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2021 marks 10 years since the opening of the gallery. Over the next year, we will be sharing stories and reflections from the last 10 years, but more importantly, we will be looking towards the future and planning for the next 10 years and beyond.

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To mark our 10th anniversary and ten years on from our first Open, this open submission exhibition will celebrate and showcase the wealth of artistic talent living, working and training in Kent.

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Sirens Sophie von Hellerman & Anne Ryan Install View, Image Courtesy Turner Contemporary. Credit Sheradon Dublin (1)

Sophie von Hellermann and Anne Ryan present Sirens, a new collaborative commission made for Turner Contemporary’s ground floor Sunley Gallery, which looks out over the North Sea. It will combine large-scale paintings by von Hellermann with Ryan’s three-dimensional painted ‘cutouts’.

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Isle of Sound is the first artwork created for the new Creative Isle Community Rail Partnership, a new initiative by Turner Contemporary in collaboration with Thanet District Council and support from Southeastern.

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Local school children commissioned renowned artist Conrad Shawcross to create this new major artwork for Ramsgate.

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Join us every first friday of the month for First Friday Margate - a free event showcasing the town’s creative community. Get involved in a range of workshops, poetry and much more!

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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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Live Events

Join us every first friday of the month for First Friday Margate - a free event showcasing the town’s creative community. Get involved in a range of workshops, poetry and much more!

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Digital Commissons

Part of a new series of digital artworks from Turner Contemporary, commissioned in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Still Suspended is an original 30-minute online film with immersive sound (best heard through stereo headphones) and experimental imagery.

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Part of a new series of digital artworks from Turner Contemporary, commissioned in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic. ‘The Sacred Ecologist’ includes a series of digital sculptures and an accompanying graphic novella.

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Part of a new series of digital artworks from Turner Contemporary, commissioned in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic. ‘Memory Palace Thanet’ is a video game which aims to connect communities through memory.

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Plan an exciting day of art and creativity, browse unique products in our shop or drop in for something to eat in our cafe.

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Turner Contemporary

What’s on

Marking our 10th Birthday

Exhibitions

The Turner Contemporary Open

Sirens: Sophie von Hellermann and Anne Ryan

'Isle of Sound' by Emily Peasgood

'Beacons' by Conrad Shawcross

First Friday Margate

Antony Gormley: Another Time

Live Events

First Friday Margate

Digital Commissons

Still Suspended by Hugh Malyon

The Sacred Ecologist by Christina Peake

'Memory Palace Thanet' by Anna Skutley and Umut Gunduz

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