Substation, 6 Bilton Square (behind Burtons) High Street, Margate

Opening Events 17th Nov 6-9pm Closing Events 30th Nov 6-9pm Open Daily Wed 21st - Sun 30th 10-4pm

Hugging for the English

Hugging for the English is a group exhibition located at the Substation in Margate.

The exhibition transcends the boundary between the viewer and the art work to the extent that without the viewer, much of the work would remain incomplete.

Many of the works and events have been inspired by various different influences from within the town itself. Whilst it is situated in present day Margate, the nostalgic past is not forgotten.

Events Listings

Souvenir Swap Shop is up and running! Visit www.14tontinestreet.com to download an information pack and donation form, listen in to BBC Radio Kent at 6.45am Saturday 27th October to hear more about it then drop by the B&B Project Space, 14 Tontine Street, Folkestone between 12-4pm Sunday 28th to meet with artist Victoria Foster and have a chat about your items for transformation.

List of Artworks

Sarah Christensen
Boycott Cable Ties, 2007

Boycott Cable Ties is a small-scale campaign. Please come and support it (limited merchandise is available).


Jodie Cooper
Untitled, 2007

Investigating notions of touch and bodily movement the work is simple and subtle alluding to the space between the body and the world. The movements of the body have an effect on the work and there is a bodily worldly exchange.


Dan Davies
Correspondence, 2007

Visitors are asked to write a message on a piece of paper and file it in an 'appropriate' pigeon-hole. The filing system however is non-sense. All messages are public.


Benjamin Fletcher
At your disposal, 2007

Benjamin Fletcher supplies a selection of cordial works which politely invite the audience to handle, affect, create, inhabit and explore if so desired.

Also, feel free to bring card, broken toys, bits, bobs and beats to partake in the fun bundle that is "make the robot, be the robot, do the robot" a workshop for the child in us


Victoria Foster
Souvenir Swap Shop, 2007

Victoria Foster is collaborating with Kent Coast Residents to translate personal, domestic experiences of the seaside towns through the creation of a series of alternative souvenirs. This is the beginning of an ongoing project. If you want to find out more information or you’re a local who wants to get involved in the Souvenir Swap-Shop visit www.hugging-for-the-english.blogspot.com


Lisa Hall
Soundscore, 2007

Soundscore presents itself as a collection of separate sounds. These components that together create Beethoven’s Sonata in C Minor, rely on the viewers realization for completion.


Siobhan McGhee
Untitled, 2007

My work is a combination of a slow, intense and painful process combined with a fun and childlike media. This method is saturated throughout all my personal practice resulting in a collection of work that appears very different but is in fact a variation on a theme. The aim of the work is to overwhelm the viewer, for then to recognise how things are made. The viewer will initially see the work as a fun and playful piece, however looking closer at it they will see the time and precision of the painful process that produced it.