Exhibition

Brewers Towner International

15 Oct 2022 – 22 Jan 2023

Regular hours

Saturday
10:00 – 17:00
Sunday
10:00 – 17:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 17:00
Thursday
10:00 – 17:00
Friday
10:00 – 17:00

Free admission

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Towner Eastbourne

Eastbourne
England, United Kingdom

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  • The 3 (local service) and 12A (from Brighton) stop near the Winter Gardens on Carlisle Rd.
  • Eastbourne Train Station
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Brewers Towner International, a biennial exhibition of contemporary visual arts, returns to Towner Eastbourne, featuring a range of artists, local, national and international, coming together to share work that addresses the theme of SANCTUARY.

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In SANCTUARY, paintings and drawings exploring ideas of memory, trauma, healing and collaboration will be exhibited alongside newspaper clippings embellished with floral patterns - transforming images of fear and violence into imaginary ecosystems. Considerations of the natural environment and its resilience are captured in large-scale paintings of a WWII-era pillbox engulfed by tree roots on the banks of the Medway river. Observations of routine and handcrafting, and ideas of the body as archive - a repository of history and site of resistance, will be presented in film and video works. Sculptural installations responding to architectural histories and ideas of exposure, vulnerability, light and shadow, will be shown alongside photographs of cinnamon stick structures reflecting childhood memories of Morocco and feelings of homesickness. Locations along the Sussex coast will feature in a series of works on paper, based on local landing points for those seeking asylum.

The artists include:

Nigel Caple, Sharon Haward, Kevin Hendley and Benjamin Phillips & Amy Fenton, East Sussex.

Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone, Hicham Gardaf, and Edward Liddle, Kent.

Maud Haya-Baviera, Sheffield.

Ufuoma Essi, Melanie Jackson, Amanda Kyritsopoulou, Dene Leigh, Karen Russo, Lara Smithson and Harald Smykla, London.

Christophe Lennox, Norway.

Steph Goodger, France.

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