Pie Factory Margate

Our current exhibition, 'Lounge Odyssey' invites you to step into a peculiar parlour, a salon of the abstract. An off the wall exhibition of homewares, neon lights, furniture and tactile tufted pieces created by three artists from Thanet. Ellen Tufts Studio is a textile and tufting studio based in Margate. She takes a painterly approach to her tactile abstract tufted creations. With many echoing the bold colours and shapes of the Fauvist movement. She will be exhibiting a collection of new vases and wall pieces. Instagram: @ellen_tufts_studio Paul Thiry is an artist and furniture maker based in Margate. Making modern pieces with an abstract eye, he uses found materials to aid the decision making of the design, employing soft curves that mimic boy racer cars. He will be exhibiting stools, shelves and incense holders. @paulthiry_ Carson Parkin-Fairley is an artist based in Ramsgate. She explores themes of celebration and joy through the medium of lights, painting, and shrines. She will be exhibiting neon lights, paintings, furniture, and some of her iconic shrines. Instagram: @carsonparkinfairley The three artists will have individual pieces on show, whilst also showing a collaborative piece of furniture that they’ve all worked on together. Lounge Odyssey will run at Pie Factory from 30th June – 4th July 2023, open daily from 11-5pm. #margateoldtown #margate #margatecreatives

Donna Flemming presents Apocalypse, with drawings, paintings and sculptures. Donna's stone cavings, welded metal and wire are truly bold and unique.  Her work is an exploration into the materialistic world, to show the magic, the animating principle within matter and us and nature.  Donna trained at UCA Canterbury and The Royal College of Art, London. Originally from sandwich, Donna now lives in Margate with her studio in Ramsgate. Apocalypse runs until 16th November, open 10am to 6pm #Margate #margatecreatives #margateoldtown

Currently showing at Pie every day until Wednesday 2nd November, Breaking Apart the Sick Girl Trope by local Artist and Producer Katie Hogben is an exhibition of costume design exploring the tropes in storytelling associated with women who have a chronic illness or disability. Find out more at or follow Katie at @katieexplores Project Director and Lead Artist, Katie Hogben - @katieexplores Cross stitch by Alia-Michelle Supron - @creating_sanity Photography by Shannen Lythgoe - @shannenlythgoe Poster design by Delphine Fauchereau - @delphine_fauchereau Exhibition opening times: Saturday 29th October, 10am - 6pm Sunday 30th October, 10am - 6pm Monday 31st October, 10am - 6pm Tuesday 1st November, 10am - 6pm Wednesday 2nd November, 10am - 1pm #Margate #margateoldtown #margatecreatives

‘Theme and Variations’, is the current exhibition showing at Pie. Five artists: Helen Kirwan, Jane Madsen, James Swinson, Nicholas Addison and Othman Abdullah, meet again for their second show, the first having taken place in 2020 after the summer lockdown. The themes continue to gravitate towards the natural and built environment, ranging from photographic and filmic mediations on disappearing objects and technologies to emergent ones. The paintings in the show either record aspects of Margate or acknowledge it as a site of hybridity making a gentle play between abstraction and figuration. Exhibition opening times Friday 2nd September – 11am to 7pm Saturday 3rd September – 11am to 7pm Sunday 4th September – 11am to 6pm Monday 5th September – closed Tuesday 6th September – 11am to 6pm Wednesday 7th September – 11am to 2pm #Margate #margateoldtown #margatecreatives #art #artists

This Pride Weekend, visit the Pie Factory Gallery to see Elissa Cray’s Pride Portrait Project. The installation explores both the people and spaces of Margate through photography, audio, film, and a series of community happenings. Produced in collaboration with Sé Mali, a PHD researcher of queer spaces and placemaking at UCL, the Pride Factory introduces an interactive by inviting the audience to map their stories. Elissa will also be hosting a drop-in portrait studio throughout the weekend inviting people to participate and add their portraits to the archive. Open until 2pm Saturday and Sunday afternoon. @prideportraitproject @margatepride #art #Margate #margateoldtown #margatebeach #margatecreatives #prideportraitproject #margatepride

Pie Factory is currently hosting a bright and eclectic exhibition produced by Rochester Independent College, who are celebrating 38 years of art and design. The school was founded in 1984 and now has an International reputation with staff and students coming from all over the world. The art department encourages creativity in a variety of subjects including Photography, Fine Art, Textiles, Graphic Design, Film and Media, 3D, Drama and Music. Exhibition is open 11am to 5pm daily, until 2nd August #Margate #margatebeach #margateoldtown #margatecreatives #rochesterindependentcollege

Pie Factory welcomes MAHL to the gallery, a small informal group of East Kent based artists and friends: Angela Malone, Steffany Malone, John Hughes, Avril Sadler and Paul Gadenne, who have been exhibiting together since 2012. They bring together a collection of sculptures, prints, oils and watercolours. From their first exhibitionat the Horsebridge Gallery in Whitstable, they have since held a succession of exhibitions at regular intervals, have been represented in major National Exhibitions and can be found in International and National  private and public collections. Their work is well received, winning National and International awards. Open daily from 10am to 5pm, until 15th June. @ohmalones @ekas1902 @avril.sadler @paulgadenne

States of Mind group exhibition explores the thinking, non thinking process and practices of contemporary artists work – conceptual, analytical, scientific juxtaposed with improvised, spontaneity and just pure accidental. The exhibition will showcase a collection of works including drawing, painting, installation and video, by artists who studied at Central St Martin’s, Camberwell and Brighton University, School of Art. 11am to 5pm, until 27th May @shirleyanngalbraith @johnwoodberryart @elizabethcpdudley @olliearthurbanes @failtestudio #Margate #margateoldtown #margatebeach #margatecreatives #art #artists

Local artist collective ‘Gang of Five’, are currently exhibiting their collection of works at Pie. This varied group are made up of symbolist painter Wynford Vaughan Thomas, abstract painter Danny Verno Smith, photographer Ian Allan and fine artists Jed Cook and Mark Fuller. The exhibition runs until 17th May and is open 10am to 5pm daily. #margate #margateoldtown #margatecreatives

The current exhibition at Pie brings together 4 local artists, to create a wonderfully eclectic mix of work. John Laven is a landscape painter. He sees his work in the tradition of European painting stretching back to the late 18th century romantics. His focus is the force of nature imbued with anthropomorphic qualities of struggle and tension that exist at the frontiers and margins of a place, which exists both in real lived experience and in the imagination. E.J.Laven has spent most of her life living on the Kent coast and it is from this contrasting landscape, as well as the structures and objects found along the shoreline, that much of her work arises. Her ideas and observations are expressed through a diverse range of media – from sculpture and ceramics to painting, mixed media and installations and often explore concepts associated with the act of collecting and the relationship between curios and artefacts with their audience. Nicola Lebon has been exhibiting her paintings for the past twenty five years and started to work with Ceramics in 2017.Inspired by mythology and artefacts from the ancient world, creating creatures and spirts from her imagination.  Preferring to work with coloured clays, as this leaves a velvety matt finish in muted colours. Andrew Shrubb’s dark and imaginative drawings allow the viewer to enter his thoughts, no matter how uncomfortable this can be. Years of reading comics and listening to metal have infected his brain and he vomits this up, with his pen in hand, onto paper. This exhibition is open every day from 10am to 4pm and runs until Tuesday 3rd May. #Margate #margateoldtown #margatecreatives #margatebeach

‘Margate we missed you’ is the current exhibition at Pie Factory Gallery, presented by a trio of Kent artists, ‘Oh Malones’. The group have joined together to debut their latest paintings, prints, sculptures, ceramics and textiles, and each piece is designed to warm the soul and celebrate the feeling of joy or nostalgia. Each member of the group brings something different to this exhibition. The bolder colour palette from David’s upcycled pieces and prints, set alongside the soft and soulful pottery and pencil pieces from Angela’s studio perfectly compliment paintings by Steffany. The three had a simple idea, a celebration of summer holidays, of days out with friends. Over the last two years, many people have missed so much and ‘Margate We Missed You’ is a way for visitors to this exhibition to join in the merriment of Spring and Summer and all things art. Memories like watching the change in hues on the sands of your favourite beach, or remembering a cheeky pop of colour from wearing your sunniest shades to see a friend. This is what Angela, Steffany and David have been working on together, to celebrate in full colour. The exhibition is open 10.30-5.30 daily and runs until 20th April. @ohmalones #Margate #margatebeach #margateoldtown #margatecreatives #art #artists

Currently at Pie, Shoreline Partners present a curated selection of new work by 40 local artists, makers and creatives, inspired by the misquote of T.S. Elliot ‘Every moment is a fresh beginning’. These photos are from their private view on Thursday evening. Shoreline Partners are all from two of Thanet’s small independent art galleries: Westgate Galleria and our neighbours The Eclectic Art Gallery, Margate. These galleries are making a big impact on how emerging and established local artists and makers engage collectively and inclusively with their clients and local communities, and we are delighted to welcome them to the gallery. Works will be available for sale, and many of the artists will be in the gallery during the exhibition to talk to visitors. This year’s exhibiting artists are: Creative Writers Ann Lloyd Carol M Creasey Fibre artists Jill Young Jo Padgham Joy Reynolds Lola McDowell Glass artists Celine Libera Christine Jeffryes Glen Marsh Sarah Gibbon Painters Dee Newton Eve Stickler Geraldine Alfeo Julian Lovegrove Lesley Gray Lorraine Kinnear Nicola Taylor Pat Matthews Sian C Morgan Viktoriya Richardson Photographers Ben Finch Libby Cox Sarah Wyld Vic Sharratt Wilfred Jenkins Potters Janis Volkman Jayne Wright Linda Mead Trix Newham Printers David Wadmore Gem Blastock Sarah Gibbon Silversmiths Jane Martin Woodworkers Frank White Martin Gomme Max Sheppard @shorelinegallerias #art #Margate #margateoldtown #margatecreatives #artists