The Way People Look

Over 350 DRAWINGS of daily Whitstable life have now been discovered!

A big thank-you to everyone who has been marking off their findings on the maps located at the Whitstable Improvement Trust & Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre.

I've recently been working along the sea wall & then further afield - Keep your eyes peeled!

www.drawingwhitstablebiennale.blogspot.com

A selection of Drawing Whitstable artworks, made during my winter 2010 residency at the Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre, are now available to purchase. Artworks are available as originals or prints, they are signed by the artist and produced on heavy weight paper using non-fading inks.

To view, please visit the Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre. In the foyer is a set of documentation accompanying my current biennale project, Drawing Whitstable Biennale. Alongside this is a black albumn holding images from my winter residency. These images are for sale, as are those on the walls. Prices are detailed and order forms available on site.

For further information, please contact me via this website, telephone  07974625586 or email info@nataliekay.co.uk.

Kent Stockists

FRANK

65 Harbour Street, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 1AG

www.frankworks.eu

Whitstable Framing Co.

5 Oxford Street, Whitstable, CT5 1DB, 01227 272 333

The Whitstable Biennale is opening this weekemd and I am one of the artists participating in the satellite programme.

Artwork will be exhibited on the walls of Whitstable streets and info. bases set up at the Whitstable Improvement Trust and the Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre. Please stop by!

I'll be running a Twirl Whirly Windmill making workshop at this year's Kingston MAY MERRIE. Please stop by and join in with the creativity, song, dance and gobbling of tasty treats!

3 May (Bank Holiday Monday), 12am - 5pm

Kingston Museum

Kingston upon Thames, KT1

Kingston Council

Snaps from 2009

Come and join in the Easter Eggstravaganza in Kingston this Saturday. I'll be running an egg design project and elsewhere there will be treasure hunts, music, food, games & giant rabbits...

April 3, 2010, 11am - 4pm

London Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT1

Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre, February 26 - March 19

Over the next three weeks I will be based in Whitstable, Kent as an artist in residence at the Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre. My initial plans are to be out and about as much as possible - observing, documenting and drawing. I hope to create a catalogue of daily life in a working seaside town outside of the summer season, with which permanent residents can engage and through which tourists and visitors alike can discover the heart of the community. As the project progresses, documentation and artworks will be displayed in the foyer and stairwell of the Horsebridge Arts Centre. Please check them out - you never know, you may catch a glimpse of yourself!

For further information and updates, please see www.whitstable2010.blogspot.com 

I will be facilitating a series of specially designed workshops at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston during

“LOUDER THAN BOMBS” Art, Action & Activism

9 February -27 March 2010

“Louder than Bombs” is a 7 week gallery-based project during which 7 artists will express their creative response around a chosen social, political or global issue.

Throughout Autumn 2009 I have been involved in Watch this Space 6, an Engage and MLA funded professional development programme for teachers and gallery educators.

The programme's objective was to enable us to gain first-hand experience of each other’s work in order to initiate, build and sustain relationships that will contribute to the creative development of young people. As part of this I negotiated a placement with Esher CofE High School as a representative of two stitched-based organisations, the Embroiderer’s Guild and the Royal School of Needlework (RSN). I was tasked as an enabler, with helping to forge relationships between the school and these local cultural institutions, whilst finding new, fun and interactive ways for the students to learn about contemporary embroidery which might fulfill curriculum requirements. This included a series of cross-curricular workshops and a visit to the RSN, the opportunity to examine contemporary textile work, participate in a practical activity and to meet practicing artists.

The students at Esher CofE High produced some amazing work and we all had a lot of fun!

http://www.locusarts.co.uk/past_exhibitions.htm