Dandy

The Land That Raised Me

In this experimental series, Dandy traces tender lines between ecological ancestry, placemaking and identity. They explore what it means to know themself as their homeland—the soil, the forest, the bog, the river, the pond, the hedgerow, the garden, the moor. These places are excavated, cherished, and transformed through deep sensual memory, ecology and material experimentation in film, fossil, seed, textile, and ceramics. The Land That Raised Me invites us to reclaim wild and decapitalized identities: alchemical, co-creative, responsive, expansive and liminal.

• 1-30 December 2025
• The Shop Front, 161 Northdown Road, Margate, Kent CT9 2PA

Dandy is an experimental artist and anthropologist based in Margate, Kent. Their work converses with the politics and poetics of nature, sensuality, and queer ecologies. Through storytelling, folklore, and archival research, they explore not only the world as it is seen, but as it is felt—fluid, hybrid, and sensual. Rooted in visual anthropology and creative conservation, Dandy’s practice blurs boundaries between human and non-human, art and science, the sensual and sensical. Their work invites us to reimagine the world as a living palimpsest shaped by feeling, time, imagination, and messy entanglement.