Who is the architect of the new Turner Margate Gallery?
"from the gallery is similar to that seen by Turner from his lodging house. The site initially proposed formed part of the harbour itself, but some critics questioned the prudence of placing part of Britain's national art treasures in a spot that was exposed to the full fury of the North Sea. To reduce the cost, Thanet District Council chose a new site inland from the harbour wall. The scheme was supported by the artist Tracey Emin, who was brought up in Margate. The building itself was designed by David Chipperfield Architects after the abandonment of the design by Snøhetta"
"Turner Contemporary Turner Contemporary is an art gallery in Margate, Kent, England, intended as a contemporary arts space and catalyst for the regeneration of the town. The title commemorates the association of the town with noted landscape painter J. M. W. Turner, who went to school there, and visited throughout his life. The original designs by Norwegian architects Snøhetta would have made the gallery part of the harbour itself. Some critics, however, questioned the prudence of placing part of Britain's national art treasures in a spot that is exposed to the full fury of the North Sea. The costs of"
"the gallery underpins the erosion of the town's local peculiarity leading to concerns that ""the features of the ‘traditional’ seaside were threatened by regeneration, and that the town may become a highly gentrified locale like, for example, parts of Brighton or Whitstable."" Turner Contemporary Turner Contemporary is an art gallery in Margate, Kent, England, intended as a contemporary arts space and catalyst for the regeneration of the town. The title commemorates the association of the town with noted landscape painter J. M. W. Turner, who went to school there, and visited throughout his life. The original designs by Norwegian architects"
"+ Spence architects. Building work started in 2008 but the project's initiator, John Crofts, died in 2009. The Turner Contemporary Gallery officially opened on 16 April 2011. It is hoped the gallery will help regenerate the town in the same way St Ives has benefited from the introduction of the Tate Gallery. Across the road from the gallery in Margate Old Town there is a community of independent shops. Accessed from the seafront via Market Street, Duke Street and King Street this area is clustered around the Old Town Hall and Market Place. There is also a small museum in"
"the Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK built on the site of Turner’s Margate residence, Harvey created a ¾ scale plywood copy of the London gallery that Turner built to promote his work replacing the paintings that were in it at his death with rear-illuminated mirrors hand-engraved in the style of 18th Century engravings to create a 360 degree panorama of contemporary Margate. The exterior of the gallery featured an amusement arcade sign reading “ARCADIA” and a projection of the Coney Island ocean creating an experience that oscillated between an exhibition and a mirrored fun house, referencing both Turner’s experience of Margate"
"2009, after a gap of several years during which Eastbourne had no local art gallery or museum, Towner reopened in a purpose-built gallery building adjacent to the Congress Theatre. Funders of the new gallery included the Heritage Lottery Fund and Eastbourne Borough Council. Designed by Rick Mather Architects and built mainly from concrete, at a cost of £8.6m, the new gallery building was planned to be more easily accessible to the public and to store the 4,000 works of the growing collection in a safe and climate-controlled manner. Visually, it was designed to reflect the chalk cliffs of the Eastbourne"
"the European Union. It is the largest dedicated visual arts venue in Kent. It is a registered charity under English law. In November 2011, the venue received an award from the British Guild of Travel Writers, for an outstanding tourism project. Queen Elizabeth II visited Turner Contemporary on 11 November 2011, as part of a wider trip to Margate. The gallery has been criticised for emphasising cultural consumption and economic regeneration to the detriment of local residents. In particular, research points out that, despite claims to anchor creative production, Turner Contemporary has failed to engage with local artists, and that"
"Contemporary gallery is located beside a beach in Margate, to the north of Kent in the south of England. It is devoted to the works of J.M.W. Turner and his contemporaries, and those he influenced, and is close to the historic rooming house where the artist stayed. The museum is composed of six identical glass galleries, called ""Cristalins"", which are interconnected. The sunlight from the south is softened by a system of shutters over the ceiling, and the buildings are raised on pylons to avoid flooding from the neighboring sea. The fritted facades are designed to resist the dampness, corrosion"
"in April 2011, at a cost of £17.5 million. The gallery opened on 16 April 2011. 14,000 people visited in the first weekend and 500,000 in its first year. In August 2013 the gallery received its millionth visitor. The scheme has been supported by the artist Tracey Emin, who opened it and was brought up in Margate, and various funding bodies including Kent County Council, with a £6.4 million contribution, Thanet District Council, who provided the land, South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), who provided £4 million the Arts Council England with support to the value of £4.1 million and"
"Turner House Gallery Turner House Gallery is an art gallery in Penarth near Cardiff, Wales. The gallery was built in 1887/8, designed by architect Edwin Seward in a Queen Anne style for the rich local flour merchant, James Pyke Thompson. Pyke Thompson used the gallery to exhibit his collection of artworks, which include drawings, etchings, and ceramics, by artists including Rembrandt, with free entry to the public. The collection notably includes paintings by J. M. W. Turner, after which the gallery was named. Turner House Gallery was acquired by the National Museum of Wales in 1921 and used to display"
"use the building as multi-purpose cultural venue. In July 2018 Penarth Town Council launched an online community consultation survey regarding the future use of Turner House and other buildings. Turner House Gallery Turner House Gallery is an art gallery in Penarth near Cardiff, Wales. The gallery was built in 1887/8, designed by architect Edwin Seward in a Queen Anne style for the rich local flour merchant, James Pyke Thompson. Pyke Thompson used the gallery to exhibit his collection of artworks, which include drawings, etchings, and ceramics, by artists including Rembrandt, with free entry to the public. The collection notably includes"
"the original design, and controversy over the decision to change its structure from concrete to steel, have led to a legal battle, in an attempt to recover some of the costs. It was later moved to a plot of land adjacent to the harbour, on the site of a boarding house where Turner once stayed. The building was designed by David Chipperfield, whose design for the 3 storey, high gallery has been criticized for being ""alien, brutal and bleak"". It was built on the raised promenade following a flood risk analysis. Construction started in 2008, and was completed for opening"
"Kent Chamber produces a weekly business digest, the Thanet & East Kent Insider, which reports on economic activity in the private and public sectors. New projects underway include: A new community centre for Broadstairs. Redevelopment and renovations are to be undertaken at Margate's Dreamland (a Heritage Amusement Park); Cliftonville (Lido site); and a Holiday Inn (hotel), now open. A large retail and residential development on Ramsgate seafront, known as Royal Sands, started construction in 2011 but was quickly halted. A multimillion-pound art gallery The Turner Contemporary (opened by Tracey Emin in April 2011) in Margate and this has created the"
"the ""loveliest in all Europe."" In 1994 Crofts became increasingly determined to create such a gallery and in 1998 the Leader of Kent County Council met a number of people from the art world to discuss the idea. They hoped that the centre would regenerate the once-thriving town of Margate and offer an alternative to Margate's traditional tourist trade. In the late 1990s, the County Council offered to fund the building of the Turner Gallery. Additional funding was contributed by the Arts Council England and South East England Development Agency. In 2001 the Turner Contemporary was officially established. The view"
"who find even the unpopulated Nobson Newtown too crowded"". Noble is represented by Gagosian Gallery Paul Noble Paul Noble (born 1963) is a British visual artist. In 2012, he was nominated for the Turner Prize alongside Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler and Elizabeth Price. Noble studied at Humberside College of Higher Education (1983–1986) and Sunderland Polytechnic (1982–1983), before moving to London in 1987. He was one of the five founder members of the co-operative who formed the City Racing gallery in London (1988–98). Noble is most well known as the creator of ""Nobson Newtown"". In 2000 Noble was the recipient of"
"saw Tate's modern collections move there, while the old Millbank gallery became dedicated to the display of historical and contemporary British art. As a consequence, it was renamed Tate Britain in March 2000. The front part of the building was designed by Sidney R. J. Smith with a classical portico and dome behind, and the central sculpture gallery was designed by John Russell Pope. Tate Britain includes the Clore Gallery of 1987, designed by James Stirling, which houses work by J. M. W. Turner. The Clore Gallery has been regarded as an important example of Postmodern architecture, especially in the"
"important works. It used to be claimed that this was one of the few national galleries that had all its works on permanent exhibition, but this is no longer the case. The present building, the third to house the National Gallery, was designed by William Wilkins from 1832 to 1838. Only the façade onto Trafalgar Square remains essentially unchanged from this time, as the building has been expanded piecemeal throughout its history. Wilkins's building was often criticised for the perceived weaknesses of its design and for its lack of space; the latter problem led to the establishment of the Tate"
"Nicholas Serota Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota, (born 27 April 1946) was director of the Tate art museums and galleries from 1988 to 2017. Serota was director of The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and the Whitechapel Gallery, London, before becoming in 1988 director of the Tate, the United Kingdom's national gallery of modern and British art. He has been Chair of Arts Council England since February 2017. He has been the chairman of the Turner Prize jury. Nicholas Serota, the son of Stanley Serota, a Fellow, Institution of Civil Engineers, and Beatrice Serota (later Baroness Serota), grew up in Hampstead,"
"of the South Wales Art Society in 1888. By 1875 Seward was a member of the architecture firm James, Seward and Thomas and went on to build some of Cardiff's most notable buildings in the late 19th Century. Whilst in Cardiff, Seward lived in Lisvane house, a property which he remodeled himself and is now Grade II listed. He later retired to Weymouth, Dorset, where he lived until his death. Seward designed the Turner House Gallery (1887/8) in Penarth for businessman James Pyke Thompson. He was the winning architect for the Swansea Harbour Trust Building in Swansea and he worked"
"Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to art. Nicholas Serota Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota, (born 27 April 1946) was director of the Tate art museums and galleries from 1988 to 2017. Serota was director of The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and the Whitechapel Gallery, London, before becoming in 1988 director of the Tate, the United Kingdom's national gallery of modern and British art. He has been Chair of Arts Council England since February 2017. He has been the chairman of the Turner Prize jury. Nicholas Serota, the son of Stanley Serota,"
"Designed by the architects Caruso St John after winning an international design competition, it opened in January 2000, replacing the town's old gallery and an arts centre that had been closed by the Council almost a decade earlier. It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 5 May 2000, during her visit to the West Midlands. The New Art Gallery's stark building won several architectural awards and attracted over 237,000 visitors in its opening year. In 2000, the gallery was shortlisted for the prestigious Sterling Architecture Prize. The five-story building is clad in pale terracotta and has a floor"
"activities aimed to stimulate engagement with and learning through photography as well as explore its role. The gallery has introduced international photographers Juergen Teller, Robert Capa, Sebastião Salgado, Andreas Gursky, Shirana Shahbazi and Taryn Simon to British audiences, while championing the work of UK based photographers including Martin Parr, Zineb Sedira, Melanie Manchot, Nick Knight, Corinne Day and Nick Waplington. In May 2012 after a major capital campaign and redevelopment plan, The Photographers’ Gallery opened its doors to its new and current home in a former textiles warehouse in Ramillies Street, Soho, London. Designed by Irish architects O'Donnell and Tuomey,"
"coffins and mummies on display. The project received lead support from Lord Sainsbury’s Linbury Trust, along with the Selz Foundation, Mr Christian Levett, as well as other trusts, foundations, and individuals. Rick Mather Architects led the redesign and display of the four previous Egypt galleries and the extension to the restored Ruskin Gallery, previously occupied by the museum shop. In May 2016, the museum opened new galleries dedicated to the display of its collection of Victorian art. This development allowed for the return to the Ashmolean of the Great Bookcase, designed by William Burges, and described as ""the most important"
"in 2011, London and the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale in 2009. Farquharson holds honorary doctorates from The University of Nottingham and Exeter University. He holds a Combined Honours BA in English and Fine Art from Exeter University (1991), and has an MA with Distinction in Arts Criticism from City University, 1993. Alex Farquharson Alex Farquharson is a British curator and art critic who was appointed Director, Tate Britain in Summer 2015. As Director, Tate Britain he is Chair of the Turner Prize. Previously, he was director of Nottingham Contemporary from 2007 to 2015. Designed by Caruso St John it"
"Historic Pub Interiors. Snargate Snargate is a village near New Romney in Kent, England. Snargate was home to artist Harold Gilman, sometimes called the English Van Gogh. He was a British Impressionist and a member of the Camden Town Group. He grew up at Snargate Rectory, where his father was rector. Harold was born in 1876, and lived at the Rectory till his thirties, when he brought his bride Grace to live there, for the first two years of their marriage, 1902-04. His father continued to live there till his death in 1917. Harold Gilman only lived two years longer,"
"Jerwood Gallery The Jerwood Gallery is a museum of contemporary British art located on The Stade in Hastings, East Sussex and is a not for profit organisation. The gallery opened in March 2012 and cost £4m to build. The gallery contains both temporary exhibitions and a permanent collection that includes work from artists including: L. S. Lowry, Augustus John, Stanley Spencer, Walter Sickert, Ben Nicholson, Patrick Caulfield, Maggi Hambling, Craigie Aitchison and Prunella Clough. The building was designed by Hana Loftus and Tom Grieve (son of Alan Grieve, the chairman of the Jerwood Foundation) from the architecture firm HAT Projects."
"the BMA’s original 1929 building designed by the acclaimed American architect John Russell Pope; the 1982 East Wing Lobby and Zamoiski East Entrance designed by Bower, Lewis & Thrower; and critically important upgrades to the museum’s infrastructure. The architect for this phase of the renovation was the Baltimore-based architecture firm Ziger/Snead, with construction completed by Whiting-Turner Contracting Company of Towson, Maryland. The project manager was Synthesis, Inc., of Columbia, Maryland. The BMA also greatly expanded galleries for its African and Asian art collections, which opened in April 2015. The culmination of the renovation was the opening of the new $4.5"
"The exhibition ran until June 11th 2017 and was supported by a programme of seminars, educational and outreach initiatives. Port Perspectives also includes an arts engagement programme curated by Declan McGonagle. Declan McGonagle Declan McGonagle is a prominent figure in Irish contemporary art, most notable for his positions as director at the Orchard Gallery in Derry (for which he was shortlisted for a Turner prize in 1987); director at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from its beginnings in 1990 until 2001, and director of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin since 2008. He has stated that he"
"Gordon Shrigley Gordon Shrigley (born 1964) is a British Architect. His work is primarily concerned with materiality, the language of drawing and artists' book publishing. In 2004 Shrigley founded the artists’ bookwork project Marmalade, Publishers of Visual Theory, which in 2007 expanded into Filmarmalade a DVD publisher of artists' film and video works. Filmarmalade has published work by artists, including two works by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, with screenings at the BFI and the Arnolfini, Bristol. Shrigley studied at Bournville College of Art, Birmingham; the University of Birmingham; the Polytechnic of Central London, the University of Westminster and the"
"John Hansard Gallery The John Hansard Gallery is a contemporary visual art gallery and part of the University of Southampton. The John Hansard Building was originally located in building 50 in the University of Southampton building coding scheme. It was built in 1959 and was originally designed to house a tidal model of the Solent. The architect was Ronald Sims. The building was converted to gallery use in 1979-1980. In 2018 the gallery moved to a new location in the centre of Southampton, opposite Guildhall Square, as part of a new arts complex. The new gallery opened on 12 May."
"Declan McGonagle Declan McGonagle is a prominent figure in Irish contemporary art, most notable for his positions as director at the Orchard Gallery in Derry (for which he was shortlisted for a Turner prize in 1987); director at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from its beginnings in 1990 until 2001, and director of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin since 2008. He has stated that he is committed to raising the profile of Irish art internationally. According to his profile on the National College of Art and Design website, he is a contributing editor of ""Artforum"", New"
"Snargate Snargate is a village near New Romney in Kent, England. Snargate was home to artist Harold Gilman, sometimes called the English Van Gogh. He was a British Impressionist and a member of the Camden Town Group. He grew up at Snargate Rectory, where his father was rector. Harold was born in 1876, and lived at the Rectory till his thirties, when he brought his bride Grace to live there, for the first two years of their marriage, 1902-04. His father continued to live there till his death in 1917. Harold Gilman only lived two years longer, dying in 1919"
"visible throughout the immediate area. The Octagon was designed by the Architect William Wilkins, who also designed the National Gallery. The original plans by Wilkins called for a U-shaped enclosure around the quad. Funds, however, ran out in 1829 with only the portico and dome finished. Wilkins' original plans were not completed until the 20th century: The Main Building was finally finished in 1985, 158 years since the foundations were laid, with a formal opening ceremony by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. The Wilkins Building is a term used for the whole of the Main Building, but more"