Little Blue Hut
Little Blue Hut Artist Residencies
Little Blue Hut sits on Tankerton Slopes, offering inspiring sea views and tranquil creative thinking space to our resident artists.
A series of beach hut residencies started in April 2009 and will see artists and creative practitioners from all areas of practise using the hut as a creative space to develop their work.
Rob Turner
Little Blue Hut residency
Wednesday 14 October to Wednesday 25 November 2009
"I'm a local artist with a long track record of working with many different communities in many different environments. I've never worked in a beach hut, though, and the idea really inspires me.
What I'd love to do is use the hut residency to take digital images of the wind farm on a regular basis form the same viewpoint. Different times of day mean light conditions vary dramatically in conjunction with types of weather to produce a very varied series of images, with a constant core"
Rob will be telling us more about his experience in the Little Blue Hut blogs.
Check back soon!
Find out more about Rob's work by visiting his website
The Canterbury Laureate Squad:
Andrew McGuinness, Danny Rhodes, Gary Studley and Vicky Wilson
Little Blue Hut residents from 21 August to 7 October 2009
Literature is being brought into the limelight through the Canterbury Laureate scheme. Pioneering poet and performer Patience Agbabi is the new Canterbury Laureate, working with the Laureate Squad of four acclaimed writers based in the Canterbury district, to produce the 'Laureate Line-Up' of exciting events and activities throughout the year, that will get the Canterbury district into writing!
The Laureate Squad are: novelists Danny Rhodes, author of Asboville and Soldier Boy (both Maia Press) and Andrew McGuinness, author of The Portrait of the Arsonist as a Young Man (Bluechrome), together with Vicky Wilson, who was named Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year in 2007, and Gary Studley, who has contributed to numerous publications including The Stubborn Mule Orchestra. As well as their own work they have all been active in encouraging new writing amongst the community. Find out more about the Canterbury Laureate Squad visit www.write-here.net
Little Blue Hut is a fantastic first stop on the journey!
Read the Laureate Squad's Little Blue Blog
Nina Atkinson, Artistic Director, Loop Dance Company
Little Blue Hut Resident Artist from 29 July to 19 August 2009
After completing 3 years training at the Laban Centre, Nina went on to form Loop Dance Company. As Artistic Director of Loop, Nina has worked with many well know choreographers including Filip Van Huffel, Jonzi D and Yael Flexer. She has created many works for Loop including site specific and has led and overseen many community, youth and educational dance projects.
Alongside Nina's work with Loop she has also worked as a freelance choreographer, teacher, and dancer. She has taught many dancers at a variety of levels and ages, was artistic director of Medway Youth Dance Theatre from 1993-2002.
In 2004 Nina returned from a two-year sabbatical in New York studying Limón technique at the Limón Dance Foundation. In addition, Nina taught at Peridance Center, participated in open classes and studied Low Flying Trapeze with Fly-By-Night Dance Theatre.
Liz Knowles 
Little Blue Hut Resident Artist from 26 May to 1 July 2009
Our second Little Blue Hut resident is Liz Knowles, a creative practitioner based in Whitstable. Liz is currently experimenting through a wide range of creative outlets.
"My work tends to orbit a variety of themes. Elements of interest that have cropped up in the past include structure, sound, landscape, energy, meandering, wondering, time, glimpsing, grasping, pondering, stillness, texture to name but a few. You may find me in the midst of re-examining one of these subjects, or having been knocked sideways and into another realm of inspiration entirely by a Little Blue Hut visitor. I hope this residency will end up being a rich mixture of both."
Bryony Harrison
Little Blue Hut Resident Artist from 1 April to 13 May 2009
Bryony Harrison is a visual artist, she works with wire and plaster sculpture, mono printing and sketching to produce contemporary art.
"I find the materials I work with are inspiring and fill me with ideas which simply flow, one from the other and space to work on each of these ideas would help me see many concepts through to fruition. I will be exploring the concept of evolution as a way of belonging in the world, evolution as an alternative to creationism. It is important to me to be close to nature and to be able to go out sketching or collecting items that could potentially become a part of my work. When sculpting I find that natural forms are inspiring and on days when I find it hard to get started, a wander outside usually results in some new ideas."
Read Bryony's Little Blue Blog
