Towner Gallery
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Excellent art venue. Nice cafe over looking the tennis ground. Definitely pop in if you are in town.
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The exhibits are varied, thought provoking and in some cases shocking. The staff are knowledgeable and helpful without being intrusive. As always the Towner is well worth the visit.
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Excellent John Nash exhibition.
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Welcoming gallery space - stylish layout and helpful staff. We saw the current Nash exhibition which was thoughtfully laid out. There was an installation about the sea on the ground floor. If you want refreshments the cafe is not in use due to covid and I suspect when it opens again, there will be added atmosphere to the rather empty top floor.
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The gallery is currently showing a John Nash exhibition which covers the entire artistic life of John Nash, a classically English artist, who served in two world wars. Recommended.
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This exhibition is well set out and includes artwork by John Nash and his brother Paul together with other artists. There are some WW1 paintings but these are in the minority. The exhibition also conveys an idea of the life and financial struggles of artists at that time. It is well worth visiting and the Towner is a unique modern gallery with plenty of space.
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The John Nash exhibition is excellent - much more comprehensive and better presented than I had imagined. What a great artist he was! Only 4 stars because the cafe was full so we could not have a coffee there - access was limited due to covid.
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The John Nash Exhibition is really worth visiting. Great pictures of during the war and you learnt all about him. The book illustrations were my favourite
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Great John Nash exhibition.
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Great gallery. Nice café.
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All round excellent!
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An excellent gallery with a permanent Eric Ravillious exhibition. The staff organise imaginative and stimulating exhibitions. The gallery shop is full of interesting items, beautifully curated. A good cafe on the top floor with wonderful views. What is not to love?
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only one gallery open but good view of the tennis. Polite staff, all Covid precautions.
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Iconic building with colourful art installation. John Nash exhibition very good
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The staff and the space give a relaxing, intimate feel to a museum which has a welcoming community feel and atmosphere. The choice and selection is ailways exciting ,and the Nash exhibition is brilliant.
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Currently showing excellent John Nash exhibition and also selection from their Eric Ravilious collection good café as well with balcony. All under Covid conditions.
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Absolutely superb Gallery. The Ravilious gallery was a dream and the John Nash exhibition excellent. Super helpful and friendly staff too. Canât wait to come back!
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Interesting place
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A really lovely gallery, well organised and a John Nash exhibition that's well worth a visit at the moment. Good if you like Ravilious as well.
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Fantastic John Nash exhibition, well worth the trip from London.
Pleasant and helpful staff
Pleasant and helpful staff
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Excellent John Nash exhibition, and smashed avocado and bacon on toast to follow. Good way to spend a rainy Friday
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Outstanding gallery that is again somewhat surprising for Eastbourne. World-class exhibitions and a memorable visit. Great cafe for a light meal pre or post the gallery visit...
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The staff and the space give a relaxing, intimate feel to a museum which has a welcoming community feel and atmosphere. The choice and selection is ailways exciting ,and the Nash exhibition is brilliant.
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It’s good to find the Townes functioning almost as normal with special exhibitions of the works of John Nash, a three screen display by John Okomfrah as well as a curated survey of some of the works in its own collection, none of which even required prior booking. The only signs of the all-pervasive endemic apart from the wearing of masks was the limit of two persons to use the giant lift large enough to transport virtually the entire Towner collection from floor to floor. John Nash ‘The Landscape of Love and Solace’ was a mightily impressive exhibition containing works from every decade of his working life bookended by photographs of him and his brother Paul as toddlers and of him in the last decade of his life smoking a cigarette after a boozy lunch at home. In between the comic illustrations of a talented teenager, the works of a war artist (twice), a series of townscapes of Bath, but above paintings revealing his love of the English countryside. Display cabinets show letters and book illustrations. This is billed as the most extensive exhibition since the retrospective at the Royal Academy in 1967. I think it is the only one of distinction of a since unduly neglected figure perhaps unjustly overshadowed by the works of his brother Paul.
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If you're not familiar with the work of the local artist Ravilious please make an effort to get to see his exhibition. If you know his work then you will love this collection.
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