Summer Exhibition Highlights in Margate
14 August 2024 • Lee Sharrock
An hour and a half on the train from London St. Pancras and you can reach the seaside town of Margate on the Kent coast
Tag: Turner Contemporary
Beyond Form — Lines of Abstraction: Turner Contemporary
7 February 2024 • Charlotte Rickards
In recent years, there’s been a proliferation of shows on women artists working in abstraction in the later half of… Read More
In The Offing, a group exhibition edited by Mark Leckey – utilising the concept of a magazine editorial.
7 October 2023 • Mark Westall
Edited by and featuring Mark Leckey with ANGUSRAZE, Lucy Duncombe, Theo Ellison, Ashley Holmes + Seekersinternational, Darren Horton Design, Mark Leckey, Lost… Read More
Matthew Slotover appointed new chair of Turner Contemporary
25 October 2022 • Mark Westall
The Trustees of Turner Contemporaryhave announced the appointment of Matthew Slotover as the new Chair of the gallery. He will take over from the current Chair, Clive Stevens on 1st January 2023.
The Top 5 Art exhibitions to see outside of London
8 March 2020 • Tabish Khan
Vacuum cleaners, gods, hallucinogens, art in the USA and lots of colour.
England’s Creative Coast is a pioneering partnership project featuring seven of the South East coast’s most celebrated galleries and arts organisations
11 July 2019 • Mark Westall
The cultural renaissance transforming the seaside towns of England’s South East — spearheaded by the region’s world-class galleries and arts organisations — is the inspiration for England’s Creative Coast, a series of art commissions and creative initiatives that will connect the coastline of Essex, Kent and East Sussex, bringing new visitors to the region.
Tracey Emin returns to Turner Contemporary
3 August 2017 • Mark Westall
Tracey Emin returns to Turner Contemporary with an exhibition pairing her iconic and installation My Bed with a collection of JMW Turner’s seascapes
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #71: Punk Potter
29 May 2015 • daniel barnes
Grayson Perry was the first transvestite potter to win the Turner Prize, and will probably hold that illustrious title for some time to come.
PREVIEW: Grayson Perry: Provincial Punk
2 March 2015 • Mark Westall
This summer Turner Contemporary presents Provincial Punk, a focussed survey exhibition rooted in the development of Grayson Perry’s practice in the early-1980s and the idea of ‘Provincial Punk’ as an anti-elitist and teasingly unfashionable spirit of creativity that has consistently driven his practice.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #49: Mesh, Colour, Marble and London: A Year in Art
23 December 2014 • daniel barnes
A Year of art in review
Review @TCMargate – Jeremy Deller & Edmund de Waal
12 November 2014 • Staff
What better reason do you need therefore to hop on a train out of London and head for the south coast…?!
I did just this and was duly greeted by magnificent stormy skies and the distinct sights and sounds of seething regeneration.
I’m glad I went. It felt like a true moment in time…
EVENTS: @TCMargate presents Krijn de Koning Dwelling (Margate / Folkestone)
20 August 2014 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary presents Dwelling (Margate / Folkestone), the first public commission in England by Dutch artist Krijn de Koning.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 60: ’No Pencils in Ramsgate’
18 June 2014 • Paul Carey-Kent
Most days art Critic Paul Carey-Kent spends hours on the train, traveling between his home in Southampton and his day job in Surrey. Could he, we asked, jot down whatever came into his head?
ART STUFF ON A TRAIN 9 – SAME WORK, DIFFERENT PLACE
1 July 2013 • Paul Carey-Kent
Most days art Critic Paul Carey-Kent spends hours on the train, traveling between his home in Southampton and his day job in Surrey. Could he, we asked, jot down whatever came into his head?
Turner Contemporary calls on visitors to help create spectacular new artwork
11 August 2012 • Mark Westall
This summer, Turner Contemporary is asking Kent-based artists, craftspeople and gallery visitors to help create an extraordinary newly commissioned artwork… Read More
Simon Schama to introduce the inaugural Turner Lecture and Dinner at Turner Contemporary, 2012
18 March 2012 • Mark Westall
Simon Schama to introduce the inaugural Turner Lecture and Dinner at Turner Contemporary, 2012.