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.
Continue Reading...YOU ARE BROWSING: Turner Contemporary
Patrick Heron in Margate
How to Enjoy Patrick Heron in Margate
Continue Reading...Tracey Emin returns to Turner Contemporary
Tracey Emin returns to Turner Contemporary with an exhibition pairing her iconic and installation My Bed with a collection of JMW Turner’s seascapes
Continue Reading...Tim Etchells the busiest artist around?
Blimey so many projects !
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #71: Punk Potter
Grayson Perry was the first transvestite potter to win the Turner Prize, and will probably hold that illustrious title for some time to come.
Continue Reading...PREVIEW: Grayson Perry: Provincial Punk
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.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #49: Mesh, Colour, Marble and London: A Year in Art
A Year of art in review
Continue Reading...Review @TCMargate – Jeremy Deller & Edmund de Waal
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…
Continue Reading...EVENTS: @TCMargate presents Krijn de Koning Dwelling (Margate / Folkestone)
Turner Contemporary presents Dwelling (Margate / Folkestone), the first public commission in England by Dutch artist Krijn de Koning.
Continue Reading...Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 60: ’No Pencils in Ramsgate’
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?
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