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Jon Hogbin

Jon Hogbin is a local artist who creates paintings, linocuts, and site-specific artworks - or “interventions” – informed by his experiences and memories of the coast. Based in Whitstable, his work explores the relationships between loss and remembrance, temporality and permanence, and aims to return forgotten memories to spaces where they once would have inhabited.

“Having since a child kept ephemeral objects that represent a certain memory, along with my keen interest in the taking of and looking at photographs, I have come to realise that the capturing, holding, and grounding of a memory is something that very important to me. This has informed my practice of searching out memories from the everyday lives of places - memories that have faded due to a modern evolution in our societies. It could be a language that has faded from use or skills from trades that have been mechanised. My practice is to make a subtle intervention within a space so that a faded memory reappears quietly once more in its past environment. The resulting artworks take the form of either paintings, linocut prints or photographs.”