LOVE IS THE ANSWER Solo Exhibition by Geoffrey Chambers
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LOVE IS THE ANSWER
Solo Exhibition by Geoffrey Chambers
20 February - 2 March 2026
Pie Factory, 5 Broad Street, Margate CT9 1EW
Private View: Friday 20th February 5.30pm - 9pm
Artist Talk: Saturday 21 February, 3pm
Margate-based artist Geoffrey Chambers presents Love is the answer, a solo exhibition exploring love and lore through paintings, sculpture, performance, and film. The work creates evocative sites of communion where migration, labour, and cultural memory intertwine, inviting viewers into tender, transformative spaces of belonging and shared storytelling.
Rooted in Chambers’ Clay Chorus workshops of Summer 2025—where participants explored communal mark-making, movement, and voice—the works emerge from shared acts of reflection, healing, and imagination. In Love Is the Answer, these collaborative gestures evolve into intimate and speculative worlds where ancestral stories, mythmaking, and lived experience intertwine.
Chambers’ practice spans expanded performance, mark-making, and moving image. His work draws deeply on Afro-surreal traditions, examining cultural belonging, identity, and the rituals we create to make sense of who we are. Through tactile materials, sound, and embodied gesture, the exhibition invites audiences into layered spaces of connection — at once tender, expansive, and quietly radical.
“The lore and the myths that you carry with you, that you have built within you from being a child are often the places where you are strongest and most able to confront the things that are happening in your world. This exhibition grows out of moments shared — stories exchanged, hands in clay, breath and rhythm moving together,”says Chambers. “Love is one of the most powerful tools we have for repair, for imagination, and for returning to ourselves. These works honour the communities, cultures, and histories that have shaped my journey.”
About the Artist
Born in London of Caribbean heritage and now based in Margate, Geoffrey Chambers is an expanded arts practitioner whose work spans performance, film, painting, and installation. His practice is informed by Afro-surreal cultural texts and explores belonging, migration, and reparative storytelling.
Winner of the Brixton Open (2002), Chambers spent years working in Brazil, co-founding the reggae collective Dread in Brasil and performing in the Salvador Carnival with his own trio elétrico—a first for a British-born artist. His short film Prove It screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and he later served as writer and consultant on the BBC documentary Black Is the New Black (2016). He holds an MA in Race, Media and Social Justice from Goldsmiths (2019) and is an artist in residence and trustee at People Dem Collective in Margate.
Exhibition Details
Title: Love Is the Answer
Artist: Geoffrey Chambers
Venue: Pie Factory, 5 Broad Street, Margate CT9 1EW
Dates: 20 February - 2 March 2026
Private View: Friday 20th February 5.30pm - 9pm
Artist Talk: Saturday 21 February, 3pm
Website: www.geoffreychambers.com
Instagram: @geoffreychambersartist
