Animals & Us summer exhibition

As part of the Turner Contemporary Business Circle we are delighted to once again be sponsoring the Turner Contemporary summer exhibition.  This year’s exhibition Animals & Us explores artists’ reflections on the relationship between humans and other animals.   The exhibition is already providing a hit with visitors and truly offers something for everyone.

Artists featured

Artists include C George Bernard Shaw,  Charlotte Dumas, Tracey Emin, Lucian Freud, Pablo Picasso, Beatrix Potter, Stephanie Quayle, George Stubbs, Andy Warhol, and JMW Turner to name just a few.  The exhibition is free and is open until Sunday 30 September.

Full details of this exciting exhibition, including a list of all the artists featured, please visit the Turner Contemporary website.

Paula the polar bear

Adding an extra something to the activities at The Turner Contemporary is Paula the polar bear, a life sized puppet who will be roaming the streets and beaches of Margate for five weeks this summer starting from Thursday 26 July.

Paula the Polar Bear is surely set to create a stir this summer but she is also there to to remind us about climate change and how humans can co-exist with animals.

You can see Paula the Polar at Turner Contemporary at 11am, 11.30am, 12pm, 12.30pm, 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm and 4pm, on the following dates:

Business Circle

The Business Circle is now in its third year.  It provides opportunity to network and build closer relationships with other Kent businesses whilst benefiting from the marketing and promotion side of supporting Turner Contemporary’s summer season.

Current Business Circle members are:

Boys & Maughan Solicitors

del Renzio & del Renzio Chartered Architects

MillChris Developments Limited 

McCabe Ford Williams Chartered Accountants

Miles & Barr Estate Agents

The Canterbury Auction Galleries

If you are a Kent business and would like more information about joining the Business Circle, email Danielle Sharma, Development Manager at dsharma@turnercontemporary.org.

Photo:  Our photo features Herne Bay partner Michael Whittaker next to one of the chimps which make up the installation “The Narrow Abyss, 2018” by artist Stephanie Quayle.  Do visit the Animals & Us exhibition if you can at The Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate, CT9 1HG.