SOPHIE BARBER’S ARTWORK HAS ENTERED TOWNER’S PERMANENT COLLECTION
TOWNER EASTBOURNE
12 February 2026
Sophie Barber, Meet me there, where the sun goes down and the moon comes up, 2025. © Sophie Barber. Photo: Rob Harris
Sophie Barber, Meet me there, where the sun goes down and the moon comes up, 2025. © Sophie Barber. Photo: Rob Harris
Sophie Barber, Meet me there, where the sun goes down and the moon comes up, 2025. © Sophie Barber. Photo: Rob Harris
Sophie Barber, Meet me there, where the sun goes down and the moon comes up, 2025. © Sophie Barber. Photo: Rob Harris
Sophie Barber, Meet me there, where the sun goes down and the moon comes up, 2025. © Sophie Barber. Photo: Rob Harris
Sophie Barber’s painting Meet me there, where the sun goes down and the moon comes up has entered Towner Eastbourne’s permanent collection. The work was selected by Towner’s Collections and Acquisitions Committee, launched to diversify the voices involved in shaping the gallery’s collection.
Artist Sophie Barber said: Towner has been a constant in my career as an artist from leaving school in Hastings, exhibiting in Towner’s East Sussex Open and in the 2025 exhibition Sussex Modernism, to now having just closed my major museum exhibition at Hastings Contemporary. My work draws connections between past and present, landscapes far and near, and the climate crisis intimately and at large. My work ‘Meet me there, where the sun goes down and the moon comes up’ imagines the horizon as a place for painting to play, and demand urgent attention to our shared experiences with Mother Nature. I’m delighted that this acquisition is so close to home. Thank you to the young people on the Collections & Acquisitions Committee for their selection of my work, this is a powerful statement from the institution to place decision making in the hands of future leaders in the Arts.