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Exhibitions

The perfect excuse to get out all the best Ravilious china

<p class="p1">Two summer highlights at Eastbourne's Towner gallery</p>

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

Designing the Everyday: from Bloomsbury and Ravilious to the present day

Towner, Eastbourne, until 31 August

Peggy Angus: Designer, Teacher, Painter

Towner, Eastbourne, until 21 September

Discovering Palmer’s Kent: Samuel Palmer, Graham Sutherland and Paul Drury

Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood, Kent, until 23 August

A day trip to the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne is a summer pleasure, and two concurrent shows are proving a considerable draw, with their focus on design and applied art. Designing the Everyday is in some ways just an excuse to get out all the best Ravilious china and show it with his working drawings, but where’s the harm in that? Ravilious continues to be one of the most popular of 20th-century British artists, and his applied art is not as well known as his pellucid watercolours, so here’s a chance to remedy that.

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