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Towner commissioned artist and writer Alinah Azadeh to imagine and describe what visiting Black Robin Farm might be like in the future.

In the text panels and labels for our TOWNER 100 exhibitions you will find a glossary of words that are often associated with a collection of artworks. The words help describe what a collection is, how artworks come into a collection and some of the actions used when looking after artworks.

Chris Rakoczi, grandson of Benny, describes the somewhat tumultuous artistic lives of the couple, who together founded the White Stag Group, interested in “holding the conscious world in voluntary abeyance.”

Philomena Epps discusses the portrayal of the female form in Eileen Mayo's work.

Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grantee Chris Fite-Wassilak writes on the unseen and the unwritten, considering how this spring might be different to the last.

Melissa Gordon writes on the meaning of the gesture and the inspiration behind her work in this extract from the upcoming book 'Acts of Painting'