Turner Contemporary, Margate & Tania Holland Williams

Turner Contemporary, Margate

Turner Contemporary is a dynamic visual arts organisation that believes in making art open, relevant and fulfilling for all. A stimulating programme of temporary exhibitions, events and learning opportunities enable intriguing connections to be made between art from 1750 to the present day. Situated on Margate’s seafront, the gallery is the largest exhibition space in the South East outside of London.

Tania Holland Williams

Emotional extremes, tragic predispositions and a yearning for the discipline of numbers are key drivers for Tania Holland Williams’ work which is cited in theatrical encounter and tests the edges of a stretched, fantastical, but still recognisable human psyche.

Drawing from the imaginative prose of philosophers such as Canetti and Calvino and a background in Commedia dell’Arte, she seeks to interrogate and reveal the dramatic encounters that bubble away under the skin of social interaction. Her experience as an inter-disciplinary artist is expansive and includes commissions as a composer for film, director of new theatrical works, and deviser of operatic works.

Alongside her artistic output she has acted as curator and creative producer to a number of largescale interdisciplinary arts commissions across the South East region. In January 2013 she will take up a residency at METAL, Southend to start work on a new operatic touring show: Flo’+’Sam: Operatic Salvage.