EASTBOURNE

SEPTEMBER TO APRIL Modern Monuments

To accompany the Turner Prize exhibition, Eastbourne ALIVE will present a series of major artworks across public spaces in Eastbourne by artists including Nathan Coley and Helen Cammock. 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 — this series of temporary public interventions explores the notion of a modern-day monument, investigating what these cultural markers might look like today and the sorts of events, objects or people they memorialise. Discover the works and artists at eastbournealive.co.uk.

SEPTEMBER Artwave

Nominated for his solo exhibitions ‘No Medals, No Ribbons’ at Modern Art Oxford and ‘Enclosures’ at Camden Art Centre. Darling’s work encompasses sculptures and installations which evoke the vulnerability of the human body and the precariousness of power structures.

Nominated for her solo exhibition ‘Fountains’ at Simian, Copenhagen, Leung’s work takes the form of ‘scores’ — sets of instructions which test the boundaries of the gallery space. Baby monitors, child safety gates, inflatable structures, toys,and water fountains are used to turn the exhibition structure on its head, asking questions about time, leisure, and labour.

Nominated for the commission ‘RAFTS’ at Serpentine and Barking Town Hall, and a live performance of the work at Cadogan Hall, London. Pilgrim’s work interweaves stories, poems, music and film, created in collaboration with local communities in the borough of Barking and Dagenham, to reflect on times of change and struggle during the pandemic.

Nominated for her presentation entitled ‘Burden of Proof’ at Sharjah Biennial 15. With a practice that interrogates past and present issues of racial identity, exclusion and power, Walker’s presentation explores the impact of the Windrush scandal, underlaying figurative drawn portraits with facsimiles of the documentation these individuals had to produce, to prove their right to remain.

September To January

New arts space for Lewes Charleston launches a new second space in the heart of Lewes this autumn, with a major exhibition exploring the Bloomsbury group through fashion.

‘Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion’ is the first major exhibition to explore the fashion of the Bloomsbury group, and how the 20th century cultural collective still impacts global style over 100 years on. Curated by writer Charlie Porter, the exhibition spotlights the relationship that radical figures such as Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell had with clothing, while celebrating 21st century fashion designers who have found inspiration in Bloomsbury art and life. charleston.org.uk

Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Artwave festival takes place each September and sees more than 800 Sussex artists showcase their work in studios and galleries — as well as some rather more unusual locations — around the Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven areas. Pick up a map, join the trail and you’ll be able to meet the artists and buy their work directly from their magic hands. Find out more by visiting artwavefestival.org

Newhaven

UNTIL END OF OCTOBER Follow Ravilious — Newhaven Views

Until the end of October, follow a trail of giant billboard-scale artworks throughout Newhaven, featuring some of Eric Ravilious’s best-loved images of Newhaven, with responses by contemporary artists Charlotte Prodger, Mark Titchner, Emily Allchurch, and Jo Lamb, inspired by Ravilious and the modern Newhaven landscape.