Geoffrey Chambers, LOVE IS THE ANSWER

Margate-based artist Geoffrey Chambers presents Love Is the Answer, a new solo exhibition exploring the
transformative force of love, lore, and collective creation. Bringing together painting, sculpture,
performance, and film, the exhibition creates evocative spaces shaped by memory, migration, labour, and
Caribbean-British cultural storytelling.

Rooted in Chambers’ Clay Chorus workshops of Summer 2025—where participants explored communal
mark-making, movement, and voice—the works emerge from shared acts of reflection, healing, and
imagination. In Love Is the Answer, these collaborative gestures evolve into intimate sites of communion
and speculative worlds where ancestral stories, myth making, and lived experience intertwine.

Chambers’ practice spans expanded performance, mark-making, and moving image. His work draws deeply
on Afro-surreal traditions, examining cultural belonging, identity, and the rituals we create to make sense of
who we are. Through tactile materials, sound, and embodied gesture, the exhibition invites audiences into
layered spaces of connection — at once tender, expansive, and quietly radical.

“The lore that you carry with you, that you have built within you from being a child are often the places
where you are strongest and most able to confront the things that are happening in your world. This
exhibition grows out of moments shared — stories exchanged, hands in clay, breath and rhythm moving
together,” says Chambers. “Love is one of the most powerful tools we have for repair, for imagination, and
for returning to ourselves. These works honour the communities, cultures, and histories that have shaped
my journey.”

About the Artist
Born in London of Caribbean heritage and now based in Margate, Geoffrey Chambers is an expanded arts
practitioner whose work spans performance, film, painting, and installation. His practice is informed by
Afro-surreal cultural texts and explores belonging, migration, and reparative storytelling.

Winner of the Brixton Open (2002), Chambers spent years working in Brazil, co-founding the reggae
collective Dread in Brasil and performing in the Salvador Carnival with his own trio elétrico—a first for a
British-born artist. His short film Prove It screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and he later served as
writer and consultant on the BBC documentary Black Is the New Black (2016). He holds an MA in Race,
Media and Social Justice from Goldsmiths and is an artist in residence and trustee at People Dem Collective
in Margate. Chambers was awarded Arts Council DYCP funding in 2023.

Website: geoffreychambers.com
Instagram: @geoffreychambersartist