Upcoming exhibitions | Towner Art Gallery

Dineo Seshee Bopape: Sedibeng, it comes with the rain

15 June, 2019 - 8 September, 2019

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.

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Phoebe Unwin: Iris

15 June, 2019 - 8 September, 2019

This exhibition, which includes new works, takes its name from the artist’s late maternal grandmother and reflects on the ideas surrounding how the iris works, moving from the intimate and unspoken to the communal, stretching to different times, reflective of the nature of painting itself.

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David Nash: 200 Seasons

28 September, 2019 - 2 February, 2020

Showing at Towner Art Gallery in autumn 2019, David Nash: 200 Seasons is the largest and most ambitious exhibition of David Nash's work ever presented. The 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.

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Brewers Towner Commission

15 June, 2019 - 31 May, 2020

German artist Lothar Götz has been selected from 60 artists and designers to create a temporary artwork that will transform the exterior walls of the gallery into a large-scale, colourful geometric mural this summer, marking the 10th anniversary of the gallery’s move from its original home in Eastbourne’s Old Town.

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