cumming soon an exhibition of works derived from documentary images of Folkestones Rotunda fun fair. Featured images span the final two years of the fun fairs demise, final season and demolition.
The show will commence in early 2007 and be held at the B & B project space in Folkestone.

Image by Matt Rowe

10th March – 2nd April
At the B & B Project Space
14 Tontine Street Folkestone
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With impending demolition the Four Winds Cafe is re-appropriated and celebrated in the work of local artists.Symbolic of the archetypal sea side cafe, the british weather, the formica and the continual flow of local customers, the current exhibition seeks to document the four winds aesthetic and historical significance within the local arena.
The Four winds has been central to many throughout their experience and memory of the seafront gaining iconic status, and igniting a nostalgia for the great myth of the British summer.

All Images © Matthew Rowe 2006

All Images © Matthew Rowe 2006

Presenting an on going documentary archive of the sites, people and aesthetics of the once grand sea side destination of Folkestone & the shepway district, helping to preserve and access the rapidly changing social culture of the area.

Got an old china dog going begging?
if so Matthew Rowe of
Go Go Whippet fame, will take it off your hands.
please send any china dog ornaments to:

Go Go Whippet Sea Side Pottery
14 Tontine Street
Folkestone
Kent
England
CT20 1JU

The Club Shepway Annual Seaside Review will showcase the work of a dozen emerging contemporary artists from around the British Isles, working in a wide range of media and disciplines.
For this exhibition, selected artists have made work in response to the changing cultural identity of the British seaside resort, with a focus on the regeneration of the South East in particular.Opening Friday 1st December 2006, and remain open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the month of December from 12pm – 5pm or by appointment.

Sullivan reference Pop ideals such as the simulacrum, desymbolisation of an object,
She traces images of flowers from Gardener’s World Magazine onto walls, floors, ceilings;
one on top of the other addorning the walls of the B&B with exotick folage, creating a visual mantra.

Located in empty buildings along Folkstone’s historic Tontine Street, Club Shepway brings together a collection of artists films.
 
Each screened in a separate space the works become segments of an expanded narrative, uniting the empty shop units with flickers of celluloid. Seducing the viewer with a journey down a street, an empty shop window, and the intimacy of an open door letting you walk in.
 
Film works range form the documentary view of Amy Fenecks eco structures, to the dislodged everyday of Alex Le Feuvre’s “Grace”

The visual encounters combine to dislodge the ordinary and reveal the unseen, opening a walk down the street into an expansive visual journey

 

Lido
Amy Feneck
8mm Film still

10th March – 2nd April
At the B & B Project Space
14 Tontine Street Folkestone

 
With impending demolition the Four Winds Cafe is re-appropriated and celebrated in the work of local artists.
 
Symbolic of the archetypal sea side cafe, the british weather, the formica and the continual flow of local customers, the current exhibition seeks to document the four winds aesthetic and historical significance within the local arena.
 
The Four winds has been central to many throughout their experience and memory of the seafront gaining iconic status, and igniting a nostalgia for the great myth of the British summer.

Ideal Home Improvement Exposé

This first show at the B&B Project Space will open the gateway for interaction with the vibrant heritage of the Shepway area. Visitors will have the opportunity to view an array of local artefacts. These objects have been reassembled to satisfy the needs of modern society, by resident skilled craftsmen Joseph Burthe and Matt Rowe.