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In early 2024 I took part in @a_bprojects Studio Session, Pedestal Problems, with @takming_chuang - the smell of clay was actually giving me pretty bad morning sickness at the time but that series of conversations and together-apart experimentation over Zoom really shifted things for me.

Through the discussions I started making a series of vessels with their own ceramic pedestals, combining elements made with different types of clay into self-contained, totem-like sculptures. I had just finished the elements of each piece, ready for assembly, when I had to leave the studio suddenly and they were left wrapped in plastic for about a year before I returned and excavated them.

Encountering these bone dry fragments, I decided to let the kiln take a role in joining them. I made some new vessels to complete the series, spending time carving the surfaces, adding coloured slip and drawing with underglaze pencils.

Somewhere along the way, the pedestals I had set out to complete became inverted so that I ended up with a series of strange vessels with lids - some fused on through the firing process and some balanced on top, shifting with each new arrangement.

This of course left me with a new pedestal problem - nothing was quite right on which to rest these characters until, while planning my son’s second birthday, I found a mega pack of construction blocks at Smyth’s Toys. They are the perfect playful foil to these vessels, which themselves spawned the paintings that make up this exhibition.

MULTISTOREY continues for its final weekend, open Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th 11am-3pm
@liminal_gallery
34 Fort Hill, Margate CT9 1HD taken in Liminal Gallery by @liminal_gallery

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2 days ago

A little reminder to slow down 🐌

Margaret Calvert’s 20mph (2023),takes a familiar road sign and gives it a playful twist. Made at full scale using the retroreflective material found on UK roads, its bright, unexpected colours replace the usual road-sign palette.

Calvert is best known for developing Britain’s road sign system alongside Jock Kinneir. Together, they created the Transport and Motorway typefaces, pictograms and colour system that still shape how we navigate Britain’s roads today. 20mph draws on this familiar visual language but gives it a different purpose.

The work is part of Calvert’s ‘Play’ projects, personal works made for herself rather than for a client.
While a 20mph sign usually tells drivers how fast they can go, Calvert’s version offers a gentler invitation to slow down and take your time.

Now in David Parr House as part of Moving Stories, the word is a reminder to slow down and consider the work of David Parr, who spent four decades decorating his house in his own time, alongside his professional work for F.R. Leach & Sons. For both artists, personal projects offered space to experiment beyond the demands of commissioned work.

See 20mph as part of House Guests: Moving Stories at David Parr House, open until 9 January 2027.

Thanks to @liminal_gallery & Margaret Calvert

#margaretcalvert #houseguests #exhibition #roadsign #design taken in David Parr House by @liminal_gallery

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3 days ago

NEW INDUSTRY EXPERT INTERVIEW

Louise Fitzjohn, founder and director of Liminal Gallery in Margate, joins The Flux Review to discuss what it really means to build a gallery around artists, trust and long-term career development.

Drawing on her experience across the commercial gallery sector, Fitzjohn speaks openly about supporting underrepresented artists, the barriers facing working-class creatives, the importance of community, and why the relationship between artist and gallerist should be collaborative rather than prescriptive.

She also discusses Liminal Gallery’s experimental programme, Margate’s growing cultural identity, the responsibility galleries have to pay artists first, and why the success of an exhibition should never be judged by sales alone.

For artists approaching galleries, Fitzjohn also shares practical advice on finding the right representation and building relationships that can genuinely support a career.

Read the full Industry Expert Interview now on The Flux Review.

#TheFluxReview #IndustryExpert #LouiseFitzjohn #LiminalGallery #ContemporaryArt #ArtGallery #EmergingArtists #ArtIndustry #Artists #Gallerist #MargateArt #UKArt #ArtistOpportunities #ArtWorld by @liminal_gallery

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6 days ago

Thank you to everyone who made it down for the private view of MULTISTOREY last night at @liminal_gallery

Thanks to @aliceherrickstudio and @sebastiansharples for taking photos

The show continues until Sunday 11th October Thursday-Sunday 11am-4pm and by appointment

See you there! taken in Liminal Gallery by @liminal_gallery

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8 days ago

Open today: Multistorey by @rebeccaelves

The seventh exhibition in The Maternity Series is Multistorey, a solo exhibition by British artist Rebecca Elves, where stories spill out of ceramic vessels and into strange, unfolding painted worlds. Moving between oil painting and ceramics, Elves transforms Liminal’s intimate space into an impossible interior where narrative refuses to stay contained. With strange forms, dark humour and a faded sense of longing, Multistorey captures the moment something simmering beneath the surface finally breaks free.

‘Multistorey’ continues until Sunday 11 October 2026 and is open Thursday.- Sunday 11am-4pm, or outside of those times by appointment.

For those unable to visit in person, the Online Viewing Room can be accessed via the link in our bio

To request the works list, or for any further details please contact us info@liminal-gallery.com taken in Liminal Gallery by @liminal_gallery

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9 days ago

I appreciate the ABSURDITY of asking anyone to do one more art thing during Frieze week.
And yet… come to Margate where I’ve curated WINGING IT, a new exhibition by Zena Blackwell at @liminal_gallery , and this one means an awful lot to me.

I’ve followed @zenablackwellartist for years. I’ve bought her work. I’ve talked about her work endlessly. She does something that I find incredibly difficult to put into words: she gets at the strange collision between motherhood and childhood. Her work somehow paints the memories we all carry, things your children unexpectedly carry back. The love and exhaustion and nostalgia and pain that can all somehow exist in the same bloody moment. And she does it with colour and humour and paintings that are just completely ALIVE.

There are new works made specifically for this tiny Margate space and they absolutely punch.

So my question is: can I actually persuade any of you to leave the Frieze circus and get on a train to Margate?

And for the parents here: has raising your children made you think differently about your own childhood? Because that, for me, is one of the most powerful things running through this show.

WINGING IT
Zena Blackwell

Liminal Gallery, Margate
Saturday 17 October, 2–8pm
Evening preview 5–8pm

I will be there. Zena will be there. Please come say hello. And bring someone who needs to know her work. taken in Liminal Gallery by @liminal_gallery

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11 days ago

Opening Thursday: Multistorey by @rebeccaelves

Multistorey is a solo exhibition by British artist Rebecca Elves presented as part of Liminal Gallery’s Maternity Series. Using painting as a direct extension of her work in ceramics, Multistorey explores the moment stories overspill their containers.

The exhibition presents three large narrative oil paintings on suspended canvas panels, alongside more intimate paintings on panel and the lidded ceramic vessels that spawned them. In this way, Multistorey transforms the gallery into the impossible space within the vessel: a space where narrative cannot be contained.

These paintings emerged from the artist’s frustration at being unable to capture the immediacy of working in clay or wall painting on a transportable surface. She began painting directly from a series of small, lidded ceramic vessels onto long panels of unstretched canvas and found that the stories she had always sensed simmering inside the clay began to spill out through the paint. This process transformed a sense of compressed urgency into strange unfolding worlds.

Rebecca Elves’ paintings and ceramics contain a shared gestural language: intuitive forms gather, heavy with touch, arranging themselves around gaps and crevices before pooling in dense pockets of brush strokes. There is a sense of dark wit as these forms coalesce into beings – the glimpse of an eye, the fold of a cheek – before dissolving again. The faded colour palette of these paintings saturates them with a sense of longing, of a once-exuberant tea party that is perennially winding down.

As these forms trip across mediums and through Liminal’s intimate gallery space, Elves’ squirming stories break containment.

‘Multistorey’ opens on Thursday 1 October and continues until Sunday 11 October 2026. The exhibition will be open Thursday.- Sunday 11am-4pm, or outside of those times by appointment.

All are welcome to join the artist for the Private View on Saturday 3 October 5-8pm.

For those unable to visit in person, the Online Viewing Room can be accessed via the link in our bio

To request the works list, or for any further details please contact us info@liminal-gallery.com taken in Liminal Gallery by @liminal_gallery

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15 days ago

🤩 thank you to everyone who visited and also bought some art to treasure from our SOUVENIR SHOP @liminal_gallery last weekend 🖤

@julie_caves and I will be there for 3 final days Thursday 24th ~ Saturday 26th September 12~5pm with lots of art bargains from our studio archives!

Also, if you are in Margate don’t miss these openings:
Thursday 24th @marcusaitken_ @projects_kavelrafferty
Friday 25th @casey_walshe_ @_josephwales_
Saturday 26th @emiialrai @carlfreedmangallery

#margate #artistsinmargate #margateexhibition #artcollector #souvenir

with thanks to @sebastiansharples for many of these photos taken in Liminal Gallery by @liminal_gallery

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19 days ago

SOUVENIR SHOP is open! @liminal_gallery
As the summer draws to a close, everything must go…
Alice Herrick & Julie Caves invite you
to climb the hill above the sea,
to find a souvenir…
a memento, a keepsake…
a piece of work…
a work of art,
to have and to hold…
a drawing, a painting, an object of desire.

Julie has gone through the paintings and ceramics at the back of her studio. Alice has selected works from her extensive archives of works on paper, small paintings and sculptures. All to be shown and sold at special prices for the SOUVENIR SHOP show.

17~26 September 2026.
The exhibition will be open
Thursday~Saturday 12~5pm
or by appointment.

All are welcome to join the artists for drinks on Saturday 19 September 2~5pm.

@julie_caves @aliceherrickstudio

#archivesale #studiosale #artbargains #margateartist #liminalgallery taken in Liminal Gallery by @liminal_gallery

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a month ago

Opening this week: the sixth exhibition in the Maternity Series ‘Souvenir Shop’ by @julie_caves and @aliceherrickstudio

As the summer draws to a close, everything must go…

Alice Herrick & Julie Caves invite you
to climb the hill above the sea,
to find a souvenir…
a memento, a keepsake…
a piece of work…
a work of art,
to have and to hold…
a drawing, a painting, an object of desire.

Julie has gone through the paintings and ceramics at the back of her studio. Alice has selected works from her extensive archives of works on paper, small paintings and sculptures. All to be shown and sold at special prices for the SOUVENIR SHOP show.

‘Souvenir Shop’ opens on 17 September and continues until 26 September 2026. The exhibition will be open Thursday.- Saturday 12-5pm, or outside of those times by appointment.

All are welcome to join the artists for drinks on Saturday 19 September 2-5pm.

For those unable to visit in person, the Online Viewing Room can be accessed via the link in our bio, which will be updated following the opening with installation images.

To request the works list, or for any further details please contact us info@liminal-gallery.com taken in Liminal Gallery by @liminal_gallery

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a month ago

Last chance to see @theo_gorst debut show!⁠
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Open until 4pm today, and 11am–4pm tomorrow @liminal_gallery

Almost everything has sold. 4 works remain, available in the gallery and online until the exhibition closes.⁠
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Can’t make it to Margate? View the remaining works online, or email info@aoapprojects.com with any enquiries.⁠
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👟 Leisure by Theo Gorst⁠
📅 15 Aug–12 Sep 2026⁠
📍 Liminal Gallery, Margate⁠
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#aoapprojects #contemporaryart #theogorst #liminalgallery #margateexhibition taken in Liminal Gallery by @liminal_gallery

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a month ago

Open this weekend: 'Leisure' by @theo_gorst curated by @aoapprojects

Thank you to everyone who has visited so far, it's been fantastic to see the love AOAP Projects and Theo have received!

The exhibition continues until 12 September and is open Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sundays 11am-5pm, or outside of those times by appointment.

For those unable to visit in person, the Online Viewing Room can be accessed via the link in our bio.

To request the works list, or for any further details please contact us info@liminal-gallery.com taken in Liminal Gallery by @liminal_gallery

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