Fish and Chips - and migration

 

My wife went to Margate last weekend and got me this postcard from Turner Contemporary, as she knew I'd been working on a resource based around Fish and Chips. She was there to see Nile Rodgers and Chic do a gig at Dreamland.

The postcard features an instantly recognisable drawing by the illustrator Olivier Kugler.

It shows the global spread of Fish and Chips.

It relates to a commission for some art to be placed in 2021.

The background:

The commission shares everyday stories of migration connected to Kent’s most celebrated high street food.

For the ‘Kent Fish & Chips’ Project Kugler and Humphreys have interviewed owners, staff and customers at Fish & Chips shops across Kent. Migration and displacement are central themes.

Fish & chips can be traced back to Huguenot and Jewish arrivals in the UK and people from all over the world continue to be central to the farming and fishing industries and the high street shops.


Featured Fish & Chip shop owners are:
Beach Buoys, Margate: Nadine and Simon Morriss
Best Fish & Chips, Tankerton, Whitstable: Elvan Bodur
Ossie’s Fish & Chips, Canterbury: Ramazan Altun
Reliance Fish Restaurant, Gravesend: Jack Kamenou
Walmer Fish & Chips: Giancarlo and Carolina


The artwork was exhibited on Turner Contemporary’s terrace (16th June- 26th September 2021) as the central part of the Kent Fish & Chips Project.

You can see the various artworks on this website here.

I've captured these while I can to think about doing something similar with my own school in the new academic year around our work on food, I can see this would have some cross-curricular interest.

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