Towner Lates
Spring Edition

Brighton-based electronic duo Insides bring their immersive, atmospheric songs to our Studio 1 space, along with projected visuals created especially for the gig.

Hailed as a lost treasure, Insides’ Euphoria LP, released on record label 4AD in 1993, headed up the first wave of UK Post Rock and is still critically acclaimed.

Their most recent LP Soft Bonds, released in 2021, soundtracked runway shows by fashion houses Prada and J W Anderson.

Recent gigs include Brighton’s The Green Door Store, Ormside Projects and The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London supporting Norwegian ambient pop artist Jenny Hval.

“Insides’s music shimmers and tingles with the tantalizing promise of a different direction that U.K. pop could have gone: future-facing and fresh.” - Simon Reynolds, New York Times, Pitchfork etc.,

“A sound that's dew fresh, dawn dazzled and shot through with luscious darkness.” - Neil Kulkarni, The Wire

Insides will be supported by Hastings-based singer-songwriter Laura Fell, playing with her band music from her new EP ‘All The Work To Keep At Bay’, recorded with Mercury Prize-winning producer Mike Lindsay (LUMP, Tunng, Speech Debelle, Anna B Savage). 

Fell’s 2020 debut album 'Safe From Me' saw her noted as an artist of rare promise, gaining high profile press praise and featuring in end-of-year ‘Best Of’ lists.

In August 2024, she released the 'At Least I Tried’ EP, followed by May 2025’s ‘Talk It All Apart’ EP, a five-tracker recorded across a week in Berlin with musician Robert Kretzschmar.

For her latest EP, Fell’s emotional rigour and dedication to the craft of songwriting finds a perfect foil in Mike Lindsay – a collaborator extraordinaire, co-founder of UK acid folk band Tuung and one half of the electronic/alt-psych outfit LUMP with Laura Marling. For Fell, the resulting sonic shift is the next step in a fittingly mindful and self-possessed creative evolution.

“Fell’s alto is pure poetry” – Uncut Magazine (Album review - 8/10)

“With touches of classic pop and refined, artsy folk, Fell dazzles with effortlessly compelling songwriting” – Paste Magazine

“Song of the Day – Laura Fell is a force to be reckoned with… a strikingly self-assured introduction.” – The Line of Best Fit

Playing in Towner's upstairs restaurant/ bar will be Sam Brown a violinist and composer. Sam is a fiery energetic violinist whose solo work began with a loop pedal, where she experiments with different sounds, styles and rhythms that create a trance-like cyclic feel and transcend cultural boundaries.

Sam released an EP in 2021, Loop Sessions: Songs of the Good Old Days, and has played at Womens Voice Hastings and with London Jazz Orchestra and Nu Civilisation Orchestra. 

Fairy stories, subcultures and ancient traditions haunt our modern cultures and ideas, but are they joyful sprites or more malevolent tricksters?

In the shadow of the equinox, Toad Lickers Collective are crossing the downs for a Towner Lates takeover. Find your way through ethereal installations across the building to discover drop-in workshops exploring the light and dark sides of nostalgia, including:

Ground floor
Make a Paper Fortune Teller

Using prompts provided by Toad Lickers Collective, make a paper fortune teller and swap fates with a friend or stranger. Keep to take home or add to the fairy tree.

Second floor
Slime making workshop

Explore the simultaneously generative and destructive nature of slime, from its history as a symbol of childhood rebellion to potential future applications, like the neural-network slime mould that could replace computer algorithms.

Come along to set intentions for the new season, make an offering to the sprites and dream of touching grass.

An artist whose practice in moving image and sound takes experimental, formal, and research-led approaches to questions of temporal experience, cultural and ideological conditions, and materialities of recording media.

Their work is widely exhibited and broadcast, including at: FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video, FluxusMuseum, Greece (2024); FIELDNOTES: Slow Compression, Café OTO, London, and FN Sessions, Resonance FM (2022); Sp0re: Psychedelic Laughter, Platform Arts, Belfast (2019); Fort Process, Newhaven Fort (2018); What's Your Location?, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (2018); David Roberts Art Foundation X Art Night, London (2018); Stone Bodies, Red Sea: Judith Noble, Charlotte Prodger & Frances Young, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (2017).

Frances holds a PhD in Fine Art (Royal College of Art, 2024) and is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Brighton.

Australian-born and now based in East Sussex, Renee Vaughan Sutherland is an artist working across film, video, performance, print, and expanded cinema. Her practice investigates how bodies and landscapes hold and transmit narrative, examining the ways we project onto one another, onto place, and into collective imagination. Collaboration and community engagement sit at the core of her approach.

For more than a decade, she has presented films, performances, and exhibitions across the UK and Europe, including at the BFI London, Focal Point Gallery, Towner Eastbourne, Camden Arts Centre, Muzeum Kinematografii in Poland, and The Palace International Film Festival. Her projects often occupy the space between moving image and live experience, inviting audiences to reflect on how they inhabit space and how space, in turn, shapes them.

Emily Hawes is an artist working with 8mm and 16mm film to unearth entanglements between people, place and ecologies. She undertakes fieldwork, braiding poetic, embodied and speculative forms of storytelling. Her films unfold slowly and she is often drawn to stories or subjects which occupy the peripheries or edges. Recently, she has been hand-processing film at home, using alternative photochemical developers such as caffenol (supported by bursaries from a-n and Curatorspace). 

She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art MFA programme in 2014 and her work has been shown at KnotWorks (Southbrough), SPUDWorks (New Forest), Auction House (Redruth), The Old Waterworks (Southend), MK Gallery (Milton Keynes), OUTPOST (Norwich), Modern Painters New Decorators (Loughborough), amongst others. She works as a Lecturer and course leader on the BA(Hons) Fine Art course at Northbrook College in Worthing.

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Our three exhibitions will be open late and free with your Lates ticket for you to enjoy:

A rare opportunity to see J.M.W. Turner at his most experimental and gestural during the 250th anniversary of his birth year.

Sussex-based artist Poppy Jones presents her first institutional solo exhibition at Towner. Best known for her timeless still life paintings, Jones debuts several new works that focus our attention on the subtle poetry of the everyday.

A must-see for fans of Eric Ravilious and newcomers alike, this new and bespoke space features an expanded display of Ravilious’ works from the Towner Collection.