James Edward Frost trading as Theatre of the Small
artist theatre designer puppeteer lecturer curator
Watch the exhibition events on the YouTube playlist
Listen to The Folklore Podcast Hoodening: a panel discussion from Maidstone Museum
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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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