Towner Lates
Autumn Edition
Event
Music meets visual art at Towner’s after hours series
Friday 20 November
7.00pm to 10.00pm
£6 advance / £12 on the door
+14 unless accompanied by an adult
Live Music | Artist Workshops | Film | Food | Exhibitions
Music meets visual art in Towner’s late-night series, with the autumn edition featuring the audio-visual duo Mermaid Chunky bringing their pastoral electronica, playful performances and seriously arousing sax solos to Towner’s Studio 1, supported by Elisha Edwards and her band, and in our restaurant Light – the singer Liz Overs.
Throughout rest of the building, explore site-specific interventions and drop-in workshops by Henry Murphy of Eastbourne Sketchbook Club and Maddie Hennessy of SlimpyStudio. You can also Enjoy food and drink by Light and immerse yourself in artist films curated by Devonshire Collective’s Volta Artists’ Moving Image.
Ticket price includes free entry to all exhibitions which will be open until 9.00pm, featuring artwork by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Eric Ravilious and Ryan Gander.
Live Music (Studio 1, Ground floor)
Mermaid Chunky. Photography by Simon Pizzey, costumes by Mermaid Chunky and Liberty Ray
Elisha Edwards
Mermaid Chunky +
Mermaid Chunky
Mermaid Chunky. The danceable, costumed, curiosity rich duo of artists Freya Tate and Moina Moin are as imaginative as they profess. Or, to get more to the point, as we all need them to be.
Freya and Moina are two visual artists and musicians from Stroud and South London who have steadily bewitched more and more villages, towns and cities with their blend of funky and pastoral electronica, sculpture visuals and colourful entourage. This is a party, a collective dance, made all the better with more: people, ideas, layers, kick drums, recorders, saxophones, frogs.
“Stunning.” – Clash
“A beautifully ritualistic trance.” - The Guardian
Elisha Edwards +
Elisha Edwards
Based in Hastings, up-and-coming singer-songwriter Elisha Edwards’s rich, soulful tones and enthralling stage presence pull you in and refuse to let go.
Weaving together soul, jazz, and R&B into her original music, Elisha draws straight from her inner world — writing with raw authenticity and vulnerability.
Liz Overs +
Liz Overs
Liz Overs is a songwriter and singer of traditional folk. She’ll be performing with guitarist David Tomlins, including traditional songs with a local history.
Liz presented Mostly Folk for five years, a monthly radio show with a focus on the traditions, social history, folklore and folk music of Sussex. She sang for Dylan Howitt's award winning The Nettle Dress documentary, opening at key UK screenings and is a Downland walks leader.
Her solo album Nightjar was made with Neill MacColl, Ben Nicholls and David Tomlins. It came out last year. The Observer (Neil Spencer) described it as ‘a shimmering debut rich in folklore.’ MOJO ****
Liz Overs. Photo by Allan Brown (from video shoot with Dylan Howitt).
Workshops and Interventions by Eastbourne Sketchbook Club and SlimpyStudio (Across the building)
Join artists Henry Murphy of Eastbourne Sketchbook Club and Maddie Hennessy of Slimpy Studio for a series of drop-in creative drawing, tracing and looking activities and interventions exploring the process of sketching and experimentation. Absolutely no drawing experience required!
Ground floor
Reportage drawing
Draw the many layers of music, films and people of the Towner Lates, thinking about how a scene can be split up and colour used to ground and observe.
Second floor
Creative life-drawing
A drop-in life drawing class filled with props, costumes and unexpected surprises. Be inspired by our various prompts and try out new drawing methods.
Top floor
Window tracing
Trace the environment outside Towner onto the upstairs window of the gallery itself!
Lift
A pop-up installation of drawings and work from Eastbourne Sketchbook Club.
Henry Murphy
Henry Murphy is a Sussex-based illustrator, animator and facilitator, interested in the act of drawing, as a form of process and visual documentation. His practice focuses on drawing as a grounding and processing technique, and as a tool for keeping art as accessible as possible, highlighting the fun and creative process of making rather than the finalised product.
Maddie Hennessy
A mixed media artist based in Eastbourne, Maddie aka SlimpyStudio, makes work centred around the mind, the feminine experience and spirituality. Having graduated from Kingston University in 2023 with a degree in Illustration Animation, Maddie now works as an artist, exhibiting her work across Sussex. Outside of her studio practice, Maddie also works as a workshop facilitator and graphic recorder.
Eastbourne Sketchbook Club
SlimpyStudio
Film - Towner Cinema
A looped playlist of films playing throughout the evening at Towner Cinema, curated by Devonshire Collective’s Volta Artists’ Moving Image.
Films presented include Pier by Keira Greene and Family Tides by Maddie Lock with one more to be announced.
Keira Greene is an artist working with film, photography and installation. Her work is preoccupied with the social and organic life and landscape of specific environments. Her work is produced through a collaborative and conversational practice of looking, writing and forming enduring relationships. Recent works are concerned with ideas of the body and the experience of emotion, in dialogue with an embodied filmmaking practice.
Recent screenings and exhibitions include Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London (2026), LUX, London (2026), Close-Up, London (2026), The Model, Sligo (2025), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2025).
Maddie Lock (they/them) is a BAFTA and BFI supported filmmaker and programmer from Eastbourne who works across the South Coast. Their films explore seaside and folk based histories, with an interest in sharing stories from underrepresented voices. Maddie is also the founder of Worm Factory, an LGBTQ+ led film production and events organisation seeking to create accessible spaces for people to connect.
Still from Pier
Still from Family Tides
Exhibitions
Our three exhibitions will be open late and free for you to enjoy with your Lates ticket: Ryan Gander: Maybe, a solo exhibition of work by artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan and The Ravilious Collection.
