On Margate Sands |
On Margate Sands is engaging new audiences locally through participation in a national heritage and arts project, exploring material from the digitised Tate archives online, local archives and Turner Contemporary’s programmes. Members of our local community will explore Margate’s history and its connections to T.S Eliot using The Waste Land as a starting point (Eliot having stayed in Margate whilst writing the poem).
Through working with artists, participants will connect the past with the present, develop knowledge and research skills, form new networks, make creative responses to Margate and its heritage and forge deeper connections with the arts. |
Archives
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On Margate Sands is part of Archives and Access (2012-17) - an ambitious five-year programme to make the Tate Archive accessible to everyone. This includes digitising the collection and creating online resources for the Tate website, alongside learning initiatives both at Tate Britain and with national partners.
Through Archives and Access, Tate is working with five partners – in South Wales, Liverpool, Tyne and Wear, Margate and London – and involving many other UK organisations and networks to increase access, learning and participation with heritage at Tate, partner organisations across the UK and online. Using the new ‘Albums’ feature on the Tate website, you can group together, tag, annotate and share artworks and archive material and your own uploaded content. View other albums or create your own on the Tate website: www.tate.org.uk/art/albums Tate is also creating digital resources that offer different ways of engaging with and accessing materials from the Archive, including a series of 24 films, Animating The Archives. To search the online archives, view the films and find out more, visit: www.tate.org.uk/art/archive Archives and Access is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. You can find out more about the programme at: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/transforming-tate-britain-archives-access. |
Turner Contemporary |
Turner Contemporary is one of the UK’s leading art galleries.
Situated on Margate seafront, on the same site where Turner stayed when visiting the town, Turner Contemporary presents a rolling programme of temporary exhibitions, events and learning opportunities which make intriguing links between historic and contemporary art. The gallery offers a space for everyone to discover different ways of seeing, thinking and learning. The organisation was founded in 2001 to contextualise, celebrate, and build on the artist JMW Turner’s association with Margate, Kent. In 2011, Turner Contemporary gallery, designed by Sir David Chipperfield, opened, and has fast become a visitor attraction of national and international importance. Turner Contemporary is a catalyst for the regeneration of Margate and East Kent, already welcoming over 1.8 million visits. The vision of the organisation is Art Inspiring Change, using collaboration, learning, ambition and transformation to give everyone to access to world-class art. Admission to the gallery is free. Find out more at: www.turnercontemporary.org |
Tate |
With four UK art galleries – Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives – Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art. Find out more at: www.tate.org.uk
Tate holds the largest archive of Modern British art in the world, containing a wealth of material on artists, art world figures and art organisations in Britain from 1900 to the present day. To search the online archives, find out more about the full archive collection, and find out how to visit the Archive at Tate Britain, visit: www.tate.org.uk/art/archive |
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