Make a Lake at Towner this weekend
Eastbourne’s award-winning Towner Contemporary Art Museum is inviting families to enjoy the end of half-term this weekend with activities inspired by their new VISITOR exhibition.
This Friday children have the chance to construct their own 3D worlds with Make a Lake workshops inspired by the VISITOR exhibition, which invites visitors to experience a frozen other world with two large scale installations. Artist Lulu Allison will be on hand to help the children build their own 3D worlds, starting with a small lake, and the scene will be captured as an animation as it grows!
Children aged 5 – 7 years old can book now for the morning workshop from 10.30am – 12.30pm, while children aged 8 – 11 years old can book for the afternoon session from 2pm – 4pm.
Then on Sunday 19 February, families are invited to the free VISITOR family day, taking place from 11am – 3pm. Children and adults alike can join artists Jason Hall and Louise Bristow to make fluorescent cabins and canoes, and then add their creations to a magical ultra-violet lit panorama of a frozen landscape and watch them glow!
Eastbourne Borough Council Cabinet Member for Tourism and Leisure Cllr Neil Stanley said “VISITOR is a brilliantly interactive exhibition for Towner and our half-term activities offer a great way for families to really learn about the exhibition and make their own VISITOR-inspired art. We hope to see as many families as possible pop along this weekend and have a go at creating their own lakes, canoes and cabins!”
VISITOR is on now at Towner until 1 April. The exhibition has been created by BAFTA-nominated art duo Gibson / Martelli who work together as igloo, and visitors to the exhibition are promised an immersive experience of the icy wilderness in two new installation works inspired by the snow-driven mountains of the Canadian Rockies.
Visitors can enter Vermilion Lake, a full-scale replica of a trapper’s cabin inside which, a surprising feature awaits them… The intrepid will be able to explore an eerie, frozen virtual world, navigating their way using a combination of physical motion and video game technology.
And an accompanying moving image piece, where the bears are sleeping, complements the cabin with a backdrop of images of glaciers, forests and frozen lakes.
For more information on the exhibition, which is free to visitors, or to book for the workshops on Friday for £4 per child call Towner on 01323 434670 or visit www.townereastbourne.org.uk.