Connective Culture exhibition
Sat 20–Sun 28 September
Digital resources created by children and young people working with specialists from Eastbourne’s Tech Resort CIC are on show at Towner.
Past exhibitions
Designing the Everyday: from Bloomsbury and Ravilious to the present day
17 May - 31 August 2014 (free)
Towner celebrates the anniversary of the Modern Art for the Table exhibition at Harrods in 1934, with a display featuring some of the greatest names of British art including Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, Laura Knight and Duncan Grant and a wider survey of artists working in British industry during the 20th century.
United Visual Artists
18 April - 22 June 2014 (free)
A fascination with the physical presence of light is embedded in UVA’s work and they have explored different ways of creating a structure from light. The series Vanishing Point employs perspective as both a tool and visual outcome to reshape, redefine and represent a space.
Annual Schools Exhibition: Our South Downs
3 May - 8 June 2014 (free)
This year's Annual Schools Exhibition was the largest yet thanks to a partnership with the South Downs National Park and Learning Through Landscapes. Schools across Hampshire, West and East Sussex engaged in unique cultural and outdoor learning opportunities, leading to this exhibition inspired by Towner's permanent collection and our unique local landscape.
Near Dark
8 February - 4 May 2014 (free)
Explore the space between night and day, between the dog and the wolf, in a display curated by the artist/film maker John Skoog in collaboration with Bjarke Hvass Kure. Drawing from the time when night approaches as surely as sleep, when street lamps are lit and every being becomes his own shadow.
John Skoog: Redoubt
25 January - 6 April 2014 (free)
John Skoog works with film and video. He follows in the tradition of Scandinavian film through the use of stark landscapes and slow-pacing. The poetic use of the Swedish landscape and powerful studies of character and emotion evoke memories of film works by cinema greats such as Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller.
The Big Art Secret 2 exhibition
8 March - 23 March 2014 (free)
Towner and St Wilfrid's Hospice staged The Big Art Secret 2, a fundraising effort to support the local hospice and Towner. Postcard-sized art was exhibited at Towner for online auction until Sunday 23 March.
Ori Gersht: Don’t Look Back
Preview 6 February 6.30-8.30pm, 7 February – 26 April 2015
UK-based Israeli artist Ori Gersht will be showing two major moving image works Evaders (2009, from the Towner Collection) and The Forest, (2005) alongside a series of large scale photographs.
Our Place: Annual Schools Exhibition 2015
Towner: 27 March–31 May 2015, Flora Twort Gallery: 24 March–19 April 2015, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery: 23 May–19 September 2015
The South East’s most popular annual exhibition of art work created by schoolchildren returns to Towner and now also into two new partner sites: Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, West Sussex and the Flora Twort Gallery Petersfield, Hampshire.
Tight Modern
20 September – 5 October (free)
Tight Modern is a miniature replica (9ft x 5ft with a 12ft high chimney) of London’s iconic Tate Modern, showcasing outstanding work by 60 marginalised and disabled artists.