Projects

29 to 30 August 2024
A two-day open studio event in Summer 2024 developed by Towner youth collective Banana Sharks and artists Dana Brass and Babalola Yusuf.
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July to August 2024
Artist-led Creative Exploration, Collaboration and Making at Towner supported by the Holiday Activity and Food Programme and lead by artist Sam Ayre.
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Hampden Park
Ongoing
Creative sessions developed in collaboration with Willingdon Trees to deliver monthly artist-led sessions promoting positive mental health through creativity for young people.
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214 Terminus Road
July 2024
The Elephant in the Room was a temporary installation in a vacant shop space on Terminus Road in Eastbourne. 10 artist members of the Arts in Mind group took part showing a mix of painting, collage, sculpture, animation, slides and installation.
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October 2023 - April 2024
Towner and Eastbourne ALIVE have collaborated to deliver bespoke visits to Turner Prize 2023 and artist-led workshops in schools.
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November 2022 - July 2023
Towner's partnered with artist Richard Phoenix and Nibble Bibble Duck Toes from The Turing School to develop a student resource for Turner Prize 2023!
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October 2022 to July 2023
De La Warr Pavilion (DLWP) and Towner Eastbourne are working together to programme holiday activities for families. We are collaborating to deliver an artistic programme for four artists to develop their socially engaged practice across the current academic year.
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2022-2023
Throughout 2023 Towner Eastbourne is partnering with iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) for the third and final year of Future Collect, a project that will reimagine the future of public collections to better reflect our culturally diverse society.
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May 2022
In a half-day workshop, artist Katy Beinart and writer Lizzie Lloyd spoke through some of the issues raised within their current project Acts of Transfer. They were joined by Beverley Bennett and Benjamin A Owen, both working in engaged practice as artists and filmmakers. Together they hosted an afternoon inviting artists to experience the ‘working out’ of these questions together.
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August 2022
Forty-eight artists based in Sussex and Kent have been selected via an open call to come together over four weeks to share space, ideas and processes and support each other in generating new artworks.
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Shinewater and Langney
July to August 2022
Supported by the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) project, Towner has partnered with GROW Eastbourne to provide creative artist-led activities around nature, food and community connection for children and young people on Free School Meals.
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Ongoing, term-time only
Collaborative, creative sessions every Tuesday during term time, working with Willingdon Trees Community Centre and Towner to develop activities for Early Years groups and their carers across Eastbourne.
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May to November 2021
Running in parallel to England’s Creative Coast’s Waterfronts commission for Eastbourne, an accompanying community programme spanning digital, offsite and open-air deliveries, was led by artist Amy Leung.
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Autumn 2020
As part of the Saving Berwick project in 2021, Arts in Mind made artwork in response to the murals, interior and landscape surrounding Berwick Church. Arts in Mind meet weekly at Towner Eastbourne and make artwork alongside each other in a studio setting to support positive mental health.
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2020-2021
During the national lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, Eastbourne Borough Council, Eastbourne Food Bank and Community Stuff provided a lifeline to vulnerable households, ensuring that help was delivered to those most in need.
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Ongoing
Arts in Mind meet weekly at the gallery. They make artwork in a supported studio setting, and nurture positive mental health. The group have been meeting and making since 2009 and are currently facilitated by Ella Hempsted and Michaela Ross. During sessions members work alongside each other on their own projects, and also experiment with making work together.
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