2025
Exhibition
14 May 2025 to 31 August 2025Paule Vézelay Living Lines
This spring, the first major exhibition of Paule Vézelay’s work in over 40 years will tour to Towner, after its 2025 debut at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) in Bristol.
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22 March 2025 to 1 June 2025Points of View
This free exhibition on our ground floor will include works by artists Nathan Coley, Anne Hardy, Marine Huggonier, Alicja Kwade and Emma Stibbon.
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16 November 2024 to 2 March 2025Here and Now, There and Then
Towner presents a selection of sculpture, prints and drawings by internationally renowned artist Nigel Hall RA (b.1943).
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5 October 2024 to 27 April 2025Drawing the Unspeakable
Drawing the Unspeakable explores the universal language of drawing – a medium that renowned broadcaster David Dimbleby and his daughter, the artist and writer Liza Dimbleby, have long recognised as a powerful tool for expressing the inexpressible.
2024
Exhibition
28 September 2024 to 29 September 2024the love of fruit and the love of sharks
A new artist film by Shepherd Manyika and Banana Sharks Youth Collective.
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19 September 2024 to 3 November 2024Shape Pattern Colour: The Art of Printmaking
Spanning the career of artist Robert Tavener (1920-2004) this exhibition brings together a range of lithographs, linocuts and illustrations drawn from the collections held by Towner and Emma Mason.
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9 May 2024 to 15 September 2024Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice | Rising Tides
Emma Stibbon’s first large-scale show at a major UK institution acts as a stark reminder that the seemingly remote events of polar ice sheet melt are directly connected with the changes we are witnessing in our local, more familiar UK landscape.
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9 May 2024 to 16 June 2024FACTUAL ACTUAL: Ensemble
Florence Peake's monumental painting installation embodies her distinctive gestural, movement-marking techniques. This new, 50m long painting was created through a series of workshops held at Southwark Park Galleries in November 2022.
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4 May 2024 to 8 September 2024in the perpetual back and forth
This exhibition by Maria Amidu, the third artist in iniva’s Future Collect Commission partnership programme, centres around 26,778,780 minutes, a new paper and text-based installation and accompanying sound piece which explores the dialogue between paper and writing.
2023
Exhibition
27 May 2023 to 3 September 2023Art & Life
Some of Barbara Hepworth’s most celebrated sculptures including the modern abstract carving that launched her career in the 1920s and 1930s, her iconic strung sculptures of the 1940s and 1950s, and large-scale bronze and carved sculptures from later in her career.
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27 May 2023 to 25 June 2023Olivia Louvel: The Sculptor Speaks
The Sculptor Speaks is a looped audio-visual work by artist and composer Olivia Louvel, based on an archival tape holding a 1961 talk by Barbara Hepworth, pre-recorded herself for use by the British Council.
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19 May 2023 to 18 June 2023Mother Monster
This artwork by the self-titled Nibble Bibble Duck Toes (An arts collective of Turing School pupils) was made during workshops responding to the Turner Prize 2023 with artist Richard Phoenix
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16 May 2023 to 4 June 2023Wriggle Room: Open Studio
An open-to-all installation of interactive artworks celebrating the first year of Towner’s early years' programme, Wriggle Room.
Exhibition
11 February 2023 to 14 May 2023Towner 100: Unseen
What does a public collection look like in the 21st century? Which artists and artworks get acquired for a gallery collection and which get displayed? How are these decisions made and who is making them? What does a town’s collection say about its communities?
In Towner’s one-hundredth year, these are the questions we hope to engage with through this selection of new acquisitions.
Exhibition
7 February 2023 to 5 March 2023Play Interact Explore
Explore all of the possibilities that are available to you at Play Interact Explore: look in different ways, create sculptures, take photographs, move things around, get in front of the projection, rock, roll, stack and play.
Exhibition
17 December 2022 to 27 August 2023Towner 100: The Living Collection
The Living Collection considers Towner’s broad and varied history of collecting and exhibiting over the past one hundred years through a selection of paintings, prints and artefacts.
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15 October 2022 to 22 January 2023Brewers Towner International
Brewers Towner International, an open-call exhibition of contemporary visual arts features a range of artists, local, national and international, coming together to share work that addresses the theme of SANCTUARY.
Exhibition
15 October 2022 to 22 January 2023Ayo Akingbade: Duette
In this exhibition, Ayo Akingbade presents a duo of films: 55 Days (2022) and Red Soleil (2021). These works reflect the aspirations and ambitions of an emerging artist navigating the challenges and opportunities of daily life.
2022
Exhibition
20 September 2022 to 2 October 2022David Blandy: The Edge of Forever
The Edge of Forever (2022) is a video work centred on two questing children seeking to unravel the mysteries of a damaged world in a landscape loaded with symbolism. Their journey begins at Cuckmere Haven, Sussex, with its cliffs formed from the remains of plankton from 100 million years ago, continues to a Cold War era observatory and concludes with their visions of the cosmos.
Exhibition
16 July 2022 to 4 December 2022Cruising the Collection
Cruising the Collection has emerged from Towner’s collaboration with the LGBTQIA+ participants who came together to voice the 2021 podcast series Collectively, exploring personal responses to artworks in the Towner Collection through a queer lens.
Exhibition
2 July 2022WAR?! WHAT WAR? - How does one achieve eternal bliss?
At Towner, Andrea Mindel, a contemporary textile and multi-disciplinary artist based in the UK, carried out this intervention as part of a nationwide project by DASH.
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12 February 2022 to 22 May 2022Bringing to Light: Jananne Al-Ani curates the Towner Collection
Chosen by Jananne Al-Ani from Towner’s collection of over 5000 works, this curated selection draws upon notions of landscape (in particular, when viewed through a lens), as well as space, light, pattern, and contested geographies.
