UPCOMING EVENTS

FLOAT

16th October - 26th October 2025 | 12pm - 5pm

Float brings together three artists whose work navigates personal, poetic and emotional connections to the sea. Curated by Alice Herrick the exhibition at Joseph Wales Studios offers a shifting perspective on coastal life, memory and resilience.  

Elizabeth Walker anchors the exhibition with cyanotypes of jellyfish – quiet, meditative works that trace the transient and the fluid. Pippa Darbyshire presents luminous seascape paintings, many featuring boats that float between abstraction and familiarity. Susanne Hakuba’s images are inspired by life and the sea, and have been fundamental in reconnecting with herself and nature. 

Together, the artists offer viewers a space to reflect, drift, and reconnect – to sea, to self and to each other.  

Private view: Thursday 16th October, 5pm to 8pm

  • Elizabeth Walker is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Michigan and based in Margate, working with photography, mixed-media and found materials. Her practice often centres on overlooked natural forms and fleeting phenomena. In this exhibition, she presents cyanotypes of jellyfish, capturing both the fragility and quiet resilience of marine life.  

  • Susanne Hakuba is a self-taught visual artist working with photography, photomontage, collage and moving image. A German national she has lived in the UK for 20 years, and currently lives in Margate, Kent, where she is a member of Resort Studios.  

    For Float she presents a body of work that is inspired by life by the sea and that forms a resource for the re-affirmation of life and the beauty and wonder of the natural world.  

  • Pippa Darbyshire is a painter whose luminous seascapes are rooted in close observation of coastal light, weather and movement. Working primarily in oils, her work balances abstraction and familiarity, often featuring boats as solitary or symbolic presences. Pippa has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad and maintains a deep connection to the sea through both life and practice. 

Artist Biographies

GOODNESS IS NOTHING 

28th October - 3rd November 2025

Taken from the stage play, Amadeus, the full quote: 'Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.', is said by the bitter rival of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Salieri. He committed his chastity to God in exchange for musical prowess, only to see the promiscuous and morally 'unsound' Mozart create artistic perfection. 

This exhibition explores authenticity versus ‘goodness’. Artist Hannah Joy King finds that words and confident explanations seem far less true than silent, observed motions of the human body: expression in a gesture and honesty in posture. Reflecting on contradictions in her own thinking brought her attention to broader societal 'goodnesses': blind spots and in-authenticities regarding cultural capital, identity, romance and religion. Hannah confronts 'goodness' and challenges it in these artworks, showcasing the messy authenticity she has found in the process of unraveling 'goodness' from authentic experience.

Socials:

Instagram:

@designhjk

Websites:

hannahjoyking.com

BAD DAD

5th November - 10th November 2025 | 11am-4pm

"Bad Dad" is a photographic exploration of the quiet guilt and loud joy of raising children while still trying to hold onto some sense of self - a balancing act that brings judgment, curiosity, and confusion. I crave late‑night mischief, unfiltered conversations and adventure, as I navigate school runs, bedtime stories and scraped knees. This isn’t a show of extreme hedonism or shock value, but a look at the tension of being more than one thing, one sort of man, one archetype. Bad Dad leans into that tension with a wink and an open heart - not a guide to parenting, but a love letter to the mess of trying -  inviting viewers to question what a “good” parent looks like, and who gets to decide.

Private View on the 7th November

Socials:

Instagram: @timtopple

Website: www.timtopple.com

Pleroma work in progress

13th November - 16th November 2025 | 11am-5pm

Weaver and natural dyer Studio Mond (Josie Mond-James) is offering a quiet glimpse into the early stages of Pleroma, A new large-scale woven installation in development for exhibition in spring 2026. 

Trained at the Royal College of Art, the practice is rooted in slow, meticulous making and a deep connection to the natural world.

The work-in-progress will feature material, structural, colour explorations and images of the beloved stretch of coastline that inspires them, inviting visitors to experience the tactile beginnings of an ambitious new work and follow the journey as it unfolds.

Private view: 14th 11am-8pm

Socials:

Website: www.studiomond.co.uk 

Instagram: @studiomond___

PRINT SOCIAL: An Exhibition

20th November - 23rd November 2025

Featuring artwork and printmaking activities by the collective PRINT SOCIAL including artists Jo Dear, Tina Hagger, Abi Harrison, Sarah Knowler, Pat Mac Donald, Nick Morley, Jane Orwell and Mat Pringle.

Opening Times:

Thursday 20th: 3pm - 9pm 

Friday 21st: 11am - 5pm

Saturday 22nd: 11am - 5pm

Sunday 23rd: 11am - 4pm 

COLOUR ABSTRACTIONS

26th November - 1st December 2025 | 10am - 3pm

'In Colour Abstractions, Alice Walton explores changing light and energy through bold colour and expressive mark-making, drawing on the natural rhythms of land, sea, and sky.'

Socials:

Website: www.alicewaltonpaintings.com

Instagram: @alicewaltonpaintings

ALL IS NOT LOST, MOST WILL BE FOUND

March 2026

Rejoice, rejoice! Find, explore, spin, jump, love is here, come find it. Join Ellie Graham (of Other Leg) at the “All is not lost, most will be found” exhibition, where a series of abstract illustrations and storytelling panels will shed light on the beauty of life and love, reconnecting us to childlike whimsy and curiosity. Interact with a series of multimedia pieces that welcome playfulness - for all is not lost.

Socials:

Instagram: @other.leg

Website: otherleg.org