Strange Sights & Sites of Dover
Foyle Rooms
Join artist and writer Simon Bill for a talk about little known places and strange sights within a 45-minute walk from Dover’s Market Square.
This entertaining and illustrated talk will focus on curious and little-known places within a 45-minute walk from Dover’s Market Square. Inspired by Simon Bill’s book DOVER, it sheds new light on this well-known but widely misunderstood little town on the south coast of England that many of us will have passed through without stopping. From subterranean forts to a trout stream that flows past Poundland, and far right visitors in Market Square, Simon Bill articulates a conviction that this small English coastal town distills the spirit of the whole country. Dover is England in microcosm.
Following a 45-minute talk, there will be time for comments and discussion.
This event is part of Dover Arts Development’s DOVER-Book & Tour funded by Arts Council England.
About Simon Bill
Simon Bill is an artist, writer and teacher, educated at Central St. Martins and the Royal College of Art. He has been represented by Cabinet Gallery (London), Stuart Shave/Modern Art (London) and Patrick Painter (Los Angeles). In 2014 his first major solo show, titled ‘Lucky Jim’, was at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. His novel ‘Artist in Residence’, a satire about the worlds of art and neuroscience, was published in 2016. He was appointed artist in residence at the Gulbenkian Science Institute, Lisbon, in 2017. Bill is a regular contributor to several publications, writing on art, art education and the neuropsychology of visual perception. In 2020 the rights for his novel were acquired by Corestar Media and a TV series is now in development. In 2022 Bill completed a series of five Op Art murals on Gt. Yarmouth seafront, commissioned by originalprojects, and in 2023 completed four more in Dover commissioned by Dover Arts Development (DAD). Bill’s DOVER was published by DAD in 2024.
