Last Station

Last Station Located: Eastbourne

Last Station is a touring fine art project by local artists Elise & Mary. This installation at the Towner in Eastbourne is the last stop of their journey. 

Last Station is inspired by the ‘Guiding Lights’ and navigation systems of Trinity House – and the importance of marine history and waterways in the UK’s heritage and identity. The central idea behind the work is to think about how we form connection to ‘place’ and our sense of identity – physically, culturally, emotionally and spiritually.

The installation uses the concept of floating navigational aids moored on shifting sandbanks – Light Vessels and Buoys – as a metaphor to explore the states of location and dislocation for individuals and communities. You are invited to explore this installation of rooms within rooms of sculpture, lights, video and soundscapes, to make you own connections and disconnections.

Local innovative musician (and Hottie) Nick Weekes will accompany their work at The Towner on Saturday 3 November (4 – 6pm), providing a fog horn soundscape using pine tree branches, a bow and computer software.

‘LOCATE’ : a chance to try out a free innovative phone app to record how your surroundings affect you on an emotion chart and gallery. Your chart and gallery images can be stored as a personal record or shared with a network of people to create a unique record of how our environments affects us, which will be printed as a unique digital artwork available to all.

‘Elise & Mary’ is a multidisciplinary fine art and design partnership. Both artists are inspired by the way they inhabit and made sense of the world around them. Their practice is research based, with a long successful track record of working with communities, government and cultural organisations. Both artists have 25 years experience of teaching, curation, commissioning and project management. They constantly develop their practice as fine artists working in the public realm, to create work that has a meaningful legacy for the place and people its made for.

The Last Station Exit Party takes place from 4-6pm on Saturday 3rd November in the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne

For more info:

Website: Last Station Located: Eastbourne
instagram: last_station121
twitter: @__located and @laststation121 (url )
Facebook: Last Station. located&dislocated
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Sound Cloud: Last Station

This work has been developed by Elise & Mary over 5 years and is funded by the Arts Council of England.

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