{"id":295320,"date":"2026-02-21T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/295320\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:58:08","slug":"margate-artist-creates-exhibition-exploring-love-and-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/295320\/","title":{"rendered":"Margate artist creates exhibition exploring love and belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new exhibition exploring love, cultural memory and belonging has opened in Margate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artist Geoffrey Chambers is presenting Love Is the Answer at the Pie Factory gallery, bringing together paintings, sculpture, film and performance in a 10-day show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The works draw on themes of migration and identity, shaped partly by workshops he ran last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chambers, who was born in London of Caribbean heritage and now is based in the Kent seaside town, said: &#8220;Love is one of the most powerful tools we have for repair, for imagination, and for returning to ourselves.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new exhibition exploring love, cultural memory and belonging has opened in Margate. Artist Geoffrey Chambers is presenting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-295320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}