In Margate, an Exhibition Amplifies the Process of Making Marks

Installation photo featuring works by Nnena Kalu left and centre, and Éric Derochette on the right

Jared Das has written for Ocula Magazine on the new exhibition I have curated called To all the Kings who have no Crowns at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate. It features 17 international artists working across media, including drawing, painting, ceramics, embroidery, and found objects. Many artists from the show are featured in this extensice piece. You can read the whole article by following the link below.

Staged across three main white cube spaces housed in the former Thanet Press building, a 1960s commercial establishment spanning 10,000 square feet, the curatorial does well to avoid framing participating artists with the worn-out label of 'outsider' to describe creative outputs that resist tidy boundaries. With no fixed thematic grouping, the show spotlights individual practices by showing bodies of work or series, leaving it up to viewers to discover commonalities including vivid mark-making, repetition in actions, and the laborious attention to detail manifesting across aesthetics and media.

This results in a moving display of artworks that reflect individual ways of seeing the world and methods of translating one's lived experiences.