The new Cultural Centre under development. Hayley Skipper’s work “Right of Entry” can be seen cut into the hoarding.
On Saturday 18th August we donned yellow waistcoats, hard hats and boots for our tour of the new Eastbourne Cultural Centre. The event was organised by The Towner Art Gallery in partnership with Blue Monkey Studio. Matthew Rowe, Artistic Director, took us round the spaces of the new building – some for showing the Towner Collection, other spaces large enough for huge international shows.
Hannah Chiswell’s public walk from the old Towner to the new site; Samuel Dowd’s “The Visible and the Invisible” installed at The Congress Theatre, and Amy Cunningham’s “Light Music”. Photos by Rob Walker.
Afterwards in the adjoining Congress Suite, we listened to members of SpRoUt, an interdisciplinary collective of artists, talk about their year-long project with Eastbourne schools as part of The Space Between project. SpRoUt were commissioned by The Towner Art Gallery to develop this ambitious public art project in partnership with local schools as part of the Building Sights programme, a series of ongoing events to raise awareness of the Towner’s relocation to Eastbourne Cultural Centre.
The SpRoUt artists showed a slideshow of the work they had produced including “How to begin” by Hannah Chiswell, “The Visible and the Invisible”, by Samuel Dowd, “Light Music” by Amy Cunningham and “Right of Entry” by Hayley Skipper.
We completed the afternoon by serving wine and giving everyone the opportunity to talk to each other.
See www.newtownertrust.org.uk/news and www.sproutart.co.uk
