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Remember when the Turner Prize came to Sussex?

Part of Brighton Festival 2024 and University of Sussex Festival of Ideas

The inside story of what happened when one of the UK’s major cultural events came to Eastbourne and what it could mean for the future of the arts.

Join a panel of speakers who have worked on the project as they discuss Turner Prize 2023 in Sussex, its impact on the local area, communities and economy, and exciting future plans for the arts in East Sussex.

Organised by University of Sussex in partnership with Towner Eastbourne these events art of The Sussex Festival of Ideas, a programme of talks, events and activities, from the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at University of Sussex. The Festival of Ideas harnesses the transformative power of the arts and humanities to fashion new ways of thinking about the past, present and future.

Turner Prize 2023 at Towner Eastbourne x University of Sussex

The Turner Prize, one of the world’s leading prizes for contemporary art, is being exhibited for the first time in Sussex this year. The University of Sussex is Education Partner for Turner Prize 2023 at Towner Eastbourne.

(Image Towner Eastbourne featuring Dance Diagonal by Lothar Götz, 2019. Photo by Jim Stephenson)