A graduation show by visual communication design students at The Margate School of Art is now on display.
How Does It Feel? Opened on November 1 and runs until this Saturday (November 8)
The group exhibition features mixed-media works, life-size installations, and vibrant printmaking by Georgina Dooley, Ash, and Tamara (TATTY) Rattigan.
Expect seagulls, pop art, and glitter balls!
Georgina Dooley was born in Margate and raised by a single mother. Having faced struggles with physical and mental health, addiction, and chronic pain, creativity has been both her refuge and release.
She said: “Through my art, I hope to connect with others who have walked through struggle — to show that beauty can emerge from pain, and that creativity, in all its colour and imperfection, can be a form of healing.”
Ash is a Margate-based artist working in mixed media and oils, with a background in fine art. For this show, they’ve created a body of work centred on seagulls.
Ash said: “While these familiar birds often provoke irritation, disdain or laughter, in the works they represent misunderstood “monsters”, challenging assumptions about menace, value, and empathy.”
Tamara Rattigan (TATTY) is a multidisciplinary artist from Margate. Her practice is shaped by her Irish Pavee heritage and experiences of navigating barriers within the art world. Her style fuses pop art, graffiti, urban street aesthetics, and visual communication — resulting in work that is vibrant, immediate, and unapologetically bold.
She said: “I love printmaking, especially screen printing, where bold layers, textures, and imperfections give an image its raw energy. I’m passionate about Margate’s local history, particularly the rich heritage of Dreamland, which often features in my work.”
‘How Does it Feel?’ is sponsored by Guest House No. 42.
Applications are now open for 2026 courses at The Margate School of Art. The next one-year, part-time Visual Communication Course begins in January 2026.
For more information, visit www.themargateschool.com.
The Margate School of Art Gallery, 31–33 High Street, Margate, open 11am to 4pm each day.
If they were to hang any of the teachers or students there for being a good artist, they would be hanging an innocent individual. What is that behind the two ladies-Warhol’s Campbells Soup Can with Margate & Ramsgate written on it? 1962 he did that, wasn’t it?
At the risk of nit-picking … but anyway, if ‘they’ were to hang any of the teachers or students for being a bad artist, they’d be hanging an innocent individual too.
I like to give places like the Margate School the benefit of doubt, and think they do actually serve a purpose.
And then I see the “art” they produce.