Charlee M. Piper is a Margate-based artist who works primarily with textiles and lino block prints, but has also been known to dabble in collage, watercolours, and sculpture. Their work frequently ruminates on political and queer issues, along with their upbringing in the Catholic Church and subsequent journey into atheism. Charlee’s second solo exhibition, Church & State, will be hosted at Joseph Wales from the 2nd through the 11th of August as part of the Margate Pride 2024 Art Trail.

Kieran Rook specialises in painting, sculpture, film, and sound art. Working with immersive installations that involve wall-based works, floor pieces, sculptures, screens, and sounds. Creating alchemy by combining various sculptural installation aesthetics with time-based mediums and sound art compositions to create exaggerated and complex artworks.

I've been active in the world of garment design and manufacture since I was a child. Went to London College of Fashion in 1974. But on leaving I did not join the industry, but worked self employed part time in addition to my full time employed work. Moved to Margate in 2001, and set up a vintage dress shop and design and dress making studio in the developing Old Town in 2003.

Samuel Vilanova is a Portuguese artist based in Margate, working across sculptures and paintings that usually exist as part of installations. His work develops from moods and scenes of a British everyday life, mixed with idyllic memories of a past in Portugal. Resulting in a familiar but also magical and foggy visual world, through which Vilanova explores alternative versions of the mundane and searches for an understanding of our condition.

Stuart Rayner is a Margate based artist working through the mediums of painting and illustration. Stuart subverts art historical tradition tradition by referencing the female nude and classical still life compositions whilst portraying contemporary living as a queer person in a vibrant yet quiet atmosphere. Stuart's work often expresses a tender emotional connection to nature through his flourishing use of colour and impressionistic form. Natural forms are brought inside to populate cubist interior living spaces, caring spaces designed for contemplation.

Annabelle Edginton is a conceptual artist working with various mediums. Having been brought up in the countryside, nature has had a huge influence on her relationship with her work. Much like many symbiotic relationships which are hidden to us, Edginton attempts to make a space for entanglement and cycles to happen as she sets up the conditions for her work to perpetuate. This might start as a catalyst theme or single word. From then on, a film may appear alongside a painting, a piece of writing, or a soundscape, for example - each element isn't finished or individual but rather in conversation with another. Often the work appears very slowly as Edginton works in small parts which make up a larger system. Edginton draws a parallel between microbial networks and working slowly. All small parts are hugely important in the complexity of wider things. Edginton's practice is thus slow and laborious.

Born and brought up in Thanet, Roy Eastland’s work is mostly drawing-based. Winner of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Portrait Prize and the SGFA Small Works prize, he has been shortlisted for various Drawing Prizes including the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (3 times), RBSA Drawing Prize (twice), RP Drawing Prize, Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary, Jerwood Drawing Prize (3 times), BP Portrait Award and others. Roy has taught Life Drawing and given talks on drawing, for about 18 years, at UCA, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent Adult Education, Turner Contemporary, Draw Brighton, Young Gallery (Salisbury), V&A, and other places. He has exhibited his work in mixed exhibitions, art fairs and solo shows. The primary focus of his recent work has been portraiture, and drawings about people, memory and human presence.

Link to my drawing blog: https://royeastland.wordpress.com