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29 May, 2021 - 16 January, 2022
Artist Mariana Castillo Deball has delved deep into the Towner Collection to discover works that have rarely been displayed and will present these alongside familiar and much-loved depictions of the Sussex landscape.
29 May, 2021 - 12 November, 2021
Led by Turner Contemporary and Visit Kent, England’s Creative Coast is a new outdoor cultural experience taking place from May until November 2021.
29 May, 2021 - 12 November, 2021
Offsite, various locations around Eastbourne. Part of England’s Creative Coast. Family-friendly & suitable for those new to geocaching. Geocaches are accessible locations within walking distance (all 3 […]
29 May, 2021 - 16 January, 2022
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.
16 October, 2021 - 30 January, 2022
In 1939, aware of impending war, the artists Margaret Mellis and her husband Adrian Stokes relocated from London to St Ives in Cornwall. Their move would become […]
16 October, 2021 - 30 January, 2022
Melissa Gordon (b.1981, Cambridge, USA) is an artist, curator and writer, whose practice is concerned with the body, gesture, and painting, through the lens of feminism. Liquid Gestures is a solo exhibition featuring large-scale paintings that further her examination of modern art histories, ideas of authorship, and the appropriation of certain ‘gestures’.
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.
The exhibition will guide the visitor through a journey which will reflect on and embrace our place in this changing world, exploring themes of nature, the body, meaning and the cycles of life.
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 the largest outing for John Nash in over 50 years and certainly the most substantial retrospective since his death.
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.
This year Art Night is moving out of London, taking place in over 10 locations around the United Kingdom, from the Isle of Skye to London via Cambridge, Abergavenny and the West Midlands, and, of course, our very own Eastbourne.
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.
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.
Recently acquired by Towner, This whole time there were no landmines (2017) is an eight-monitor installation with sound, that uses collected cell-phone-video footage from 2011 to document a ‘shouting valley’ that lies in the contested area of the Golan Heights, Syria.