Towards Night

Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne

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‘Towards Night’ delves into the many interpretations and representations of the theme of night throughout art history. Artist Tom Hammick curates an exhibition that draws together paintings and prints that invite the visitor to experience a journey into a world of wonderment, insomnia and revelry. Towards Night includes works by J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich and Edvard Munch alongside contemporary artists such as Peter Doig, Stephen Chambers and Phoebe Unwin.

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Through the Windscreen (1929), Gertrude Hermes.

Through the Windscreen (1929), Gertrude Hermes. © Gertrude Hermes Estate

View of Moon over Manatsuru peninsula (2009), Julian Opie. Image courtesy Alan Cristea. © Julian Opie

View of Moon over Manatsuru peninsula (2009), Julian Opie. Image courtesy Alan Cristea. © Julian Opie

Echo Lake (1998), Peter Doig.

Echo Lake (1998), Peter Doig. © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS

The Poet Reclining (1915), Marc Chagall. Photograph ©Tate, London 2016. Chagall ® / ©ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016

The Poet Reclining (1915), Marc Chagall. Photo © Tate, London 2016. Chagall ® / ©ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016

False Flower (1993), Prunella Clough. © Tate London 2016 © Estate of Prunella Clough. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016

False Flower (1993), Prunella Clough. © Tate London 2016 © Estate of Prunella Clough. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016