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1/10/2013

Two exhibitions

Turner Contemporary, Margate

Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature
Works from the Tate Collection
5 October 2013 – 5 January 2014

This autumn Turner Contemporary presents its first historical exhibition since the blockbuster Turner and the Elements with a major showcase of works by JMW Turner, John Constable and their contemporaries. Bringing together 75 paintings from the Tate collection, the exhibition, organised by Compton Verney, explores the practice of oil sketching in the landscape in the fullest presentation of oil sketches from the Tate Collection to date. This approach to oil painting became increasingly fashionable during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These rarely shown works, radical for their time, demonstrate artists’ efforts to reflect direct experience of their environment, rather than a concern for careful composition.

The exhibition is organised around six principal landscape themes, reflecting interests and subjects common to artists of the period: sketching from nature; the city; the picturesque; the Thames, rivers and coasts; and rural nature. These themes are explored in the works of JMW Turner and John Constable as well as George Stubbs and John Sell Cotman, among others.

Organised by Compton Verney in Warwickshire, the exhibition is curated by Michael Rosenthal, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Warwick, one of the world’s foremost experts on the art of this period, and Anne Lyles, a leading authority on the art of John Constable.

This exhibition appears alongside Connemara, an exhibition of work by Irish artist Dorothy Cross. Cross’s work presents a contemporary engagement with nature and the landscape, bringing the themes of Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature. Works from the Tate Collection up to date.

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Dorothy Cross: Connemara
5 October 2013 – 5 January 2014

Turner Contemporary showcases the most comprehensive UK solo exhibition to date of new and existing work by the Irish artist Dorothy Cross. Connemara is an area of Ireland’s wild west coast, which has long been a destination for painters attempting to document the sea, sky, land and light. Connemara is also home to Dorothy Cross, and the source of inspiration for this new exhibition of her work. Cross’s sculpture, film and photography examine the relationship between living beings and the natural world around them, seeing both as sites of constant change, leaving residues of passing time, and strange and unexpected encounters.

Through major new commissions as well as existing works, the exhibition explores central themes in Cross’s practice, particularly the relationship between nature and the body, creation and destruction. Many of the artist’s works incorporate items found on the shore, including boats and animal skins, while others reflect on the environment. New videos will explore a cave near Cross’s home accessible only a few days a year, as well as Margate’s mysterious Shell Grotto. Also including photographs of the coast at Connemara, the exhibition will create a connection between that seaside location and Turner Contemporary’s position in Margate.

Dorothy Cross’s exhibition will be accompanied by Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature. Works from the Tate Collection, an exhibition of oil sketches. Like Cross, these artists worked in direct response to their experience of the landscape. These two exhibitions champion Turner Contemporary’s ethos of bridging the gap between the historical and contemporary.

Image: Dorothy Cross, Teacup, 1997, video (3 min loop, 1 hr duration). Courtesy of Dorothy Cross and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Press Contact
Monique Kent
Press and Media Officer
mkent@turnercontemporary.org
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Press preview: Friday 4 October 11.30am

Turner Contemporary
Rendezvous, Margate, CT9 1HG
Gallery opening times: Mon: Closed, Tue – Sun: 10.00 – 18.00
Free admission

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