Making Sites is a new series of artist-led residencies hosted between Devonshire Collective and Towner Eastbourne. The series invites creative practitioners to engage with local materials, stories and the landscape, fostering collaboration between artists, organisations and publics.
Designed and facilitated by Esther Collins (Head of Learning, Towner) and Polly Wright (Curator, Devonshire Collective), Making Sites is shaped with participating practitioners and supports artists to respond to Eastbourne and its surrounding areas, inviting projects to develop over time, through multiple visits and seasonal returns.
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For the first in the series, we worked with May Hands and Hannah Lees, from 1 - 4 May 2025. During their time together in Eastbourne, the artists hosted three public events, an Artist Lunch at Rooted Community Food, an Artist Talk within our current exhibition The Reason for Flowers and an in conversation with curator and educator Amanprit Sandhu at Towner Eastbourne.
May and Hannah made three scarecrows in response to the different sites they shared time on, exploring materiality, landscape, rituals and botany.
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For more information email Polly Wright - polly@devonshirecollective.co.uk
Join us for a guided walking tour of our four public works, led by two of our Associate Artists, Kai Zhang and Flo Wright.
Join us for our first guided walking tour of our five public works, led by two of our Associate Artists, Kai Zhang and Flo Wright.
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Nature Rave is a newly commissioned window installation and graphic identity by Devonshire Youth Collective, in collaboration with Two Pens. In celebration of the Turner Prize 2023 with Eastbourne ALIVE.
Love, Empathy, Respect, Dignity is a newly commissioned public artwork by Nadina Ali, in collaboration with Devonshire Youth Collective and Sanctuary. Commissioned in partnership with Eastbourne ALIVE, in celebration of the Turner Prize 2023.
Skill Cut Winner, 2023, is a newly commissioned public artwork by Rottingdean Bazaar. Commissioned in partnership with Eastbourne ALIVE, in celebration of the Turner Prize 2023.
superstructure (public image), 2023, is a newly commissioned public artwork by Madeleine Pledge in Marine Parade Gardens. Commissioned in partnership with Eastbourne ALIVE, in celebration of the Turner Prize 2023.
Still life, 2023, is a newly commissioned public artwork by Adam Moore at the end of Eastbourne Pier. Commissioned in partnership with Eastbourne ALIVE, in celebration of the Turner Prize 2023.
67–69 Seaside Road
Eastbourne
BN21 3PL
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