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Towner Eastbourne

Towner Eastbourne

Upcoming

Exhibition

Paule Vézelay: Living Lines

14 May-31 Aug 2025

Exhibition

Sussex Modernism

22 May-28 Sep 2025

Exhibition

Nigel Hall RA: Here and Now, There and Then

16 Nov-2 Mar 2025

Past

Exhibition
Nigel Hall RA: Here and Now, There and Then
16 Nov-2 Mar 2025
Talks & Events
In Conversation: Gerard Byrne and Brian Dillon (Online)
19 Feb 2025
2024
Exhibition
Drawing the Unspeakable: Curated by David Dimbleby & Liza Dimbleby
5 Oct 2024-27 Apr 2025
Exhibition
Gerard Byrne: Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli - Film inside an image
21 Sep 2024-21 Apr 2025
Exhibition
Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice | Rising Tides
9 May-15 Sep 2024
Exhibition
Florence Peake: FACTUAL ACTUAL Ensemble
9 May-16 Jun 2024
Exhibition
Maria Amidu: in the perpetual back and forth
4 May-8 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
Barbara Walker: In-conversation with Craig Ashley at The Birley Centre
6 Apr 2024
Talks & Events
Jesse Darling: Material Histories at The Birley Centre
16 Mar 2024
Talks & Events
Turner Prize Curator Talk
13 Mar 2024
Talks & Events
Ghislaine Leung: Questions at The Birley Centre
24 Feb 2024
Talks & Events
Rory Pilgrim and Robyn Haddon: An afternoon of songs and words
3 Feb 2024
Talks & Events
Turner Prize Curator Talk
27 Jan 2024
2023
Exhibition
Turner Prize 2023
28 Sep 2023-14 Apr 2024
Exhibition
Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life
27 May-3 Sep 2023
Exhibition
Olivia Louvel: The Sculptor Speaks
27 May-25 Jun 2023
Exhibition
TOWNER 100: Unseen
11 Feb-14 May 2023
Exhibition
Leap Then Look: Play Interact Explore
7 Feb-5 Mar 2023
2022
Exhibition
TOWNER 100: The Living Collection
17 Dec 2022-28 Aug 2023
Exhibition
Ayo Akingbade: Duette
15 Oct 2022-22 Jan 2023
Exhibition
Brewers Towner International
15 Oct 2022-22 Jan 2023
Exhibition
Cruising the Collection
16 Jul-4 Dec 2022
2017
Exhibition
Becky Beasley : Ous
29 Apr-9 Jul 2017
Exhibition
The Museum of Art
4 Feb-17 Apr 2017
Exhibition
A Certain Kind Of Light : Light In Art Over Six Decades
21 Jan-7 May 2017
2016
Exhibition
Arts in Mind : Festive Open Studio
15 Dec 2016
Exhibition
Poets Respond to Paintings
10 Dec 2016
Exhibition
One Day, Something Happens Exhibition Walk & Talk
17 Nov 2016
Exhibition
The Re-emergence of Caspar David Friedrich
12 Nov 2016
Exhibition
Jennifer Higgie
5 Nov 2016
Exhibition
Dusk to Dawn
29 Oct-30 Oct 2016
Exhibition
Bog Bodies
21 Oct 2016
Exhibition
Jarman Award : Free Film Screenings
15 Oct-19 Oct 2016
Exhibition
Mikhail Karikis
15 Oct 2016
Exhibition
One Day Something Happens : Paintings of People
15 Oct 2016-8 Jan 2017
Exhibition
Towards Night : Curator's Walk & Talk
13 Oct 2016
Exhibition
Towards Night : Curated by Tom Hammick
24 Sep 2016-22 Jan 2017
Exhibition
Tiny Towner
6 Sep 2016-25 Apr 2017
Exhibition
Curator's Walk & Talk David Bomberg: A Sense of Place
25 Aug 2016
Exhibition
Film: The Goddess, 1934
21 Aug 2016
Exhibition
Art Store Tour
21 Aug 2016
Exhibition
Philip Hoare
13 Aug 2016
Exhibition
Some Are Nights Others Stars
23 Jul-25 Sep 2016
Exhibition
East Sussex Open 2016
23 Jul-25 Sep 2016
Exhibition
David Bomberg : A Sense of Place
9 Jul-11 Sep 2016
Exhibition
Melanie Manchot : People Places Propositions
16 Apr-10 Jul 2016
Exhibition
Annual Schools exhibition : Walking the line
24 Mar-5 Jun 2016
Exhibition
Ravilious Room
6 Feb-26 Jun 2016
Exhibition
Recording Britain : V&A Touring Exhibition
6 Feb-26 Jun 2016
Exhibition
Art from Elsewhere : AFI Touring exhibition
23 Jan-3 Apr 2016
2015
Exhibition
John Napier : Stages, Beyond the Fourth Wall
29 Nov 2015-31 Jan 2016
Exhibition
Jarman Award : Touring Programme
5 Nov-8 Nov 2015
Exhibition
Julian Germain : The Future is Ours
10 Oct 2015-3 Jan 2016
Exhibition
North to South
12 Sep 2015-24 Jan 2016
Exhibition
William Gear 1915-1997 : The Painter that Britain forgot
18 Jul-27 Sep 2015
Exhibition
East Sussex Open 2015
11 Jul-20 Sep 2015
Exhibition
A Radical View : William Gear as Curator 1958-64
9 May-31 Aug 2015
Exhibition
Richard Billingham : Panoramic
25 Apr-21 Jun 2015
Exhibition
Our Place : Annual Schools Exhibition
27 Mar-31 May 2015
Exhibition
Ori Gersht
7 Feb-26 Apr 2015
Exhibition
Ravilious Room
18 Jan 2015-1 Jan 2016
Exhibition
John Virtue : The Sea
17 Jan-12 Apr 2015
2014
Exhibition
Frames of Mind : UV Animation Workshop
14 Dec 2014
Exhibition
Frames of Mind : Build a Puppet From Aluminium Wire & Balsa Woood
13 Dec 2014
Exhibition
Christmas Wreath Workshop
13 Dec 2014
Exhibition
Land & Sea : Curator Sara Cooper Walk & Talk
11 Dec 2014-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Frames of Mind : Knitted Puppets & Stop Motion Animation
7 Dec 2014
Exhibition
Frames of Mind : Knitted Puppets & Stop Motion Animation
6 Dec 2014
Exhibition
Susan Hiller : Artist Talk
6 Dec 2014
Exhibition
Frames of Mind
2 Dec-14 Dec 2014
Exhibition
Uriel Orlow in ConversationWith Chris Fite-Wassilak
29 Nov 2014
Exhibition
Ghost Worlds
28 Nov 2014
Exhibition
Twixt Two Worlds :Curator Gaia Tedone Walk & Talk
18 Nov 2014
Exhibition
An Evening of Experimental Film
15 Nov 2014
Exhibition
Double Vertigo
9 Nov 2014-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Jane & Louise WilsonIn Conv with Elisabetta Fabrizi
8 Nov 2014
Exhibition
Jarman Award Talk : John Akomfrah
2 Nov 2014
Exhibition
2014 Jarman Award
11 Oct-2 Nov 2014
Exhibition
Twixt Two Worlds
11 Oct 2014-4 Jan 2015
Exhibition
Ravilious Room
13 Sep 2014-2 Mar 2015
Exhibition
Land and Sea
13 Sep 2014-25 Jan 2015
Exhibition
Peggy Angus
12 Jul-21 Sep 2014
Exhibition
East Sussex Open 2014
4 Jul-14 Sep 2014
Exhibition
Designing the Everyday : from Ravilious to the present day
17 May-31 Aug 2014
Exhibition
Annual Schools Exhibition : Our South Downs
3 May-16 Jun 2014
Exhibition
United Visual Artists : Vanishing Point
18 Apr-22 Jun 2014
Exhibition
Near Dark
8 Feb-4 May 2014
Exhibition
John Skoog : Redoubt
25 Jan-6 Apr 2014
2013
Exhibition
WONDERLAND
2 Nov 2013-26 Jan 2014
Exhibition
CHIHARU SHIOTA : OTHER SIDE
11 Oct 2013-5 Jan 2014
Exhibition
Portraits in the Towner Collection
15 Jul-13 Oct 2013
Exhibition
Dependent Rational Animals
14 Jul-22 Sep 2013
Exhibition
The Lyons Teashops Lithographs : Art in a Time of Austerity
13 Jul-22 Sep 2013
Exhibition
Fiona Rae : Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century
27 Apr-23 Jun 2013
Exhibition
Kelly Richardson : Legion
2 Feb-14 Apr 2013
2012
Exhibition
Bon hiver : A journey through the winter landscape
1 Dec 2012-3 Mar 2013
Exhibition
The Edge in Landscape
14 Jul-30 Sep 2012
Exhibition
Harold Mockford: A Retrospective of a Sussex Painter
14 Jul-30 Sep 2012
Exhibition
A Point of Departure
12 May-11 Nov 2012
Exhibition
This Is...
12 May-10 Jun 2012
Exhibition
Willie Doherty : Disturbance
21 Apr-24 Jun 2012
Exhibition
East Sussex Open 2012
24 Mar-29 Apr 2012
Exhibition
COLLECTIVE OBSERVATIONS: FOLKLORE & PHOTOGRAPHY
1 Jan 2012-13 Jan 2013
2011
Exhibition
New Eyes
22 Oct 2011-22 Apr 2012
Exhibition
FRANZISKA FURTER: stray currents
8 Oct 2011-2 Jan 2012
Exhibition
COMPULSIVE, OBSESSIVE, REPETITIVE
2 Jul-18 Sep 2011
Exhibition
JOHN PIPER IN KENT & SUSSEX
2 Jul-25 Sep 2011
Exhibition
The Art of Giving
9 Apr-9 Oct 2011
Exhibition
East Sussex Open
2 Apr-2 May 2011
Exhibition
Elizabeth Magill : Green Light Wanes...
26 Mar-19 Jun 2011
2010
Exhibition
Here, there, everywhere
12 Dec 2010-27 Mar 2011
Exhibition
Tomoaki Suzuki solo exhibition
11 Dec 2010-6 Mar 2011
Exhibition
FAMILIAR VISIONS
3 Jul-5 Sep 2010
Exhibition
Talk & Walk with Angela Kingston
15 May 2010
Exhibition
WISH YOU COULD HEAR
8 May-6 Jun 2010
Exhibition
PIERS & PROMENADES
8 May-31 May 2010
Exhibition
EAST SUSSEX OPEN
3 Apr-3 May 2010
2009
Exhibition
WATCHING YOU. CHOOSING ART. WATCHING US.
1 Dec 2009-3 Jan 2010
Exhibition
DIANA THATER: TIGERS AND OTHER PEOPLE
26 Sep 2009-3 Jan 2010
Exhibition
A DIFFERENT VIEW
10 Sep 2009-11 Apr 2010
Exhibition
UNDERWATER
3 Sep 2009-20 Jun 2010
Exhibition
Sanna Moore on 'In the Eyes of Others' by Jodie Carey
3 Sep 2009
Exhibition
THE DARK MONARCH : Magic and Modernity in British Art
1 Sep 2009-21 Mar 2010
Exhibition
Sara Cooper on 'Foundations'
27 Aug 2009
Exhibition
TALK : Jeremy Millar on 'FOUNDATIONS'
15 Aug 2009
Exhibition
FOUNDATIONS
11 Jul-20 Sep 2009
Exhibition
JODIE CAREY: IN THE EYES OF OTHERS
11 Jul-13 Sep 2009
Exhibition
PEOPLE'S CHOICE
4 Apr-31 Aug 2009
Exhibition
IVÁN NAVARRO : NOWHERE MAN
4 Apr-20 Jun 2009
2000
Exhibition
Gibson / Martelli (igloo) : VISITOR
1 Jan 2000-1 Apr 2012
Exhibition
A WALK IN THE PARK: IMAGES OF THE SOUTH DOWNS
1 Jan 2000-26 Sep 2010

Artists represented

Emma Stibbon

British, b. 1962

Artists shown

Ayo Akingbade

British, b. 1994

Gerard Byrne

Irish, b. 1969

Barbara Hepworth

British, 1903-1975

Olivia Louvel

British

Florence Peake

British, b. 1973

About

Collecting and exhibiting contemporary art for almost 100 years, Towner Eastbourne sits where the coast and the South Downs meet. Towner presents exhibitions of national and international importance for audiences in Eastbourne, the UK, and beyond, showcasing the most exciting and creative developments in modern and contemporary art.

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Accessible toilet
Gender neutral toilet
Assistive audio
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Book shop
Cafe
Cloakroom

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