First major UK institutional solo exhibition in nearly 20 years by British artist Ryan Gander, exploring the power of imagination to reshape collective reality.
Ryan Gander opens at the Towner Art Gallery on Saturday 14 November, his first major UK institutional solo show in nearly twenty years. It runs through to 11 April 2027, so there's plenty of time to catch it if you can't make the opening weekend.
The exhibition brings together new and existing work, and the Towner describes Gander as an artist whose practice explores the radical power of imagination to reshape our collective reality. It's a big claim, but it's the one he's built his reputation on: the idea that the stories we tell ourselves can actually change the world around us. Seeing new pieces alongside older ones should give a good sense of how that's played out over his career.
It also fits into a particular run of things the Towner has been doing lately. Over the last twelve months, they've focused mostly on solo exhibitions, with a strong lean towards British artists—Dame Laura Knight, Paul Nash and Lucien Pissarro have all had their own shows. Gander, a celebrated British artist himself, slots right into that pattern.
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The gallery is at Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4JJ, and it's open daily from 10:00am to 5:00pm. Entry is pay-what-you-can from £5 to £14, and it's free for under-25s.
