CRATE Studio and Project Space
1 Bilton Square
Margate
CT9 1EE
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Current & Forthcoming:
the ships are always there
Laura Fitzgerald, Phil Illingworth, Jay Rechsteiner, Kyung Hwa Shon, curated by Chiara Williams
Open: Sat 19th – Monday 28th August
Preview: Fri 18th August 6 - 9pm
Opening times: 11am - 5pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday
New works by four international artists are brought together in an exhibition that allows for a contemplative convergence of perspectives; trajectories and courses overlap, brief encounters are made, vanishing points are vague, horizons are hazy, but, the ships are always there...
Chiara Williams is pleased to curate her second exhibition in Margate, at Crate Project Space. Chiara has worked for some years with each of the four artists in this exhibition, and was keen to draw their disparate practices together under a common theme whilst uncompromisingly showcasing their newest works.
The title of the show arose from an exclamation made on a daily dog walk along Margate’s beaches, ‘the ships are always there!?’, an incredulous response to the seemingly static horizon line of ships, day in, day out; an observation that gave pause for reflection on ideas of quiet permanence versus irrefutable transience, of constancy versus change.
The works in this exhibition invite us to consider the common anchor points in our lives, who are those people, places or objects that unite us, where do our perspectives converge, our trajectories overlap, and to what extend do we take comfort in repeating, meditating upon or ritualising those blips on our radar.
