The 2024 festival - which will run from Friday 27th - Sunday 29th September - invites you to sample a host of unique artworks and performances to find and challenge your own artistic tastes!

Arts By the Sea combines large-scale spectaculars, diverse music, intriguing installations, dance, street theatre, participatory experiences and much more, and welcomes 100+ artists to the line up.

This year’s Artist in Residence will be Rebecca Strickson, a Margate-based illustrator and designer, whose bold work uses eye-catching colour and pattern combinations to create memorable pieces. Her work often features elements of LGBTQ+ advocacy, and her work for the festival is no exception. Set to explore the notion of TASTE, and what external influences inform audiences’ taste in art, visitors can expect to have their tastes both challenged and actually judged, as part of Strickson’s project.

Also announced is 2024’s Associate Artist, Jasmin Edwards, a Bournemouth-based circus performer and multi-hoop specialist, whose work seeks to create a positive impact not just on individuals but on entire communities as well. Her unique work for Arts by the Sea will include a satirical commentary on women’s roles in both life and art. Using her signature hooping skills, Jasmin’s piece will be both visually spectacular, while relaying a poignant message on the double standards imposed on women in performance.