Towner nominated for Art Fund Prize
Towner in Eastbourne is one of eleven organisations nominated for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize, the UK’s largest single arts prize.
Towner in Eastbourne is one of eleven organisations nominated for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize, the UK’s largest single arts prize.
Towner, the contemporary art museum in the South East, is the £8.6 million new home of Eastbourne’s Towner Art Gallery which opened to the public in April 2009.
The new building has created a new opportunity to present the museum’s bold vision by showing its award-winning community outreach work alongside new commissions from internationally renowned artists. A fresh, new home has also allowed the Towner collection to flourish and be seen by more people across the region and beyond.
Arts Council England, South East has invested £2million into the new building. As one of our regularly funded organisations we are also providing £185,000 per year during the current funding period which runs to 2011.
Towner has already made a significant artistic contribution to Eastbourne, the south east and to England as a whole.
The gallery was funded through a range of partnerships funders, including Arts Council England, South East, Eastbourne Borough Council, SEEDA, the Heritage Lottery Fund and The New Towner Trust.
Show your support for Towner in the south east. Vote here: www.artfundprize.org.uk
The Art Fund Prize, which has been sponsored by the UK’s leading independent art charity, The Art Fund, for three years, aims to increase public appreciation and enjoyment of the UK’s museums and galleries. The nominations have been selected by a panel of Judges chaired by broadcaster Kirsty Young.
The other nominations are:
· The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
· Blists Hill Victorian Town, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
· Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
· Hampton Court Palace, Surrey, for Henry VIII: heads and hearts
· The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
· The Leach Pottery, St Ives
· The National Army Museum, London, for Conflicts of Interest
· The Natural History Museum, London, for the Darwin Centre
· The Royal Institution of Great Britain, for Science in the Making
· The Ulster Museum, Belfast