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 […]

The first major exhibition of the English painter’s work in 20 years, spanning the whole of his prolific career from the Victorian era to post-WW2. Nicholson was primarily known as a portrait painter, but also offered an important contribution to the still life and landscape genres, as well as producing publicity posters, costume designs and […]

Held in partnership with academics from the University of Sussex, We Are Still Here is a powerful exhibition of poetry, visual art & community response. Vanishing Place, meanwhile, is an open-call exhibition which celebrates the challenges and the beauty of our natural world.

Oxmarket are thrilled to welcome ART of Living to the John Rank gallery, this exhibition is collaborative and is being kindly supported by The Arts Society and Promedica. ART of Living brings together Stonepillow, the Aldingbourne Trust, the Apuldram Centre and Chichester College to celebrate how art supports personal growth, confidence and wellbeing. Although each […]

Oxmarket are delighted to welcome back Sandra Izard for a solo exhibition in the Wilson Gallery. Sandra moved to Chichester at the age of 4. Now based in the nearby village of Slindon, her work is deeply rooted in the landscape of West Sussex. The South Downs, together with the intimate world of the local […]

Do women need to be naked to get into the Met Museum? Well, in 1989 it seems they did: there were more nude paintings of women than women painters represented in New York’s institutional art museum, as anonymous feminist collective The Guerilla Girls pointed out in their famous campaign. Charleston is showcasing works from the […]