The Hoardings Project
The Space Between is a major schools and artist hoardings intervention project commissioned by the Towner Art Gallery as part its Building Sights Programme – a series of initiatives to raise public awareness of the Towner’s relocation to the new art gallery.
Since January 2007, the London based artist collective SpRoUt have been working closely in partnership with participating schools – Year 6 pupils from Ocklynge Junior School, St Johns Meads C of E Primary, Bourne County Primary and Year 7 pupils from Cavendish Secondary School.
SpRoUt Artists involved in the programme are Hayley Skipper, Amy Cunningham, Samuel Dowd and Hannah Chiswell.
The hoardings project forms part of a series of innovative initiatives to raise awareness of the Towner's relocation to the new art gallery and provide opportunities for the local community to be engaged within the building process.
The title makes reference both to the unknown space behind the hoardings, not yet a finished building and the current status of the Towner Art Gallery, closed to the public since 2006 and due to reopen within the Eastbourne Cultural Centre in spring 2008.
The first part of the project which took place earlier in the year involved over 130 school children in a series of artist led creative workshops which took place both within school and in a major innovation of the project, within the construction site itself providing unique experiences for the participants to see a working construction site from the inside.
 
These workshops explored ideas of space and architecture through play, creativity and performance. The first phase of the intervention comprised of four large images created by pupils and artists from each school and accompanying text created by SpRoUt artists in response to these ideas.
 Photo by Rob Walker
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