A GALLERY is celebrating the work of women artists as part of its autumn exhibitions.

The Towner Eastbourne is showing Melissa Gordon's Liquid Gestures from now until January 30.

Liquid Gestures is a vibrant exhibition featuring large-scale paintings that highlight her examination of modern art histories, ideas of authorship, and the appropriation of certain "gestures".

Gordon, originally from Cambridge, US, is an artist, curator, and writer, who focuses on the body, gesture and painting through the lens of feminism.

The presentation will be the largest institutional exhibition of her work to date.

The exhibition is formed of a series of new paintings and installation works and urges people to "to reconsider the influence of female artists whose work has been eclipsed in art historical prose".

Running alongside it is Margaret Mellis' Modernist Constructs.

The two exhibitions were created at two different points in history but are dealing with similar themes.

Mellis, who died in 2009, worked in the early part of the 20th century, whereas Gordon's work is current.

The Modernist Constructs exhibition uses driftwood that Mellis found on the beach to use in her sculptures and paintings.

Both exhibitions are running at The Towner until January 30.

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