Gesso Art
Visit12 Fort Road, Margate
OpenTue–Sun · 10–18

Journal

Notes from the gallery

Studio visits, essays and the occasional behind-the-scenes, written by the team and the people we work with.

Hands scooping red estuary clay with a trowel into a cloth bag at the water's edge

A year of walking

The curator follows Ines Okafor’s trowel from Gravesend to Lagos, and back.

Two visitors, one seated on a low bench, looking at a large estuary photograph hung low on a white wall

Why we hang photographs low

A note on the most common question about What the Tide Leaves.

Tomasz Weir working on a plaster figure in his dusty boatyard studio full of casts

Inside the studio: Tomasz Weir

An afternoon in a harbour-arm boatyard, with plaster dust on everything.

A studio table seen from above with coffee cups, pigment jars, yarn, a drawing and small photographs

One year of Gesso Art

Six artists, six exhibitions and a lot of coffee. A look back at our first year.

A Japanese woodblock print of Mount Fuji above water and clouds
A Japanese woodblock print of Mount Fuji above a blue bay with sailing boats and pine trees
An ukiyo-e woodblock portrait of a woman in a patterned kimono
An ukiyo-e woodblock portrait of a woman in a black and red kimono with swirling water patterns
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GESSO ART · GALLERY · EST. 2026 ·

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