I recently visited the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne to attend the “Towards Night” exhibition curated by Tom Hammick. Tom had curated the show around the theme of night, painting the walls a dark blue to give the entire space an atmosphere of night, giving the exhibition a more immersive experience than if the walls did not go with the theme of the exhibition.

I was first attracted to the exhibition due to my previous research into Tom hammick and liking his artwork and his use of day and night themes within his work, so I wanted to go and see his work upfront as he was also showing his own artwork at the exhibition. A lot of his work was focusing on night and had dark colours and dark blues which merged into the wall being of the same blue colour, this made certain pieces of his work seem even larger and more captivating than without the use of the wall colour matching the works background. A piece where this really worked by Tom was the “Violetta Alone, 2015”. The image is already large in size and with the added illusion of it merging into the walls due to its dark blue background, it certainly became a memorable piece of the exhibition.