Things That Are There is the eponymously titled first exhibition from the collective Things That Are There (now Ground Collective), Tom Banks, Sam Hodge, Mike Sims, Mark Sowden, Ana Vicente and Matthew Swift. The exhibition pays attention to details and views that normally go unnoticed. There is an almost anthropological element to the findings each artist makes. In this sense landscapes concern these artists, not as verdant representations of grand vistas but as sites of investigation that allow particular encounters to occur. Things That Are There creates a meeting place where each artist, mapping particular geographies, brings their divergent findings and places them alongside each other for further examination and consideration. The Margate Pie Factory’s weathered walls and floors formed a sympathetic backdrop creating an ideal sense of place for further discourses between works to occur.

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