Vincent Hawkins
’A Line of Ashes’

Preview 7 February 6-8pm
8 February – 29 March 2026
TKE Studios, Margate

Open Saturdays and Sundays, 12–5pm

TKE Studios is pleased to present an exhibition of new and recent works by Vincent Hawkins.

Hawkins’ paintings and prints are built through accumulation, abrasion, and revision. Surfaces are worked, scraped back, and reworked, carrying the trace of decisions made and undone. Lines appear, disappear, and reassert themselves, creating a quiet tension between structure and instability.

The work is not concerned with collapse as an endpoint, but with what follows it. These surfaces suggest a state after breakdown, where forms reassemble, adapt, and open onto new possibilities. What emerges feels provisional rather than resolved, shaped by pressure, repetition, and necessity rather than certainty.

There is a strong sense of containment throughout the work, a continual negotiation between control and release. Nothing is fixed. Each painting feels as though it has arrived at its current state through persistence rather than intention.

Hawkins has lived and worked in Margate for the past two years, and this exhibition marks an important presentation of his practice within the town. Bringing together painting and printmaking, the works continue his long-standing engagement with material processes, repetition, and the slow logic of making.

TKE Studios presents This Is Love, a group exhibition bringing together a diverse selection of artists working across painting and ceramic. Installed in the lower gallery, the exhibition offers a constellation of approaches to intimacy, attention, memory and material exploration.

Rather than proposing a single definition, This Is Love considers love as a broad and open field: love of process, love of image-making, love of objects, and the quieter forms of care and observation that underpin sustained artistic work. The works in the exhibition range from the personal to the playful, from reflective to tactile, creating a space where different sensibilities and voices can sit alongside one another.

The exhibition features work by Olya Avstreyh, Brogan Bertie, Olivia Guillot, Esme Keenleyside, Keziah, Joline Kwakkenbos, Studio Lenca, Mercedes Lucy, Kirubel Mandefro, Gabriela Max, Ted Rogers, IyunOla Sanyaolu and Elizaveta Zalieva.

Preview: Saturday 7 February, 6–8pm
Exhibition dates: 8 February – 29 March
Location: Lower Gallery, TKE Studios