The Tourists: Ellen Harvey & JMW

The Tourists: Ellen Harvey & JMW

Fri 22 May 2020 - Sun 6 Sept 2020

The Tourists is a new upcoming exhibition by British born, New York based artist Ellen Harvey paired with JMW Turner.

Is there a place you have always wanted to visit or revisit that no longer exists? If so then you could play a part of one of our upcoming exhibitions…

In summer 2020 we are working with Kent born, New York based artist Ellen Harvey on her first ever solo UK exhibition, paired with JMW Turner. Incorporating large-scale installations, paintings and etchings, the exhibition will explore themes of tourism, ecology and our relationship to place, image-making, nostalgia, and loss.

Ellen is asking for nominations of loved and lost venues to paint for her new work in the show. The sites to be depicted will be a combination of famous lost sites and crowdsourced venues that mean a lot to people. They don’t have to be large monuments – they can be a favourite place you went to as a child; a nostalgic café that brings back memories; a place you never got the chance to see for yourself before it was destroyed or replaced; or even a landscape or a specific tree that’s no more.

She is creating a large-scale installation of these sites, and wants to include a selection of locations from around the world, near or far, when the show comes to Turner Contemporary.