In the Violet Hour exhibition was part of Turner Contemporary's Journeys with 'The Waste Land' programme and was Curated by Chiara Williams and Shaun Stamp.
It was set in a great location, the faded rooms of a once proud hotel on Margate's seafront, The Nayland Rock Hotel, now Grade II listed.
23 artists used the rooms and spaces in the hotel to explore the voices from TS Eliots, poem The Waste Land. The hotel overlooks on one side, the shelter where Eliot wrote part of his poem when convalescing.
Ruth and I explored the rooms, which displayed installations, photography and painting and the views from the windows out onto the sea. The peeling wallpaper and plaster in some rooms echoed the fractured quality of Eliot's work and proved to be a good choice of space for the exhibition.
The exhibition has just finished but Chiara Williams has other events and exhibitions planned. See
her website for details
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