Marine Studios is a Community Interest Company based in Margate, Kent.

We are a creative hub, committed to supporting artistic practice and enabling cultural participation.

We use our project space to host regular events showcasing multi-disciplinary art and craft as well as leading our own community based projects.

We believe the creative sector has an important role to play in developing models for sustainable development and we recognise that this must include skill sharing, training and job creation.

Our home is in a Grade II listed building overlooking the sea and sands of Margate our meeting room and flexible project/gallery space is available for hire.

 

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  • We are delighted to announce that Adventures in Comics 2 has been awarded Arts Council funding!

    This is largely due to the huge success of last year’s Adventures in Comics show and as a result of the support and enthusiasm of all those who contributed to make this an annual event. We will endeavor to make an even bigger noise with this year’s show.

    We will be bringing you a great exhibition featuring entries to this year’s ‘LIFE BOAT’ 2-page-comic challenge (deadline is 20th January so you still have time to enter) which will be judged this year by Mr Paul Gravett; a series of practical workshops with special guests, to challenge your skills as comics writers and makers; and a beautiful publication to mark this year’s show.

    We’ll see you there from 3 February 2012!

    AIC2 blog

  • Pie Days and Holidays book has arrived

    The much anticipated second edition of the Pie Days and Holidays book is now available to buy at Margate Visitor Information Services or get in touch with us. But be quick- they are selling like hot cakes!

  • Adventures in Comics
    Until 20 February 2011
    Open every day 2-5pm

    Here are some photos from the opening night of Adventures in Comics from Friday 2 February. The exhibition opened with a bang and we had a full house. Paul Gravett’s talk was fantastic and we met some awesome artists, writers and makers who are involved in comics, graphic novels and sequential narrative.

    The show runs until February 20th, so we hope you’ll get the chance to see it. With so much amazing work on show it may take more than one visit to take it all in!

  • CIRCUIT
    26th March 2011
    4 – 9pm @ Dreamland car park

    Circuit was an exhibition which proposed an alternative for Dreamland car park: an amazing disused heritage site.

    Artists transformed the narrative of the site by exhibiting their work in and around their cars.

    Visitors were invited to either arrive with work and park up with the other artists to take part in the show, or simply enjoy the spectacle!

    Headlights  illuminated the gallery after dark!

    For photographs of this event please see Marine Studios facebook page or

  • INSPIRED BY MARGATE
    Friday 3rd September
    6pm

    This show bought together two different reflections of Margate – through the eyes of local artist Angela Malone and Marine Studios artist in residence Gudrun Haraldsdottir.  Gudrun Haraldsdottir is an Icelandic artist who creates large installation and public art projects. Her installation reflected her discoveries and observations recorded during her time spent in Margate.

    TALK:

    Angela Malone and Gudrun Haraldsdottir discussed the motivations behind their work.

    “Inspired by Margate is perhaps not the right title – who knows – the work will be a reaction to my time spent in Margate – I will see as an outsider.” G. S. Haraldsdottir.

    Marine Studios wishes to thank the Theatre Royal and Nick Dermott for their co-operation with this project.

  • AN ANNULAR JOURNEY:
    The Museum of Angela Malone
    20th August – 3rd September 2010

    To coincide with the return of the fabulous Dippers & Dunkers festival Marine Studios showed An Annular Journey a self portrait museum by local artist Angela Malone.

    The work traces a lifetime of enquiry and discovery which started in the Old Library at Bath Road Margate with Dr Arthur Rowe’s fantastical cabinets of curiosity.

  • HKD ANNUAL PICNIC
    6th August 2010
    From 2:00pm

    The gang from HKD and Marine Studios spent our August First Friday event having a picnic. We headed out to Margate Sands for a day of plotting, playing, paddling and picnicking.

    Dan Preston, Holly Packer and the Superblue team  joined us with their fantastic ‘Giant Knitting Nancy’, most recently seen at Canary Wharf where visitors were invited to knit, sit and play.

    So off we went to ‘Get Knitted’…

    Dan Preston – www.danprestonsculpture.com

    Superblue – www.superblue.co.uk

  • NAVIGATION
    From 2nd July 2010

    NAVIGATION was the theme for July’s First Friday, looking at journeys, routes and paths.

    Kent artist Paula Groves showed her beautiful stainless steel sculptures. Paula is the winner of the Medway Culture and Design Awards Outstanding Achievement Award 2008-2010, and we were pleased to welcome her to Margate.

    TALK:

    Tristan Gooley, author of the book ‘The Natural Navigator’, came to talk about the art of navigating yourself through the world using nature’s own sign-posts.

    The only living person to have both flown solo and sailed singlehanded across the Atlantic, Tristan encouraged us to ‘put away your map and look up from your GPS’ in order to remind people of the lost art of finding your own way.

    Find out more about Tristan and his courses in natural navigation here.

  • OBJECTIVITY
    4th June 2010

    Objectivity was the theme for June’s First Friday, looking at mysterious objects, and their uses.

    We showed David Usborne’s collection featured in his book ‘Objectivity’, described as a ‘miscellany’ which ‘celebrates the beauty of simple, useful things.’

    From the tools of vanished trades to the simple implements of forgotten cultures, each object has been chosen for their function as much as their design.

    WE tried to figure out what a Farriers buttris looks like and what a hackle board does!

    Have you ever been measured by a Maddox wing? I didn’t think I had either…

    TALK:

    Michael Sadd, University of Brighton gave a presentation entitled ‘Reading Objects of Utility in a Complex World’.

  • REACTIONS
    7th May 2010

    Reactions was the theme of May’s First Friday, which featured the work of Michael Sadd and author Sarah Rayner.

    Inspired by the vast airfields complex that suddenly appeared across the East Coast during the Second World War, Michael Sadd seeks to capture the visual complexity which emerges from human design and making activity. Michael’s images reveal a crystalline land and skyscape; the coherent, but unintended, language of natural form itself.

    Michael gave a talk about his practice-centred PhD entitled ‘The emergent artefact: WW2 airfields and visual complexity’ during our First Friday event.

    On the same night, author Sarah Rayner read from her critically acclaimed novel, ‘One Moment, One Morning’.