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𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗞𝗘 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘀 Johnnie Shand Kydd Ramsholt Upper Gallery, TKE Studios Preview 18 April 6-8pm 19 April – 7 June 2026 Johnnie Shand Kydd’s photographs emerge from a long engagement with the landscape of Ramsholt on Suffolk’s Bawdsey Peninsula. Made largely during daily walks through fields, river paths and woodland, the images record a place shaped equally by nature, memory and absence. Working with analogue cameras and film, Shand Kydd embraces slowness, chance and imperfection. Each photograph is the result of observation repeated over time rather than a single decisive moment. The resulting works carry a quiet sense of history, tracing the lingering presence of those who once lived and worked within this seemingly ordinary landscape.

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗞𝗘 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘀 Jack Hirons @jackhirons The Journey Lower Gallery, TKE Studios Preview 18 April 6-8pm 19 April – 7 June 2026 Tracey Emin Foundation presents new paintings by Jack Hirons, marking the culmination of his year as the Dame Tracey Emin Fellow. Over the course of the fellowship, Hirons refined his focused approach to monochrome painting, working with careful control of pigment, tone and surface. The paintings draw on landscape imagery and recurring forms such as reflections and pathways. The works do not describe a specific location. Instead, they consider how images arise from physical matter and how material moves through cycles of change. Hirons approaches painting as a process of transformation, where the image remains connected to the world from which it comes. The exhibition brings together paintings developed during a year of sustained studio work and ongoing dialogue.

We're so proud of @traceyeminstudio for lending her voice to this. She's been open about her cancer diagnosis and living with a stoma, and using that to raise awareness of non-visible disabilities feels exactly right. This week, Tracey is voicing TfL's Priority Seating Week announcements across 10 central London Tube stations and several bus stations, urging commuters to offer their seats to those who may need them more. The campaign is now in its eighth year and exists to remind us that not every disability has outward cues. Tracey put it simply: any one of us can have a health condition or disability, and because many don't have visible signs, people miss out on things that would really help them, like getting a seat on public transport. A small act of kindness can make a real difference. If you're in London this week, you might just hear her. 🚇

Welcoming Alex Morante @slipslob to Victoria House. Founded by Dame Tracey Emin, the Victoria House Residency gives artists up to three months to live and work in a restored Georgian house in Margate. Alex joins Enrique López Llamas for this round. Alex makes figurative ceramic sculpture: distorted beasts and figures drawn from myth, lore, and her own subconscious. She builds complex surfaces using oxides layered with crystalline and crater glazes, evoking mold, rust, lichen, and decay. The kiln is a collaborator. Transformation and endurance show up directly on the form.

Welcoming Enrique López Llamas @elopezllamas to Victoria House. Founded by Dame Tracey Emin, the Victoria House Residency offers artists 12 weeks to live and work in Margate. Enrique is one of two artists joining us for this round. Enrique works across painting, video, sculpture, and installation. He draws on art history, pop culture, and personal memory, using appropriation and reinterpretation to build work that sits between the familiar and the invented. Fiction, humour, and nostalgia run through it. He asks what it means to look at forms already full of meaning.

Jack Hirons makes paintings that pull you in slowly. Monochrome, atmospheric, precise. Not a view you're looking at but a world you're standing inside. The Journey is on now, running until 7 June. It's the culmination of Jack's year as the Dame Tracey Emin Fellow, and it's absolutely worth your weekend. The studios are open this Saturday and Sunday (and every Sat + Sun for the rest of the run) from 12–5pm. Free to visit. Link in bio for more. 🖤

Your photographs are all about death." @traceyeminstudio 's words on first seeing Ramsholt, Johnnie Shand Kydd's new body of work, photographs taken on dog walks through the Suffolk countryside, quiet and unsparing. The Guardian has a long read with Johnnie today. His show is at TKE Studios until 7 June, alongside Jack Hiron's The Journey. Open Saturdays and Sundays, 12–5pm. Free entry, no booking needed.

Incredible performances tonight by TKE performance artist fellows at the Tate Modern ! @keziah_ziah @artpornblog @pinksuitsband @tate

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Gah. We had the words, forgot the picture, and @guyjoliver 's face got cut from the Tate Lates carousel. So now he gets a whole post to himself. Honestly, fair. FILM | Blavatnik Building, Level 4 | 18.00–22.00 Millennial Prayer by TKE studio artist @guyjoliver A personal essay exploring what it meant to grow up at the turn of the millennium, unpacking male identity and vulnerability through film, music and internet culture. Looped throughout the evening. Sorry Guy. 🙏

TALK | Starr Cinema, Natalie Bell Building, Level 1 | 19.00–20.00 🎟 TICKETED @traceyeminstudio in conversation with Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian's chief culture writer. Reflecting on her life in art, the ideas behind A Second Life, and the personal experiences that continue to shape her work. In partnership with Guardian Live. Tickets: £15 / £13 Members & Concessions / £5 Universal Credit and Pension Credit recipients / £5 Tate Collective (16–25, sign up to book) Available from 11.00 on Friday 24 April. Pre-release for Tate Collective and Members from 15.00 on Thursday 23 April. More information - Link in bio

This Friday we're at Tate Modern for Tate Lates, celebrating Tracey Emin: A Second Life. The evening brings together artists from Margate. Here's what's on: PERFORMANCES | South Tank, Blavatnik Building, Level 0 | 18.30–20.00 Programmed by Tracey Emin. Each year, Tracey selects a performance artist to spend a year at TKE Studios in Margate, pushing and expanding their work. Friday night, past and present residents take over the Tanks. 18.30 — The Great Drama by Keziah 19.00 — Valentine by Ted Rogers 19.30 — Raisin Bran by Pink Suits . . MONO PRINTING WORKSHOP | Blavatnik Building, Level 2 | 18.00–21.30 Draw your thoughts and create unique monoprints as visual diary entries, led by artists from @tracey_emin_artist_residency . Drop in anytime across the evening. . . FILM | Blavatnik Building, Level 4 | 18.00–22.00 Millennial Prayer by TKE studio artist @guyjoliver A personal essay exploring what it meant to grow up at the turn of the millennium, unpacking male identity and vulnerability through film, music and internet culture. Looped throughout the evening. MUSIC The whole building is soundtracked. Here's who's playing: DJ Paul Camo @paulcamo Terrace Bar, Level 1 | 18.00–21.30) Founder of Margate Radio and regular on NTS. Expect soulful, eclectic selections spanning electronic, broken beat, afrobeat, disco and house. DJ Reggy Brown @reggyrooo Disco Psicodélico (Corner Bar, Natalie Bell Building, Level 1 | 18.00–21.30) Host of The Spin on Margate Radio. Root-driven genres including Cumbia, psych-funk, Mexican discotheque, TropiFunk and classic Rancheras. DJ Sophie Stirling @sophie_stirling_ Turbine Hall, Level 0 | 18.00–20.30) Genre-fluid global club music. Baile, Breakbeat, UKG, 140 and percussive rhythms. Dynamic, bouncy and bass-heavy. DJ Fat Tony @dj_fattony_ Turbine Hall, Level 0 | 20.30–21.30) Closing out the Turbine Hall. A renowned DJ with a career spanning festivals and events worldwide. Don't sleep on this one. More information - Link in bio