Jesse Darling: Material Histories
at The Birley Centre
16 March 2024, 3.00pm to 4.00pm, £10.00
Please note that this event will take place at The Birley Centre, 4 Carlisle Road, Eastbourne BN21 4EF.
Unfortunately, the lift at The Birley Centre is currently out of order, they are working to fix it as soon as possible. Apologies for any inconvenience caused, please contact dutymanagers@townereastbourne.org.uk if you have any queries about access for the event.
Join Jesse Darling and learn more about the materials and techniques used to make the artworks in his Turner Prize exhibition.
Jesse will talk about the objects and materials that make up his artworks, the history behind them and how he and his collaborators put the works together.
This event will take place in the Birley Centre, opposite Towner Eastbourne, and you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions if attending physically.
If you aren’t able to make it in person, it will be live-streamed on our website.
It will have BSL interpretation in-person and live captioning. If you require specific access arrangements, please email programme@townereastbourne.org.uk two weeks before the event date so that we can book a service if needed.
Venue details:
The Birley Centre, Eastbourne College, 4 Carlisle Rd, Eastbourne BN21 4EF
General Admission: £10
Towner Members/Concession, includes Students with ID, Disabled, Over-65s: £7.50
Universal or Pension Credit recipients and People 12 to 25 years: £4
Under 12's: Free
About the artist
Jesse Darling works in sculpture, installation, video, drawing, sound, text and performance, using a ‘materialist poetics’ to explore and reimagine the everyday technologies that represent how we live. Darling has often combined industrial materials such as sheet metal and welded steel with everyday objects to explore ideas of the domestic and the institutional, home and state, stability and instability, function and dysfunction, growth and collapse.
Accessibility
This event will be BSL interpreted. 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.