• Summer Sculpture in a Beautiful Barn

    Learn to sculpt figures and portraits with award-winning sculptor Silvia MacRae Brown. WEEKEND JULY 26-28 PORTRAITS IN CLAY with sculptor Silvia MacRae Brown. At Friston Place in a spacious barn, set within beautiful gardens. ENJOY MAKING a life size portrait head in clay, to be fired at a later date. We study the features, anatomy […]

    £280
  • Nick Bodimeade, Curtilage

    St Anne's House 111 High St, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Those familiar with Bodimeade's landscape painting will recognise his explorations of pictorial space and material. In this show, however, he presents us with a new approach: paintings that place emphasis on the story of land use and agriculture. Here, his personal history of land-based work and leisure is the inspiration.  Expect to see views from his […]

    Free
  • South Downs Summer Music

    Various venues in East Sussex

    A week-long festival of high quality classical music in the Cuckmere Valley, mostly taking place in 'the Cathedral of the Downs', Alfriston's magnificent 14th-century St Andrew's Church.

    Donation
  • Lewes Baroquefest

    Lewes, East Sussex Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Bach fans rejoice! Lewes Baroquefest returns to St Michael's Church and Lewes Town Hall this July, bringing with it a programme full of the finest music the period has to offer. Performed by top baroque musicians, the festival will culminate with a performance of Bach's Mass in B minor. Other highlights include a solo Bach […]

  • Charleston Festival of the Garden

    Charleston Firle, Lewes, East Sussex

    One of the biggest inspirations for modernist art of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant was the garden that surrounded Charleston: both were keen gardeners, transforming the muddy, overgrown patch of land they moved into, in 1916, onto an imaginatively structured, richly scented, brightly coloured paradise (with quite a lot of help from Maynard Keynes). Charleston […]

  • Prydie: The Life and Art of Mabel Pryde Nicholson

    The Grange Gallery The Green Rottingdean, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    This summer, Rottingdean hidden-gem The Grange will celebrate the art of Mabel Pryde Nicholson. Overshadowed by the successes of the male members of her family (Ben Nicholson, William Nicholson, James Pryde), Mabel's work has never received the attention it deserves. But now, with able assistance from such heavyweights as Pallant House Gallery, Tate, and the […]

  • Land Marked

    Gallery57 57 Tarrant Street, Arundel, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    Find the best in contemporary crafts - including work by David Browne, Philip Walker and Victoria Fenn - at the elegant Arundel gallery's big summer show. Admire the handiwork at gallery57.co.uk

    Free
  • Nicole Phillips – ‘The Joy of Being’

    Oxmarket Contemporary St. Andrew’s Court off East Street, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    We are delighted to welcome Nicole Phillips for a solo exhibition in our Wilson Gallery. Nicole’s exhibition, "The Joy of Being," explores the profound experience of being fully present in each moment, guided by an intuitive combination of observation and feeling. This collection embodies her unique perspective on the world, capturing the enchantment of life's […]

  • Sussex County Arts Club – ‘Volunteers and Prize Winners Show’

    Oxmarket Contemporary St. Andrew’s Court off East Street, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    For two weeks this summer, Oxmarket Contemporary will showcase work from the Sussex County Arts Club's ‘Volunteers and Prize Winners' show. The club, which is based in central Brighton, is open to both amateur and professional artists.  It was formed in 1944 by a group of disaffected artists from The Brighton Arts Club who were […]

  • Lee & Lee

    Farleys House & Gallery Muddles Green, Chiddingly, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    A real crowd puller at Farleys House, pairing stills from the Hollywood movie Lee, by official photographer Kimberley French, and Lee Miller’s wartime photographs that inspired the film. In 1940 the American Surrealist was made an official war photographer, working in London during the Blitz and on the front line in Italy and France. Lee, […]

  • Equus

    Oxmarket Contemporary St. Andrew’s Court off East Street, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    Oxmarket is thrilled to present Equus. a celebration of the long storied connection of Sussex to the equine. It is one that is constantly being renewed in racetracks like Goodwood or Fontwell, in polo matches at Cowdray Park, and hacks through the South Downs. The indelible marks of this connection can be seen in the […]

  • Andy Waite, Colour Notes for Travellers

    54 Tarrant Street, Arundel 54 Tarrant Street, Arundel, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    Stalwart of the Arundel art scene Andy Waite returns with 'Colour Notes for Travellers'. This exhibition, held at Waite's gallery space at 54 Tarrant Street, will consist of two strands. The first of which will showcase an exploratory body of work which recalls earlier work by Waite in its delving into the realm of the […]

    Free