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Tracey Emin's love letter to her hometown lights up Droit House on the Harbour arm. I Never Stopped Loving You uses Emin's own handwriting moulded in pink neon to reflect her feelings across the main sands to Margate.

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Since April 2024
Public commission

'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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Since 2017
Outdoor commission

See one of a series of one hundred, solid cast-iron figures by Antony Gormley exploring the experience of being human.

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Sat 23 May–Sun 13 Sep 2026
Free entry, donations welcome

Turner Contemporary presents the first European institutional exhibition of the Dominican artist, Hulda Guzmán.

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Apr 2025–2027
Free entry, donations welcome

Join us to see JMW Turner’s oil sketch 'Waves Breaking on a Lee Shore at Margate (Study for ‘Rockets and Blue Lights’)' at Turner, part of a year-long festival celebrating 250 years since the artist's birth.

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Every Friday, 3.30–4.15pm
Free, booking advised

Experience 'Hulda Guzmán: Please awake – asked Nature kindly' through an interactive tour designed to encourage deep looking and drawing.

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Sundays from 27 Sep–15 Nov 2026, 10am–1pm
£275

An eight-week long-form improv course exploring scene work, collaboration, spontaneity, and performance with The Free Association and Chump’s Comedy.

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Sat 3 Oct 2026–Sun 24 Jan 2027
Free entry, donations welcome

Coming soon.

This autumn, Turner Contemporary presents 'Sophie Calle: Something Missing?', the artist’s first institutional exhibition in the UK in over fifteen years.

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10 Oct–11 Dec 2026, Various times
£100 full course / £30 individual session / £75 concession

A four-part exploration of intuition, ritual, writing and performance, culminating in a shared public presentation.

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A creative writing workshop exploring our relationship with the sea throughout the seasons

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A creative writing workshop exploring our relationship with the sea throughout the seasons

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