Events (all)
A comprehensive listing of all events across Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. Filter by county below, or explore everything on the map on our Discover page.
NB: As a general rule we don’t list art workshops or classes - there are simply too many. The few that appear on this page are either unusual or exceptional.
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Alexander Costello
11 Jul 2026 – 25 Jul 2026
Contemporary and Country, King's Lynn, Norfolk
A Day in May - Open Call
4 Jul 2026 – 1 Aug 2026
Spirit Studios Suffolk, Saxmundham, Suffolk
Andrew Gifford - 'City Lights, Part One' - a solo exhibition of new paintings
13 Jun 2026 – 1 Aug 2026
Spirit Studios Suffolk, Saxmundham, Suffolk
Festival Exhibition
13 Jun 2026 – 1 Aug 2026
Spirit Studios Suffolk, Saxmundham, Suffolk
Holt Art Awards – Shortlist Exhibition
20 Jul 2026 – 1 Aug 2026
St Andrew the Apostle, Holt & Allen Hall Gallery / Plastic Culture, Glandford, Holt, Norfolk
Chaos and Order
18 Jul 2026 – 2 Aug 2026
Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex
undercurrent - North Norfolk Exhibition Project WIGHTON26
2 Jul 2026 – 2 Aug 2026
All Saints Church, Kirkgate Lane, Wighton, Norfolk
Heidi Wigmore - State of Her
30 May 2026 – 23 Aug 2026
Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
One of the best shows in the East of England in 2026.
Ryan Gander: Prosaic Times
18 Jul 2026 – 24 Aug 2026
303 Projects, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Print
11 Jul 2026 – 29 Aug 2026
North House Gallery, Manningtree, Essex
Godfried Donkor: It’s a Numbers Game
23 May 2026 – 30 Aug 2026
Firstsite, Colchester, Essex
Summer Contemporary 2026
25 Jul 2026 – 30 Aug 2026
Snape Maltings (Britten Pears Arts), Snape, Suffolk
Rosie Ridgway: Phantom Power
24 Jun 2026 – 12 Sept 2026
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Women Artists and the Land: Julie Brook, Harriet Hellman, Lotte Scott
8 Jul 2026 – 13 Sept 2026
GroundWork Gallery, King's Lynn, Norfolk
The Garden Comes Inside
10 May 2026 – 30 Sept 2026
Bolwick Hall, Marsham, Aylsham, Norfolk
Lynn Chadwick at Houghton Hall
2 May 2026 – 4 Oct 2026
Houghton Hall, King's Lynn, Norfolk
The Hay Wain: Walking Constable's Landscape
11 Jul 2026 – 4 Oct 2026
Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, Suffolk
Gainsborough, Turner & Constable: Inventing Landscape
25 Apr 2026 – 11 Oct 2026
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk
Helaine Blumenfeld: Tree of Life
3 May 2025 – 11 Oct 2026
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk
Kate Giles: Remember Tomorrow
25 Apr 2026 – 11 Oct 2026
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk
Daisy Parris: Fist Full of Dreams
20 May 2026 – 31 Oct 2026
Wolterton Hall (May - October), Erpingham, Norfolk
Phyllida Barlow: disruptor
20 May 2026 – 31 Oct 2026
Wolterton Hall (May - October), Erpingham, Norfolk
Duncan Grant: Worlds Through Desire - From Drawing to Cruising to DMs
11 Jul 2026 – 8 Nov 2026
Firstsite, Colchester, Essex
What is the Meaning of Life?
16 May 2026 – 15 Nov 2026
Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, Norfolk
We love how Sainsbury Centre's Big Question series, of which What is the Meaning of Life, is the current installment. Its more revelatory ond universal than art presented through the prism of a single artist's subjectivity.
Miranda Boulton: Chain of Flowers
16 May 2026 – 6 Dec 2026
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime
27 Mar 2026 – 17 Jan 2027
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Seven Decades of Contemporary Art: Norfolk Contemporary Art Society at Norwich Castle
28 Mar 2026 – 28 Feb 2027
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
Moth Club
25 Jul 2026
The Minories, Colchester, Essex
The Lightness of Being - an abstract quartet
20 Jun 2026 – 25 Jul 2026
Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Art Is Resistance: Painting Through Trauma Towards Hope
23 Jul 2026 – 26 Jul 2026
The Minories, Colchester, Essex
Members' Show
5 Jul 2026 – 26 Jul 2026
OUTPOST, Norwich, Norfolk
The Spirit of Boudica
2 Jul 2026 – 26 Jul 2026
Chalice Gallery, Sudbury, Suffolk
Caroline Evans: The Landscape
23 Jul 2026 – 29 Jul 2026
Snape Maltings (Britten Pears Arts), Snape, Suffolk
The Suffolk Art Society Art Exhibition
17 Jul 2026 – 2 Aug 2026
The Lady Chapel, Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk
The Wivenhoe Art Trail on Tour: Mersea
21 Jul 2026 – 2 Aug 2026
128 Coast Road, West Mersea, Essex
Kate Charles: Caught by The Dawn
16 Jul 2026 – 5 Aug 2026
Snape Maltings (Britten Pears Arts), Snape, Suffolk
Andrew Gifford - City Lights, Part Two
15 Jul 2026 – 7 Aug 2026
Spirit Studios Suffolk, Saxmundham, Suffolk
EAST 26: The Bank's Summer Exhibition of East Anglian Artists
1 Jul 2026 – 14 Aug 2026
The Bank Arts Centre, Eye, Suffolk
John Constable: celebrating 250 years
1 Jul 2026 – 16 Aug 2026
The Minories, Colchester, Essex
What we did in the Plague: An International Covid-19 Project by Phill Jupitus
4 Jul 2026 – 16 Aug 2026
The Minories, Colchester, Essex
Hand Woven Landscapes: From Mill to Loom
11 Jul 2026 – 23 Aug 2026
Mill Tye Gallery and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Suffolk
War Craft
24 Feb 2026 – 23 Aug 2026
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
New Horizons
25 Jul 2026 – 1 Sept 2026
The Gallery Holt, Holt, Norfolk
Summer Show 2026
20 Jun 2026 – 2 Sept 2026
Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk
Handpicked: Painting Flowers From 1900 to Today
25 Apr 2026 – 6 Sept 2026
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Kenji Umeda: a journey
25 Apr 2026 – 6 Sept 2026
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Relative Ties: Mabel Nicholson, Nancy Nicholson, EQ Nicholson and Louisa Creed
6 Mar 2026 – 6 Sept 2026
The Women's Art Collection, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Dressed for Business: The Gloria Levin Collection of Hardy Amies Couture
20 Sept 2025 – 20 Sept 2026
Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Big Screen Associate Programme: Ravioli Me Away, D.M.S, Heart n Soul, Black Obsidian Sound System
20 Jun 2026 – 25 Sept 2026
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Arpita Shah: Nalini
13 Jun 2026 – 4 Oct 2026
Firstsite, Colchester, Essex
Summer Printworks Exhibition 2026
6 Jun 2026 – 4 Oct 2026
Mill Tye Gallery and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Suffolk
Land, Sky, Light: New Landscapes by David Dawson
25 Apr 2026 – 11 Oct 2026
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk
Railway Bridge Commission 2026: Elleanna Chapman - Do Somethin'
18 Jul 2026 – 17 Oct 2026
The Railway Bridge on Southend High Street, adjacent to Southend Central Station (between Elmer Square/Focal Point Gallery and the High Street)., Lowestoft, Suffolk
Raveningham Sculpture Trail 2026
15 Jul 2026 – 19 Oct 2026
Raveningham Gardens, Raveningham, Norfolk
65 Years of the Munnings Art Museum
1 Apr 2026 – 25 Oct 2026
The Munnings Art Museum, Dedham, Essex
Fry’s Popular Delights
5 Apr 2026 – 25 Oct 2026
The Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, Essex
Olga Lehmann – A Versatile and Vivacious Artist
12 Jul 2026 – 25 Oct 2026
The Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, Essex
Pictures from Private Collections
1 Apr 2026 – 25 Oct 2026
The Munnings Art Museum, Dedham, Essex
The Influence of John Constable
1 Apr 2026 – 25 Oct 2026
The Munnings Art Museum, Dedham, Essex
Love, Didi: Ada Bond and DaddyBears
9 Jul 2026 – 1 Nov 2026
Snape Maltings (Britten Pears Arts), Snape, Suffolk
David Shenton: Kindly Ease The Tension
18 Jul 2026 – 10 Jan 2027
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
Alan Sorrell: Nubia
1 Feb 2025 – 1 Feb 2027
Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Coming soon
Autumn Exhibition 2026: Silver Anniversary, Part 2
10 Oct 2026 – 25 Oct 2026
Geedon Gallery (Spring & Autumn), Fingringhoe, Essex
Out of Line: Banksy and the Art of Dissent
10 Oct 2026 – 28 Feb 2027
The Minories, Colchester, Essex
Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now
19 Sept 2026 – 31 Jan 2027
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Rewilding Imagination Labs: Attending to the Liminal
10 Sept 2026
Firstsite, Colchester, Essex
STUMP
28 Aug 2026 – 30 Aug 2026
The Hall, The Street, Boyton, Suffolk
This is an exciting juxtaposition: unabashedly contemporary art shown in a village hall. Does it presage a new way to present and enjoy contemporary art in rural England?
Ryan Gander: Prosaic Times - Finissage
22 Aug 2026
303 Projects, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Rewilding Imagination Labs: Disrupted Rhythms
13 Aug 2026
Firstsite, Colchester, Essex
GroundWork Gallery 10th Birthday Party
8 Aug 2026
GroundWork Gallery, King's Lynn, Norfolk
One of the most passionate, joyous and rewarding art practices in the East of England during the past 10 years, the party is sure to be as excellent as all of the exhibitions and symposia produced by this superb and committed gallery!
Be Aware of Invisibility
2 Aug 2026 – 5 Sept 2026
Unit 4, Darsham Works, Main Road, Darsham, Suffolk
Be Aware of Invisibility: Private View
1 Aug 2026
Unit 4, Darsham Works, Main Road, Darsham, Suffolk
Mannington Nature Award – Shortlist Exhibition
1 Aug 2026 – 13 Sept 2026
Mannington Hall, Itteringham, Norfolk
Summer at Snape
30 Jul 2026 – 31 Aug 2026
Snape Maltings (Britten Pears Arts), Snape, Suffolk
The Garden
30 Oct 2026 – 19 Dec 2026
Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Constable to Contemporary
24 Oct 2026 – 28 Feb 2027
Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, Suffolk
Dovercourt Open Studios 2026
11 Sept 2026 – 14 Sept 2026
Briarwood, Garden of Curiosities, 86 Fronks Road - and studios nearby, Harwich, Essex
On the Edge - Ruth Bunnewell
11 Sept 2026 – 29 Oct 2026
Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Constable Ambisonic (an aural experience)
5 Sept 2026
Cuckoo Farm Studios, Myland, Essex
Deep Realities - Tanya Avchinnikova & Jamie Eade
4 Sept 2026 – 15 Sept 2026
The Gallery Holt, Holt, Norfolk
Molly Thomson and Victoria Fenn
2 Sept 2026 – 30 Sept 2026
Contemporary and Country, King's Lynn, Norfolk
Summer Sizzle - David Piercy and Abbie Cairns
27 Aug 2026 – 30 Aug 2026
The Minories, Colchester, Essex
Walls and Windows
20 Aug 2026 – 6 Sept 2026
The Minories, Colchester, Essex
This Space Belongs to You: Great Yarmouth & Waveney Pride Open Exhibition 2026
8 Aug 2026 – 6 Sept 2026
Original Projects, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
POWER: The Art Exhibition
4 Aug 2026 – 27 Aug 2026
Colchester Library, Colchester, Essex
As the Sap Rises - Maija Fox
1 Aug 2026 – 30 Aug 2026
OUTPOST, Norwich, Norfolk
Eileen Coxon and Danny Seeley
1 Aug 2026 – 29 Aug 2026
Contemporary and Country, King's Lynn, Norfolk
Rhys-Lewis Summer Exhibition
1 Aug 2026 – 2 Aug 2026
The Minories, Colchester, Essex
Tassie Russell: Fragile Boundaries
1 Aug 2026 – 7 Aug 2026
The Watch House, Orford, Orford, Suffolk
