IT SOFTENS THE BLOW,
THAT DEEP MELODIC BLISS
OLIVIA STRANGE
6 July - 31 August 2024
Main Space, Liminal Gallery,
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, Liminal Gallery,
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
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, Liminal Gallery,
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
Artsy
Seven artists come together for the exhibition ‘Turn the Tides’, an exhibition exclusive to Artsy curated by Liminal Gallery. Featuring the works of Catherine Chinatree, Cedric Christie, Damien Cifelli, Sarah Maple, David Shillinglaw, Maud Whatley and Mercedes Workman, this group exhibition presents a nuanced blend of diverse expressions, exploring artists who are working in unique and exciting ways across the mediums.
IT GATHERED HERE
LOUISE FRANCES SMITH
17 February - 11 May 2024
The Cupboard, Liminal Gallery
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, Liminal Gallery,
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.
LIMINAL GALLERY PODCAST
Now available to stream
Liminal Gallery Podcast is presented by Louise Fitzjohn, the Founder and Director of Liminal. This podcast is an opportunity to speak with the contemporary artists currently exhibiting in Liminal's Margate-based Gallery. We delve deeper into the artists practice, talk art, the art world and to probe their innermost thoughts about their exhibitions.
Listen now, on the link below, or find us on Apple, Google, Spotify and wherever else you stream yours.
ABOUT LIMINAL GALLERY
Though the smallest bricks-and-mortar contemporary gallery in the UK, Liminal Gallery challenges the status quo, presenting the diverse and resonant voices of today’s artists from across the UK and Ireland. While historically women and minorities have been wildly underrepresented in the art world, we stand as proof that change is happening.
Liminal Gallery’s permanent home at 34 Fort Hill, Margate, opened on 1st October 2022 after operating digitally and nomadically since its inception in April 2021. Our second exhibition space, The Cupboard, opened in March 2023 which provides local artists with a 3 month residency to showcase a solo exhibition in a playful and quirky space. Liminal Gallery Podcast was also launched in October 2022, used as a tool to widen access globally to their artists and their practice.