JMW TURNER, perhaps our most renowned artist, had a lifetime’s association with Margate. He famously called the skies he could see from the windows of the house where he stayed in the Kent town ‘the loveliest in all Europe’.
The Turner Contemporary, built on the site of Turner’s boarding house next to the harbour, has just celebrated its tenth anniversary under those magnificent skies.
The gallery, designed by architect David Chipperfield, opened in