11th Jan to 24th Jan 2018

Luke Jones: Exhibit

Street opening 5pm 11th January

Folkestone-based multi-disciplinary artist, Luke Jones explores the boundaries of the gallery; mapping and configuring the actual and conceptual space of Casement window space.

Exhibit is a site-specific work that has come out of Luke’s work created at Residency at the Brewery Tap in December 2017. During his time at Brewery Tap Luke created sketches and maquette for pavilion type structure. Over the course of Residency Luke mapped and marked his movements around the Brewery Tap each day. This has translated into Luke using Casement as a conceptual gallery space in which he imagined inhabiting and interacting with these speculative structures; placing his conceptual movements onto the walls of casement, the window and out into the public domain of Tontine Street pavement.

Luke has created Multiple a limited edition multiple to accompany Exhibit which can be found on the casement online store.

25th Jan to 7th Feb 2018

Reece Thomas: Disintegration

Street opening 5pm 25th Jan

To celebrate Profound Sound, Casement Arts will be exhibiting a new commissioned site-specific sound piece from artist Reece Thomas, accompanied by a limited edition cassette.

Casement has commissioned Reece to explore the potential relationship between sound and art. Exploring the challenge of putting a sound piece into a space enclosed behind glass, extending the boundaries of the physical space into the public domain of Tontine Street.

Disintegration is a medley of sound and visual decay. The sound of 3 looped cassette tapes project through the glass onto the street while VHS tapes of images of shadows and nature flicker in black and white on a Tv screen behind. Over the course of the show, the sound and visuals will warped and self destruct.

Reece's limited edition cassette is available on our online store

8th - 21st February 2018

Liene Steinberga Cesar: Face

Margate based artist Liene works with performance and photography. Her recent work Web was a durational performance where the artist is entangled and suspended in the air by a structure made up of suits: a network of intertwined lies, presumptions and traditions that support and restrict the world order.

For Casement Liene will be showing a recent work photography work Face that examines her personal struggle of battling remaining a career driven artist after becoming a mother. Accompanying Liene’s images is her open letter discussing further these complex issues.

Limited Edition prints of Face are available on our online store.

Street opening 5pm 8th February

22nd Feb to 7th March 2018

Rob Smith: Winch

Rob Smith is a sound artist and graphic designer who creates audio and visual projects under the banner of Meet On Titan. His work explores the blurred realities of the physical and the digital, creating environments that are tactile, emotive and often distorted.

Using a looped soundscape created by his previous sound sculpture Mast, Winch will give the audio a physical and visual means of travel. Housed on a scaffold, the audio will wind its way around Casement’s environment, forever running the risk of falling from grace and coming unspooled.

Discover more about Meet On Titan here
meetontitan.bandcamp.com

meetontitan.wordpress.com

11th - 25th March 2018

Local Foreigner: Maralha

Opening performance Sunday12pm 11th March

Maralha is the portuguese word for 'an indistinguishable group of people'

Local Foreigner, used the period of his time casement as a time of new research on the potential relationships between new technology, social networks and oral traditions to create new stories and reinvent ways of being together. Each day Local Foreigner developed and changed what was shown in the window including two performances.

About the artist

Local Foreigner appeared as a reflection of the increasingly hostile and confused relation between ideas of locality and foreignness. It explores the relations between national identities, migration, and the existential crisis facing our society.

Local Foreigner is interested in the potency of life; its tensions, intensity and resonance. Their overarching desire is to transform the way we relate to each other & ourselves, towards less oppressed & violent relationships.

8th - 19th April 2018

Sadie Hennessy: Aeon

Street opening 2pm 8th April

AEON explores how we imagined the future, in the past, using detritus from the Anthropocene epoch and imagery from popular sci-fi culture. And is part of Sadie's larger project called 'Souvenirs of Futures Passed'

23rd - 30th April 2018

Fiona Banner: Superhuman Nude

Fiona Banner transforms the nude study of a Paralympian's body into a ‘wordscape’ that verbally exploring the contours of the body and it’s tension in anticipation for competition. Describing the subtle movements of this body. The work represents the exceptional power of this body, through depicting the prosthetic additions of the athlete's body as immortal superhuman appendages. Superhuman Nude was commissioned as part of the 2012 London Olympics.

Much of Fiona’s work explores the limitations and strengths of written language. Fiona creates ‘wordscapes’ of physical and visual scenarios into verbal descriptions. Fiona’s early work depicted feature films through her own words in the form of solid block text works the size of cinema screens. Her more recent work explores the nude in the context of the art historical or ‘classical’ nudes through transcribing in a similar vein to her earlier work.

4th - 16th May 2018

Karen Pamplin Browne: I Collect

Street Opening 6.30pm 4th May

Most of us will collect something throughout our lifetimes - what we collect and why we do so can often seem mysterious to others and many collections do not see the light of day outside of our own private sphere of home.

Artist and curator Karen Pamplin Browne is fascinated by collections and collecting. Her ongoing project 'Kent Collects' explores these themes and Karen has an exhibition at Folkestone Museum about collecting on until 12th May 2018.

For this I Collect exhibition at Casement Arts, Karen invited the public to share photographs of their collections with visitors to Folkestone's Tontine Street.

20th May to 24th Jan 2018

Sarah Carpenter: Here

Street opening 2pm 20th Jan

You are invited to scratch away at the widow surface removing the layers to reveal the images that investigates Folkestone’s window spaces, the windows of Here.

Words by the artist -

‘I'm in a period of transition with my life and my work, so I would describe myself as simply being Here. Therefore I wanted to experience and explore what it means to be Here. Not just physically here in Folkestone, but mentally - being present and working in the moment. Capturing an emotion and feeling in the moment of taking the images, not predetermining what I want to say through them. Utilising the viewfinder to slow me down and help me to discover the details around me. Using the polaroid camera was important to this process as it has no zoom so encourages physical close proximity.

Casement is an unusual space it demands to be treated in a different way, as a project, as an exploration. A space to play and experiment. I love working to a brief and the window inspired me to just start and see what happened.

Windows connect us to the outside world and I was outside looking in. Now I invite you to scratch away at this chalky window to also see into these Folkestone windows.’

Sarah is an artist and designer with a background in dance choreography and theatre directing, with a Postgraduate Certificate in Design for Visual Communication from London College of Communication (part of University of the Arts London). Recent projects include a commission inspired by the British Museum and work exhibited at Saatchi Gallery. The work that she produces is mixed media. Here is the raw material of a new project Sarah is embarking on.

2nd - 14th June 2018

Nicky Hirst: Lost For Words

Street opening 5pm 2nd June

At one time I wanted to be a window dresser as much as I wanted to be an artist. Casement Arts have given me the opportunity to ‘stage’ a work and at last be both. Lost for Words is the third in a series of sculptural Rudimental Works, which combine objects to create an open ended and interpretative narrative.

A man walks into a pet shop and says, ‘I'd like a fly, please.’

The shopkeeper replies, ‘A fly? We don't sell flies.’

The man says, ‘Oh, but you've got one in the window.’

My work has been described as an exploration of serendipity where sources may be particular places or objects, whose meaning is shifted by juxtaposition. At Casement Arts in addition to the window’s display, Tontine Street and all its long and complicated history is reflected in the glazing. I like the layers of the once grand Victorian architecture, the neglected, and the current creative evolution. Something cyclic is also revealed in the work. It is about possibility and the way things connect.

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/glazed63

Rudimental Works follow a series of Elemental Works, which are paired magazine pages - an archive of which can be seen here https://www.instagram.com/nickyhirst_elementalworks/

http://www.nickyhirst.co.uk

Nicky Hirst was born in Nottingham in 1963 and now lives and works in London. Her work is best described as an exploration of serendipity. Sources may be particular places, objects or certain words whose meaning is subtly shifted by manipulation or juxtaposition.

‘I think it is about language and ambiguity. It is about trying to unearth something. It is about possibility and the way things connect.’

‘After studying Fine Art followed by Art and Architecture, I have pursued a parallel practice within my own studio and working collaboratively with architects. I have produced many diverse projects for the public realm, which include the Biochemistry building for the University of Oxford, Bulgari Hotel in Knightsbridge, Kingfisher Court NHS Mental Health Facility in Hertfordshire, the new Vista residential development in Battersea and currently a glazing and screening scheme for Y Bwthyn Palliative Care Unit, Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Wales.’

15th - 24th June

Philippa Wall

Street Opening 5.30pm16th June

Philippa Wall has created a site specific work that delves into the possibilities of a space restricted by size but not ambition.Philippa’s practice stems from an exploration and development into experimental analogue filmmaking. Initially, using techniques formed during printmaking and exposure with a focus centred around the process of making. Circulating around philosophical notions of space and time, Philippa has projected, both literally and psychologically the idea of reliving, or repeating moments that in reality can never truly be repeated. This has been realised in various experiments working directly onto 16mm film. These experimental works have created optical sound films which has lead to further exploration between analogue and digital sounds created through various processes. Recently, Philippa’s practice has focused more on projecting just simply the moment of creation which has began an interesting journey into performance.

Following on from a series of performances with wall paper lining, complimenting the sturdy yet absorbent nature of the material, Philippa has grounded the familiar material into the world of living sculptures.

https://www.philippawall.com
Philippa Wall
https://www.instagram.com/philipparosewall/

5th July to 12th July 2018

Elodie Merland: Background Noises

By using various experimental methods to spark meetings, drifting, inviting, I go on the hunt for possible places to take possession for a certain moment in time and to offer these spaces a new vision for contemplation, pointing out details and anecdotes. My approach sometimes has a conceptual-romantic appearance with an invitation to personally confront reality: the truth, the trivial, the insignificant, the uninteresting, the derisory. This requires the spectator to be attentive enough, to feel the time passing, to listen to the silence and to accept the waiting moment.Poetically and not without humour, using; photography, video, installation, text and performance, I present written works followed by gestures. The results usually take the form of traces, passages through life or evidence of creation

This work was created in response to an assault by a man on the artist on the bridge photographed in the work. Grabbing her and exposing himself. The crime was unreported like so many other cases were assault become background noises in society but so very loud in the victims' minds. So many people in society voices are not heard or are silenced, normalising this behaviour and allowing violence to be of the everyday.

19th July to 25th July 2018

Nikki Tompsett: Unlimited Future

Unlimited Future started with photography, tracking fleeting moments, environments, textures and colours. As usual, using time constraints work to her advantage, she has compiled a series of photographs to suggest a narrative. The work follows a young girl in a red dress, evoking mythical stories such as Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel. Along the route between one place and another, a trail of images is left behind to mark the way forward and perhaps the way back.

Nikki Tompsett is a painter living and working in Folkestone. She graduated from Kingston University with a BA in Painting, and then went on to receive an MfA with distinction from Reading University in 1999.

She co-founded Todds Gallery, Hastings 2006 to 2009, The School Creative Centre, Rye (Visual Arts Co-ordinator) 2009 – 2013, and currently Creative Quarter Co-ordinater at the Creative Foundation, in Folkestone.

Nikki has explored painting, sculpture, photography and video, concentrating on playful working process grabbing more or less an hour here or there to make, fast, thoughtful, delicate and tough objects that hang or fall.

28th July to 10th August 2018

Steve Johnson: Full English

Street Opening 4-5pm 28th July

The ‘Full English’, 2018, exists both as a 3D installation for casement and as a limited edition print on the casement online store.

Both works reflect on the fragmentation of Great Britain post EU referendum as an island nation of seaside B&B’s, ‘affordable’ housing and barely suppressed rage.

The installation reflects on the dubious notion that so called affordable housing is affordable. In places like London and the south east is 80% of market rent really a rent that families on low incomes can afford?

Presented at Casement is a diorama of a living room from real social housing. A room in a council flat built in 1953.

However, where you might expect to see signs of habitation, there is a Mary Celeste void in this room. The floor has dematerialized.

Steve Johnson studied for a BA Hons in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College London, and for an MA in Sculpture at Chelsea College of Art. Steve's work has been exhibited widely in the U.K and Europe. In the U.K, works have been exhibited at the Hayward Gallery - London, the Henry Moore Institute - Leeds, Longside Gallery - Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Royal Academy of Arts - London, the Science Museum - London and the Serpentine Gallery - London. In Europe works have been exhibited at the Berlinische Gallery Landesmuseum - Berlin, Hilversum Museum - Holland, Kunsthaus - Dresden, and the Scharpf Gallery / Wilhelm Hack Museum - Ludwigshafen.

Steve has received awards from amongst others, the Arts Council of England, the British Council, and the Pollock - Krasner Foundation, New York and his works can be found in public collections, including those of the Arts Council England, the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin and the Science Museum, London.

11th - 25th June 2018

Victoria Sin: Impression

Street opening 5-8pm 11th June

Victoria Sin (b. 1991, Toronto CA) is an artist using speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing, and print to interrupt normative processes of desire, identification, and objectification. This includes:

1) Drag as a practice of purposeful embodiment questioning the reification and ascription of ideal images within technologies of representation and systems of looking,
2) Science fiction as a practice of rewriting patriarchal and colonial narratives naturalized by scientific and historical discourses on states of sexed, gendered and raced bodies,

3) Storytelling as a collective practice of centring marginalized experience, creating a multiplicity of social contexts to be immersed in and strive towards,

Drawing from close personal encounters of looking and wanting, their work presents heavily constructed fantasy narratives on the often unsettling experience of the physical within the social body.

Their long-term project Dream Babes explores science and speculative fiction as a productive strategy of queer resistance, imaging futurity that does not depend on existing historical and social infrastructure. It has included science fiction porn screenings and talks, a three-day programme of performance at Auto Italia South East, a publication, and a regular science fiction reading group for queer people of colour.

My drag work and my art practice are not always the same thing though they are always in conversation with each other. I do one of these wipes after every performance. They are prints of my face from a particular evening, and an archive of the feminine labour produced in that instance. They also become performative images in themselves, highlighting the specific kind of feminine labour that was produced on that occasion.

Visible Pride

Visible Pride is an arts festival Spanning Folkestone's LGBTQI+ Pride month (2nd - 28th of August), celebrating the diversity & lives of LGBTQI+ people across geography & time. Occupying several well know venues within Folkestone's creative landscape; Visible Pride claims the towns histories & spaces – while imagining new queer futures – as an inclusive act of LGBTQI+ visibility & pride.

Visible Pride is art made by minorities for minorities welcoming everyone to engage. Visible Pride seeks to heighten the quality of life for all by inviting a celebration of difference & nourishing exceptional (cultural) diversity within the visual arts. Visible Pride consists of 4 exhibitions:

1) Becoming Constellation at Sassoon Gallery – 2nd - 28th of Aug 2) ANHELO at ]performance s p a c e [ – 17th - 23rd Aug
3) Victoria Sin at Casement Arts – 11th - 25th Aug
4) Casualty at The Brewery Tap – 12th - 26th Aug

www.victoriasin.co.uk @sinforvictoria

www.visiblepride.com @queerasfolke

30th August to 12th September

Mira Albrecht

Mira Albrecht b. Belgium 1984

Casement arts presented a work specifically for casement arts by Mira Albrecht with the support of Simon Davenport.

A commercial sized rotating billboard displayed two photos of the shadows created by hand built interlocking porcelain chains on the square concrete paving of Tontine Street.

The porcelain chain is now available on our online store.

14th - 25th September 2018

Paleo Fauvism: Alexander James Pollard

Street Opening: 6-8pm 14th September

Casement have collaborated with a HOP Project takeover of the window, showing a single painting by Alexander James Pollard in advance of a solo show at Hop projects.

“ The Paleo Fauvism is a collection of recent paintings by Alexander James Pollard, part of Surface Tensions, Contemporary Works 2018 at HOP Projects CT20. The title of the show points to the playful marriage of Fauvism and Paleo Art, rupturing established narratives associated with Modern painting in a truly positive and imaginative manner.”

A solo painting Bear 2018, floats in the space where recognisable images oscillate between image and abstraction.

“The works reveal his desire to reconnect with a “clairvoyant” painting first explored by the artist as a pupil at the Brighton Steiner School in the nineteen eighties. Rudolf Steiner believed that painting could provide a gateway to something more than just a simple message. The methods associated with clairvoyant painting can be loosely described as a form of wet on wet painting, allowing the artist to intuitively tease out an image without having a rigid plan or relying too heavily on outlines or linearity to define forms. Pollard transfers this wet on wet or alla prima technique from water colour (used universally in Waldorf Steiner Schools) to oils, exploring mythic and archetypal imagery that echoes repetitious and ritualistic art from varying time periods and histories within World painting.”

Casement is a street facing window space that attracts passerby interest from all members of the community. In the last nine months, a series of two week shows has attracted comment and controversy. exploring different ways that artist deal with the street and how the public react to a constantly changing exhibition.

The project continues at HOP Projects CT20 73 Tontine Street from the 22 September – 25 October 2018

29th September - 13th October

Tom Verity

Tom’s work explores a variety of everyday materials and objects through mixed media sculpture and compositions. The work plays with ideas of gesture, materiality and illusionary painterly techniques.

His installation works within the constraints of casement’s restrictive dimensions by dissecting the space behind casement window. Tom deconstructs traditional elements of painting and examines the borders between sculpture and painting through a collective composition of paint and material. Elements in the piece merge between flat composition and three-dimensional depth as each layers become visibly separate as well as part of the whole.

Through the window this piece Investigates the ubiquitous relationship we have with the screen and technology through which we interact images on a daily basis. A computer program has been used to draw the lines and a projector used to copy those lines in paint creating tension between what is hand drawn or simulated. The layered planes of information mimic the false layers of flat pixelated tabs as well as breaking from the flatness of painting allowing the viewer to see the separate levels of the composition.

Tom Verity graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2016. His recent projects include the Graduate Residency at AirSpace gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. Glasshouse residency, New Art Gallery Walsall and he is a current Open School East Associate based in Margate.

24/7 18th - 21st October 2018

Simon Davenport

Street Opening & Brewery Tap Opening: 5-8pm 19th September

Simon Davenport presents new works in film and concrete - and launches ‘MG IS IDIOT’ (a 200 page hardback photo book a journey around Folkestone and other northern european costal towns, told through the lense of a smartphone camera)

Davenport is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker who has lived and worked in Folkestone for most of his life.

He has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally and has garnered credit and reviews in Frieze Magazine, Art Monthly, Vice Magazine, The Independent, Art Review, Modern Painters, FLASH Art. In 2012 he was nominated for the Jerwood Film and Video Umbrella award.

Recent solo and duo projects include; Pale Havoc at Henry Van De Velde’s Maison Gregoire in Brussels (2017); Tinitus Ditritus at Second Room in Gent (2016); New Pabulum at Kunstraum in London (2016); Noumenal Menagerie at Trampoline in Antwerp (2015); Lorum Ipsum at Project Number in London (2013); A Skvada, Contemporary Art Society Centenary at Norwich Castle Museum (Curated by Alex Sainsbury 2011)

Recent group projects and publications include; Imago Mundi, United Colours of Benetton anthology of British Artists (2018); Imaginary Concerts for Peter Coffin, Printed Matter, NYC (2017); Computers and Field Systems at Walks News, Berlin (For Lawrence Leaman 2016); Acid Rain at Island, Brussels (2014); Young British Art, DIENSTGEBÄUDE, Zurich & Limoncello, London (curated by Ryan Gander 2011); Outrageous Fortune, Focal Point Gallery & Hayward Gallery Touring, (curated by Andrew Hunt 2011); Tatton Park Biennial, Cheshire (2010); Synesthesia, Art Laboratory, Berlin (2013); Steel Sculpture, Ironbridge Sculpture Park, Telford (2011); Magnum Opus, N/V Projects, London (2013); THERE IS NOT NEVER HAS BEEN ANYTHING TO UNDERSTAND, ASC Gallery, London (2012)

24/7 16th - 25th November 2018

Gonçalo Birra: Bluntly (for the lack of a better word)

So, there is no way to summarise or compress this – there is so much at stake.

Let’s say that there is an unwillingness to give in (up), to comply or to accomplish (and that is usually the case).

“What can (cannot) we see from ‘the back’? What if, from back of things, unseen others protrude?"

The back of these no-longer-things yet very-much-things-still are really gathering in a form of protest – whether resisting the ways in which they came to be (clothes?), or negating to be seen from their fronts. Sutured tears open up for stories on resourcefulness and resilience (hopefully optimistic), and that is the challenge.

In trying to dismantle myth making instruments, it all boiled down to a fresh sewing kit, shopping bags, some discarded (lived in) skins and all the domestic chores that come with working from one’s kitchen and ironing board.

Etc. etc. but how to escape the frame? Well, we ought to place ourselves in the skins of those who cut, those who sew, those who wear and of those who, willingly, undress.

About the artist

Gonçalo Birra (b. Lisbon)

Departing from the histories and stories imprinted onto the surfaces of things, Gonçalo’s practice delves into the rewriting of once familiar scenarios so to engage in dissecting and displacing the mechanisms that seem to perpetuate and cement linear readings of personhood, belonging and futurity. In gathering seemingly disparate data to enact encounters and arrangements of a sometimes absurd nature, the practice aims to introduce an ever-changing performance, where certainty is no longer cemented in familiar clothings or furnishings. Focusing on initiating diagonal conversations, proposals for a mutable kinship emerge from the assemblages, performances and arrangements that instigate (and witness) encounters between these re-imaged bodies. Rooted in a willingness to reimagine lexicons that aim for vulnerable, agile and transformative forms of resistance, Gonçalo reflects on the possibility for the works to perform as both initiators, intruders and witnesses – shaping and being shaped in return.

Open 24/7 2nd Dec '18 - 6th Jan '19

Angela Wooi : Christmas Eve- Its Not All About You Jesus!

A celebration of women’s bodies in Christianity from Eve, the Virgin Mary , Lilith, to Mary Magdalen, and Saint Lucia. Through the medium of cloth ,stitch and haberdashery.

Lights Switch On 5.30 1st Dec 2018

Casement Arts and Angela Wooi are pleased to present 'Christmas Eve- Its Not All About You Jesus!'. A celebration of women’s bodies in Christianity from Eve, the Virgin Mary , Lilith, to Mary Magdalen, and Saint Lucia. Through the medium of cloth ,stitch and haberdashery.

An adult alternative to your usual christmas grotto!

Join us to celebrate the beginning of the advert season with the unwrapping of the Casement window and very special Lights Switch On by Lady Christmas (aka Lucy Freeman) at 5.30pm Saturday 1st December.

Its might be nippy so wrap up warm and come join us for mulled wine, mince pies and crooners!

A great way to celebrate the 22 exhibitions we have held at Casement since launching in January. In 2019 Casement will be transforming from an exhibition space to Casement Afterdark a series of street facing screenings, performance and events.

About The Artists

Angela Wooi is an ex belly dancer , A bride of Dracula and multi disciplinary artist working in interactive installation , stitchery and storytelling . Creator of the pussy bed and it’s tales if magical vaginas , She creates engaging works that take traditional women’s craft activities such and embroidery beading and patchwork . Her work is playful , sometimes irreverent, feminine and feminist .

26.04.2019

Mick Williamson: From The Photo Diaries

Mick Williamson's Olympus half-frame camera is less of an extension but rather an component of his being, Mick has been shooting between two to three rolls of film a day since the early '70s. Mick skilfully conveys stillness despite the subject matter being that of the the hustle of work and family life. In this exhibition the use repetitive sounds of slide projector challenges this tranquility.

Split between two site- the Casement Arts Window and as a take-over of the Hop Projects Space.

The window display for Casement Arts saw images from this body of work digitally projected out from the Casement window. The stillness found in Mick's photography was accentuated by being projected on to busy street of Tontine Street. Whilst the occupation of the Hop Projects Space with 10 slide projectors cast these images of halcyon memories at different heights and speeds that enveloped the viewer in a mechanical chorus of interchanging/revolving slides.

PERFORMANCE DESIGN SOUND VIDEO SCULPTURE PAINTING PRINTS 2018 /2019