Turner Contemporary

The second artist commission for our Sunley Gallery is Tempo para Respirar (Breathing Time) by Brazilian artist Maria Nepomuceno. Artists and makers from Margate took part in Nepomuceno's Studio Group and helped to create the piece, which is made up of donated rope from the community.

Inspired by traditional South American craft techniques, Nepomuceno weaves straw, strings and piles beads, and sews brightly-coloured ropes into draping coils and flower-like forms. These materials form a fantastical landscape, also populated by playful ceramic shapes, shiny over-sized beads and found objects.

This new work, Nepomuceno’s most ambitious to date, brings a landscape of colour, sound and texture into our beautiful Sunley Gallery, which overlooks Margate seafront. Tempo para Respirar (Breathing Time) expresses the energy and colour of Brazil, but goes beyond the earthly, with spiralling forms and carefully balanced objects drawing on opposing forces, like movement and stillness, unity and division, contraction and expansion.

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Internationally acclaimed artist Mark Wallinger's new site-specific commission for Turner Contemporary, Sinema Amnesia, opened on 7 July on the promenade outside the gallery. Hear Mark talk about this new work for Margate, filmed and edited by students at the University for the Creative Arts Canterbury.

This summer, leading UK artists Mark Wallinger and Lindsay Seers have created new artworks for Turner Contemporary's spaces that respond to Margate.

Mark Wallinger’s Sinema Amnesia is a special viewing space overlooking the sea behind the gallery. It shows the film The Waste Land, an ever-changing, endless picture of unfolding time. A lens is fixed to the structure recording the view out to sea. The recorded image is played back inside the space 24 hours later, like a delayed camera obscura. The film is inspired by T.S Eliot’s famous poem The Waste Land, partially written on Margate Sands and exploring the disconnected time of modernity. Wallinger’s time machine calls memory and perception into question.

Lindsay Seers’s film installation Entangled² captures a pair of female actresses dressed as men on the stages of Margate’s two great entertainment venues, the Theatre Royal and the Winter Gardens.

Both theatres historically hosted scores of famous performers, and Seers takes particular interest in two male impersonators from early 20th century music hall, Hettie King and Vesta Tilley. As in all of Seers’s work, Entangled² weaves several narratives together: the actresses’ doubled identities connect to Seers's fascination with her great-great uncle’s condition Heterochomia, where different coloured eyes result from one twin subsuming the other in the womb. Entangled² sweeps visitors into a saucy seaside past where the boundaries between people blur.

The art of sound is an exciting collaboration between Turner Contemporary and Pie Factory Music, that introduces young people who wouldn't normally have access to the relevant resources, to art and music and gives them the opportunity to create their own work. At Late Night Live: Landmark, the particpants will perform their specially composed music, inspired by JMW Turner and Hamish Fulton. See a film of their work here.

On 4 & 5 April 2012, lots of families helped us to create a fantastic walking animation, as part of our Easy Holidays Easter workshop. Watch their finished animation. For more family events at Turner Contemporary visit turnercontemporary.org/families

To celebrate our current exhibition Turner and the Elements, we've put a camera on the top of the gallery's roof and will be filming the elements as they happen each week. Watch this film to see the dramatic skies over Margate that JMW Turner described as 'the loveliest in all Europe'.

Share your photos of Turner's skies... add your pictures to our Flickr group pool at flickr.com/groups/turnerskies

To celebrate our current exhibition Turner and the Elements, we've put a camera on the top of the gallery's roof and will be filming the elements as they happen each week. Watch this film to see the dramatic skies over Margate that JMW Turner described as 'the loveliest in all Europe'.

Share your photos of Turner's skies... add your pictures to our Flickr group pool at flickr.com/groups/turnerskies

Sky Arts broadcast a film about the gallery and Margate on 20 February 2012. You can watch the brilliant film here.

Watch this animation, made by visitors who attended our Inspiring Learning Education Evening for the Turner and the Elements exhibition in February 2012.

Co-Curator of our current exhibition Turner and the Elements, Inés Richter-Musso, talks about the thinking behind the exhibition, the idea that JMW Turner deliberately used the elements in fusion to create many of his late oil paintings, as well as answering questions from the audience.