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Listen to a conversation between Simon Grant, curator of the Paule Vézelay Living Lines exhibition currently at Towner, and Sarah Wilson, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Courtauld, who met Vézelay and wrote one of her earliest articles on her.

Inspired by Towner exhibition Sussex Modernism

Listen to this panel discussion in which Emma Stibbon is joined by those at the forefront of climate action, including politician, author and end-of-life doula Caroline Lucas and climate justice advocate Samia Dumbuya.

We Hear You Now (2023) is a 16 part spoken word audio series also embedded as a walking trail on Listening points across the Seven Sisters and Sussex Heritage Coast, presenting contemporary speculative fiction, poetry and new myth by writers, poets and artists of black and global heritage.

Listen to Maria Amidu and writer and researcher Rohini Malik Okon as they discuss themes of memory, care and tenderness found within Maria’s exhibition in the perpetual back and forth and her new commission 26,778,780 minutes.

Girls Twiddling Knobs founder Isobel talks with sound and lino artist, Daisy Stewart-Darling about her new project Lino Waves: Soundscapes of the Living Coast, which documents the changing East Sussex coastline through field recordings and large-scale lino works.

Listen to a curated playlist by artist Lothar Götz, who created the joyful public artwork Dance Diagonal on Towner's exterior, and has this year collaborated with us to publish a book about its impact across the town.

Listen to audio descriptions about the Turner Prize Welcome Space and each of the Turner Prize exhibitions. For blind and visually impaired visitors.

Listen to a curated Barbara Hepworth-inspired playlist by multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie. You’ll find 18 songs by musicians and composers including Handel, Pharoah Sanders, Björk, Carpenters and Caterina Barbieri.

Listen to frogs.picus.VANNA, a sound work by Italian sound artist Ramona Ponzini that will be availlable online for the duration of Brewers Towner International (15 October 2022 to 22 January 2023).  

Listen to a curated playlist by the artist and filmmaker Ayo Akingbade of 20 songs by musicians including Sade, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan and Grace Jones, which inspired the works shown in Duette - an exhibition at Towner until 22 January 2023.

On this week's episode, Renee and private collectors John and David discuss pieces by John Minton and Kathleen Walne.

On this week's episode, Renee and Flo Wright discuss pieces by John Minton and Paul Graham.

On this week's episode, Renee and Emily Love return to Three Graces by Phelan Gibb as well as taking a look at Portrait of Constant Lambert by Christopher Wood. 

On this week's episode, Renee and Andrea Mindel explore Figure on an Orange Background by Brett Whiteley and we return again to Margaret Benecke's mysterious Interior with Figure.

On this week's episode, Renee and Harry/Harriet explore works by Phelan Gibb and the little-known, Eastbourne-based artist, Margaret Benecke.

This episode, a conversation between Renee and technician Eva Jonas, exploring works by Victor Pasmore and Keith Vaughan.

In this episode, Renee talks to Vicky Norman, a language teacher, about Wilfrid Avery's Counterpoint, 1976 and Tom Hammick's Swimmer, 2016.

In this first episode, Renee explores the Towner Collection, talks to curators Karen Taylor and Sara Cooper about how the Collection came to be, and deep dives into three paintings that really captured her attention during the Collectively sessions.

Over Summer 2021, Towner Eastbourne invited members of the LGBTQIA+ community in East Sussex to take part in a unique creative project, exploring personal responses to artworks in the Towner Collection, through a queer lens. 

Dig Deep, recorded in 2021 over zoom during the UK's third national lockdown,  combines extracts from interviews with  residents and historians who have connections to, or experience of the St Anne’s Hill archaeological digs in 1990s, which inspired Mariana Castillo Deball's comission for England's Creative Coast.