Riviera, led by artist Navine G. Dossos, will be a communal and community designed textile pattern, conceived with and for the residents of Devonshire Ward in Eastbourne. 
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Over a long weekend, Riviera will begin as a series of painting workshops across the Devonshire ward, welcoming participants of all ages and backgrounds to take part in the development of a communal textile pattern. 

Drop-in on Saturday morning to DC Learn, 11am - 1pm. Free, all welcome. No previous experience required, all materials provided.
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In the workshops, participants will use a series of stencils made by Navine G. Dossos to create compositions of patterns and symbols that come from their personal experiences of living in the Devonshire Ward of Eastbourne. Many recognisable symbols such as palms trees, local gelato, the leaf of Leaf Hall, local businesses and sites will mix with colours and patterns taken from local architectural history. The workshops will be simple to follow and complete, and a joyful celebration of the rich and diverse community of the Devonshire Ward. All of the paintings will be scanned to a high resolution and used in the development of a textile pattern that will become a fabric made freely available to neighbourhood residents as a distributed and circulated artwork. 

For further information please email polly@devonshirecollective.co.uk

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Navine G. Dossos* (she/her, b.1982) is a visual artist working between London and Aegina, Greece. Her interests include geometry as information and decoration, image calibration, and Aniconism (the absence of artistic representations or icons) in contemporary culture. She has developed a form of geometric abstraction that merges the traditions coming from Islamic art with the algorithmic nature of the interconnected world we live in. This is not the formal abstraction we understand from the western history of art, but something essentially informational, and committed to investigation and communication. Her work is increasingly developed through collective workshop sessions and exists mostly in the public realm.

This is a public art commission led by Towner Eastbourne in collaboration with Devonshire Collective. Supported by Lawson Trust, Sussex Masonic Charitable Foundation and Wates Foundation.