WINTER BREAK ME - OFF SEASON 2026
Winter Break Me - Off Season 2026
Cecilia Bonilla / Jemima Brown / Chiara Williams
‘Winter Break Me’ surrenders to the discomfort of the cold season, extending an invitation to pause.
Devised specifically for the Off-Season weekend, this exhibition of sculpture, film and performance unfolds within the domestic spaces of a high-end apartment, in a building that served as a hotel and tavern from 1754 until the mid-20th-century decline of the seaside tourist industry. The artists’ works gently engage with the apartment’s shifting light, its interiors and existing décor, while afternoon tea is served daily, 4–5pm, framed by one of the finest sunset views across Margate Sands.
Opening Times
Fri 23, Sat 24, Sun 25 January 2026
Open daily 12-5pm
Afternoon tea served daily 4-5pm
Artists in conversation Sunday 4-5pm
Location
Flat 4, Royal York Mansions
The Parade Margate CT9 2NT
Further info: www.chiarawilliams.com/winter-break-me.html
Access
Not wheelchair/pram accessible
The venue is on the second floor
Two flights of wide stairs with handrail
No shoes inside the venue, slippers provided
Suitable for all ages
Afternoon tea is drop in 4-5pm but not guaranteed.
About the artists
Cecilia Bonilla
ceciliabonilla.com / @ceciliabonilla_studio
With a multidisciplinary practice, Bonilla’s work spans across collage, photography, video, sculpture and installation. Throughout her work, themes of domesticity, the ideals of beauty, “lifestyle”, and other social constructs are questioned, corrupted, and undermined through minimal, yet skillful, assemblage and modification.
Cecilia Bonilla studied Fine Art in Florida leading to a MFA at Chelsea College of Art in London where she has lived and worked since 1999. Since 1995, she has exhibited internationally including: Annihilation, SNAP Art Centre, Shanghai, China; 2023,The Touch of Others, The Eye Sees Projects, Roussilion, France 2023; Echadoras de la buena fortuna, Campo Art Fest, Garzon, Uruguay, 2022, Contagio, Cecilia Brunson Project, London 2020, IT’S NOT FOREVER, Galeria del Paseo, Punta del Este, Uruguay; Salon Nacional de Artes Visuales, MNAV, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2016; Anthology, Charlie Smith, London, 2016; Nebulae , Galeria del Paseo, Punta del Este, Uruguay 2015; The way you see it, Grey House Foundation, Krakow, Poland, 2014; A tourist in other people's Reality, Vestry House Museum, London, 2013; We sell pornography here, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, 2013; Veladas, MNAV, Montevideo, 2013; Inerte, Subte, Montevide. Municipal, Montevideo, 2013; Se Alquila, EAC, Montevideo, 2013 ; Video Dumbo, Eyebeam, N.Y, 2013; She’s in the picture, CCF, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011 y Figures of Speech, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2010.
Jemima Brown
jemimabrown.com / @jemima_brown_artist
Jemima Brown graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 1995. Her work in sculpture, installation and drawing has been widely exhibited in the UK and internationally. Past awards include a Fulbright Scholarship as a guest of the Graduate Program at University of California Los Angeles, as well as the Cocheme Fellowship at University of the Arts, London.
She received the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award at Standpoint in London in 2011 and relocated to Thanet in 2014. Recent exhibitions include The Great Indoors at Sidney Cooper Gallery in Canterbury, UK (2019) and Peace Camp at West Berkshire Museum in Newbury, UK (2021/22).
Chiara Williams
chiarawilliams.com / @chiara_williams
(short bio here)
Cecilia Bonilla / Jemima Brown / Chiara Williams
‘Winter Break Me’ surrenders to the discomfort of the cold season, extending an invitation to pause.
Devised specifically for the Off-Season weekend, this exhibition of sculpture, film and performance unfolds within the domestic spaces of a high-end apartment, in a building that served as a hotel and tavern from 1754 until the mid-20th-century decline of the seaside tourist industry. The artists’ works gently engage with the apartment’s shifting light, its interiors and existing décor, while afternoon tea is served daily, 4–5pm, framed by one of the finest sunset views across Margate Sands.
Opening Times
Fri 23, Sat 24, Sun 25 January 2026
Open daily 12-5pm
Afternoon tea served daily 4-5pm
Artists in conversation Sunday 4-5pm
Location
Flat 4, Royal York Mansions
The Parade Margate CT9 2NT
Further info: www.chiarawilliams.com/winter-break-me.html
Access
Not wheelchair/pram accessible
The venue is on the second floor
Two flights of wide stairs with handrail
No shoes inside the venue, slippers provided
Suitable for all ages
Afternoon tea is drop in 4-5pm but not guaranteed.
About the artists
Cecilia Bonilla
ceciliabonilla.com / @ceciliabonilla_studio
With a multidisciplinary practice, Bonilla’s work spans across collage, photography, video, sculpture and installation. Throughout her work, themes of domesticity, the ideals of beauty, “lifestyle”, and other social constructs are questioned, corrupted, and undermined through minimal, yet skillful, assemblage and modification.
Cecilia Bonilla studied Fine Art in Florida leading to a MFA at Chelsea College of Art in London where she has lived and worked since 1999. Since 1995, she has exhibited internationally including: Annihilation, SNAP Art Centre, Shanghai, China; 2023,The Touch of Others, The Eye Sees Projects, Roussilion, France 2023; Echadoras de la buena fortuna, Campo Art Fest, Garzon, Uruguay, 2022, Contagio, Cecilia Brunson Project, London 2020, IT’S NOT FOREVER, Galeria del Paseo, Punta del Este, Uruguay; Salon Nacional de Artes Visuales, MNAV, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2016; Anthology, Charlie Smith, London, 2016; Nebulae , Galeria del Paseo, Punta del Este, Uruguay 2015; The way you see it, Grey House Foundation, Krakow, Poland, 2014; A tourist in other people's Reality, Vestry House Museum, London, 2013; We sell pornography here, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, 2013; Veladas, MNAV, Montevideo, 2013; Inerte, Subte, Montevide. Municipal, Montevideo, 2013; Se Alquila, EAC, Montevideo, 2013 ; Video Dumbo, Eyebeam, N.Y, 2013; She’s in the picture, CCF, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011 y Figures of Speech, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2010.
Jemima Brown
jemimabrown.com / @jemima_brown_artist
Jemima Brown graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 1995. Her work in sculpture, installation and drawing has been widely exhibited in the UK and internationally. Past awards include a Fulbright Scholarship as a guest of the Graduate Program at University of California Los Angeles, as well as the Cocheme Fellowship at University of the Arts, London.
She received the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award at Standpoint in London in 2011 and relocated to Thanet in 2014. Recent exhibitions include The Great Indoors at Sidney Cooper Gallery in Canterbury, UK (2019) and Peace Camp at West Berkshire Museum in Newbury, UK (2021/22).
Chiara Williams
chiarawilliams.com / @chiara_williams
(short bio here)
