Show image caption Anya Gallaccio Preserve (beauty), 1991 [detail] 800 gerbera ‘Beauty’ arranged in rows and pressed between sheets of glass. Installation view, Anya Gallaccio, Karsten Schubert, London, 1991. © Anya Gallaccio. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Karsten Schubert Ltd.

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Exhibition

Anya Gallaccio: preserve

Sunley Gallery & First Floor Galleries

Saturday 28 September 2024 – Sunday 26 January 2025

FREE

Turner Contemporary presents 'preserve', the largest survey exhibition to date of British artist Anya Gallaccio.

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Exhibition

Sculpture Playscape

Clore Learning Studio

Ongoing

FREE

Interactive artworks from Leap Then Look to encourage all ages to play, interact and explore.

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Outdoor Artwork

Yinka Ilori: Slices of Peace

Orchard Park, Kings Hill, ME19 4TD

From April 2024

Free

'Slices of Peace' is a public artwork by artist and designer Yinka Ilori MBE installed in Orchard Park – a new public park in Kings Hill, near West Malling in Kent.

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Outdoor Artwork

Antony Gormley: Another Time

Fulsam Rock

Ongoing

Free

Sited in Margate, beside Turner Contemporary, you can see one of a series of one hundred, solid cast-iron figures by Antony Gormley that explore the experience of being human.

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Markets & Fairs

Silver + Form Jewellery and Silverware Fair 2024

Foyle Rooms

Saturday 19 – Sunday 20 October 2024, 10.00am – 4.00pm

Free, drop in

Discover one-of-a-kind pieces of contemporary jewellery, silverware, objets d’art and sculptures.

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Festival

Margate Bookie 2024

Foyle Rooms

Saturday 5 - Sunday 6 October 2024

Prices vary

The Margate Bookie literary festival returns to Turner Contemporary for another year.

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Performance

Afro Blue - Listening In Colour

Foyle Rooms

Friday 25 October 2024, 6.00 - 9.30pm

£17.50

A joyful expression of the powerful, visionary and cathartic legacy of Black music accompanied by abstract visuals. An immersive experience presented by some of the UK's finest Jazz musicians featuring vocalists Sabina Desir and Randolph Matthews with arrangements by Jessica Lauren.

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Markets & Fairs

Brighter Days Markets - Autumn 2024

Foyle Rooms

Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 November 2024, 11.00am - 3.00pm

Free, drop-in

Brighter Days Market returns to the Foyle Rooms this Autumn. Discover delightful work from local artists and craftspeople.

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Workshop

Beginners Bookbinding Workshop

Foyle Rooms

Saturday 30 November 2024, 10.30am - 1.30pm

£60 includes tools and materials

Learn how to make handcrafted notebooks from the expert Aimee at Woodle Books. This workshop is for anyone with an interest in books and a love of stationery. Over 16 only.

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