Margate Art

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Artists, writers and musicians have long been coming to the Isle being inspired and continue to be drawn today.

One of Margate’s most famous connections JMW Turner said Thanet had ‘the loveliest skies in all Europe’ and Tracey Emin declares in pink neon on the Visitor Information Centre ‘I never stopped loving you’

Browse the galleries and art studios around Margate on the below map or list

Margate Galleries

• Anthony Giles Studio (Just outside Margate) - powerful landscape images of the Kent coast
• The Black Gallery - gallery exhibiting the works of local figurative sculptor and hyper realist painter Matthew Penn
• Carl Freedman Gallery - changing exhibitions of contemporary art
• DIG Gallery - works by local couple Nick and Deborah alongside workshop space to hire
• Gallery of Urban Symbolism - gallery with a combination of messaging and story telling in varying formats
• Job Muscroft Gallery- showing works by a number of local artists
• Joseph Wales Studios - a space for exhibitions, shoots and events in Margate
• The Lido Stores - contemporary gallery working with emerging and established artists, with a strong focus on painting
• Limbo - an artist-led organisation with studios and project space
• Liminal Gallery - gallery specialising in the representation of contemporary artists
• Lovelys - family run business offering picture framing, art supplies, prints and exhibitions
• The Margate School - an independent not-for-profit postgraduate liberal arts school
• Margo in Margate - filled with the artists works and selling original works on canvas, paper, ceramic and wood, plus limited edition prints
• Mooch - Contemporary art galley and  print studio
• The Napery Textile Art Gallery - art on linen napkins
• Pie Factory Margate - a venue for exhibitions and events in Margate Old Town
• Project Kavel Rafferty - self taught collage and painting artist presenting and curating exhibitions 
• Quench - Project space and gallery.
• Salon - community gallery for collective, creative explorations 
• TKE Studios: Tracey Emin Foundation - artist studios and gallery spaces
• The Shop Front - Community Gallery and Studio 
• Turner Contemporary - Internationally-renowned gallery showing contemporary and historic art
• Westgate Galleria (Just outside Margate) - showcasing the talents of Kent's artists, makers, crafters and creatives

Browse the below map for Margate's public art