Exhibition 1
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Glance // Photography Exhibition
Sean O’Connor and Simon Warren
16 Jul – Sun 1 Aug | 10:00am to 16:00
Weds - Suns / (Closed Mon/Tues)
Simon Warren moved to Folkestone in Nov 2020 and soon afterwards began to explore his new hometown on foot and by bicycle carrying his trusty camera. After about a month he had amassed many wonderful images and decided to share these on the local residents Facebook page - and floated the idea of forming a photography group here in the town.
Simon had no idea initially as to whether anyone would join, but it soon became apparent that there were many photographers, both professional and amateur, looking to join such a group.
Folkestone Photography Group now has over 800 members whose images continue to inspire and motivate others to go out and shoot this wonderful place. It was through a chance encounter with another photographer on the beach that the idea for the exhibition at The Woodshed emerged.
Bio 1:
Simon has always had a love of architecture, art and landscapes; his career of more than three decades as a professional photographer has taken him all over the globe shooting it.
But as he says: “To be able to concentrate all my efforts into one place with my lens has really given me a sense of belonging to my new home by the sea.”
Simon has produced four montages: Art; Beach; Harbour and Fabulous Folkestone, that he hopes will give the viewer a sense of the place he now calls ‘home’.
Bio 2:
Photographer Sean O’Connor grew up in North London and has spent much of his life living and working in the capital, punctuated with periods abroad in Quito, Paris, and Berlin.
After completing degrees in foreign languages and Latin American studies between 2005-2010, Sean spent much of the next decade travelling extensively for work, visiting cities across Latin America, Africa, South-East Asia, the USA, Australia, and Europe. Since moving to Folkestone in early 2020, he has enjoyed the challenge of adapting his photography to new surroundings.
Favouring a candid shooting style, Sean works with both film and digital cameras to capture the everyday theatre and melodrama of city streets and other public spaces. His triennial exhibition includes images taken in London, Edinburgh, Quito, Copenhagen, Sydney, Canberra, Hamburg, Berlin, and Folkestone.
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Exhibition 2
Froude & Froude // Fine Art Ceramics – Made with Love in Interesting Times
20 Jul – 1 Aug
Open 10am to 4pm
Weds - Suns // (Closed Mon/Tues)
The 44-year creative collaboration between Laura’s painting and David’s ceramics started on the Farnham Fine Art degree. The current body of work is entitled “Made with love in interesting times", and has been curated for the subplot and celebrates the beauty and strength of women and the texture, light and drama of our extraordinary planet.
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Exhibition 3
Losing The Plot // Wordplay in Typography and Sound
Clare Hamilton, Jon O’Connor, and Anthony White
4 - 15 Aug
Open 10:00 to 16:00
Weds - Suns // (Closed Mon/Tues)
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Exhibition 4
Wood & Whitehead // In The Summertime
20 Aug - 12 Sept
Open 10:00 to 16:00
Weds - Suns // (Closed Mon/Tues)
Giles Whitehead
Lockdown and the lack of travel caused me to think back to holidays past and to remember my childhood summers spent at Lydd on Sea and Dungeness on the Kent coast. It was strange all the things that came back to me, the excitement of crunching along the tideline looking for washed up treasure and having those mini boxes of cereal for breakfast. The paintings and sculptures for this exhibition are a celebration of holidays past. Growing up in the seventies and eighties and what seemed normal at the time.
Amanda Wood
Memories from the yearly seaside holiday in Romney Marsh in the 60s. The artist’s parents returned each summer to Mr Jones’ farm and the field he rented out to a few holiday caravans. To Amanda, her big sister, and foster brother Oko, it was a great adventure – in reality they were only travelling 40 minutes away from home!
This exhibition of paintings and collage look back to childhood, summer, and the ghosts of family holidays.
