Wednesday

TANK Expansion


With Spring here, and the days getting longer and sunnier, we at TANK are primed to embark on the expansion of our gallery Space. Next to the existing gallery is a large and beautiful brick walled garage filled to the gunnels with junk, tat and (certainly from my point of view) the materials for some rather lovely sculpture.

The plan so far is to strip out and bin the crap, rescue some of the tat (I have my eye on a very old and stunningly beautiful type writer) and build some sculpture. I’m getting ahead of myself really. We have our work cut out. Walls need to be scrubbed, floors washed, and partition walls built. This done we hope to have a great space, and here’s the genius twist, that we won’t be turning into actual gallery space.


What we hope to achieve is a place where people can come to talk, have a latte, bring friends and get really involved in the ethos and philosophy of TANK. We want people to come up with mad ideas and great concepts Add Imagefor shows which we can help bring to life.

The new space will become a place where people can come to sell their work, buy the work of our represented artist and become involved in a Patronage scheme which Aoife and I believe will change the way people purchase work and support the artists represented at TANK. We believe that by building a network of artists and collectors we can really make an impact for artists in the South East and hope that you will want to be a part of this process. So, if you fancy lending a hand painting a wall, or even putting one up, get in touch (there might even be a cold beer in it for you).

There will be more information about our expansion on the website soon and we will be looking for illustrators and artists to produce prints for sale in the near future so watch this spot and I’ll keep you up to date.

Hope you’re all well.

George,xx

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