Brewers Towner Commission: Lothar Götz, Dance Diagonal
15 June, 2019 - 31 May, 2021
German artist Lothar Götz has transformed the exterior walls of the gallery with his new large-scale, colourful geometric artwork, Dance Diagonal (2019).
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Ravilious Gallery and Collection Library
22 November, 2019 - 8 November, 2020
The Ravilious Gallery and Collection Library, supported by Eastbourne Arts Circle, is a new dedicated space presenting changing exhibitions of works by Eric Ravilious selected from Towner’s extensive collection of his work.
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Towner International
13 June, 2020 - 6 September, 2020
Towner International is a major new biennial exhibition of contemporary art that will take place at Towner in 2020, featuring British and International artists. The Brewers Prize of £10,000 will be awarded to an overall winner chosen from the exhibiting artists.
Mariana Castillo Deball: Walking through the town I followed a pattern on the pavement that became the magnified silhouette of a woman’s profile
13 June, 2021 - 8 November, 2021
Due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, England’s Creative Coast has been postponed to Spring 2021. Full details of launch dates will be announced in Autumn 2020.
John Nash: The Landscape of Love and Solace
26 September, 2020 - 24 January, 2021
Often overshadowed by his better known brother Paul Nash and with no major exhibition of his work since the Royal Academy’s exhibition in 1967, this will be […]
John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea
17 October, 2020 - 3 January, 2021
Vertigo Sea, a three-screen film, first seen at the 56th Venice Biennale, is a sensual, poetic and cohesive meditation on man’s relationship with the sea and exploration of its role in the history of slavery, migration, and conflict.
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Alan Davie and David Hockney: Early Works
Towner Eastbourne are pleased to present a major exhibition Alan Davie (1920–2014) and David Hockney (b. 1937) that will explore the convergence between these two major figures of post-war British painting.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan: This whole time there were no landmines
Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a Turner Prize winning artist based in Beirut whose work looks into the political effects of listening, using various kinds of audio to […]
David Nash: 200 Seasons
This exhibition is a major survey of Nash’s career from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring his unique contribution to British sculpture and the international Land Art movement.
BRINK: Caroline Lucas curates the Towner Collection
Caroline Lucas – politician, cultural advocate and environmental campaigner – has taken on a new challenge: curating her first ever exhibition. Selecting from over 5000 works in the Towner Collection, Caroline’s choices reflect and resonate with her passions and interests.
Film London Jarman Award
2019 Shortlist
Discover works that explore new digital practices, experimental animation and fresh approaches to analogue filmmaking in this screening of cutting-edge artists’ films in the Towner Cinema.
Allan Grainger: Downland Gloaming
Night walks over the old chalk paths and byways of the Downs, along with the work of the artist Eric Ravilious and the poetry of Edward Thomas are the main inspirations behind Allan Grainger’s series of photographs, Downland Gloaming.
TEN: Towner curates the collection
To celebrate Towner’s tenth anniversary in the Rick Mather designed building new Eastbourne’s seafront, a group from Towner’s team who have worked and volunteered at the gallery since 2009 have curated an exhibition from works in the permanent collection that have been acquired in the last ten years.
Dineo Seshee Bopape: Sedibeng, it comes with the rain
Sedibeng, it comes with the rain is an immersive installation set in an environment of reflecting and refracting light, on a floor strewn with feathers, metal abstractions, letter charms, bags of healing herbs, images of ripe fruits and flowers native to Africa, the work explores notions of fertility, land, resistance, Afro-diasporic spiritual aesthetics and practices. Bopape has exhibited work across the globe, including at the 10th Berlin Biennale and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. This will be the artist’s first major solo presentation in England.