UCA Kent Galleries

12/05/2022

Join us this evening 6-9pm at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space for the opening of 'Free House'. A brilliant group exhibition showcasing fine art students work from UCA.

The exhibition continues 10-4 Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Come and check it out!

04/05/2022

The current exhibition on at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space is Manuel Vason's 'The Photographic Garden'.

This exhibition displays the outcomes of 10 collaborations with photographers Chelsey Browne, Thierry Bal, Igor Emmerich, Matt Rowe, Mick Williamson, Jacqui Taylor, Lee Hopper, Aida Silvestri, Clare Unsworth and Amy Johnson who all took part in the wider Unframing Photography Project.

More info: www.unframingphotography.com

20/04/2022

The current exhibition on in the Lounge at UCA Canterbury is Simone Swaine's 'An innomimate narrative'. Make sure to check it out!

14/04/2022

This week at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space in Folkestone!

Memory Spaces is an exhibition organised by and showcasing the work of BA Fine Art students Joey Cato, Rosie Durant, Mel Latimer and Katie Szyszko. As well as this there is a live performance by the and a writing workshop with Katie Szyszko on Saturday. Check it out!

23/03/2022

The current show in the Zandra Rhodes Gallery at UCA Rochester is from our fantastic Fashion Atelier students showcasing their latest work. This show runs until Friday 25th March so only a few days left to catch it!

22/02/2022

The new exhibition in the Lounge at UCA Canterbury is Hester Mattocks' 'After the Willow Pattern'.

This exhibition showcases Hester's amazing punch needle embroidery on canvas inspired by the distinctive chinoiserie pattern used on kitchen and homeware which became popular in the 18th Century.

Hester Mattocks is in her 3rd year of BA Fine Art at UCA Canterbury.

21/02/2022

The current show at the Zandra Rhodes Gallery at UCA Rochester is Year 1 BA (Hons) Fashion Image & Styling students' exhibition 'Fashion Image & Inclusivity'.

The exhibition is on 1-28 February 2022.

17/02/2022

Now open at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space in Folkestone is 'Starting Points', a group exhibition showcasing work by Yr 2 BA Fine Art students Zhen Feng Ang, Claire Attia, Jack Barons, Rosie Durant, Willow Harrild, Jessica Kingsley, Mel Latimer, Jess Mills, Poppy O'Brien, Chrissy Swain.

Open until Sunday, 11-4. Come and check it out!

14/02/2022

Coming up this week at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space in Folkestone is 'Starting Points', a group exhibition showcasing work by Yr 2 BA Fine Art students Zhen Feng Ang, Claire Attia, Jack Barons, Rosie Durant, Willow Harrild, Jessica Kingsley, Mel Latimer, Jess Mills, Poppy O'Brien, Chrissy Swain.

Come and check it out!

02/02/2022

Next up at the Zandra Rhodes Gallery at UCA Rochester is Year 1 BA (Hons) Fashion Image & Styling students' exhibition 'Fashion Image & Inclusivity'.

The exhibition is open 1-28 February 2022.

Image by Imogen Prior.

24/01/2022

Recipients of the Vice Chancellor's Award, BA Fine Art graduates Scarlett Hope-Gates and Sol Gjøines, present their duo exhibition ‘They didn’t prepare us for this’ at The Brewery Tap, Folkestone.

‘They didn’t prepare us for this’ presents outcomes by two professional artists in a world that their university, nor the government could prepare them for. Their site-specific installation references the global current events of the pandemic, but also personal events of how the pandemic has affected both artists while graduating.

“The pandemic has greatly affected our art practices as well as the number of opportunities we’ve been able to creatively be a part of. ‘They didn’t prepare us for this’ has given us both the opportunity to express the difficulties we’ve faced over the last year or so and we invite others to interact with the work we’ve created during these trying times.” - Scarlett Hope-Gates

Both Scarlett Hope-Gates and Sol Gjøines graduated from UCA Canterbury in July 2021. They have both previously curated ‘IN SUSPENSE: HANGING ON BY A THREAD’ at CRATE, Margate and ‘Make do: The best of a bad situation’ at The Cabin, Canterbury.

20/01/2022

'in amongst the trees and stars', a brilliant exhibition by Dover-based artist Freyja Crow is still on at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space.

Come by 19 - 23 January or after 5pm on Saturday 22 January for the private view!

18/01/2022

Coming up next at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space in Folkestone is a solo show, 'in amongst the trees and stars', by Dover-based artist Freyja Crow.

Come by 19 - 23 January or after 5pm on Saturday 22 January for the private view!

17/01/2022

We're very excited to have 3rd Year Fine Art student Greyson Bolton's exhibition, THERE IS NO NEED TO BE IMPORTANT, up in the UCA Canterbury Bar this month! Come by and check it out until the 28th January!

07/01/2022

S A M P L E
10 : 01 : 22 - 28 : 01 : 22

This exhibition at Zandra Rhodes Gallery, UCA Rochester, aims to provide an opportunity to sample the work of current Further Education students and staff at Rochester and celebrate the work through a series of collective textile designs.

Sample - A small part or quantity intended to show what the whole is like. A portion drawn from a group, the study of which is intended to lead to an understanding of a whole.

With this in mind the first part of the exhibition is the bringing together and archiving of the samples. Produced on a format of 30cm x 10cm the sample will be scanned and inserted into a herringbone pattern.

Herringbone - A pattern dating back to the Roman Empire, an interlocking system creating an extremely stable and durable surface.

To mark the importance of the 'college' and its' history in Rochester dating back to the 1850s, the collective designs will be printed as a number of textile works to be exhibited at a later stage.

10/12/2021

Currently on at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space in Folkestone is LOSER GANG showcasing work by Darcy Brenna, Dream Safari, Jack Cant, Catneil, Eirinn Hayhow, Jess Dadds and Josh Leppenwell.

Head down to the gallery between 12-5, 8th-12th December or 6pm onwards TOMORROW (11th December) for the Private View!

01/12/2021

Coming up next at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space is LOSER GANG showcasing work by Darcy Brenna, Dream Safari, Jack Cant, Catneil, Eirinn Hayhow, Jess Dadds and Josh Leppenwell.

Head down to the gallery between 12-5, 8th-12th December or 6pm onwards on the 11th December for the Private View!

18/11/2021

'Me, Myselfie and I’, an exhibition organised by
is open each day this week until Saturday at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space. Make sure you pop in to see the amazing work produced by the young people they've been working with.

Established in London since 2012, Positive View is a unique charity dedicated to providing positive futures for young people aged 16-25 who come from the most vulnerable backgrounds. Our unique, and highly acclaimed ‘Youth Empowerment Programme’ uses photography and film to successfully lead these disadvantaged young people into further education, apprenticeships, and employment.

10/11/2021

Objects surely don’t talk. Or do they?*

Year two BA (Hons) Fashion Photography and BA (Hons) Photography students present their final images from the ‘Photo Object’ unit in this exhibition on show at the Zandra Rhodes Gallery, UCA Rochester.

The diverse collection of work derives from four suggested approaches to photographing objects: Still Life, Objects & Bodies, Photographic Materiality and Objects in Time. Students were asked to consider how social and cultural meanings are communicated via photographic representations of objects, in terms of style, composition, concept and narrative.

*Daniel Miller, The Comfort of Things, 2008

21/10/2021

'You Didn't Go Up There To Fish' is now open at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space!

Open Thurs-Sun 10-4 until 31st October with a special extended opening 5-9pm on Friday 29th October to coincide with Last Fridays Folkestone.

‘You Didn’t Go Up There To Fish’ is a collaboration between Stephen Foy-Philp and Iain Rayner. The works in the exhibition vary from large scale paintings to science fiction prose via sculpture and re-contextualised found objects. The artefacts are presented together as a single immersive installation. The installation is guaranteed to be unlike anything the Triennial has seen before, showcasing two artists who are travelling in very different directions but have somehow crossed paths. ‘There comes a time when it’s important to know exactly what you are doing, to focus on your ambition like a laser beam, to never waiver in your belief, to never cease in your desire to fulfil your destiny, however misunderstood you might be and at what ever cost you might pay. You must sacrifice all else, turn your back on the old ways and look only to a future that perhaps you alone understand. However that moment has not yet come and it looks unlikely it will for some time, so until then we offer this.’

11/10/2021

We're excited to announce that there will be a private view for the current exhibition at UCA Canterbury, FEW VIEW PHEW POINTS, 5-7pm on Wednesday 13th October.

This group show, with work by Uli Jaeger, Ty Locke, Julie Sumner and Arpana Rao, is running from 24th September - 17th October throughout the public spaces at UCA Canterbury. This show, originally presented as part of the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space Triennial Programme in Folkestone in August, has been restaged and reinvented for it's new location.
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“The Plot… the gap between the story and actuality.” Everything has changed and nothing has changed. What is real? What is story?

“The plotting… The space between the narrative and the reality?” Most thing have changed but yet not much has changed. Maybe this is real? Story time.

“”The Plot……. The g a p between story and actuality.”” Everything has changed? And yet.. Nothing has changed. This is real? What is story?....

“ The PLOT is the gap between actuality and the story. This feels real. Feels like it has changed? Feels the same. Story telling over and over and over and over and over again…. Who knows? I don’t…. don’t think you do either.

IT’S THE SAME!! Same as its always been” Just stop guessing please. Gap between you, actuality, story and me. This has changed, right? This is a new story. Whats real??!?!?!@£$%£$”””

“””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””AGAIN””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””

PLOT PLOT PLOTTING. Plotting along. What even is this? Do people even read these things? This is art right? LOOK! READ! ITS ART. Its art as we say it is.

What is a story? A narrative? A chronological order of thoughts? Who says! This is just as much so. This is real…. Real-ish.. real-enough… Real-ing the real…. It’s the realist real. Real if we say so.

Order is boring…. Look away… turn round… say something interesting… it’s a gallery! You should know better! Look up! Look at nothing. Your real.

Changing change ;;;;;;;; ChAnge…. Spare change. Ive got some spear change. Have some of my change, I’ve changed enough. I’m over it, you have it. TAKE IT! I loathe it. Right so this is different. If you say so.

NO Yes Order Story Gap Plot “The” the what? This feels different, maybe it has always been the same.
And nothing has changed.

PLEASE NOTE: Face coverings are permitted to be worn at UCA Canterbury unless you are exempt. Please also take a lateral flow test before attending.

06/10/2021

There are some great events coming this weekend for the last weekend of Art in Romney Marsh's current programme.

Art in Romney Marsh is excited to present the work of artists that have made an outstanding contribution to British Contemporary Art History. Breathing Out aims to celebrate and honour their legacy and with kind permission from respective estate representatives, AiRM are able to present their images as large scale billboard installations in the churchyards.

📍 ⁠St George’s Church, Ivychurch
St Clement’s Church, Old Romney
St Mary’s, St Mary in the Marsh
St Augustine, Brookland
Thomas à Becket, Fairfield
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📣 AiRM 2021 Breathing Out ⁠
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9th and 10th Oct 1-5pm⁠

more info: https://www.artinromneymarsh.org/airm-2021

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06/10/2021

We're excited to announce the next exhibition as part of our Triennial Autumn Programme at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space is OUT (OF OUR COMFORT ZONE).

This show from Joan Heasman, Peter A Leigh and Jake Wood is running from the 7th-17th October. It is open 10-5 Thursday-Sunday with an exhibition opening 5-7pm on Thursday 7th October.

Responding to ideas of ‘the plot’ certain spaces can feel at times disturbing, intense, or incompatible like heterotopias which can be worlds within worlds, mirroring and yet upsetting and camouflaging what is outside, which feels like a plot Especially as we return to the outside world, or as we plot our return by intruding and manoeuvring into different spaces, zones, and environments. We can relate to ‘the plot’ by twisting and turning as we emerge back into an outside world, that way of being outside, as we’ve plotted a direction can be viewed as outside of our comfort zones.

01/10/2021

There's still time to catch the current show 'At the End of the Pier, I Died' at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space! It's the last few days of the exhibition so make sure to come by 12-5 tomorrow or Sunday for your own experience inside Umut Gunduz's and Anna Skutley's virtual reality.

This exhibition is part of Folkestone Fringe's Triennial Associates programme 'Chapters'.

It takes its name from, La Jetée, Chris Marker’s 1992 black and white photomontage short film, which sends its viewer back to a specific moment in time. For us, the theme of ‘Plot’ is about processes of remembering; about memory as a narrative which happens as a continual reconfiguration of a collection of nodes in time. For this exhibition, we are inspired by the question of how digital media might allow us to physically move around one of these plotted moments. In investigating this, we are working with photogrammetry software as a means of re-constructing isolated instances in time as 3D objects, which can be placed in both digital and physical spaces.

28/09/2021

Following the brilliant show at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space during our Summer Triennial Programme 'Few View Phew Points' has been restaged and reinvented in the UCA Canterbury public spaces.

This group show by Uli Jaeger, Ty Locke, Arpana Rao, Julie Sumner is on until 17th October.

27/09/2021

Make sure to check out Umut Gunduz and Anna Skutley's fantastic 'At the End of the Pier, I Died' which is on at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space until next Sunday.

Opening times: 12-5, Thursday-Sunday.

It takes its name from, La Jetée, Chris Marker’s 1992 black and white photomontage short film, which sends its viewer back to a specific moment in time. For us, the theme of ‘Plot’ is about processes of remembering; about memory as a narrative which happens as a continual reconfiguration of a collection of nodes in time. For this exhibition, we are inspired by the question of how digital media might allow us to physically move around one of these plotted moments. In investigating this, we are working with photogrammetry software as a means of re-constructing isolated instances in time as 3D objects, which can be placed in both digital and physical spaces.

17/09/2021

'Just Passin' Thru' is open until this Sunday, 10-5! Make sure to check it out before it's gone!

This show displays work by UCA alumni Frankie Brown, Coral Pryke-Syrett, Stuart Rayner, Sam Vilanova.

Individually our stories are written every day; singular, unique, defined by choices that we take and by factors that we might not even realise are shaping them. In the improbability of crossing paths, we met. Organically, our four narratives intertwine and they feed into a new story influenced by our backgrounds and characteristics. It grows and we grow with it.

13/09/2021

A few installation images of the current show 'Just Passin' Thru' by UCA alumni Frankie Brown, Coral Pryke-Syrett, Stuart Rayner, Sam Vilanova.

Open 10-5, Thursday-Sunday until 19th September.

Individually our stories are written every day; singular, unique, defined by choices that we take and by factors that we might not even realise are shaping them. In the improbability of crossing paths, we met. Organically, our four narratives intertwine and they feed into a new story influenced by our backgrounds and characteristics. It grows and we grow with it.

10/09/2021

https://www.uca.ac.uk/Events/galleries/freak-to-chic-online-exhibition/

We're excited to announce that a new online exhibition 'Freak to Chic: 'Gay' Men in and out of Fashion after Oscar Wilde' by Dominic Janes has been published online.

This exhibition presents a range of images from Dominic Janes’s new book, Freak to Chic (Bloomsbury, 2021) on which he has been working as a UCA professorial fellow. He thanks UCA for awarding funding for the copyright permissions for the publication and also for this online exhibition.

This exhibition presents a range of images from Dominic Janes’s new book, Freak to Chic (Bloomsbury, 2021) on which he has been working as a UCA professorial fellow. He thanks UCA for awarding funding for the copyright permissions for the publication and also for this online exhibition

08/09/2021

We're very excited to announce the first exhibition as part of our Triennial Autumn Programme is JUST PASSIN' THRU.

This group show, with work by Frankie Brown, Coral Pryke-Syrett, Stuart Rayner, Samuel Vilanova, runs from 9th-19th September (Thursday-Sunday, 10-5) with an opening event 5-7pm Thursday 9th September.

Individually our stories are written everyday, singular, and unique, defined by choices that we make or by factors that we may not realise are shaping them. In the improbability of crossing paths, we meet. Organically, our four narratives intertwine and they feed into this new one influenced by our backgrounds and characteristics, it grows and we grow with it.

Contexts can remain familiar, confining, hidden and fixed within the works. Exploring themes around location, image, identity, material, nature and sustainability, the narrative becomes apparent with the works forming the widening setting to which the installation sits. Both in physical space but also in immateriality and transient moving of the eye from piece to piece.

The viewer comes in and interacts, they join the conversation and activate it. In inertia, being placed within a system and then attempting to locate one's self through the setting of the work, and expanding the narrative with their interaction.

The essence of not fixing these works keeps setting in a period of flux rather than stationary permanence.