Craig Raine

Keeping up with the Joneses

Craig Raine finds beautiful rats, belly-button emojis, Bobby Charlton comb overs in a new exhibition at the Turner Contemporary

issue 24 February 2018

To bleak, boarded-up Margate — and a salt-and-vinegar wind that leaves my face looking like Andy Warhol’s botched 1958 nose-peel — to see Journeys with ‘The Waste Land’ at Turner Contemporary. The exhibition has been organised by a group of local residents, who selected the exhibits, designed the layout, and wrote the exhibition texts.

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