Prints from my project Downland Gloaming are on display at the Pallant House Gallery in the Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water exhibition from 12 November 2022 until 23 April 2023.
Wilmington Dew Pond, 2019
Chanctonbury Ring, 2019
The work is on loan from Towner Eastbourne
I’m delighted to be part of this superb exhibition, Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water at Pallant House Gallery. To have some of my Downland Gloaming work shown with artists such as Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Eric Ravilious, Turner, Constable and photographers Lee Miller and Jem Southam is a real honour.
Downland Gloaming
These eight works have been gifted to the Towner Collection in 2022
BRINK
Caroline Lucas MP curated her first ever exhibition for a major UK gallery. Caroline selected from the 5000 works in Towner’s permanent Collection, that reflected and resonated with her passions and interests, from her environmental work, issues of climate change and effects on our landscape, to her love of living in Sussex. I was delighted that my image Turbine was selected to be in the company of works from artists and photographers such as Jem Southam, Wolfgang Tilsmann and Eric Ravilious.
BRINK ran from 13 Dec 2019 – 6 Sep 2020
A short interview about Downland Gloaming
Downland Gloaming
Downland Gloaming is an ongoing project resulting from night walks over the old chalk paths and byways of the Downs. The main inspirations behind the images are the works of the artist Eric Ravilious and the poetry of Edward Thomas. These photographs are equivalents, moments experienced and subtle recordings in a fading landscape and they therefore require time for the eye to adjust to slowly reveal the visual traces, lines, and patterns of the landscape of ancient and modern times. I was pleased that the Towner Gallery allowed the work produced so far to be shown in The Ravilious Room.
17 September – 10 November 2019.
On the 18th October 2019 year 7 from Vinehall School spent Tuesday at the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne, having a tour of the galleries including Allan Grainger’s photography exhibition, “Downland Gloaming”. Grainger is a local photographer whose moody shots of the local landscape on the South Downs capture the magical essence of dusk, the time between day and night.
The focus of this cross-curricular Art/English trip was to examine how an artist can create atmosphere through their work and through the contrast of opposites – in this case, darkness and light. Year 7 are currently reading “Jekyll & Hyde” in English, a novel famous for using darkness to symbolise evil. Read more: https://bit.ly/3nUZlC5
Night Walk with Allan Grainger
Artist Allan Grainger will lead a twilight walk on the South Downs offering an insight into how walking at night has influenced his practice, and how the changing light and atmosphere at dusk alters our experience of the landscape.
Travelling from the Towner to Wilmington by minibus, this beautiful 3.5 mile walk will begin at sunset. Explore the Wilmington Priory, the Long Man and the woods at night, with rest points to discuss the imaginative and multisensory possibilities of walking in the darkness. Whilst walking, it is encouraged to be quiet in order to be fully immersed in the environment.
Fri 27 September 2019 – 5:17 pm
In Conversation: Allan Grainger & Melanie Rose
Artist Allan Grainger is currently working on a series of photographs taken during night walks on the South Downs, inspired by the landscapes of Eric Ravilious. He will be joined in conversation by Melanie Rose a visual artist and member of LAND2, a national network of artist/researchers with an interest in place-oriented art. Both artists will discuss their work and research in relation to the South Downs and the Towner Collection, in particular how walking can inspire creativity.
Fri 27 September 2019 – 2pm
Arboretum
Curated by John Stezaker and Lucy Bell – The Lucy Bell Gallery
2 February – 15 March 2019
Recent exhibitions and reviews
BRINK: Caroline Lucas curates the Towner Collection – 13 December 2019 – 6 September 2020
Downland Gloaming – Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne – 17 Sep – 10 Nov 2019
Downland Gloaming – Spectrum Photographic Blog article 21 Aug 2019
Arboretum – curated by John Stezaker and Lucy Bell – Lucy Bell Gallery 2 Feb – 15 Mar 2019
Total Threshold – Richard Makin reviews Allan Grainger’s “Downland Gloaming” and Haiku poems by the artist
https://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/arts/total-threshold/