SKIP Gallery X Hayden Kays - Margate Train Station
Nov 27, 2020 2:07:31 GMT
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Post by Commissioner on Nov 27, 2020 2:07:31 GMT
SKIP Gallery X Hayden Kays show launching outside Margate train station this morning.
Resort Studios and South East Creatives bring you
SKIP Gallery x Hayden Kays
Margate Station,
BLACK Friday 28th November 2020
Margate based artist Hayden Kays has collaborated with SKIP Gallery, presenting ‘Tipping Point’.
Launching on Black Friday, Kays has turned the skip into a giant shopping basket; people will be
encouraged to throw their rubbish into it as a direct comment on our throwaway, consumerist society.
‘I know I’m talking rubbish, but this time it’s important. The land has had its fill. The sculpture is not anti consumerism,
it’s anti-wastefulness. Our single-use culture is treating the planet in the same style way. Let
us at least not lose the world by default and inaction.’ Hayden Kays
SKIP Gallery was created by creative duo Baker & Borowski as a new type of mobile art space, presenting
an alternative to the conventional routes to art, for artists and viewers. Never has this been so pertinent, in
a year that has seen most cultural institutions across the world indefinitely closed or services radically
curtailed for long periods of time, in-person exhibitions, events, and performances cancelled or postponed.
Out of lockdown, consuming art is much harder to do, with booking systems and restricted visitor numbers
being allowed in.
‘Our intention is for SKIP Gallery to develop and grow as a democratic platform for all the arts, and the
modular nature of the skip means that projects are not confined by the usual limitations of a conventional
creative platform.’ Baker & Borowski.
Mercedes Workman, Curator and Program Commissioner at Resort Studios, is curating a series of SKIPs
in Margate for winter 2020/2021, “in a year that has had brought very little joy to anyone, as lockdowns feel
normal and viewing art indoors nigh-on impossible, I felt we really needed to bring art to people. SKIP
Gallery and Hayden is such a great collaboration, and then you put it in Margate, and it feels like the perfect
public art installation for 2020.
Resort Studios in Margate, Kent, is a not-for-profit cultural organisation encompassing studios, workshop
areas, exhibition spaces and a multitude of resources supporting a diverse community of creative
professionals. Resort has a strong track record of public funded activity, delivering high quality arts and
culture, development of skills & knowledge and supporting and building communities.
Resort is also the cultural hub partner for the South East Creatives project, a business development
programme supporting growth and sustainability of the creative and digital sectors in the South East. The
programme is specifically aimed at creative, cultural or digital businesses, freelancers, sole traders and
growing businesses in Essex, East Sussex and Kent looking to cultivate their skills and broaden their
professional network.
@haydenkays
@skipgallery
@resortstudios
@s.e.creatives
Resort Studios and South East Creatives bring you
SKIP Gallery x Hayden Kays
Margate Station,
BLACK Friday 28th November 2020
Margate based artist Hayden Kays has collaborated with SKIP Gallery, presenting ‘Tipping Point’.
Launching on Black Friday, Kays has turned the skip into a giant shopping basket; people will be
encouraged to throw their rubbish into it as a direct comment on our throwaway, consumerist society.
‘I know I’m talking rubbish, but this time it’s important. The land has had its fill. The sculpture is not anti consumerism,
it’s anti-wastefulness. Our single-use culture is treating the planet in the same style way. Let
us at least not lose the world by default and inaction.’ Hayden Kays
SKIP Gallery was created by creative duo Baker & Borowski as a new type of mobile art space, presenting
an alternative to the conventional routes to art, for artists and viewers. Never has this been so pertinent, in
a year that has seen most cultural institutions across the world indefinitely closed or services radically
curtailed for long periods of time, in-person exhibitions, events, and performances cancelled or postponed.
Out of lockdown, consuming art is much harder to do, with booking systems and restricted visitor numbers
being allowed in.
‘Our intention is for SKIP Gallery to develop and grow as a democratic platform for all the arts, and the
modular nature of the skip means that projects are not confined by the usual limitations of a conventional
creative platform.’ Baker & Borowski.
Mercedes Workman, Curator and Program Commissioner at Resort Studios, is curating a series of SKIPs
in Margate for winter 2020/2021, “in a year that has had brought very little joy to anyone, as lockdowns feel
normal and viewing art indoors nigh-on impossible, I felt we really needed to bring art to people. SKIP
Gallery and Hayden is such a great collaboration, and then you put it in Margate, and it feels like the perfect
public art installation for 2020.
Resort Studios in Margate, Kent, is a not-for-profit cultural organisation encompassing studios, workshop
areas, exhibition spaces and a multitude of resources supporting a diverse community of creative
professionals. Resort has a strong track record of public funded activity, delivering high quality arts and
culture, development of skills & knowledge and supporting and building communities.
Resort is also the cultural hub partner for the South East Creatives project, a business development
programme supporting growth and sustainability of the creative and digital sectors in the South East. The
programme is specifically aimed at creative, cultural or digital businesses, freelancers, sole traders and
growing businesses in Essex, East Sussex and Kent looking to cultivate their skills and broaden their
professional network.
@haydenkays
@skipgallery
@resortstudios
@s.e.creatives