Margate Rocks 08 Commissions Programme

Five exciting and challenging new artworks have been commissioned for Margate Rocks 08. Each of these works complements the festival theme of art & ecology and references the physical or cultural landscape of Margate, as a backdrop or foreground.

The selected artists make up a diverse group of internationally emerging and established professionals, some of who live and work locally. Each of the selected artists is collaborating with Margate Rocks to create a new body of work.

Rosie Cooper
Sarah Craske & Stacy Keeler
Mark McGowan
Stephen Melton
Heather & Ivan Morison

_{Mark McGowan’s commission is supported by CRATE project and studio space, Margate.}

Through our commissioning programme, Margate Rocks aims to contribute to the development of artists’ practice and audience participation in Margate.

_{Image: Sarah Craske & Stacy Keeler, The Women’s Land Army, 2008. Photography © Jessica Baum}