An oil sketch created by JMW Turner on Margate's seafront is about to go on display in the Kent town to mark 250 years since artist's birth. Waves Breaking on a Lee Shore at Margate will be on ...

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Some of Turner's most famous works were inspired by Thanet – the coastal area which comprises Margate and the neighbouring resorts of Broadstairs and Ramsgate – but only one of his paintings ...

The producer of Mr Turner, Mike Leigh’s new film, vividly recalls her initial recce of Margate; a place that the romantic artist Joseph Mallord William Turner returned to again and again ...

It cost £17.5m and took more than 20 years to create a contemporary art gallery celebrating the painter JMW Turner's links with Margate. Sceptics had to be talked round and the first design ...

Turner Contemporary’s latest exhibition is a stunning display of more than 100 works by the artist JMW Turner, including the fullest survey of the artist’s watercolours of Margate yet to be ...

Film scenes about JMW Turner's life in Margate, Kent, had to be shot in Cornwall due to new Turner Contemporary art gallery on sea front A film about the life of JMW Turner could not be shot on ...

who absolutely sees herself in the lineage of Margate, famous for Turner and now famous for Tracey, and in those sort of painting traditions.” Emin’s show, her first solo museum exhibition in ...

The projection will serve as both a "tribute to Turner and a testament to Margate's thriving contemporary art scene", according to the gallery. Turner Contemporary is launching a free JMW Turner ...