536 Art Collection
Victoria Kiff The Landscape is Kissing You, 2024.
Victoria Kiff In Search of a Geode (detail), 2024.
Amy Austin Chameleon Skin, 2024.
Alice Walter Salad Days Become Fruit Days, 2023.
Joseph Dilnot Soldier and Poet, 2023.
Geraldine Swayne Big Lips No.2, 2024.
Emily Allchurch Closer to Home, 2021.
Philip Sanderson Half Nelson, 2022.
Zoe Childerley The Watchmen (detail), 2024.
Gary Willis Dark (Street) Light, 2024.
Patrick Adam Jones The Woods, 2024.
Sam Marc McGoun Flowers, 2024.
Joseph Emilien China Blue, 2018.
Matthew Plummer Apple Trees, 2014.
Marina Kim Claire III, 2023.
Derek Brown Paparazzi, 1989.
Eric Ravilious Fire Engineer from High Street, 1938.
About the collection
536 or, in full, The Admiralty Chart 536 Art Collection, is a collection of contemporary art comprising works created by artists residing in, or responding to, the geographical area covered by the Admiralty nautical navigation chart number 536. The chart documents the Strait of Dover and the portion of the English coastline that tracks east from Beachy Head to Dungeness.
The verdant Beachy Head is, ironically, infamous as the most popular suicide spot in Britain (by number of jumpers from the cliff-top annually). Dungeness beach is known for both the imposing (and distinctly Ballardian) now-defueling Dungeness A & B nuclear power-stations, and the late Derek Jarman's desolate fisherman's lodge Prospect Cottage. The stretch of coast mapped also includes Fairlight Cove, the military site Camp Lydd, and Pevensey Bay.
Artists represented in the collection include: Kristina Alexander, Emily Allchurch, Amy Austin, Jennifer Barton-Grimley, Derek Brown, John Brunsdon, Ruth Bullock, Zoe Childerley, Rona Cruisey, John Dilnot, Joseph Dilnot, Ella Drauglis, Joseph Emilien, Frank Francis, Tirzah Garwood, Fay Godwin, Mark Godwin, Richard Heslop, John Holdcroft, Terry Hulf, Patrick Adam Jones, Victoria Kiff, Marina Kim, Amanda Knight, Julia García López, Johanna Love, Anne Lydiat, Sam Marc McGoun, Sexton Ming, Tim Nathan, Matthew Plummer, Alan Rankle, Eric Ravilious, Margaret Roberts, Robert Sample, Philip Sanderson, Maxine Simmonds, Luke Sothcott, John Stezaker, Julian Sutherland-Beatson, Richard Swann, Geraldine Swayne, Markus Thonett, Dawn Timmins, Emma Turpin, Viv Walkington, Alice Walter, Louise Whitham, and Gary Willis.
Dr Henry Bond
I am a now-retired Sussex-based former photographer and non-fiction author. You can see my photos that are in the Tate Gallery collection if you look here. And you can look here to read more about my doctoral thesis as was published by MIT. You can hover over the image here for hi-res of the 536 chart. To get in touch with the 536 Art Collection please use this email.