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Draw Me King’s Road
In 2013, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea commissioned the “Draw Me/Tedna Ve” camera obscurer booth to create an instant...
Platform7
Apr 29, 20201 min read


Moving_Me?
Selected images and stories from Moving_Me?, forming part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) programme, Gentrification,...
Platform7
Apr 9, 20201 min read


Paul Hazelton Reflects on Moonbow Margate
Artist Paul Hazelton, who grew up in Margate, created a number of works for the Moonbow Margate intervention in 2011, which he later...
Platform7
Dec 24, 20194 min read


Gold Junk
Artist Rebecca Lock created a number of gold objects from junk and placed them in amusement arcades in Cliftonville, which now serves as...
Platform7
Dec 24, 20192 min read


Clare Pattinson – Food Police
Clare Pattinson was featured on Britain’s Channel 4 television programme Sunday Brunch* discussing her latest automatons, and how it all...
Platform7
Dec 20, 20192 min read


Turner Prize For Turner Contemporary: Revisiting The First Summer
With the Turner Prize in Margate about to be announced, this post republishes the 2013 paper on the Turner Contemporary’s first months,...
Platform7
Dec 3, 201931 min read


Waste Agency
Waste Agency was a 4-month art performance intervention in a disused HMV record store in the City of London, the UK’s financial heart and...
Platform7
Oct 1, 20194 min read


Tapescape Catford: Intervention I
An intervention in an old Blockbuster Video, closed after being looted during the London 2011 riots, exploring the politics of the...
Platform7
Sep 30, 20192 min read


Making Esparto Grass Paper
This article discusses the embracing of art projects, whether as an artist or not, through making paper from Esparto, a perennial grass...
Platform7
Sep 29, 20194 min read


Recession Cupcakes
Recession Cupcakes with artist Ania Bas invited passersby to join her in decorating cupcakes with icing, nails and other bits, to...
Platform7
Sep 22, 20191 min read


Matter
Many seaside towns often mask their own sense of community by immersing themselves in the idealised version of the tourist, Jonathan...
Platform7
Sep 20, 20191 min read


Gandhi in London 1931
The Spaces Inhabited by Mahatma Gandhi was the first exhibition at Moonbow Margate, where the distorted and romanticised media coverage...
Platform7
Sep 20, 20193 min read


Margate: A Place Of Pixelations
As part of Goldsmiths, University of London, City to Sea symposium, photographer and lecturer, Paul Halliday discusses the rise and value...
Platform7
Sep 20, 20195 min read


Introducing Moonbow Margate
The Moonbow Margate art intervention began quietly with a photography exhibition in a derelict cafe, behind dirty windows. Tensions were...
Platform7
Sep 19, 20194 min read


Moonbow Margate
Moonbow Margate** was an abstract art performance intervention in a derelict cafe in Cliftonville, investigating the impact of the new...
Platform7
Sep 18, 20192 min read


Moonbow Jakes
Moonbow Jakes Coffee Bars were created in derelict spaces across South East London from 1998-2009, becoming a Mecca for artists,...
Platform7
Sep 18, 20193 min read


Innovation Box: Heather Agyepong
Ethics of Planned Obsolescence Embedded in Digital Commodities Until 12th October 2016 Heather Agyepong is a visual artist & performer...
John McKiernan
Oct 2, 20162 min read


Creative Home: Human Ingenuity in Times of Upheaval
Across London there is increasing visibility of the housing crisis with much of the media and charity attention rightly focused on the...
John McKiernan
Oct 2, 20164 min read


WASTE.AGENCY: NOTIONS OF BROKEN
Stage two of the Waste.Agency explores the notions of the word broken. To know if something is broken often requires at least the...
Platform7
Jan 13, 20154 min read


WASTE.AGENCY: A SILENT CACOPHONY
A tribute to the waste of life in Paris at Charlie Hebdo Waste.Agency window: A Silent Cacophony ...
Platform7
Jan 7, 20151 min read
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