Tracey Emin She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea Exhibition

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What

Tracey Emin She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea Exhibition

When

26 May to 23 September 2012

Where

Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate CT9 1HG

The Fanfare

Tracey Emin is to have her first major solo exhibition (She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea) at Turner Contemporary, the new gallery in Margate, the town where the British artist grew up.

The exhibition, called She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea, will explore the themes of love, sensuality and romanticism and feature both new and existing works.

It will include her drawings, monoprints, sculptures and neons and will be installed throughout Turner Contemporary’s suite of first-floor galleries.

Emin’s first known work was the 1997 Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, which was a tent appliquéd with names.

In 1999, she was nominated for the Turner Prize and exhibited My Bed, an installation of her own unmade dirty bed.

The Turner Contemporary exhibition’s central themes will continue in a display of paintings, sketches and watercolours of erotic subjects by Tracey Emin as well as JMW Turner and Auguste Rodin, whose iconic sculpture The Kiss is on show at Turner Contemporary until 2 September.

These three very different artists have not been considered jointly before.

Their works share, to varying degrees, an interest in the sexual side of life and female sexuality in particular.

JMW Turner (1775–1851) is one of the most celebrated artists in British history.

He was educated in Margate and lived in the town with his mistress and landlady Sophie Booth between 1827 and 1847.

Here, he said, he could paint, ‘dawn clouds to the east and glorious sunsets to the west…the loveliest skies in Europe’.

The first major exhibition of his work, Turner and the Elements, brings together 88 watercolours and 12 late oil paintings at Turner Contemporary until May.

Turner Contemporary is open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun and Bank Holiday Mons, admission free.

Turner and the Elements runs from 28 January to 13 May.

Tracey Emin’s She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea is from 26 May to 23 September.

Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate CT9 1HG
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