Over the last six months Turner Contemporary has welcomed a number dancers, musicians and artists. Here are a few moments that I have particularly enjoyed… Working with Willi Dorner over the week leading up to the gallery opening was inspiring as well as nerve wracking. Willi had a calm and confident nature which he instilled [...] read more

Lucy Steggals - Last week Blank Canvas visited the Pushing Print exhibition at the Pie Factory in Margate Old Town. Afterwards we headed back to the gallery to play Blind collage and explore chance as a way to create artworks. We started to look at the Fluxus works of the 1960s and think more on [...] read more

In our second session a chap called Neil from Kent Connections came to talk to us about an IT competition. The group displayed their various offerings on the theme of “earth” which included poems, pictures and samples. Lucy handed out blue photographic paper for us to experiment with. Unfortunately, by 6pm the sun was slowly [...] read more

This weekend has been outstanding on two accounts: firstly, it was the hottest October on record that I can remember and secondly Turner Contemporary hosted 8 amazing bands selected by Stephen Bass, head of Moshi Moshi Records! The weekend began with local band Scream Don’t Whisper, Thanet’s alternative pop punk band, opening Late Night Live: Noise [...] read more

Everyone loves free stuff and students are proving that they love it most! Over the next two weeks we will be visiting Fresher’s Fairs in Kent and London to tell students all about our up and coming programme for Nothing in the World But Youth. Our totes designed by Intro UK proved to be really popular with [...] read more