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Working for free: what’s to like?

Artists are often asked to work for free in return for exposure via social media likes and audience praise, so for a recent commission (paid) Alistair Gentry decided to walk around Folkestone dressed in a cliched ‘artist’s costume’ asking other types of worker if they’d do the same. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they weren’t particularly keen.

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Drawing 3/3

Was down in Folkestone again today and did this drawing, following the 3 rules I’ve set myself. The element of time is probably the most important rule – the drawing ends when the time is up rather than when I think […]

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New drawings promised: 1/2

I promised two new drawings for a show at Brew in Folkestone in September and suddenly realised that time is getting short… So yesterday I went out to the Lower Leas Coastal Park to get one of them done. There […]

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“They looked like silver birds…”

Here is a drawing I worked on in 2011-2012.  It will be on show, for just a few hours in a Church in Folkestone on Thursday afternoon. Thursday will be the 100th anniversary of ‘The Great Folkestone Air Raid’ of […]

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News in brief

I am very excited about an upcoming exhibition I am in with Joanna Jones and Helen Lindon as part of the SALT festival in Folkestone. We are also running an elemental, experimental workshop in which together with workshop participants we will create […]

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Stitched Time is touring

It is always a surprise as well as gratifying when an aim becomes a reality, especially when that aim starts out more as a wish, in this case one stated in my original Arts Council grant application, which was for […]

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I’d still like to see the Governor…

  August 28 – August 30, 11.00-19.30 August 31 – September 4, 11.00-17.00    I’d still like to see the Governor… takes place at Brewery Tap (UCA’s Project space) in conjunction with the Folkestone Triennial. This is the second opportunity […]

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