The Findings Artwork Launch
Saturday 16 November, 2.00pm to 5.00pm, Free drop-in
Langney Community Centre, Etchingham Rd, Eastbourne BN23 7DX
The Findings is an artwork by Verity-Jane Keefe. It was commissioned by Towner Eastbourne, with support from the UK Government.
Join us at Langney Community Centre to celebrate the launch of five new public artworks by Verity-Jane Keefe, installed across locations in Shinewater and Langney.
Snacks and drinks will be provided, along with DJs and some drop-in drawing and making activities for all ages.
If you can, please RSVP below so we have an idea of numbers for catering.
About The Findings
Verity-Jane worked with 60 local school children, Shinewater and Langney residents and a local Eastbourne foundry to create the artworks from objects extracted during archaeological digs and at Eastbourne’s recycling centre.
The artworks can be found on walls by the shops on Pembury Road, on the side of Shinewater Sports Centre and on the ground in Langney Playing Fields, Shinewater Park and near Langney Shopping Centre.
Using the bronze age history of the area as a starting point, The Findings explores the value of the object and the everyday through modern archaeology and the public realm. Fragments and ruins are called upon to consider which ‘age’ we are living in now, what ‘public’ art is and how we make it via participatory processes.
More information can be found on The Findings web page.
About Verity-Jane Keefe
Verity-Jane Keefe is a visual artist working predominantly in the public realm to explore the complex relationship between people and place. She is interested in the role of the artist within urban regeneration and how experiential practice can touch upon and raise ambitions of existing and invisible communities. Since 2004 she has been developing new models of practice within municipal, collaborative contexts – following long term residency approaches that produce outcomes that explore the politics of participation. Working with text, archives, moving image, research, installation, performance, social structures & object.
She is currently delivering public commissions with Towner Gallery (Eastbourne) and is Wheatley Fellow with Eastside Projects (Birmingham) and a Pre-Doc candidate with ZHdK (Zurich).
Accessibility
We have a budget available to make this event as accessible as possible – this can include further interpretation services or other access arrangements we can meet to enable you to participate. If you require access arrangements, please email programme@townereastbourne.org.uk two weeks before the event date so that we can book a service if needed.