TURNER'S FEMALE CONTEMPORARIES
MERCEDES WORKMAN
18 November 2023 - 10 February 2024
The Cupboard, Liminal Gallery
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.
SWALLOWING MIST TO LICK YOUR MOUTH
ELEANOR MCCAUGHEY
2 - 31 December 2023
Main Space, Liminal Gallery
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.
HAUNCHES
MAUD WHATLEY
6th - 27th January 2024
Main Space, Liminal Gallery
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.
LIMINAL SALON
GROUP EXHIBITION
4 - 18 November 2023
Main Space, Liminal Gallery
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, Liminal Gallery
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, Liminal Gallery
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.
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.