Entry
Free
Dates
Fri 7 Feb-Sun 1 Jun 2025
Hours
Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm
and Bank Holidays
Location
Clore Learning Studio
Turner Contemporary
Come and meet this giant commission by Lily Mixe, alongside Young Creatives X RNLI.
Admission to Turner is free. A one-off or regular donation will help support artists to realise exciting new exhibitions and inspire over 300,000 children, young people and adults each year with free access to art and creative activities.
Using chalk collected from the beaches in Margate, Mixe has chosen to paint a life-sized Minke whale (Balaenoptera Acutorostrata), the most commonly seen whale around the UK coastline. Chalk is comprised from planktonic remains of micro-organisms: fossils believed to be 66 to 100 million years old. Using this material to draw such a giant creature is a way to show the connection between all living things.
About the artist
Lily Mixe is originally from Paris and has lived and worked in the UK for the past ten years. Her practice revolves around drawing and painting on a variety of surfaces including paper, canvas, found objects and walls. The focus of Mixe’s work is the natural world and in particular the ocean. Mixe presents subjects and specimens as otherworldly; aliens from our own planet and reminders of how beautiful and complex life on Earth can be.
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