Martin Clark has been appointed CEO and Director of Towner Eastbourne. He will start his new role in January 2027.
Clark joins Towner from the Camden Art Centre where he has served a director for ten years. Prior to this, he was director at Bergen Kunsthall from 2013 to 2017, artistic director at Tate St Ives from 2007 to 2013, and curator of exhibitions at Arnolfini, Bristol from 2005 to 2007.
Clark will be joining Towner in a phase of expansion for the English arts organisation, which is preparing to start development on a new exhibition and community space, Towner Seven Sisters, near Eastbourne, next year.
‘Towner is already the largest and most significant museum and gallery of modern and contemporary art in the southeast, but with the delivery of Towner Seven Sisters at Black Robin Farm, we have the opportunity to create a new kind of arts organisation’, said Clark in a statement. ‘One that brings together a world class collection, an ambitious and internationally renowned exhibition and commissioning programme, alongside innovative new models of education, training, skills development and creative opportunities, all set in the unique and breathtaking landscape of the South Downs National Park.’
