Familiar Visions                                                                    Eric and James Ravilious: Father and Son

3 July - 5 September

£5.50 / £4 concessions / under 16s free

Though Eric Ravilious died at war only a few years after his son James was born, parallels can be seen between the artistic practice of father and son.  For Towner’s summer exhibition, the work of Eric Ravilious is shown alongside that of his son James for the very first time. 

Familiar Visions showcases Eric Ravilious’s Sussex landscape paintings alongside James’s photographs of rural Devon, revealing a deep-seated love of the land inherent to both. 

Towner has long been associated with Eric Ravilious and is renowned for holding what is thought to be the largest single collection of his work.  The exhibition includes major loans and little seen works from private collections, as well as key works from the Towner Collection.

A Walk in the Park: Images of the South Downs

1 May - 26 September

Entry Free

Towner’s latest permanent collection display, A Walk in the Park is a celebration of East Sussex’s breathtaking natural landscape, in honour of the South Downs’ new National Park status. The display includes a selection of traditional and contemporary art works from Towner’s renowned collection.

A Walk in the Park features paintings from the original Towner bequest alongside works by artists including Henry Hine, Ethelbert White, Robert Tavener and Edward Stott, as well as more recent works by Julian La Bas and photographer Jem Southam.

Upcoming exhibitions                                                      ARTIST ROOMS : Robert Mapplethorpe

 25 September - 21 November

Entry Free

Provocateur. Innovator. Icon. This autumn, Towner will play host to the South Coast's first ever exhibition of work by one of the most significant photographers of the 20th Century, Robert Mapplethorpe.

ARTIST ROOMS at Towner will feature over 50 of Mapplethorpe's most defining works from the 1970s and 1980s.