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The Funnest Room In The House is a portal back to ancestral homelands of the African and Caribbean diaspora by multi-disciplinary artist Anna Maria Nabirye, celebrating the role of kitchens as rooms to eat, share memories, create culture, and foster belonging.

The BN9 Programme is a vibrant calendar of exhibitions, workshops and events that take place at the Marine Workshops & the Sidings courtyard on Newhaven’s east quay.

Towner is collaborating with Cromer Artspace on The Bigger Picture, an outdoor art exhibition that brings masterpieces from major national and regional galleries onto the streets of Cromer, making high-quality art accessible to everyone in the community.

The Collections & Acquisitions Committee was established in 2024, providing career development opportunities for under 30s and increasing accessibility to the Towner Collection through transparency of working processes and practices.

Collaborative, creative sessions every Tuesday during term time, working with Willingdon Trees Community Centre and Towner to develop activities for Early Years groups and their carers across Eastbourne.

A summer of workshops delving into the ecology of East Sussex through creative play and exploration led by Daisy Stewart Darling.

Towner's youth collective and artists Dana Brass and Babalola Yusuf ask for our creative responses to the myth of the elusive Banana Shark!

How Sussex Speaks was a programme of Family Day takeovers with artists Ruby Campion and Yanaelle Ritter.

A two-day open studio event in Summer 2024 developed by Towner youth collective Banana Sharks and artists Dana Brass and Babalola Yusuf.

Artist-led exploration, collaboration and making at Towner led by artist Sam Ayre.

Testing new ways of delivering intergenerational workshops with artist Amy Leung by taking up space, building creative confidence and celebrating joy!

Creative sessions developed in collaboration with Willingdon Trees to deliver monthly artist-led sessions promoting positive mental health through creativity for young people.

The Elephant in the Room was a temporary installation in a vacant shop space 214 Terminus Road in Eastbourne. 10 artist members of the Arts in Mind group took part showing a mix of painting, collage, sculpture, animation, slides and installation.

Towner and Eastbourne ALIVE have collaborated to deliver bespoke visits to Turner Prize 2023 and artist-led workshops in schools.

Towner's partnered with artist Richard Phoenix and Nibble Bibble Duck Toes from The Turing School to develop a student resource for Turner Prize 2023!

Laura Ribbons and Lucie MacGregor develop family workshops responding to their practice and local landscapes, testing our new studio spaces with materials, mess and making.

Throughout 2023 Towner Eastbourne is partnering with iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) for the third and final year of Future Collect, a project that will reimagine the future of public collections to better reflect our culturally diverse society.

In a half-day workshop, artist Katy Beinart and writer Lizzie Lloyd spoke through some of the issues raised within their current project Acts of Transfer. They were joined by Beverley Bennett and Benjamin A Owen, both working in engaged practice as artists and filmmakers. Together they hosted an afternoon inviting artists to experience the ‘working out’ of these questions together.

Forty-eight artists based in Sussex and Kent have been selected via an open call to come together over four weeks to share space, ideas and processes and support each other in generating new artworks.

Supported by the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) project, Towner has partnered with GROW Eastbourne to provide creative artist-led activities around nature, food and community connection for children and young people on Free School Meals in Shinewater and Langney.

Running in parallel to England’s Creative Coast’s Waterfronts commission for Eastbourne, an accompanying community programme spanning digital, offsite and open-air deliveries, was led by artist Amy Leung.

Dig Deep 2021 is an audio work in three parts commissioned by Towner Eastbourne and formed as part of an engagement programme for England’s Creative Coast Waterfronts series.

As part of the Saving Berwick project in 2021, Arts in Mind made artwork in response to the murals, interior and landscape surrounding Berwick Church. Arts in Mind meet weekly at Towner Eastbourne and make artwork alongside each other in a studio setting to support positive mental health.

During the national lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, Eastbourne Borough Council, Eastbourne Food Bank and Community Stuff provided a lifeline to vulnerable households, ensuring that help was delivered to those most in need.

Arts in Mind meet weekly at the gallery. They make artwork in a supported studio setting, and nurture positive mental health. The group have been meeting and making since 2009 and are currently facilitated by Ella Hempsted and Michaela Ross. During sessions members work alongside each other on their own projects, and also experiment with making work together.