CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
LIMINAL SALON
Group Exhibition
26 October - 23 November 2024
The Cupboard, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery are delighted to announce the opening of 'Liminal Salon II' a group exhibition spotlighting 32 artists who have exhibited in our two exhibition spaces; Main Space and The Cupboard, over the past two years. The exhibition offers a diverse range of voices through drawing, painting, sculpture, collage and print. While the artists vary in media, scale, and concept, they share a sense of community that brings them together.
I COULD WATCH YOU FOR HOURS
CARSON PARKIN-FAIRLEY
16 November 2024 - 8 February 2025
The Cupboard, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery are delighted to present ‘I Could Watch You For Hours’ by Carson Parkin-Fairley. The Cupboard will be transformed into a compact universe that evokes the dreamlike essence of 90s cartoons from the artists childhood. This installation pays homage to the captivating glow of television, immersing viewers in vibrant animated realms.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
SOMETHING ABOUT ETNA
FIPSI SEILERN
30 November 2024 - 18 January 2025
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
In ‘Something About Etna’, London-based artist Fipsi Seilern explores her fascination with volcanic landscapes, cowboys with disembodied limbs, alongside an underlying fear of crowds. Using colour pencils to draw directly onto untreated wood panels, the compositions oscillate between solitude and chaos: some figures sit isolated with skulls and miniature pigs, while others charge on horseback, guns drawn, with an imminent sense of eruption.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Ein kaltes Herz kann nie glücklich sein
Zoe De Caluwé
24 August - 9 November 2024
The Cupboard, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
‘Ein kaltes Herz kann nie glücklich sein’ [A cold heart can never be happy] is a homage to a heart at odds with itself. The Cupboard reveals an intimate space housing a ceramic vessel, an object resembling the shape of a well, sealed with an aluminium plate. Through this mirrored surface we enter into the process of searching, animating the viewer to look into their distorted image and decipher what stares back.
FANTASY GIRLS
KATIE TOMLINSON
7 September - 12 October 2024
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present "Fantasy Girls," a solo exhibition by Katie Tomlinson in collaboration with Brooke Benington. The exhibition explores representations of femininity, blending mythological and art historical imagery with fantasy and science fiction.
IT SOFTENS THE BLOW, THAT DEEP MELODIC BLISS
OLIVIA STRANGE
6 July - 31 August 2024
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Pulling together the multifarious strands of Strange’s practice "It Softens the Blow, That Deep Melodic Bliss" explores notions of escape and survival through snapshot moments of euphoria and pleasure, as an act of resistance. The work celebrates the freedom and intimacy that can be found within singular moments in varying spaces from the domestic environment to the natural landscape and the rave scene.
SEVEN AND A HALF
LUCY LYONS
18 May - 17 August 2024
The Cupboard, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery is delighted to announce the fifth exhibition in The Cupboard, 'Seven and a half' by Lucy Lyons. This exhibition provides a unique realm where the boundaries between reality and imagination blur, offering a glimpse into the intricate workings of the human mind.
EGGSHELLS
MAUD WHATLEY
4 June - 14 July 2024
Artsy / Online Exclusive
EGGSHELLS is an online exhibition by Maud Whatley featuring experimental drawings and writing, which are part of an ongoing research project. Whatley explores the armor and defenses we might construct for ourselves in fictional situations beyond our current experiences. She investigates historical processes and practices, as well as the representation and attitudes toward armored clothing in art history and contemporary culture. These elements may inform the design of suits to take us to places or beyond the horizons of our own imagination.
NEST
THOMAS LANGLEY
4 May - 29 June 2024
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Through the lens of painting and drawing, Thomas Langley's practice is deeply concerned with the fundamental mechanics of image creation, manifesting in pulsating rhythmic compositions. The foundation of this body of work lies in traps, nests, and vessels, serving as anchors for concepts of place, home and travel. Langley imparts permanence to these temporal structures through a sculpted and almost drawn approach to painting, with thick impasto application.
THERE'S BEEN A MURDER
FLORA BRADWELL
6 May - 16 June 2024
Online Solo Exhibition
In the ever growing series There's Been A Murder Flora Bradwell obsessively paints crow after individual crow. These corvids: lurking and leering from the canvas are sometimes barely even dry when they are then obliterated with paint and pattern: smeared over with translucent acrylic; blotted out with unrelenting squiggles and stripes. Never far from an archway and a wailing sphere or two, it is as if these harbingers of doom or magik, whichever way you look at them, need to be rubbed away and silenced.
TURN THE TIDES
GROUP EXHIBITION
5 March - 9 June 2024
Online Exhibition
Seven artists come together for the exhibition ‘Turn the Tides’, an exhibition exclusive to Artsy. Featuring the diverse and innovative practices of Catherine Chinatree, Cedric Christie, Damien Cifelli, Sarah Maple, David Shillinglaw, Maud Whatley and Mercedes Workman, this showcase offers a fresh perspective on contemporary art.
IT GATHERED HERE
LOUISE FRANCES SMITH
17 February - 11 May 2024
The Cupboard, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
‘It gathered here’ is a solo exhibition by Ramsgate-based artist Louise Frances Smith and presents a series of site specific sculptures. Playing with scale, the organic, body-like forms appear to be engulfing the small space, growing, crawling and spreading around the walls - posing the question of what the repercussions of human intervention is on our fragile coastal ecosystems, hiding behind the door of The Cupboard.
WALKING IN LIMESTONE COUNTRY
ABIGAIL HAMPSEY
6 - 28 April 2024
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery is delighted to announce its upcoming exhibition, ‘Walking in Limestone Country’ the first solo exhibition of Lancashire-based artist Abigail Hampsey. Having returned to the land of her youth on the edge of the greenbelt between Lancaster, the Lake District and West Yorkshire, this new body of work is an exploration of landscape, a retrieval of place and a recording of the relationships formed within them.
LITTLE LORDS
LAURA FORD
2 - 30 March 2024
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery is delighted to announce their next exhibition ‘Little Lords’ by renowned artist Laura Ford. The exhibition will showcase a collection of sculptural and wall-based works which explore the boundaries between desire and imposition, inviting viewers into the realm of play and imagination.
IN BITS
INGRID BERTHON-MOINE & JENNIFER NIEUWLAND
3 - 24 February 2024
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery is delighted to announce its upcoming exhibition, ‘In Bits’, which examines the delicate interplay of strength and vulnerability through the works of artists Ingrid Berthon-Moine and Jennifer Nieuwland. Delving into the tactile nature of art, both artists employ texture as a central element encapsulated in dismembered limbs that echo the intricacies of the human experience.
TURNER'S FEMALE CONTEMPORARIES
MERCEDES WORKMAN
18 November 2023 - 10 February 2024
The Cupboard, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
‘Turner's Female Contemporaries’ presents a meticulously crafted and entirely tiled space, unveiling the faces of female artists who have long been overlooked by history, each of whom were creating their own work during J. M. W. Turner’s lifetime. Mercedes Workman's installation serves as a poignant reminder of the many talented women artists who have, for the most part, been denied the recognition they rightfully deserved. This exhibition shines a much-needed spotlight on their remarkable contributions to the art world and seeks to rectify the historical omission.
HAUNCHES
MAUD WHATLEY
6th - 27th January 2024
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Maud Whatley’s work explores the politics of looking at things, the unexpected eroticism of placing different ideas in the context of one another and the ways in which the repetitive insistent touches of drawing can be sexy and weird.
SWALLOWING MIST TO LICK YOUR MOUTH
ELEANOR MCCAUGHEY
2nd - 31st December 2023
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery are delighted to present ‘Swallowing Mist to Lick Your Mouth’ by Dublin based artist Eleanor McCaughey. This immersive solo exhibition delves into the complex terrain of female identity, presenting the artist's multifarious practice including installation, paintings, sculptures, and a sound collaboration with Irish sound artists Bosca Nua, offering an exploration into the history, politics, and societal constructs of the female body and identity.
LIMINAL SALON
GROUP EXHIBITION
4 - 18 November 2023
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery are delighted to announce the opening of 'Liminal Salon,' a group exhibition spotlighting 25 artists who have exhibited in our two exhibition spaces; Main Space and The Cupboard, over the past year. The exhibition offers a diverse range of voices through drawing, painting, sculpture, collage and print. While the artists vary in media, scale, and concept, they share a sense of community that brings them together.
DEADLY BLOOM
JULIA ELLEN LANCASTER
7 - 28 October 2023
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Julia Ellen Lancaster's work delves deep into the relationship between humans and the landscape and encourages us to embrace the beauty of difference. 'Deadly Bloom' showcases Lancaster's innovative approach to ceramics, where she experiments with different clay bodies and complex glazing techniques, and employs her signature practice of digging clay from her local area in Thanet. A celebrated ceramic artist known for her distinctive exploration of primitive and otherworldly organisms, Lancaster repurposes previous ceramic experiments, adding layers of complexity to her creations. This intuitive and playful process is fundamentally linked to exploration and making.
NIGHT WALKS
THELMA SPEIRS
29 July - 28 October 2023
The Cupboard, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery is thrilled to announce the second exhibition in The Cupboard exhibition space. 'Night Walks' is a solo exhibition by Margate-based artist Thelma Speirs, which reveals a collection of evocative drawings and paintings, meticulously documented within the pages of a vintage French accounts book. Through Speirs' artistic lens, the urban and natural landscapes of London and Margate converge, giving way to a tapestry of ethereal nightscapes, enchanted woodlands, abandoned sports pitches, mythical creatures, and the enchanting winter skies, intertwining the realms of reality and imagination.
THE PULL OF THE TIDES
ANNA BLOM & EMMA RICHARDSON
2- 30 September 2023
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present 'The Pull of the Tides,' a two-person exhibition by Anna Blom and Emma Richardson. The exhibition delves into the depths of human emotion, nature's mysteries, the interplay between the conscious and unconscious realms and the passage of time.
SANCTUM FUTURUM: RELICS AND FORBIDDEN DESIRES
HENRIETTA ARMSTRONG
11 - 26 August 2023
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present ‘Sanctum Futurum: Relics and Forbidden Desires' a solo exhibition by Henrietta Armstrong. This new body of work is an evocative exploration of religious iconography and the boundaries of sacred art.
A journey into a shrine-like space where old gods are left behind and new ones emerge. 'Sanctum Futurum' questions the historical authenticity and often gruesome nature of sacred objects. Using plaster, wax and a touch of satire, Armstrong rebuilds her own pseudo relics for a contemporary world.
AGAIN AGAIN
CATHERINE CHINATREE
22 July - 5 August 2023
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery presents 'Again Again', a solo exhibition by Margate-based artist, Catherine Chinatree. Created during her transformative Artist Residency in Motherhood amidst Sintra's picturesque landscapes in Portugal, these new artworks are powerful reflections of her experience. Immersed in the vibrant tapestry of local life and culture for three months, these resulting works on paper capture the essence of her surroundings, resonating with the repetitive rhythms of artistic creation and everyday life.
INFALLIBLE
CEDRIC CHRISTIE
3 - 29 June 2023
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
London-based artist Cedric Christie unveils his solo exhibition, "Infallible," at Liminal Gallery. Featuring bespoke work created for Liminal’s unique space alongside Christie’s saturated wall-based minimalist sculptures, the exhibition invites viewers to question notions of infallibility, self-identity, and the intersection of art and spirituality while showcasing the artist's ability to ignite meaningful conversations.
'THE TOILET'
JEMIMA SARA
1th March - 10th June 2023
The Cupboard, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery are delighted to announce the launch of their second exhibition space ‘The Cupboard’; an open call space for artists living and working in Thanet, to further support local creatives. The residency spans three months and is selected by the Founder and Director of Liminal, Louise Fitzjohn. We are thrilled to be working with our first artist JEMIMASARA who will be debuting her installation ‘The Toilet’.
'NOCTURNES'
ANDREW TORR
6 - 28 May 2023
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery and The AOP Gallery are delighted to present Nocturnes a co-curated solo exhibition with Andrew Torr. It isn’t too far fetched to say that Torr has invented his own version of neo classical landscape painting with his Nocturnes. Each painting has a thin bright line that runs along the horizon and below the trees. The line contains a hive of city life, car lights, brightly lit houses and is placed within a setting that owes more to an old master than an urban location in London’s zone 2.
'ROADWORKS'
MARGARET CALVERT
4th March - 13th April 2023
Main Space, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present ‘Roadworks’, an exhibition by renowned graphic designer Margaret Calvert, best known for her work with Jock Kinneir on the design of a radical new road signing system for the UK, initiated in 1965.
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‘Roadworks’ exhibits work that is both serious and playful.
'TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS'
INGRID BERTHON-MOINE, FLORA BRADWELL & DAMIEN FLOOD
4th - 23rd February 2023
34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Tender moments, tender flesh, tender touch, tender thoughts, tender heart, tender mind; try a little tenderness.
A tender moment is encapsulated in an act of thoughtfulness; a cup of tea at the end of the day, a gift of flowers, a display of love. Tenderness is to give up one's time, attention, precious moments devoted to another. Tenderness is also pain, a moment of fragility, of weakness. It evokes skin which expands, shrinks, multiplies, and shivers to the touch. Skin which is a dying organism, for surely that is what we all are. A tender morsel of meat, deliciously melts in the mouth.
Exploring these themes in contrasting ways ‘Try a little Tenderness’ brings together the works of three artists whose practice is unified in the attempt to capture these fleeting moments.
'DANCING IN THE DARK'
ALEXIS SOUL-GRAY
7th - 29th January 2023
34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery is delighted to announce ‘Dancing in the Dark’ a solo exhibition by Alexis Soul-Gray. This new body of paintings by the Devon-based artist focuses on a children's party, devoid of parents, the children take on the burden of life amongst celebration, in all its beauty and sorrow. The figures Soul-Gray creates dissolve into dreamlike abstraction, overrun with vivid colour and this instability of surface blurs distinctions between figure, feeling, fantasy and reality.
DAMIEN CIFELLI
'TAROGRAMMA'
1st- 30th October 2022
34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of a permanent gallery space in Margate. The debut exhibition will be ‘Tarogramma’ with London-based, Scottish artist Damien Cifelli. Cifelli’s work explores the fictional realm of Tarogramma; a civilisation which in parts is comfortingly familiar yet wildly bizarre in their peculiarities. The canvases feature tight, flat realism combined with a daringly bold palette while referencing historical paintings, sculptures and museum artefacts. Cifelli approaches his work as a traveller, or archaeologist, piecing together recounts, relics and memorabilia to present an overall sense of the mythical world which could be an afterlife, an alien civilisation, a parallel world disrupted by the flutter of a butterfly's wing, a dream, or completely fictitious.
'MATRESCENCE'
CATHERINE LETTE, SARAH MAPLE, JENNIFER NIEUWLAND & ALEXIS SOUL-GRAY
5th - 27th November 2022
34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Liminal Gallery is delighted to announce ‘Matrescence’, an exhibition which brings together the work of four artists Mothers, curated by a Mother, with a portion of sales going to local non-profit organisation MAMA to MAMA.
The term ‘Matrescence’ is the physical, emotional, psychological, hormonal and social transition to becoming a mother.
The artists Catherine Lette, Sarah Maple, Jennifer Nieuwland and Alexis Soul-Gray explore this concept in their works in varying ways. From the bold, brutal reality alongside a dose of good humour.
'OVERSIZED SWORDS, CHAINS AND GLOVES'
LINDSEY JEAN MCLEAN
3rd - 22nd December 2022
34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Fleshy naked bodies juxtaposed against cool malleable textures, ask to what end will the pursuit of pleasure take; with the sting of passion or the emptiness of a glove? ‘Oversized Swords, Chains and Gloves’ features a new body of work and is a window into the recurring themes that provoke and inform Lindsey Jean McLean’s practice.
LINDSEY JEAN MCLEAN
'PINING'
3 Works for 3 Weeks
24th May - 14th June 2022
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present ‘Pining’ an online solo exhibition by Lindsey Jean McLean. Miniature women dance across their own canvases, their naked bodies exploring the lush surroundings promoting sensuality and the experience of touch. They dominate the space with a wilderness curiosity, sharing with us their delight as their bodies meld into the landscape around them; entwined in the pines, wading through a stream, surfacing between rocks.
LIZ CROSSFIELD
'AS THOUGH I HAD WINGS'
3 Works for 3 Weeks
15th March - 5th April 2022
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present ‘As Though I Had Wings’ an online solo exhibition by Liz Crossfield. Layered abstract marks with spring-like colouring lay the foundations for Crossfield’s beautiful canvases. Detectible paintings run amok with expressive mark-making and a rich vibrancy. Full of wonderment and curiosity, the artist takes the viewer onto a
journey, seeing the world through her extraordinary lens.
OLIVIA STRANGE
'THE PLEASURES WE FEEL'
3 Works for 3 Weeks
19th April - 10th May 2022
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present ‘The Pleasures We Feel’ an online solo exhibition by Olivia Strange. Witch-like talons, breasts, tentacles and oysters intermingle in Strange’s multi-disciplinary works, celebrating the physicality of touch and engaging new dialogues around queer sensuality and sexuality. They hinge on a sense of intimacy and desire, the deliciously edible and the grotesque.
ELEANOR MCCAUGHEY
'BRED IN THE BONE, OUT IN THE FLESH'
3 Works for 3 Weeks
8th February - 1st March 2022
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present ‘Bred in the bone, out in the flesh’ an online solo exhibition by Eleanor McCaughey. Working across mediums, the exhibition will feature an installation, painting, drawing, video, sound and sculpture. Weaving these formats together, McCaughey creates a new visual language which deals with themes of belonging, displacement, loss of faith, theological and cosmic notions.
DAMIEN FLOOD
'FLOWER PAINTINGS'
3 Works for 3 Weeks
4th - 25th January 2022
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present ‘Flower Paintings’ an online solo exhibition by Damien Flood. As the title aptly suggests, the exhibition will feature a series of three flower paintings, however Flood’s paintings are never quite so simple. Flitting between figuration and abstraction, done and undone, the comprehensible and the unreadable, the painterly mark-making dances across the canvas’ leading the viewer onto a contemporary reinterpretation of a traditional subject.
DAVID SHILLINGLAW
'EVERYTHING CONNECTED'
3 Works for 3 Weeks
23rd November - 14th December 2021
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present 'Everything Connected' an online solo exhibition by David Shillinglaw. Featuring a new series of collages, the exhibition continues the artists exploration of the natural world. In particular mycelium or the 'mushroom internet' , which provides an underground mass branch network allowing trees and plant life to communicate with one another. The collages are a patchwork of paper and fabric, energetically glued and sewn together celebrating imperfections and moments of failure alongside flourishing beauty.
ALEXIS SOUL-GRAY
'NO PLACE LIKE HOME'
3 Works for 3 Weeks
19th October - 9th November 2021
‘No Place Like Home’ is an online solo exhibition by Alexis Soul-Gray featuring 3 new original works, spanning the breadth of the artists current mediums of choice; collage, drawing, printmaking and painting. The works continue the artists exploration of grief, loss, memory, nostalgia and the family unit within a harmonious balance of abstraction and figuration.
LENA BRAZIN
'TIME LOOPS'
3 Works for 3 Weeks
10th - 31st August 2021
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present 'Time Loops', an online solo exhibition featuring original works focussed on human emotion and experience. Brazin’s figurative paintings explore the seen and the unseen with an attempt to materialise immateriality, to reflect the fullness of human existence.
BENJI THOMAS
'I'M NOT MUCH GOOD, CHARLIE'
3 Works for 3 Weeks
6th - 27th July 2021
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present Benji Thomas' ‘I’m Not Much Good, Charlie’, an online solo exhibition which forms part of an ongoing series 3 Works For 3 Weeks. The exhibition will feature a carefully curated selection of just 3 original artworks which will be featured for 3 weeks, to encourage a slower and more comprehensive look at the artworks.
Benji Thomas captures fleeting moments in his everyday surroundings which are full of energy and wonder. He currently works with the common coloured pencil and has a fascination with portrayals of light, layering soft pencil marks to produce incredibly illuminating scenes.
MAFALDA FIGUEIREDO
'THE VEIL THAT VEILS THE MOON'
3 Works for 3 Weeks
1st - 22nd June 2021
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present the first in a series of online solo exhibitions entitled 3 Works for 3 Weeks, with Mafalda Figueiredo.
‘The Veil That Veils The Moon’ is a digital solo exhibition of 3 original artworks by Figueiredo. A new artwork will be released each week, accompanied by text and detail images, to encourage a slower and more comprehensive look at the artworks.
