June 2023
— April 2024
Towner Eastbourne is home to Turner Prize 2023. Eastbourne is ALIVE with art and culture.
Eastbourne ALIVE is celebrating Turner Prize 2023 with a special programme of public art, dance, music and events.
Eastbourne ALIVE is an ambitious and creative town-wide partnership project celebrating the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that Turner Prize 2023 coming to Towner Eastbourne offers.
It encompasses a wide range of projects including the reanimation of underused spaces through public art, dance and music events as well as training for teachers and exclusive school visits to Towner. Eastbourne ALIVE is working with a range of cultural partners across the town as well as East Sussex Public Health to catalyse lasting change.
To accompany the Turner Prize exhibition, a series of major artworks will be installed across public spaces in Eastbourne. These interventions will explore the notion of a modern-day monument. Drawing on the resort’s original design from the mid - nineteenth century - laid out in long tree-lined boulevards marked by grand monuments and statues – these temporary public art installations will investigate what cultural markers might look like today and what events, objects or people they would memorialise.
What is The Turner Prize?
One of the best-known prizes for the visual arts in the world, the Turner Prize aims to promote public debate around new developments in contemporary British art. Established in 1984, the Prize is awarded to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the previous twelve months.
This year, Towner Eastbourne will host the Turner Prize, as the centrepiece of the gallery’s centenary celebrations.
The four 2023 shortlisted nominees for the Turner Prize 2023 are:
Jesse Darling
Ghislaine Leung
Rory Pilgrim
Barbara Walker
The announcement of the winner of the Turner Prize will take place on 5 December 2023. The Turner Prize winner will be awarded £25,000 with £10,000 awarded to the other shortlisted artists.
