Chichester Cathedral was founded in 1075, which makes 2025 its 950th anniversary, for which the diocese has organised an exhibition celebrating the Christian faith in Sussex since the Norman Conquest. Expect to see jewel encrusted ornament, staffs and croziers, a simple Medieval crucifix and a pocket-sized WW1 Bible, and to learn about The Society of […]
Ditchling Museum was set up with the remit of celebrating the artistic legacy of the Sussex village it’s situated in. And it’s undoubtedly true that Eric Gill played an important role in that narrative, as the co-founder of the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, which attracted artists and craftsmen to Ditchling over a […]
Towner is celebrating Eric Ravilious’s Eastbourne roots with a permanent gallery dedicated to his work. Over 100 works will be on view, including the recently discovered Mackerel Sky (1938) and much-loved pieces such as The Long Man of Wilmington and Cuckmere Haven (both 1939). The gallery will also display work from collaborators such as his […]
Sophie Barber’s ‘cushion’ canvases don’t just hang – they slouch, bulge, and whisper secrets from the Sussex countryside. Barber, a native of Hastings, enjoys her first major exhibition in this seaside gallery, riffing on repeated motifs, notably sunflowers and birds. The curious title references a slice of old Sussex weather lore. Get between the folds […]
Isabel Rock's Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannnot Hold, one of three brilliant shows running concurrently at Hastings Contemporary, can perhaps best be described as an exuberantly psychedelic doomsday cult. There’s lots of fun to be had with Rock’s giant rat in an open-top sports car and her replica prison cell with a giant slug […]
The BPO’s winter season sparkles with fairy tales, festive favourites, and contemporary flair. Highlights include Alise Siliņa in Vaclav Trojan’s Fairy Tales Concerto (Dec 7), Alistair McGowan narrating A Christmas Carol (venues across Sussex, 18–20 Dec), Aaron Akugbo performing Marsalis’ jazzy trumpet concerto (Jan 24), and violinist Ruth Rogers in Pēteris Vasks’ Lonely Angel (Feb […]
Betty Parsons is best known as an influential New York gallerist who championed the work of Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Clyfford Still, long before they gained worldwide recognition. But she was also a prolific painter, sculptor, and poet in her own right, and this exhibition (the first survey […]
A return home, of sorts, for ‘the two Roberts’, the Bloomsbury linked artists and lovers MacBryde and Colquhoun, who lived and worked in Lewes for two years shortly after WW2. This is the first major exhibition in England since 1962 to chart the remarkable arc of the influential pair’s artistic journey, from the charged atmosphere […]
To celebrate his life and work in the 250th year since his birth, Towner Eastbourne are exhibiting some of J.M.W. Turner's finest watercolours held in private collections. The exhibition seeks to contextualise Turner among his contemporaries, such as Thomas Girtin and John Sell Cotman, and to capture the excitement that developments in landscape painting caused […]
“Other people take photographs. I try to find photographs.” So said Jane Bown, the Observer newspaper’s go-to portrait photographer for some six decades, and a talented photojournalist to boot, whose reputation soared towards the end of her career, and just keeps on soaring after her death, aged 89, in 2014. Now, a retrospective of her work, curated by Dr […]
AFTER-IMAGE celebrates the close proximity of the Phoenix Art Space to the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery by presenting a small but engaging display of paintings and photographs inspired by works in the Museum collection. This exhibition has been devised and curated by Geoff Hands, a PAS studio member. He writes, It is necessary for […]
Roger Fry is famous as the critic and curator who brought Post-Impressionism to Britain, but he was also a painter in his own right and this exhibition is the first for 25 years to bring together his portraits, landscapes and interiors, particularly from the period he spent in Paris in the 1920s. Organised in partnership […]
