Artists

Robert Marlow

Robert Marlow grew up in Basildon with future Depeche Mode members Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, and Andy Fletcher.

Andy Freeman

Andy Freeman has produced digital and visual artworks and interventions since the late 1990s.

Idit Nathan & Helen Stratford

A project by Idit Nathan & Helen StratfordHave you ever hummed a Lulu lullaby? When was the last time you walked backwards in silence, towards land? Play Southend Now or Never!

James Jordan Johnson

James Jordan Johnson is an artist working in performance and sculpture. He grounds his work and research in performative and material histories, myth-making, and cultural collective memory.

Samuel Restorick

Samuel is a freelance brand identity designer by trade.

Dan Thompson

Dan Thompson is an award-wining social artist, writer, and speaker living in Margate. His work is about people and places.

Anne Lydiat

For the past fourteen years Anne Lydiat has been living, and working as an artist, onboard a vessel moored on the River Thames at Hermitage Moorings downstream from Tower Bridge, London, UK.

Jasleen Kaur

Jasleen Kaur’s art is an ongoing exploration into the malleability of culture and the layering of social histories within the material and immaterial things that surround us.

Chloe Aridjis

Chloe Aridjis is a Mexican writer based in London. She is a member of XR Writers Rebel, a group of writers who focus on addressing the climate emergency.

Graham Scott

Graham Scott works for the archaeological charity Wessex Archaeology, specialising in the study of ship and aircraft wrecks around the UK coast.

Michael Bates aka Michael of Sealand

Michael Sealand will be talking about his book 'Holding the Fort' which describes the early days of pirate radio 'Radio Essex' on the Knock John forts which are at the outer reaches of the Thames…

David Blandy

David's work explores global structures of control and networks of resistance across ecology, history, science and cultures of play.

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