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| Established | 1920 (bequest) |
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| Location | College Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex |
| Visitors | 110,000 (2012)[1] |
| Website | Towner Art Gallery |
Towner Eastbourne (formerly Towner Art Gallery) is an art gallery located in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on the south coast of England. In 2019, German artist Lothar Götz was chosen from a call out to design a mural for the building's exterior. Götz transformed the exterior walls of the gallery with his large-scale, colourful geometric artwork, Dance Diagonal.[2]
Towner is celebrating its centenary year in 2023, and will be hosting the Turner Prize.
The gallery hosts one of the most significant public art collections in the South of England and draws over 100,000 visitors a year. It was described by ITV News as "the region's biggest art gallery", in 2017.[3]
It was established with a bequest in 1920, from John Chisholm Towner who had served as a local alderman. It was first homed in Manor Gardens, adjacent to Gildredge Park in the Old Town area of Eastbourne. Opening there in 1923, it closed when the building was sold in 2005. In 2009, it re-opened in a purpose-built facility adjacent to the Congress Theatre, near Eastbourne's seafront. The venue will host the 2023 Turner Prize.[4]
- ^ Towner prepares for a new future, Towner, 1 December 2012, retrieved 19 June 2015
- ^ "Lothar Götz".
- ^ "Funding cuts threaten region's biggest art gallery".
- ^ Tate. "Turner Prize 2023 | Towner Eastbourne". Tate. Retrieved 8 November 2022.