In 2013, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea commissioned the “Draw Me/Tedna Ve” camera obscurer booth to create an instant portrait gallery along the King’s Road, in London’s Chelsea district. Since 2004, Jonathan Polkest’s ‘Draw Me/Tedna Ve’ booth has been appearing in public spaces across the country.  Originating in Cornwall, the booth is a camera obscurer that allows people of all abilities, ages and backgrounds to draw a companion using simple marker pens, free

Selected images and stories from Moving_Me?, forming part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) programme, Gentrification, Displacement, and the Impacts of Council Estate Renewal in C21st London.* About Moving_Me? was part of a major research programme investigating the impact on residents living on London council estates undergoing ‘renewal’.  The project provided tenants and homeowners the opportunity to respond creatively by submitting one photograph that sume

On The Horizon dance performance explored the universal struggle of venturing into the unknown, in expectation of something better, as Margate hoped the opening of its new Turner Contemporary gallery and offshore wind turbines would stall its decline, and usher in a more prosperous period. Originally posted on Wix blog 26 November 2011, 20:18 Performance Sunday, 25th September 2011, across Margate, Cliftonville and Lido complex. On The Horizon A continuation of previous work

Artist Paul Hazelton, who grew up in Margate, created a number of works for the Moonbow Margate intervention in 2011, which he later reflected on with this thought provoking piece on how food, sense of place and change are all intrinsically linked. Originally posted on Wix blog 24 September 2019, 07:15pm Throughout Summer 2011 Paul Hazelton is an international artist, presently preparing for a commission for the New York Museum for Art & Design, born and grew up in Cliftonvil

Artist Rebecca Lock created a number of gold objects from junk and placed them in amusement arcades in Cliftonville, which now serves as a timely reminder of the gamble we are taking with our coastline through our wasteful disregard for the fragility of the seas. Originally posted on Wix blog, 24 September 2011, 07:14pm Date: FRIDAY 24TH – 26TH SEPTEMBER 2011 Gold junk — win artist’s work from Margate arcade machine In association with Platform-7 Margate and the Lido project,

As the rapidly deteriorating Lido complex in Cliftonville, which once drew vast crowds, seeks yet again to revive its former glories, we revisit the 2011 event discussing the Lido’s history and shared memories with many locals who could remember the heyday. Save The Margate Lido is a new limited company set up in an attempt to save the building from corrosion and neglect, see below. In 2011, there was a real passion to see the Lido restored, as our event demonstrated, however

With the Turner Prize in Margate about to be announced, this post republishes the 2013 paper on the Turner Contemporary’s first months, as observed from our Platform-7 art intervention, Moonbow Margate in Cliftonville during Summer 2011. Art-led regeneration in Margate: learning from Moonbow Jakes Café and Lido Nightclub intervention ABSTRACT This paper considers whether a new iconic landmark – the Turner Contemporary – is likely to be a successful vehicle for the regeneratio

Reimagining Ladies Tights examined the importance women place on tights and hosiery and the role these seemingly innocuous items play in how many view themselves and other women, with few realising the enormous environmental damage these garments cause. The article that follows is the press release for the project launch in May 2013, the large number of stories collected can be viewed on the project Tumblr site here. Collecting old tights and stockings, public washing, creati

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 the World’s insurance and derivatives capital, exploring why we built an economy based on consumption and wastefulness. Originally posted 3 Oct 2014 8:10 pm | view here Introducing The Waste Agency Nestled between London’s two latest skyscrapers, the Leadenhall Building aka `The Cheesegrater’, and 20 Fenchurch Street aka `The Walkie-Talkie’

This article discusses the embracing of art projects, whether as an artist or not, through making paper from Esparto, a perennial grass found in North Western Africa and the Southern part of the Iberian Peninsula. Originally published on 30 Dec 2016 4:48 pm | View here Introduction ‘bi-anonimous’ is a small art collective based in Spain who work within nature with themes of love and sharing. Esparto grass is a perennial grass of North Western Africa and the Southern part of t

Mixing classical instruments with audio equipment, this swirling soundscape captured Margate’s overpowering fetish for nostalgia in 2011, fluctuating between the melancholy of the lost town of now and the energy of the seaside resort of the 1970s. Originally posted on Sep 8, 2011 7:07 pm | view here Introduction Centred around the 1976 record, Tony Savage and Dominic Play the Organ (recorded live at the Cliftonville Lido), Claire Hazelton and Dean Wood create a theatrical sou

Recession Cupcakes with artist Ania Bas invited passersby to join her in decorating cupcakes with icing, nails and other bits, to consider the perverse juxtaposition of the hugely popular fad in 2011 of expensive cup cakes being sold in a place with huge deprivation during a time of recession. Originally posted Saturday, 10th September 2011, 7.09pm | view here During the performance a series of edible (and almost edible) artworks was created. Each cupcake explored the relatio

Margnification, by the conceptual art collective Akleriah, was a live street intervention that challenged the perception of the space in which the performance took place; as if the wind had blown away the sadness leaving nothing behind but the physical remnants of Margate. Let’s change the rhythm of the clock! – Akleriah Originally posted Aug 4, 2011 7:04 pm | view here Thoughts The airy mix of experimental and classical music represents the feeling of Margate; the sea with t

The Moonbow Margate art intervention began quietly with a photography exhibition in a derelict cafe, behind dirty windows. Tensions were running high locally, with a large amount of vocal opposition towards the new Turner Contemporary art gallery. What follows was posted on the Platform-7 website before the project began in earnest, to set out the intention of the intervention. This blog post was originally posted on Jun 17, 2011 6:58 pm, view here Introduction The Golden

The second in the series of investigations into how opinions on conflict and war form, using short abstract live art performances as a medium to engage during a lightening storm in a darkened cemetery. Taking place in Brockley cemetery during in darkness and a lightening storm, the audience weaved through poets, dancers, musicians and installations along a narrow path, giving a taste of the foreboding that might be sensed when heading to a battlefront. Background This event f

Up The Line was the first in series of live experimental art and installation performances that sought to understand how people reach opinion on war and conflict. Taking place during darkness in Brockley and Ladywell cemetery, a designated nature reserve, hundreds of visitors weaved passed poets, dancers, musicians and installations along a narrow single track path. Background Inspired by the passing away of Harry Patch, the last British survivor from the World War One trench

This article is a short rallying call of the power peaceful protest can make in a world now in the hands of divisive mannequins paraded as d

This article is a response by Arizona Smith to Platform-7’s founder John McKiernan feeling anxiety after the artwork Home{Not]Less Ingenuity

This article makes the claim that public art interventions can provide deeper insight into human motivation and behaviour over many of the m

This article discussing Shabazz Chapman’s installation in the Innovation box discussing the ingenuity required when homelessness to survive