Quench Fundraiser 2024

Aim

Welcome to the 2023 Quench crowdfunder! Yes we are back again!

More so than ever it feels so important to have artist run spaces. Spaces that celebrate freedom of expression and that are funded by a community, for a community. In 2024, Quench will stay being totally not-for profit. All the fundraising we do goes directly towards paying artists to make their work and we also take no commission for any work that exhibiting artists sell. The wonderful artists work that you can see also believe in the ethos of paying it forward and have donated these works to help the next years artist realise their shows!

Over the past 3 years we have been so lucky to watch Quench evolve and grow. As well as the incredible exhibitions we hosted by a flurry of talented artists (Finbar Ward, Ted Roger’s, Kialy Tihngang, Daniel Burley, Julie Verhoeven, Nour El-Saleh, Ann Churchill & J.M. Churchill, Annis Harrison, Kenji Lim, Sophie Spedding and Kasra Jalilipour) we also took on Gemma Pharo this year as our audience outreach and young people’s development manager! She has been so instrumental with the children’s summer school and performance nights such as the fantastic 50 Ways To Kill A Slug, curated by An(dre)a Spisto and with Joana Nastari, Nikki Sheth and James Jordan Johnson.

But of course, we couldn’t do this without you. We know that times are hard with the cost of living crisis, but literally anything that you can give helps. This year we are trying something a little bit different… instead of an auction (which can be really difficult on artists) this year’s fundraiser will be taking the form of individual raffles for incredible works. It's £10 per entry into the raffle. For every £20 spent in raffle tickets, you get three entries and a tote bag! £100 donation you'll get 15 entries which means 15 chances to win an artwork and our eternal gratitude!

At the close of the prize draw we will draw names and the first person drawn will get first choice on the artworks available, the second name will choose next from the remaining list and so on. 

We would like to work through this quickly and systematically so please make yourself available online on 30th Deember at midday and fingers crossed you'll win a beautiful piece of art from one of the artists below!

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Artists that kindly donated works and the works below:

Forbidden Caterpillar (Crawl)  - Kenji Lim

19x9x14cm

Kenji Lim is a British artist who lives and works in Essex. He works across media with a focus on sculptural installation where he creates imagined and distorted landscapes and objects inspired by the natural world. Both melancholic and tongue in cheek, Kenji’s work combines elements of culture, myth, philosophy, and the metaphysical.

Kissy Kiss    

Sophie Spredding 153 x 153 cm

Sophie Spedding is a British painter who lives and works in London. Their large scale paintings often envelope the viewer in a dazzling crescendo of saturated colours and fantastical bodily landscapes. The imagery follows their fascination with internal space, such as cave exploration or fantasies about being swallowed, and comes out in highly original kaleidoscopic painting practice. 

Untitled Circle 2020

Ann Churchill (double sided, front and back)

Circle Tote Bag

Ann Churchill (front and back)

Ann Churchill is a British artist born in Oxford in 1944 who over a numerous decades has been dilligently developing a unique practice of drawing and painting, highly influenced by research into the unconscious. A self taught artist, her practice is a form of meditation that has gone alongside various journeys and discoveries into spirituality and has led to a highly personal language of visual abstraction.

Gobble 

Lindsey Mendick 11cm x 14cm

Gulp 

Lindsey Mendick 11cm x 14cm

Munch

Lindsey Mendick 11cm x 14cm

Slurp

Lindsey Mendick 11cm x 14cm

Nibble 

Lindsey Mendick 11cm x 14cm

Lindsey Mendick is a Margate based artist who works with clay, a medium that is often associated with decoration and the domestic, subverting these historic connotations to create skilled monuments to 'low culture' and the contemporary female experience

Burning Jocks and Gloves    

Ted Rogers 88 x 40 cm

Ted Rogers is a British multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Margate. They originally studied dance and has now developed a practice involving drawing, film, photography and performance. Their practice explore the extremities of movement through a neurodivergent and non-binary lens. Ted’s practice often explores playful attitudes to consumerism and to elements of identities within queer culture.

Finbar Ward is a British artist who lives and works in Wiltshire. His practice is a delicate blend of painterly abstraction, land art, conceptualism and sculptural materiality. Partially influenced by his dual role as a gardener as well as an artist, Ward’s practice explores the relationship between internal space and objects and how they connect to the landscape. It also follows deeply personal narrative threads of figures from history as well as the people in his life he cares most about.

Don't Worry 

Guy Oliver 

Guy Oliver is a British artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Margate. His often very personal practice explores his particular obsessions with popular culture as way of defining a wider sense of identity. Often blending the tragic and the comic he uses himself and his life as a recurring subject as a way of exploring ideas around masculinity, politics and absurdity.

Velma

Kialy Tihngang

Kialy Tihngang is a British-born Cameroonian artist who lives and works in Glasgow. Kialy who studied textile design has developed a remarkable practice that combines sculpture and video to create witty and complex installations. Influenced by fashion, music videos, shopping channels, historic artefacts, she interrogates personal themes of Blackness and queerness through her practice, which is concerned with designing artefacts from reimagined histories and speculated futures.

Firepot

James Metsoja 24cm x 32cm

James Metsoja is a British painter who live and works in Norwich. His paintings are deeply connected to the act of looking and how paint, objects, space, sight, time all converse in unison. His paintings, that often made with physical interruptions (cuts into canvas with cloths stuffed inside, paintings re stretched onto too large stretchers) that binds them to his ongoing obsessions with the history still life painting and the symbolism that objects imbue. James is a quintessential painters painter.

Air Force 

Annis Harrison 35x28 cm

Annis Harrison is a Swedish and Jamaican artist who lives and works in London. Her work explores aspects of her cultural identity, often using dark and playful humour but exuberant elements of celebration too. She uses visual satire to express a critical concern about race, with regards to power and its abuse. Taking inspiration from music, writers, political activists and the visual arts, at the heart of her work is a questioning of the understanding of race in Britain.

Sassy Splashback

Julie Verhoeven

Julie Verhoeven is a British illustrator, designer and artist who lives and works in London. Julie is a respected cult figure in both the fashion and the art worlds, she uses influences of punk and maximalist asthetics she works across many media including video, sculpture, drawing and performance. Often hilariously funny, Julie’s practice that is very closely linked to her own life can be full of pathos, wit, insight and madness. A true original.  

This project successfully funded on 30th December 2023