Events (all)
A comprehensive listing of all events across Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk. Filter by county below, or explore everything on the map on our Discover page. Submit your own event.
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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Grad Fest 2026
Ending 9 Sep 2026
Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, Norfolk
Corner Shop: An Eclectic Mix of Artistic Produce
Ending 11 Sep 2026
ART:OASIS, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex
Rosie Ridgway: Phantom Power
Ending 12 Sep 2026
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Mannington Nature Award Exhibition
Ending 13 Sep 2026
Mannington Gallery, Itteringham, Norfolk
Women Artists and the Land: Julie Brook, Harriet Hellman, Lotte Scott
Ending 13 Sep 2026
GroundWork Gallery, King's Lynn, Norfolk
Cross Currents
Ending 14 Sep 2026
Cromer Artspace, Cromer, Norfolk
Jo Chapman and Hayley Field: THIS 'N' THAT
Ending 25 Sep 2026
Wingfield Barns, Wingfield, Suffolk
Making Port: Sophie Giller
Ending 26 Sep 2026
Hamilton MAS, Felixstowe, Suffolk
Then and Now: Colchester Art Society
Ending 27 Sep 2026
The Minories, Colchester, Essex
Tom Lamprell: Illuminated by Fire
Ending 27 Sep 2026
South Quay Gallery & Learning Centre, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
The Garden Comes Inside
Ending 30 Sep 2026
Bolwick Hall, Marsham, Aylsham, Norfolk
Lynn Chadwick at Houghton Hall
Ending 4 Oct 2026
Houghton Hall, King's Lynn, Norfolk
The Hay Wain: Walking Constable's Landscape
Ending 4 Oct 2026
Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, Suffolk
Dom Theobald: Paint Takes Shape
Ending 10 Oct 2026
The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk
Gainsborough, Turner & Constable: Inventing Landscape
Ending 11 Oct 2026
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk
Helaine Blumenfeld: Tree of Life
Ending 11 Oct 2026
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk
Kate Giles: Remember Tomorrow
Ending 11 Oct 2026
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk
Daisy Parris: Fist Full of Dreams
Ending 31 Oct 2026
Wolterton Hall (May - October), Erpingham, Norfolk
Phyllida Barlow: disruptor
Ending 31 Oct 2026
Wolterton Hall (May - October), Erpingham, Norfolk
Duncan Grant: Worlds Through Desire - From Drawing to Cruising to DMs
Ending 8 Nov 2026
Firstsite, Colchester, Essex
What is the Meaning of Life?
Ending 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.
MUSEUM
Ending 30 Nov 2026
Black Barn, Cockley Cley, Norfolk
Miranda Boulton: Chain of Flowers
Ending 6 Dec 2026
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime
Ending 17 Jan 2027
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Seven Decades of Contemporary Art: Norfolk Contemporary Art Society at Norwich Castle
Ending 28 Feb 2027
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
12PM Printmakers
Ending 9 Sep 2026
Aldeburgh Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
A Colourful Escape: Sophie Burkett
Ending 9 Sep 2026
Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich, Norfolk
Private View: Works on Paper
9 Sep 2026
Fen Ditton Gallery, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire
Andrew K Clarke: 'On the Edge'
Ending 10 Sep 2026
The Fisherman's Hut Gallery, Dunwich, Suffolk
Free Hand: Alex Curry
Ending 11 Sep 2026
The Watch House, Orford, Orford, Suffolk
MOTION & EMOTION: Adam Docker
Ending 12 Sep 2026
The Bank Arts Centre, Eye, Suffolk
Notes on Colour
Ending 12 Sep 2026
The Robert Cripps Gallery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
NR23:26 Encounters
Ending 13 Sep 2026
Wells Maltings - Handa Gallery, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Chrissie Richards at The Maker's Gallery, Holt
Ending 15 Sep 2026
Maker's Gallery Holt, Holt, Norfolk
Deep Realities - Tanya Avchinnikova & Jamie Eade
Ending 15 Sep 2026
The Gallery Holt, Holt, Norfolk
Our Sculptures & Other Animals
Ending 19 Sep 2026
The Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, Essex
The 26th Norwich Print Fair
Ending 19 Sep 2026
St Margaret's Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
Dressed for Business: The Gloria Levin Collection of Hardy Amies Couture
Ending 20 Sep 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
Ending 25 Sep 2026
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Flora & Fauna of East Anglia
Ending 26 Sep 2026
Gallery Above & Beyond, Linton, Cambridgeshire
Molly Thomson and Victoria Fenn
Ending 26 Sep 2026
Contemporary and Country, King's Lynn, Norfolk
Uncommon Ground
Ending 26 Sep 2026
Broad Street Gallery, Bungay, Suffolk
'Captured Light' - Paintings & Chairs from Suffolk
Ending 27 Sep 2026
Mill Tye Gallery and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Suffolk
Sounding The Line: Anastasia Eggers
Ending 27 Sep 2026
OUTPOST, Norwich, Norfolk
Works on Paper
Ending 27 Sep 2026
Fen Ditton Gallery, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire
Physical Slop: Shart Artfunkle
Ending 29 Sep 2026
Level Best Art Gallery, Colchester, Essex
Dog Ears & Loose Ends
Ending 30 Sep 2026
House of Joy, Colchester, Essex
Matthew Blakely, Chris Harrison, Tony Foster and Melvyn Evans
Ending 30 Sep 2026
Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk
Pauline Antram, Pamela Booker, Susan Vaughan-Williams
Ending 30 Sep 2026
Halesworth Gallery, Halesworth, Suffolk
The Modern British Room
Ending 30 Sep 2026
Thompson's Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Arpita Shah: Nalini
Ending 4 Oct 2026
Firstsite, Colchester, Essex
Benedictine Art Project
Ending 4 Oct 2026
The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk
Summer Printworks Exhibition 2026
Ending 4 Oct 2026
Mill Tye Gallery and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Suffolk
Anne Desmet RA: Wood Engraving, A Personal Approach
Ending 5 Oct 2026
Curwen Print Study Centre, Great Thurlow, Suffolk
Kit Poulson: Some Falls
Ending 11 Oct 2026
303 Projects, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Land, Sky, Light: New Landscapes by David Dawson
Ending 11 Oct 2026
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk
Light and Shadow
Ending 17 Oct 2026
Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Railway Bridge Commission 2026: Elleanna Chapman - Do Somethin'
Ending 17 Oct 2026
The Railway Bridge, Southend High Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Raveningham Sculpture Trail 2026
Ending 19 Oct 2026
Raveningham Gardens, Raveningham, Norfolk
65 Years of the Munnings Art Museum
Ending 25 Oct 2026
The Munnings Art Museum, Dedham, Essex
Fry’s Popular Delights
Ending 25 Oct 2026
The Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, Essex
Olga Lehmann – A Versatile and Vivacious Artist
Ending 25 Oct 2026
The Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, Essex
Pictures from Private Collections
Ending 25 Oct 2026
The Munnings Art Museum, Dedham, Essex
The Autumn Exhibition
Ending 25 Oct 2026
Middlemarch Fine Art, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
The Influence of John Constable
Ending 25 Oct 2026
The Munnings Art Museum, Dedham, Essex
The Kirins: Stephen and Lorna Kirin
Ending 31 Oct 2026
The Angle Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Edge Land
Ending 1 Nov 2026
The Long Shop Museum, Leiston, Suffolk
Love, Didi: Ada Bond and DaddyBears
Ending 1 Nov 2026
The Red House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
BETWEEN:US
Ending 29 Nov 2026
Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Harlow Sculpture Town (permanent)
Ending 31 Dec 2026
Harlow Sculpture Town, Harlow, Essex
David Shenton: Kindly Ease The Tension
Ending 10 Jan 2027
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
Alan Sorrell: Nubia
Ending 1 Feb 2027
Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Beneath the Surface: Zasmina Nedelcevova
Ending 1 Feb 2027
Museum of the Environment (MOTE), Ipswich, Suffolk
Re-Form: Jane Stewart
Ending 1 Feb 2027
Museum of the Environment (MOTE), Ipswich, Suffolk
MEAT: Sue Gascoyne
Ending 7 Feb 2027
Museum of the Environment (MOTE), Ipswich, Suffolk
A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire
Ending 7 Mar 2027
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Coming soon
Kit Poulson: Some Falls - Finissage
11 Oct 2026
303 Projects, Lowestoft, Suffolk
HOUSE COLLECTIVE - Young Voices, Shared Landscapes
10 Oct 2026 - 11 Oct 2026
Mill Tye Gallery and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Suffolk
Out of Line: Banksy and the Art of Dissent
10 Oct 2026 - 28 Feb 2027
The Minories, Colchester, Essex
John-Paul Stonard: Creation, Art Since the Beginning
3 Oct 2026
Ipswich Library - Lecture Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk
Stonard is one of the top art writers and historians in the East of England and, having seen him speak many times, we can vouch for the quality and content of this talk. It is sure to be fascinating and absorbing.
Cliff Edge: Textile Art on the Brink
2 Oct 2026 - 14 Oct 2026
Cromer Artspace, Cromer, Norfolk
Screening: 12 Months in Essex
2 Oct 2026
The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk
Elaine Nason: Close Encounters
1 Oct 2026 - 24 Oct 2026
Wingfield Barns, Wingfield, Suffolk
62nd Essex Open Art Exhibition
26 Sep 2026 - 20 Dec 2026
Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Compulsory Continuous Connectedness: Rest in a Networked World
26 Sep 2026 - 9 Jan 2027
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Golden Triangle NR2 Open Studios Art Trail 2026
26 Sep 2026 - 4 Oct 2026
Studios across the Golden Triangle, NR2, Norwich, Norfolk
New Landscapes by David Dawson: A Panel Discussion
26 Sep 2026
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk
What a cool and groundbreaking event, bringing together the worlds of Art and Agriculture through a moderated conversation. Never were two bedfellows stranger. But that's a sure formula for a fascinating and unexpected conversation.
What Remains
23 Sep 2026 - 28 Feb 2027
The Women's Art Collection, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Artist in Conversation: Gordon Senior
22 Sep 2026
Cromer Artspace, Cromer, Norfolk
Simon Carter: From the Landscape
19 Sep 2026 - 17 Jan 2027
Firstsite, Colchester, Essex
One of the year's MUST-SEE exhibitions This exhibition is undoubtedly a watershed for one of the most popular, established and best-known artists in the East of England. The main exhibition hall of Firstsite is being rebuilt to reflect the psychogeography of Carter's love affair with Essex's estuarine environment, the most significant, recurring subject in his oeuvre. And this will be a huge solo exhibition -- one part retrospective, one part painted specifically for this exhibition.
Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now
19 Sep 2026 - 31 Jan 2027
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Unearthed: Caroline Wright
19 Sep 2026 - 27 Sep 2026
Asylum Studios, Rendlesham, Suffolk
Opening party: Unearthed
18 Sep 2026
Asylum Studios, Rendlesham, Suffolk
On Land: Gordon Senior
17 Sep 2026 - 28 Sep 2026
Cromer Artspace, Cromer, Norfolk
Opening: On Land
17 Sep 2026
Cromer Artspace, Cromer, Norfolk
Monday Night
16 Sep 2026 - 24 Oct 2026
The Art Station - The Old Bank, Saxmundham, Suffolk
Roger Steele: How Can Life Be?
15 Sep 2026 - 20 Sep 2026
Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich, Norfolk
Artists in Conversation: Cross Currents
13 Sep 2026
Cromer Artspace, Cromer, Norfolk
Cuckoo Farm Open Studios
12 Sep 2026 - 13 Sep 2026
Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex
Joel Wyllie: Etched Cell
12 Sep 2026 - 24 Oct 2026
CORPUS, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Meet the Artist: Dom Theobald
12 Sep 2026
The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk
Private View: Joel Wyllie, Etched Cell
12 Sep 2026
CORPUS, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Private View: Thibault Aedy, Absolute Contact
12 Sep 2026
CORPUS, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
The Art of Dredging: Melvyn King
12 Sep 2026 - 30 Oct 2026
ART:OASIS, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex
Thibault Aedy: Absolute Contact
12 Sep 2026 - 24 Oct 2026
CORPUS, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Rewilding Imagination Labs: Attending to the Liminal
10 Sep 2026
Firstsite, Colchester, Essex
Common Threads Textile Exhibition: Seeing Red
13 Nov 2026 - 22 Nov 2026
Wells Maltings - Handa Gallery, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Glenn Brown: Anatomy of Trees
8 Nov 2026 - 18 Apr 2027
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk
John Bell: A Retrospective
4 Nov 2026 - 10 Nov 2026
Wells Maltings - Handa Gallery, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
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
A Call to Art: William Morris & the Pre-Raphaelites
23 Oct 2026 - 3 May 2027
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Artists in Conversation: Cromer Open 2026
23 Oct 2026
Cromer Artspace, Cromer, Norfolk
Curating Beyond the Frame: Symposium by the Sea
21 Oct 2026
Cromer Artspace, Cromer, Norfolk
Cromer Open 2026: Beyond the Frame
18 Oct 2026 - 5 Nov 2026
Cromer Artspace, Cromer, Norfolk
Opening: Cromer Open 2026
17 Oct 2026
Cromer Artspace, Cromer, Norfolk
Suffolk Open Studios Members' Autumn Exhibition
17 Oct 2026 - 25 Oct 2026
The Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Opening Reception: Alasdair Lindsay
15 Oct 2026
Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
CORRESPONDENCE: Painting and Film by Ian St John Cross
10 Oct 2026 - 23 Oct 2026
The Undercroft, Norwich, Norfolk
Print East Print Fair
10 Oct 2026
The Athenaeum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Private View: "Garden"
9 Oct 2026
Greenhouse Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk
Artists in Conversation: Cliff Edge
8 Oct 2026
Cromer Artspace, Cromer, Norfolk
Private View, Live Performance and Artist Talk: Planned Obsolescence
8 Oct 2026
Museum of the Environment (MOTE), Ipswich, Suffolk
Tympanums - Finbar Jon Prior
4 Oct 2026 - 25 Oct 2026
OUTPOST, Norwich, Norfolk
By Way of the Sea
3 Oct 2026 - 11 Oct 2026
St Nicholas' Church, Salthouse, Norfolk
Everything Stops for Tea: Sudan Edition
3 Oct 2026
Noman Studio, Monks Eleigh, Suffolk
Gail Hoban, Roz Howling, Sophy Wollaston
3 Oct 2026 - 28 Oct 2026
Halesworth Gallery, Halesworth, Suffolk
Lorraine Bewick and Stewart Hearn
3 Oct 2026 - 28 Oct 2026
Contemporary and Country, King's Lynn, Norfolk
North Norfolk Festival of Literature and Landscape: Art Exhibition
2 Oct 2026 - 4 Oct 2026
Wells Maltings - Handa Gallery, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Opening Party: Gail Hoban, Roz Howling, Sophy Wollaston
2 Oct 2026
Halesworth Gallery, Halesworth, Suffolk
Opening: Cliff Edge
2 Oct 2026
Cromer Artspace, Cromer, Norfolk
Private View: By Way of the Sea
2 Oct 2026
St Nicholas' Church, Salthouse, Norfolk
Opening: Close Encounters
1 Oct 2026
Wingfield Barns, Wingfield, Suffolk
Planned Obsolescence
1 Oct 2026 - 31 Oct 2026
Museum of the Environment (MOTE), Ipswich, Suffolk
Textiles Today?
1 Oct 2026 - 1 Nov 2026
Fen Ditton Gallery, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire
"Garden"
30 Sep 2026 - 31 Oct 2026
Greenhouse Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk
Exhibition Preview: Compulsory Continuous Connectedness
26 Sep 2026
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Meet the Artist: Pat Southwood
26 Sep 2026
Mandell's Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
Now You See Me: 3 Cities Group
25 Sep 2026 - 4 Oct 2026
The Undercroft, Norwich, Norfolk
Opening Evening: Sticks & Stones
25 Sep 2026
Atelier, Leiston, Suffolk
Sticks & Stones - James Copper, Laurence Edwards and Chris Summerfield
25 Sep 2026 - 10 Oct 2026
Atelier, Leiston, Suffolk
Stillness and Strength, an exhibition
25 Sep 2026 - 27 Sep 2026
Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Best of British VI
19 Sep 2026 - 27 Oct 2026
The Gallery Holt, Holt, Norfolk
Walberswick Open Studios
19 Sep 2026 - 20 Sep 2026
Walberswick (various locations), Walberswick, Suffolk
Camilla Clark, and Ant and Di Edmonds
18 Sep 2026 - 11 Oct 2026
Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Luke Psaros
18 Sep 2026 - 24 Oct 2026
Museum of the Environment (MOTE), Ipswich, Suffolk
artEast 2026
17 Sep 2026 - 22 Sep 2026
Framsden Hall Barn, Framsden, Suffolk
Open Evening: Roger Steele - How Can Life Be?
17 Sep 2026
Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich, Norfolk
Opening Reception: Camilla Clark, and Ant and Di Edmonds
17 Sep 2026
Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Bayfield Hall Sculpture Trail 2026
16 Sep 2026 - 18 Oct 2026
Bayfield Hall, Holt, Norfolk
Wisbech Gallery OPEN 2026
16 Sep 2026 - 10 Oct 2026
Wisbech Gallery, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Patrick Will Baker: Eyes on the Horizon
15 Sep 2026 - 20 Sep 2026
Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich, Norfolk
Anne Desmet RA and Susan Aldworth in Conversation
12 Sep 2026
Curwen Print Study Centre, Great Thurlow, Suffolk
Ipswich Town Art Trail 2026
12 Sep 2026 - 13 Sep 2026
Venues across Ipswich town centre, Ipswich, Suffolk
JMT: Coastal Open 2026
12 Sep 2026 - 1 Nov 2026
Jaywick Martello Tower, Jaywick, Essex
KÖZÖ: Pat Southwood
12 Sep 2026 - 10 Oct 2026
Mandell's Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
Launch: Wisbech Gallery OPEN 2026
12 Sep 2026
Wisbech Gallery, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Open Afternoon: The Art of Dredging
12 Sep 2026
ART:OASIS, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex
Opening: KÖZÖ by Pat Southwood
12 Sep 2026
Mandell's Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
Opening: Monday Night
12 Sep 2026
The Art Station - The Old Bank, Saxmundham, Suffolk
Private View: 20 Group at Salthouse
12 Sep 2026
St Nicholas Church, Salthouse, Norfolk
SPACE Colchester Open Studios
12 Sep 2026
SPACE Studios, 37 Queen Street, Colchester, Essex
Tollesbury Arts Trail 2026
12 Sep 2026
Venues across Tollesbury, Tollesbury, Essex
Dovercourt Open Studios 2026
11 Sep 2026 - 14 Sep 2026
Briarwood, Garden of Curiosities, 86 Fronks Road - and studios nearby, Harwich, Essex
Maldon Art Trail 2026
11 Sep 2026 - 13 Sep 2026
Venues across Maldon, Maldon, Essex
On the Edge - Ruth Bunnewell
11 Sep 2026 - 24 Oct 2026
Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Private View: Ruth Bunnewell - On the Edge
11 Sep 2026
Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Sally Howard Pop Up Exhibition
11 Sep 2026 - 13 Sep 2026
The Minories, Colchester, Essex
You can read more about Sally on her EEA profile .
20 Group at Salthouse
10 Sep 2026 - 27 Sep 2026
St Nicholas Church, Salthouse, Norfolk
