The seasoned UK TV presenter David Dimbleby—doyen of royal weddings and common elections—will tackle a brand new, reasonably stunning function this autumn: visitor curator of an exhibition at Towner Eastbourne which focuses on Trendy and modern drawings. Dimbleby was beforehand the chair of the gallery; now he’s swapping roles and dipping his toes within the curatorial waters, presenting Drawing the Unspeakable (5 October-27 April 2025) alongside together with his daughter Liza. Dimbleby says in a press release: “Co-curating this exhibition has been an exhilarating expertise. Liza has at all times been my companion and information by way of the world of artwork. For a time, in the course of the Covid lockdown, reasonably than write to one another, we might alternate drawings by e mail.” Artists featured embrace David Bomberg, Barbara Hepworth, Madge Gill and James Gillray. Works are resulting from be loaned by the British Museum, Bethlem Museum of the Thoughts and the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in London. Stellar drawings from the Towner assortment, comparable to Elisabeth Frink’s Drawing for Harbinger Fowl (1960), additionally kind a part of the line-up.
