On The Horizon dance performance explored the universal struggle of venturing into the unknown, in expectation of something better, as...

The Dead Rat Orchestra is now an established trio, a staple of the European folk scene with a reputation for introducing experimental...

Artist Paul Hazelton, who grew up in Margate, created a number of works for the Moonbow Margate intervention in 2011, which he later...

Artist Rebecca Lock created a number of gold objects from junk and placed them in amusement arcades in Cliftonville, which now serves as...

As the rapidly deteriorating Lido complex in Cliftonville, which once drew vast crowds, seeks yet again to revive its former glories, we...

Clare Pattinson was featured on Britain’s Channel 4 television programme Sunday Brunch* discussing her latest automatons, and how it all...

With the Turner Prize in Margate about to be announced, this post republishes the 2013 paper on the Turner Contemporary’s first months,...

Mixing classical instruments with audio equipment, this swirling soundscape captured Margate’s overpowering fetish for nostalgia in 2011,...

Recession Cupcakes with artist Ania Bas invited passersby to join her in decorating cupcakes with icing, nails and other bits, to...

Margnification, by the conceptual art collective Akleriah, was a live street intervention that challenged the perception of the space in...

Many seaside towns often mask their own sense of community by immersing themselves in the idealised version of the tourist, Jonathan...

The Spaces Inhabited by Mahatma Gandhi was the first exhibition at Moonbow Margate, where the distorted and romanticised media coverage...

As part of Goldsmiths, University of London, City to Sea symposium, photographer and lecturer, Paul Halliday discusses the rise and value...

The Moonbow Margate art intervention began quietly with a photography exhibition in a derelict cafe, behind dirty windows. Tensions were...

Moonbow Margate** was an abstract art performance intervention in a derelict cafe in Cliftonville, investigating the impact of the new...

Moonbow Jakes Coffee Bars were created in derelict spaces across South East London from 1998-2009, becoming a Mecca for artists,...

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John McKiernan, founder of Platform-7 Events discusses public art interventions and contested space on The News Agents radio show with...

Loretta Lees and John McKiernan have been invited to write a chapter for Geographies of Urban Public Art: Spatial Mediations of Art,...

Art-led regeneration in Margate: learning from Moonbow Jakes Café and Lido Nightclub intervention​ ​ Professor Loretta Lees and John...