After a three-week run of pre-festival events, this year’s edition proper is launched with the UK premiere of 1736 French baroque opera Les Caractères de l’Amour, by Mademoiselle Duval, which we can safely bet will be a first for most of the audience. There follows a melodic melange of concerts on the theme of love, […]
The most intriguing of the three operas staged this autumn is a world premiere adaptation, by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Rachael Hewer, of Edith Nesbit’s classic The Railway Children, transposed to the Cold War era. There are also re-runs of Peter Hall’s 1981 staging of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Floris Visser’s 2022 […]
Oxmarket are delighted to welcome Richard Dunkley to the Wilson Gallery for a 2 week exhibition of his photographs. Richard Dunkley had a 35 year career in fashion and advertising photography during which he worked for Vogue in five countries and many other magazines. Based in New York for thirteen years he worked for many […]
Oxmarket are looking forward to an exhibition from four artists titled ‘Time…..’ in our John Rank Gallery. Linda Foskett trained as a Cartographical Draughtsman at the Ordnance Survey and now enjoys the freedom of all forms of artwork. The thrill is when drawing, painting or printing a landscape she can now place a road, tree […]
A celebration of contemporary craft and design, staged within the atmospheric shell of the partly restored Regency era townhouse. Expect textiles, ceramics, jewellery, lighting, furniture, enamel, and metalwork by makers from Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Dorset, organised by Design Nation South. Get more info at rth.org.uk
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 […]
Horsham Contemporary Art Fair returns in October, showcasing the work of over 45 artists and makers. The work spans a wide range of mediums and genres, and it's all high quality and affordable.
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 […]
To celebrate Chichester Cathedral's 950th anniversary, internationally renowned artistic collective Luxmuralis has crafted a unique and immersive light and sound installation. The installation will cover every corner of the Cathedral, and makes use of archive images in its journey through the Cathedral's history.
'Between Air and Earth' is an exhibition focusing on the personal narratives formed through a sense of place. A fascination with the natural world, a passion for colour, form and shape, and a poetic interpretation is a common thread uniting the works on show. From delicate intimate details to larger more expansive perspectives, the artists […]
Oxmarket are delighted to welcome back Martyn Jones with his exhbition inthe Wilson Gallery ‘Aquarelle’. Martyn Jones is a painter who works from his studio in Cardiff. Jones graduated M.A. Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art and was awarded a Junior Fellowship at Bath Academy of Art. Among his tutors were the British artists Partrick […]
zero3 was formed in 2003 from graduates of the Stitched Textiles course at Windsor College, Berkshire. Oxmarket Contemporary is excited to welcome the group who celebrate twenty-two years of exhibiting together. The collective was founded to give its members a route to exhibiting their work and to benefit from shared expertise and inspiration. The group […]
