A dialogue across generations unfolds in the cathedral’s soaring spaces, where John Piper’s vivid spiritual symbolism meets Alice Carter’s contemporary paintings. An exhibition and events programme celebrating the 60th anniversary of Piper’s iconic High Altar Tapestry, titled Glowing + Alive, runs until November; Carter’s Ashes to Fire, reflecting on the Easter story with bold colour […]
After a year of refurbishment, Worthing Museum & Gallery reopened this spring, and they’re marking the moment with an open exhibition packed with work by Sussex-based artists. Thanks to support from the Lottery Heritage Fund, entry to the competition was free, and the selected artists have made it through a rigorous two-stage judging process. The […]
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 […]
Lee’s Surreal Menagerie reveals Lee Miller’s playful, uncanny imagination: a cabinet of creatures and objects that seem to slip between reality and dream.
BOAT offers another season of alfresco performance, with its trademark blend of Shakespeare, comedy, family shows, live music and touring companies set to unfold across the summer. The amphitheatre’s sweeping green bowl on Dyke Road remains one of the city’s most relaxed cultural spaces – picnics, blankets and the occasional weather-driven plot twist are all […]
The centrepiece of Goodwood’s summer season is the first major UK presentation devoted to the trailblazing American land artist Nancy Holt. Ambitious in scale, the project extends from the galleries into the surrounding landscape, charting Holt’s lifelong fascination with systems, time, space and the ways we orient ourselves in the world. Since her death in […]
An interesting double header opens this spring at Charleston’s Lewes satellite. One exhibition focuses on Walter Sickert’s works on paper, examining the importance of drawings and prints to the proto-Modernist’s practice. Sickert, of course, was no stranger to Sussex, as a frequent visitor to Brighton and habitual user of the Newhaven-Dieppe ferry. Alongside it comes […]
Over the last 25 years Shipley has built a reputation for extraordinary music in exceptional, inspiring settings across Sussex: from chamber concerts in medieval churches to elegant evenings in historic houses, and performances set in reimagined wild landscapes. The programme blends Bach, Schubert and Vaughan Williams with bold new commissions, world premieres and jazz-infused crossovers, […]
Building on curator Andy Friend’s recent display at Tate Britain, this is the most comprehensive exhibition on the Artists International Association (AIA) in over four decades. It highlights the work of founding members, including Peggy Angus and James Boswell, alongside AIA exhibiting artists like Paul Nash and Dame Laura Knight. The AIA was founded in […]
Glyndebourne’s 2026 season mixes landmark firsts with signature revivals, opening with the festival’s first-ever staging of Puccini’s Tosca – complete with the spine-tingling aria E lucevan le stelle ringing out across the Sussex countryside – and followed by another major debut: Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, the earliest opera in the repertoire finally taking its Glyndebourne bow. Strauss’s […]
‘We interpret the world through stories… Everybody makes sense of things in their own way, but if you have stories, it helps.’ Paula Rego The elegant Petworth gallery delves into Paula Rego’s lifelong fascination with storytelling and literature, tracing how she reimagined nursery rhymes, Peter Pan and Jane Eyre through the incisive language of printmaking. […]
Expressions in Blue: Monumental Porcelain by Felicity Aylieff invites visitors to experience Petworth House and Park anew, with these towering works positioned in the Capability Brown-landscaped park and throughout the house.
