Haunting sculptures are on show at the Turner Contemporary in Margate.

My Ghosts by sculptor and artist John Davies features the figurative sculptures which touch on memory, time and the fragility of the body.

The exhibition in the Sunley Gallery and balcony brings a large-scale tableau alongside a series of scarecrow-like sculptures and drawings.

Of his early figures, the artist said: “I wanted to make a figure more like a person. I wanted it to be like life in the street.”

The show runs until Sunday, February 11.

Gallery details

The Turner Contemporary is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am and 4.30pm.

The main galleries are currently closed until Friday, February 2 - apart from the John Davies exhibition in the Sunley Gallery. You can also still explore outdoor art in Margate by Antony Gormley, Jyll Bradley and Tracey Emin.

The shop is open as normal, 10am to 5pm and the cafe from 10am to 4.30pm.

Visit turnercontemporary.org for more details

Next up at the Turner

Thousands visited the Margate gallery’s last main exhibition, Tracey Emin’s My Bed. Now gallery staff are gearing up for the next, Journeys with The Waste Land, which opens on Saturday, February 3, and runs until Bank Holiday Monday, May 7.

TS Eliot wrote in The Waste Land: “On Margate Sands, I can connect, Nothing with nothing.”

The exhibition will explore the significance of T S Eliot’s poem The Waste Land through visual arts.

In 1921, Eliot spent a few weeks in Margate at a crucial moment in his career. He arrived in a fragile state and worked on The Waste Land.

The poem was published the following year, and proved to be a pivotal and influential modernist work, reflecting on the fractured world in the aftermath of the First World War as well as Eliot’s own personal crisis.