Term 4 Art Competition

What is Portfolio? 

•Portfolio is a platform for young people to get their art and ideas out in the world. 

•Each year The Turner Centre pairs up with someone new (artists, advocacy groups, fellow young people) to set a theme and select work to be shown at Turner Contemporary as part of our summer exhibition. 

•It’s free to enter and selected pieces are shown as part of a group show for three months and seen by over 80,000 people. It’s an opportunity not to be missed. 

•This year Turner has joined up with Rise Up Clean Up, a local environmental advocacy group set up in 2020 to help tackle the litter pollution on Margate’s beaches.

•We are living in a time of climate crisis. Rising consumption leads to rising numbers of plastics produced which leads to rising pollution, rising temperatures and rising sea levels

.•But it is not all bad; there is hope. Rising awareness of these issues is leading to rising activism, rising social outcry, and a future generation with a rising desire to do things differently.

•We are interested in art that addresses the full spectrum of these issues. We want to see work that highlights the dangers we face, as well as work that celebrates what we can do to change current systems. Art does not just have to exist on a canvas. We are keen to see people thinking outside of traditional artistic mediums. Art can be performance, it can be filmed, it can be poetry.