James Edward Frost trading as Theatre of the Small
artist  theatre designer  puppeteer  lecturer  curator

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ART EXHIBITIONS

2023 'Hello Stranger: A National exhibition of performance design 2019-2023', group show by The Society of British Theatre Designers, Margate.

2022 'Autohoodening: The Rise of Captain Swing', props and costumes commissioned by Post Workers Theatre, Lulea Biennial 2022, Sweden

2021 'Turner Contemporary Open Exhibition', group show, Turner Contemporary, Margate

2020 'Hidden in Plain Site' photographic entries for 'A Different Lens' CGeomap, Margate NOW festival.

2019 'Wash 2: watercolour in contemporary art', Angela Flowers (Ireland) Inc., Rosscarbery, Co.Cork, Ireland.

2018 'Drawing Edges', group show, Sidney Cooper Studios, Canterbury

2017 'Wrap Up', group show, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury

2016 'On Paper', group show, Untitled BCN, Barcelona

2016  'Utopia', group show, Untitled BCN, Barcelona

2014  'Wash: watercolour in contemporary art', group show, Resort Gallery, Margate

2014  'The Space In-Between', group show, UntitledBCN, Barcelona

2013  'The Collected', group show, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury

2012  'Upon a Painted Ocean', Old Lookout Gallery, Broadstairs

2012  'Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan & Derelict', group show, Untitled BCN, Barcelona

2011  'SLATE Annual Exhibition', St Peter’s Church, Sandwich

2011  'South East Summer Exhibition', The Grand, Folkestone

2010  'SLATE Annual Exhibition', St Peter’s Church, Sandwich

2010  'We Are Very You' commissioned works, Gallery 21, Cork Street, London

2009  'CAOS Art Exhibition', St Peter’s Church, Sandwich

2008  Group Show, Gulbenkian Theatre Foyer, University of Kent, Canterbury

2007  'Unwrapped: CCCU Staff Exhibition', Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury

2007  'SLATE Annual Exhibition', St Peter’s Church, Sandwich

2006-2008  represented by The Art Gallery Upstairs, Deal

2006  'Oil & Charcoal' solo show, Neville Pundole Gallery, Canterbury

2006  'SLATE Annual Exhibition', St Peter’s Church, Sandwich

2006  'CAOS Art Exhibition', St Peter’s Church, Sandwich

2005  'Bodies of Work' solo show, Old Town Gallery, Margate

2005  'Not The Royal Academy 2005', Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London

2005  'SLATE Annual Exhibition', St Peter’s Church, Sandwich

2004  'Not The Royal Academy 2004', Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London

2004  'Sandwich Art Weekend Exhibition', St Peter’s Church, Sandwich

2003  'Garrick/Milne Prize 2003' works shortlisted, Christie’s, London

2001  'Pictures & Puppets' solo show, Melting Pot London Arts Ltd., London

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CURATING

2023-4 'The Hooden Horse: A Christmas Masquerade', The Seaside Museum, Herne Bay

2023 'Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse', Maidstone Museum

2018 supervision of student-curated exhibition 'Meanwhile...the ongoing present', Beach Creative, Herne Bay

2017 supervision of student-curated exhibition 'Meanwhile...an interim exhibition', Strange Cargo, Folkestone

2014  opening of 'Vardo Project Space', Augustine Arts Centre, Canterbury (moved to Coleridge garden, CCCU)

2014 design of 'UCAS Design your Future' trade stand for Canterbury Christ Church University 

2016 'Utopia' Untitled BCN, Barcelona

2014  'The Space In-Between' Untitled BCN, Barcelona

2014  'The Garden of England' student art installations at Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
2012  'Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan & Derelict', Untitled BCN, Barcelona
2012  'The Thinking Line: Defining Drawing', Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury

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FILM SCREENINGS

Tripple Trapple: A Danish Folk Tale (2020) - Creative Distance Festival 30/4/2020

Being Horse (2019) Whitstable Jack in the Green 1/5/2020, Walking's New Movements, University of Plymouth 1/11/2019, Folk East, Glemham Hall 17/8/19 

The Cabinet (2016) Untitled BCN, Barcelona 3/2016

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