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Chichester Cathedral Chichester

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 […]

Free

Worthing OPEN26

Worthing Museum & Art Gallery Chapel Road, Worthing

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 […]

Lee’s Surreal Menagerie

Farleys House & Gallery Muddles Green, Chiddingly

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.

Brighton Open Air Theatre 2026 Season

Brighton Open Air Theatre Dyke Road, Brighton and Hove

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 […]

Nancy Holt

Goodwood Art Foundation New Barn Hill, Goodwood, Chichester

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 […]

Walter Sickert / Gladys Hynes

Charleston Lewes Southover Road, Lewes

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 […]

Shipley Arts Festival 2026

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 […]

Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism

Towner Eastbourne Devonshire Park, College Rd, Eastbourne

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 […]

British Landscapes: A Sense of Place

Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester

The Chichester gallery opens its summer season with a sweeping look at how artists reimagined the British landscape between 1910 and 1970. The exhibition brings together major works by Ivon […]

Henry Moore and More

Wakehurst Ardingly, Haywards Heath

Kew Gardens’ Sussex outpost gets an extra dose of summer splendour with the arrival of four Henry Moore sculptures, joined by new work from three contemporary figures. British-Bangladeshi Rana Begum […]

Janaina Tschäpe: Conversations with the Sea

Hastings Contemporary Rock-a-Nore, Hastings

The New York-based German-Brazilian artist Janaina Tschäpe spent a wet, storm-lashed November in Hastings – an experience that fed directly into this new body of work, created for her first […]

To Improvise a Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates

De La Warr Pavilion Marina, Bexhill

‘The decisions are governed by something I can’t really put into words. I’ve selected things that I love by dint of their poetry, their beauty, their refusal, their internal logic […]

Talismanic

Farleys House & Gallery Muddles Green, Chiddingly

Talismanic presents Elaine Duigenan’s surrealist-leaning sculptures, created from found objects (many of them mudlarked from the Thames) transformed into curious, charged forms.

Grim Glory: Lee Miller’s Britain at War

Farleys House & Gallery Muddles Green, Chiddingly

Following on from a record-breaking Tate exhibition, this is a special opportunity to see Lee Miller’s work in the context of her home. This exhibition focuses on her early-war years, […]

Earthwork

Gallery57 57 Tarrant Street, Arundel

The summer ends with a show of Janene Waudby’s ceramic creations, inspired by her love of remote landscapes, coupled with paintings by Claire Benn.

The Art of Rural Life

All Saints Church, Laughton Laughton, Lewes

This year's edition of Collectiva's annual exhibition is a collaboration with Laughton, Chalvington & Ripe PCC, and it presents work by Sussex artists and makers inspired by farming and rural […]

Free

Artwave Group Show

Natasha O'Kane Contemporary Fine Art The Studio, 10 Windover Crescent, Lewes

The Lewes gallery with a keen eye for Sussex’s top talent opens for the Artwave festival. Expect painters working in all styles, from bold expressive canvases and colourful abstracts to […]

Geoff Hands: In the Landscape

Meiklejohn Gallery 1 Malling Street, Lewes

Hands’ richly textured, gestural abstract paintings are worked up from what he terms ‘psycho-geographic’ plein air drawings of landscapes and seascapes, rooted in memory and place, and inspired by Old […]

Ongoing

AFTER-IMAGE

Private: AFTER-IMAGE
Phoenix Art Space 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton and Hove

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 […]

Goodwood Art Foundation – Summer Programme

Goodwood Art Foundation New Barn Hill, Goodwood, Chichester

The Summer programme opens 2 May and unfolds through earthworks, sculpture, tapestry, ceramics and large-scale outdoor installations. Explore a summer of art across two galleries, an evolving 70-acre landscape, complemented […]

£15 – £18

Expressions in Blue: Monumental Porcelain by Felicity Aylieff

Petworth House Petworth

Throughout the summer, Petworth House and its sweeping grounds are transformed by the monumental porcelain sculptures of Felicity Aylieff. Her new body of work draws directly from the house’s own […]

Lucy Marks

Arundel Contemporary 2 Maltravers Street, Arundel

This August, Arundel Contemporary hosts a new solo exhibition by acclaimed artist Lucy Marks ROI RWS. Drawing inspiration from the shifting light and serene beauty of the Sussex landscape, this […]

Leo Stevenson – Finding the Centre

Oxmarket Contemporary St. Andrew’s Court off East Street, Chichester

For more than three decades, Leo Stevenson has built a remarkable career as a professional artist, following a path that has been anything but conventional. While best known as an […]

IN THE LANDSCAPE

Meiklejohn Gallery 1 Malling Street, Lewes

An exhibition of recent paintings for Lewes ART WAVE at Meiklejohn Gallery that explore sweeping landscapes and more intimate, overlooked spaces, in East Sussex. Combining direct observation from walking and […]