The exhibition, Melting Ice/Rising Tides, looks at the warming environment of the polar regions and the impact this is ultimately having on the changing UK coastline, focussing on the Sussex shoreline local to Towner.

Laura Aldridge’s extraordinary installation LAWNMOWER creates a space “Where materiality might absorb or encourage certain feelings.” The work combines luscious colour and sensual texture with handmade and collaged qualities. Richly glazed ceramics, elements sculpted in modroc and fishing floats are illuminated among soft folds of fabric. Aldridge creates a “Push and pull between dualities, such as […]

Dame Magdalene Odundo's artistry is renowned for its fusion of historical and contemporary influences, exploring themes of diasporic identity and the symbolic significance of objects. Throughout the exhibition, Odundo's handcrafted sculptures, often evocative of the human form, are strategically placed to accentuate their diverse cultural references. A centrepiece of the display is a monumental ceramic […]

An exhibition of photographs by Nan Goldin showing some of her earliest work. These photographs date from 1972 to 1974 and inspired the direction of her work for the subsequent fifty years. The black-and-white images commemorate Goldin’s closest friends, members of Boston’s transgender community, with whom she shared an apartment.  Conveying the beauty, glamour, vulnerability, […]

The Third Drawer, is an exhibition by the multidisciplinary photographer and filmmaker Lisa Jahovic. The exhibition incorporates all different media within the artist’s work - video, photography, and sculpture. The presentation explores the performative dimensions of photography, sculpture and film through non-linear narratives formed by everyday objects. Showcasing a series of pre-existing artworks and a […]

This major new exhibition, Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland, brings together the work of these two cultural icons for the very first time. In the exhibition fleshly excesses are explored in pairings that underscore their works as playful and political.  In pairing their work, including archival materials which have never been seen by the public, […]

This exhibition explores the gardens of the Bloomsbury group, Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors, centres on four extraordinary women and the green spaces they surrounded themselves with: writer Virginia Woolf and her garden at Monk’s House; her sister artist Vanessa Bell, whose garden and studio was at nearby Charleston; arts patron and photographer Lady Ottoline Morrell, […]

Spanning 400 years, this exhibition, Now You See us: Women Artists in Britain 1520 - 1921, follows women on their journeys to becoming professional artists. From Tudor times to the First World War, artists such as Mary Beale, Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight paved a new artistic path for generations of women. They challenged what it meant to be […]

Through a visual language of organic shape and linear structure, Suyi Xu creates a dialogue between the built world and wonder in nature. Her paintings bridge inner and outer worlds. The devotional architecture of gates, cathedrals and cloisters holds intuitive, often mirrored, line and shade patterns of symmetry like butterflies or pine cones, shells or […]

This show by Dayanita Singh, explores in part the intersection of photography and architecture, it includes a major series of wall-based pieces as well as a structural installation.

An exhibition of innovative collage work from venerated artists Helen Frankenthaler, Nancy Grossman, Grace Hartigan, Lilly Fenichel, Perle Fine, Betty Parsons, Sonja Sekula, Yvonne Thomas, and Michael (Corinne) West in an exceptional survey of Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition, Montage, delivers a shrewd exploration of Abstract Expressionism via a curatorial focus on assemblage, collage, and non-canvas artworks, […]

Phantom, is an exhibition of recent paintings and sculptures by Raphaela Simon.  Throughout her career, Simon sought to capture the ineffable on canvas. Even when painting a seemingly neutral subject, such as an abstract shape or an inanimate object, Simon is looking for the tension or “the hidden power beneath the surface.” In her recent works, […]

The Famous Women Dinner Service is a collection of 50 hand-decorated plates by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, celebrating famous women throughout history. The portraits, subdivided into Women of Letters, Queens, Beauties, Dancers and Actresses – include George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, 10th-century Japanese poet Murasaki and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (pictured with her spaniel Flush); the […]

The Shape of Things, questions the idea that still life is a lesser genre, showing how important it is to artists and society. Featuring a ‘Who’s Who’ of Modern and Contemporary British artists, the exhibition digs into still life’s rich symbolism and how it has pushed boundaries and new ideas. The exhibition shifts from 17th-century […]

An exhibition of recent works by Emma Haggas.

A survey of Makiko Nakamura’s most recent work completed over the last two years working from her studio in Kyoto. Richly layered with colours and pigments, Makiko's latest work, Stars are Born, continues her meticulous and rigorous process through which she uncovers the emotional content of each painting.

The exhibition title, Orí Inú comes from the Yoruba Metaphysical conception “Orí’ which translates to the head and refers to one's spiritual destiny. Using the calabash as a metaphor, Orí Inú depicts the artist’s attempts to mend the break between her mind and spirit. It thereby demonstrates how reconnecting with one's inner spirit is both […]

Our planet and how humankind shapes and transforms is the subject of Sophie Bouvier Ausländer's artistic research. For Fishing the World, as the title indicates, the artist remains true to her exploration of our planet. The exhibition showcases pieces from her latest series entitled Call Me Ishmael, taking its name from the opening sentence of […]

Hannah Starkey’s large-scale photographs engage with how women are represented in contemporary culture. Her portraits capture moments of everyday life and an expanded female experience. Starkey reveals women in moments of private reflection or social interaction that might otherwise go unseen.  The large scale of her images offer monumentality to these instances.

For her inaugural exhibition, We Come From Fire and Return to Fire, Otobong Nkanga presents new sculptural objects, tapestries and a sound installation, as well as wall-hung and floor-based works,  combining materials as diverse as clay, rope, glass, wood, textiles, oils and herbs. As an evocation of natural environments, Nkanga incorporates the images and properties of […]