Art in Dorset
Arts Calendar lists 42 exhibitions at 23 venues in Dorset. Poole has the most, with 7.
Today
Born on this day: Arnold Böcklin (1827)
Exhibitions on these days
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Opens Wed 2 Dec
Exhibition
Bridget and Crispian Beattie: 2026 Collection
Shaftesbury Arts Centre Gallery, Shaftesbury, Dorset
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Opens Wed 2 Dec
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Opens Sat 5 Dec
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Opens Fri 18 Dec
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Closes Tue 1 Dec
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Closes Fri 4 Dec
Exhibition
All Access AUB Exhibition: Me, Myself and I
TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth, Poole, Dorset
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Closes Sat 5 Dec
Exhibition
Christie Brown: Significant Beings, Works from 1986 to 2026
Messums West, Tisbury, Wiltshire
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Closes Wed 16 Dec
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Closes Sat 19 Dec
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Closes Sat 19 Dec
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Long Exposure: Men and Mountains from the Dawn of Alpinism
Messums West, Tisbury, Wiltshire
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Closes Sat 19 Dec
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Closes Sun 20 Dec
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Until 3 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Reading the Room: Domestic Interiors in Art
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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West Wight Portraits of a Landscape
Dimbola Museum & Galleries, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
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Until 16 Jan 2027
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Sven Berlin: Disturbance in the West (1934-1970)
St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire
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Until 24 Jan 2027
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Until 30 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 12 Feb 2027
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Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026
TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth, Poole, Dorset
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Edo Women: Japanese Prints 1820 to 1900
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset
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Until 10 Sep 2027
Everything listed in Dorset
Exhibitions 42
- Rhythm of the Hills
- Searching for Shadows
- Tsumugu
- Edo Women: Japanese Prints 1820 to 1900
- Portals
- Reading the Room: Domestic Interiors in Art
- Separate Together
- At the still point of the turning world
- Beneath and Beyond
- Fadelands
- Hugh Dunford Wood: A Retrospective
- Stitched
- Land, Sea and Community: An Artists Perspective
- Under the Sky
- PRINTLAND 3: The UK’s Leading Printmakers
- Sacred Earth: Water, Tree, Stone
- The Portland Dress
- All Wrapped Up
- Contemporary Perspectives
- In Our Element
- Wish You Were Here!
- Places We Remember
- All Access AUB Exhibition: Me, Myself and I
- Life in Full Colour: The Art of Jason Wilsher-Mills
- Postgraduate Summer Shows 2026
- Postgraduate Winter Show 2026
- The Archetypes
- The Past is Present
- Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026
- Marking Out the Boundaries
- Bridget and Crispian Beattie: 2026 Collection
- Eye Heart Hand
- Pottery and Paintings
- Sara Westaway & Alan Booth
- Carry Akroyd
- Richard Pikesley
- Zak Ové: Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness
- Pen & Ink: A Daily Drawing Practice
- 40 Years of the Mill Anniversary Exhibition
- Holly & Ivy: Christmas at Walford Mill
- The Paper Cinema: Birds, Stars and Circles
- We Three Artists
Towns in Dorset
- Poole (7)
- Bridport (5)
- Bournemouth (4)
- Lyme Regis (4)
- Shaftesbury (4)
- Wimborne Minster (4)
- Blandford Forum (3)
- Dorchester (3)
- Sherborne (3)
- Christchurch (2)
- Morcombelake (1)
- Puddletown (1)
- Swanage (1)
Something in Dorset we are missing?
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