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# PREVIEW: Art from Elsewhere at Towner
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/preview-art-from-elsewhere-at-towner/
- Published: 2015-12-23T11:01:30.000Z
- Updated: 2015-12-23T11:01:30.000Z
- Description: Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne is presenting Art from Elsewhere, a major Hayward Touring exhibition supported by the Art Fund, of international contemporary art collected by the gallery, and five other museums and galleries across the UK from January 23 – April 3 2016.
- Author: Contributor
- Tags: Arts, Exhibitions, In The South, Previews

## *International Contemporary Art from UK Galleries c*urated by David Elliott.

![Nathan Carter, FULL COLOR SPECTRUM SONAR ON THE WIRE TO FAROES SMALL CRAFT OUTBOUND, mima, © Courtesy of the Artist and Casey Kaplan, NY](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/web-600-2-13.jpg)

Nathan Carter, Full colour spectrum sonar on the wire to Faroes small craft outbound, mima, © Courtesy of the Artist and Casey Kaplan, NY

**Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne** is presenting *Art from Elsewhere*, a major Hayward Touring exhibition supported by the Art Fund, of international contemporary art collected by the gallery, and five other museums and galleries across the UK from January 23 – April 3 2016.

*Art from Elsewhere* at Towner comprises of forty-five works by twenty-six of today’s most influential artists including **Mohammed Bourouissa, Jenny Holzer**, **Peter Hujar**, **Imran Qureshi**, **Józef Robakowski**, **Robert Smithson**, **Nancy Spero** and **Kara Walker**.

The wide range of global themes explored in the show – migration, identity, colonialism, gender, censorship, territory, communications, class – are reflected in the rich diversity of media used by the artists, from photography, drawing and works on paper, to Super 8 film, sound and video projections, sculpture and installation works.

Curated by **David Elliott**, all the works in *Art from Elsewhere* are drawn from the collections of six museums across the UK which were re­cently awarded over £4 million by the Art Fund to build outstanding collections of international contemporary art through Art Fund International.

**These include:**

♦ Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery in partnership with The New Art Gallery Walsall

♦ Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

♦ GoMA, Glasgow

♦ mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) and

♦ Towner, Eastbourne.

![Barbara Kruger, Untitled (You have Searched and Destroyed), Gallery of Modern Art,© courtesy of the artist and SprŸth Magers Berlin London](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/web-600-56.jpg)

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (You have Searched and Destroyed), Gallery of Modern Art,© courtesy of the artist and SprŸth Magers Berlin London

Tailored to each touring venue, plus the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, the exhibition will conclude at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and Arnolfini in April following its presentation in Eastbourne at Towner.

**David Elliott said:** *“A number of museums outside London have made remark­able purchases of contemporary art from around the world with the help of a special programme created by the Art Fund. I have selected this Hayward Touring exhibition show out of this pool with a mind to indicating how art not only continues to be a truthful and often challenging expression of our times, but also has become a way of seeing them more clearly.”*

Towner has a growing collection of international contemporary art that developed between 2007 and 2012 with support from Art Fund International and Contemporary Art Society from artists including **Olafur Eliasson**, **Wolfgang Tillmans**, **Anya Gallacio**, **Julian Opie**, **Tacita Dean**, **Yael Bartana** and **Eugenio Dittborn**. They are situated within an internationally renowned collection of around 4,500 works including the most significant body of work by **Eric Ravilious** and other important works of modern British art.

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**Event:** Art from Elsewhere

**Where:** Towner Art Gallery, Devonshire Park, College Rd, Eastbourne, BN21 4JJ

**When:** January 23 – April 3, 2016

**Time:** Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm and Bank Holiday Mondays, 10am – 5pm

**Entry:** Free

**For more information, [click here:](http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**