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Image: Simon Ling, Untitled, 2016, Oil on canvas
Exhibition
Simon Ling
13 Oct 2018 – 27 Jan 2019
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
Address
- Devonshire Park
- College Road
- Eastbourne
England - BN21 4JJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The 3 (local service) and 12A (from Brighton) stop near the Winter Gardens on Carlisle Rd.
- Eastbourne Train Station
About
Towner presents an exhibition of new and recent works by Simon Ling, the artist’s first solo presentation in a UK public institution. Simon Ling’s paintings draw our attention to the way our experience of the world is created through a sustained attentiveness to how we look at it.
His paintings are generally made both ‘en-plein air’, where his subject matter is found in nondescript urban or rural landscapes, or in his studio where he constructs tableaux of everyday objects. Across all his paintings, as in his most recent work – a series of paintings made from observing an arrangement of logs – we see an intense engagement with perception and the painting process where his concern is to register an emotional equivalence of the visual world accessed and described through intense scrutiny.
These paintings emphasise not just what an object looks like or what its material qualities might be, but the dynamic process of seeing, remembering and the act of painting.
