Sentences with phrase «british seaside towns»

The duo's light sculptures reference iconic pop culture symbols in the form of shop - front or carnival type signage - evoking British seaside towns, Las Vegas and Times Square.

They reference contemporary consumer culture through the use of iconic pop culture symbols in the form of shop - front - type signage and carnival shows inherent of British seaside towns, Las Vegas and Times Square.

Many Butlin's camps closed down and British seaside towns would never recover.

In 1921, influential poet T.S Eliot (b. 1888) spent time in the British seaside town.

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Worksheet showing an outline map of the British Isles, with Manchester, Edinburgh, London, Oxford and various seaside towns marked on it.

This old seaside town is filled with history and happens to be the spot where the British and the Dutch came to loggerheads in 1795.

In fact, in recent times, St. Ives has twice won the title Best UK Seaside Town from the British Travel Awards.

A once fashionable seaside town, Margate was of course also beloved by the British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 — 1851).

Born in 1860 to a British father and Flemish mother, Ensor lived in the Belgian seaside town of Ostend for most of his life, apart from the three years he spent at the fine art academy in Brussels.

So much has been written about Emin — by herself and others — since she first came to prominence alongside fellow Young British Artists (YBAs) Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas more than two decades ago that her story seems to have congealed in a series of now quasi-mythical episodes: the childhood in the seaside town of Margate; the promiscuity; the abortions; the shop with Lucas; the first show with White Cube's Jay Jopling, cheekily entitled «My Major Retrospective 1963 — 1993»; the tent (Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963 — 1995); My Bed (1998); the drunkenness; the heartbreaks.

British artist Tracey Emin has welcomed a «spectacular» new gallery in Margate that its founders hope will help regenerate the Kent seaside town.

Renowned for its media courses and specialist niche subjects, students at Bournemouth University get to enjoy the best of both worlds: a traditional British seaside resort and a bustling, thriving town centre.