catalogue
Taxidermy
Taxidermy is such a beautiful artform – but how realistic is it? The artform involves taking the outside skin of the actual animal, and placing … Read more
Translation
As we translate works from Japan into an understandable format for Kent, and vice versa, we begin to see patterns emerging. Airborne Rising up, carried … Read more
Going Underground
“There are to be seen … near this town … sundry artificial caves or holes in the earth, whereof some have ten, some fifteen and … Read more
Fossils
We imagine the Kent of some of these creatures would have been rather different than the county you are standing in today! Scientifically, it … Read more
Kentish Kottages Krap Kintsugi
wabi-sabi – Finding beauty in the flawed or imperfect Sadie Hennessy’s Kentish Krap Kintsugi illustrates the Japanese art of Kintsugi, the act of mending by … Read more
Denys Eyre Bower (1905-1977)
‘I regret to say that we spurned this kindness and continued to brandish the Japanese “real swords”’ Bower started collecting Japanese goods long after it … Read more
Hooden Horse
‘I’d much rather be in the White Horse in Sittingbourne with the East Kent Hoodeners’ Sadie Hennessy’s Hooden Horse explores the Kentish folk tradition of … Read more
Kent’s Barr Chart
Paris, Berlin, Moscow… These vital Metropolitan centres recur on New York curator Alfred Barr’s well-known diagram demonstrating the seemingly inevitable development of Modern Art towards … Read more
Euphrosyne and the Harty Spring
Open the Mermaid’s phone and listen, shake the bottle and let the Estuary Spirits enchant you, open the pages of the book and let the … Read more