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Saturday 28 to Sunday 29 September
For one weekend only you can catch the first screening of a new artist film made with a group of young people in Hampden Park.
the love of fruit and the love of sharks was filmed and edited by Shepherd Manyika during a series of workshops in Summer 2024 with Banana Sharks Youth Collective at Willingdon Trees Community Centre.
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19 September to 3 November 2024
Spanning the career of artist Robert Tavener (1920-2004) this exhibition brings together a range of lithographs, linocuts and illustrations drawn from the collections held by Towner and Emma Mason.
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9 May to 15 September 2024
Melting Ice | Rising Tides is Emma Stibbon’s first large-scale show at a major UK institution and aims to act as a stark reminder that the seemingly remote events of polar ice sheet melt is directly connected with the changes that we are witnessing in our local, more familiar UK landscape.
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Exhibition in Studios 1 & 2
9 May to 16 June 2024Internationally renowned choreographer & visual artist Florence Peake presents a monumental painting installation that embodies her distinctive gestural, movement-marking techniques.
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Gallery 1
4 May to 8 September 2024Maria Amidu is the third artist in iniva’s Future Collect Commission partnership programme. The exhibition centres around 26,778,780 minutes, a new paper and text-based installation and accompanying sound piece which explores the dialogue between paper and writing.
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Towner Eastbourne is hosting the Turner Prize 2023, the world’s leading prize for contemporary art, as the centrepiece of our centenary celebrations. One of the best-known prizes for the visual arts in the world, the Turner Prize aims to promote public debate around new developments in contemporary British art.
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The Sculptor Speaks 27 May to 25 June 2023
Alongside our exhibition, Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life, you can view The Sculptor Speaks – a looped audio-visual work by artist and composer Olivia Louvel, based on an archival tape holding a 1961 talk by Barbara Hepworth, pre-recorded herself for use by the British Council.
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Art & Life 27 May to 3 September 2023
This exhibition, which has garnered rave reviews across the country after visits to Wakefield, Edinburgh and St Ives, will display some of Hepworth’s most celebrated sculptures including the modern abstract carving that launched her career in the 1920s and 1930s, her iconic strung sculptures of the 1940s and 1950s, and large-scale bronze and carved sculptures from later in her career.
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Mother Monster 19 May to 18 June 2023
The self-titled Nibble Bibble Duck Toes are a collective of year nine students from the Turing School exploring creative thinking and making in the lead up to Turner Prize 2023 at Towner. They are supported by artist Richard Phoenix.
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16 May to 4 June 2023
Wriggle Room: Open Studio is an installation of interactive artworks including costume, sculpture and animation that have been developed over the first 12 months of Towner’s early years programme.
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11 February to 14 May 2023
In Towner’s one-hundredth year, we present a selection of new acquisitions that have joined our permanent collection more recently, many of which are unseen, having not yet been displayed since being acquired.
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Play Interact Explore 7 February to 5 March 2023
Play Interact Explore is an exhibition of interactive artworks and resources developed in collaboration with community groups in Eastbourne and Brighton. A lively, exciting and curiosity-filled space designed to support and encourage visitors of all types to take part in playful exploration and critical thought through making.
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17 December 2022 to 28 August 2023
The Living Collection will consider Towner’s broad and varied history of collecting and exhibiting over the past one hundred years through a selection of paintings, prints and artifacts.
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16 July to 4 December 2022
Selected works from the Towner Collection bringing stories about forgotten or neglected queer histories to the surface, including works by Wilfred Avery, Edward Burra, Kathleen Walne, Cedric Morris, John Minton and Elizabeth Andrews.
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Duette 15 October 2022 to 22 January 2023
Ayo Akingbade presents a duo of films: 55 Days (2022) and Red Soleil (2021). These works reflect the aspirations and ambitions of an emerging artist navigating the challenges and opportunities of daily life.
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15 October 2022 to 22 January 2023
The second Brewers Towner International, an open call exhibition of contemporary visual art, returns to Towner Eastbourne, featuring both British and International artists.
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The Edge of Forever 20 September to 2 October 2022
David Blandy, as part of his upcoming artist’s residency at Towner Eastbourne, will be presenting a live collaborative immersive installation alongside an archive of his psychogeographical research.
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Tuning in a Vacuum 16 July, 7.00pm to 8.00pm & 17 July 2022, 12.00pm to 1.00pm
Tuning in a Vacuum by Rita Evans is a new work coming to Towner Eastbourne to coincide with the reopening of our newly designed ground floor spaces, currently undergoing major redevelopment as part of a series of capital works.
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2 July 2022
Andrea Mindel, a contemporary textile and multi-disciplinary artist based in the UK, carried out an intervention: WAR?! WHAT WAR? - How does one achieve eternal bliss? Using the traditional embroidery technique of goldwork, they sat at a traditional loom weaving a memorial blanket for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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11 June to 25 September 2022
A Life in Art & Reuniting the Twenties Group showcase pioneering female gallerist, Lucy Wertheim’s vast contribution to mid-20th century modern art, reuniting works from her collection and telling her own story and that of the artists that she fervently championed.
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Jananne Al-Ani curates the Towner Collection 12 February to 22 May 2022
Artist and guest curator Jananne Al-Ani has chosen works from the Towner Collection by a broad range of artists including Roni Horn, Marine Hugonnier, Peter Lanyon, Eric Ravilious, Jem Southam and Victor Pasmore, bringing together a range of prints, photographs, moving image works and paintings, displayed with two further works of her own, Excavators (2010) and Black Powder Peninsula (2016).
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Timelines 12 February to 22 May 2022
In an ambitious new moving image work, Jananne Al-Ani reveals a micro landscape within the surface of a museum object and employs testimony and storytelling to reflect on the relationship between Britain and Iraq.
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A Natural History 12 February to 3 July 2022
The work of the multi-skilled painter, printmaker, illustrator, and tapestry designer, Eileen Mayo (1906-1994) will be celebrated in a solo exhibition at Towner Eastbourne in 2022; her first in the UK.
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Liquid Gestures 16 October to 30 January 2022
Melissa Gordon (b.1981, Cambridge, USA) is an artist, curator, and writer, whose practice is concerned with the body, gesture, and painting, through the lens of feminism.
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Modernist Constructs 16 October to 30 January 2022
Modernist Constructs introduces and reveals Margaret Mellis’ artistic accomplishments and her importance within the British Modernist movement. This exhibition draws from Mellis’ extensive repertoire of work, spanning her career and illuminating the breadth of her practice.
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Iris 16 June to 8 September 2019
This exhibition reflects on the ideas surrounding how the optical iris works, moving from the intimate and unspoken to the communal, stretching to different times, reflective of the nature of painting itself.
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Mariana Castillo Deball curates the Towner Collection 29 May to 16 January 2022
Artist Mariana Castillo Deball has delved deep into the Towner Collection to discover works that have rarely been displayed and will present these alongside familiar and much-loved depictions of the Sussex landscape.
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Vertigo Sea 18 May 2021 to 26 September 2021
Vertigo Sea is a poetic and affecting meditation on man’s relationship with the sea, and its role in the history of slavery, migration, trade, and conflict.
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The Landscape of Love and Solace 8 April to 26 September 2021
Towner Eastbourne is pleased to present the most comprehensive major exhibition of work in over 50 years by John Nash, one of the most versatile and prolific artists of the 20th century.
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6 October 2020 to 11 April 2021
Towner International is a new biennial exhibition of contemporary art that will take place for the first time at Towner Eastbourne from 6 October 2020 to 11 April 2021.
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19 September 2020 to 16 May 2021
In this Towner exhibition, curated by the artists, Christine and Jennifer Binnie used their own work to complement pieces chosen from Towner’s Collection.
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Early Works 11 May to 31 August 2020
Towner are pleased to present a major exhibition Alan Davie (1920–2014) and David Hockney (b. 1937) that will explore the convergence between these two major figures of post-war British painting.
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This whole time there were no landmines 6 Mar 2020 to 31 May 2020
Lawrence Abu Hamdan's eight-monitor installation was presented at Towner Eastbourne with sound, using collected cell-phone-video footage from 2011 to document a ‘shouting valley’ that lies in the contested area of the Golan Heights, Syria.
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A curation by Caroline Lucas 23 November 2019 to 10 May 2020
Selecting from the 5000 works in Towner’s permanent Collection, Caroline Lucas' choices reflect and resonate with her passions and interests, from her environmental work, issues of climate change and effects on our landscape, to her love of living in Sussex.
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200 Seasons October to February 2019
200 Seasons is a major survey of Nash’s career from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring the different ways the artist has cut, carved and manipulated wood to produce work that crosses abstraction and figuration, yet always retains reference to the forms of the original tree and the unique qualities of the chosen material.
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Sedibeng, it comes with the rain July to October 2019
Towner presents the first solo exhibition in a UK public institution by Dineo Seshee Bopape. Born and based in South Africa, the award-winning artist addresses politics, race, spirituality, gender and sexuality.
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Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection 17 February to 2 June 2019
Anne Hardy’s work derives from places she calls ‘pockets of wild space’ – gaps in the urban space where materials, atmospheres, and emotions gather – using what she finds there to manifest sensory and unstable installation works that fully immerse you.
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Palais de Justice 16 February to 2 June 2019
Towner’s presentation of Carey Young’s Palais de Justice (2017) is the UK debut of the artist’s critically acclaimed video installation, which she filmed surreptitiously in the enormous and ornate Palais de Justice in Brussels.
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GUSH 10 November 2018 to 27 January 2019
GUSH is a new body of large-scale dynamic sound sculpture, film, wall-based works and a specially commissioned performance by British artist Hannah Perry.
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29 September to 6 January 2019
Best known for his vibrant, unsettling oil paintings of East London’s urban landscape and the disintegrating office blocks and shabby store fronts near his studio, Simon Ling’s exhibition for Towner Eastbourne showcases a new series of paintings created over the last year, alongside earlier works.
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An Arts Council Collection National Partners Exhibition 29 September to 6 January 2019
The Everyday and Extraordinary is a wide-ranging exhibition exploring the found object in modern and contemporary art. With work by over fifty international artists, the exhibition is a rich, playful and immersive celebration of the physicality of the object in our digital age, a cabinet of curiosities that spills out of Towner’s first floor gallery and into the public areas beyond.
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21 July to 30 September 2018
Towner Eastbourne’s open exhibition brings together the best artists from across East and West Sussex.
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with Omer Fast 5000 Feet is the Best 2 June to 30 September 2018
Towner is delighted to present At Altitude and 5000 is the Best, an exhibition and film installation exploring how our experience of landscape, space and territory has been transformed through new aerial perspectives of the world.
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25 May to 16 September 2018
Edward Stott: A Master of Colour and Atmosphere is a long overdue retrospective of artist Edward Stott (1855-1918), ‘the poet-painter of the twilight’ celebrated in his time for atmospheric, ethereal depictions of rural and biblical life.
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17 February to 13 May 2018
Towner Eastbourne presents Inhabit, inviting you to inhabit the gallery spaces as you move through three defined ‘settings’. Curated entirely using works from the Towner Collection.
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Natural Selection 2 February to 22 April 2018
Towner Eastbourne presents Natural Selection by the artist Andy Holden and his father, the well-known ornithologist Peter Holden. Exploring the history of birds’ nests and egg collecting through animation, video, sculpture, and music, Natural Selection marks the culmination of a five-year collaboration between Holden and his father, now on a national UK tour.
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Haroon Mirza curates the Arts Council Collection 20 January to 3 June 2018
Towner Art Gallery presents We stared at the Moon from the centre of the Sun, a new exhibition curated by internationally acclaimed artist Haroon Mirza with works from the Arts Council Collection, and interventions orchestrated by the artist and his studio hrm199, tracing the connections between them.
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