Art in Dorset
Arts Calendar lists 41 exhibitions at 22 venues in Dorset. Poole has the most, with 7.
Today
Happy birthday to Kerry James Marshall (71 today)
Exhibitions on now
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Opens today
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Last day today
Exhibition
Tête à Tête: Marc Chagall, Salvador DalÃ, Le Corbusier, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso
David Simon Contemporary, Castle Cary, Somerset
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Last day today
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
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Closes Tue 20 Oct
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Closes Thu 22 Oct
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Closes Fri 23 Oct
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Closes Sat 24 Oct
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Closes Sat 24 Oct
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Closes Sat 24 Oct
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Closes Sat 24 Oct
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Closes Mon 26 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
Exhibition
40 Years of the Mill Anniversary Exhibition
Walford Mill Crafts, Wimborne Minster, Dorset
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
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Closes Mon 9 Nov
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
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Closes Sat 28 Nov
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Closes Sun 29 Nov
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Closes Mon 30 Nov
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Until 5 Dec
Exhibition
Christie Brown: Significant Beings, Works from 1986 to 2026
Messums West, Tisbury, Wiltshire
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 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
Exhibition
West Wight Portraits of a Landscape
Dimbola Museum & Galleries, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
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Until 16 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Sven Berlin: Disturbance in the West (1934-1970)
St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire
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Until 30 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Sep 2027
Exhibitions opening soon
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Opens Mon 19 Oct
Exhibition
All Access AUB Exhibition: Me, Myself and I
TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth, Poole, Dorset
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Opens Sat 24 Oct
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Opens Sat 24 Oct
Exhibition
Edo Women: Japanese Prints 1820 to 1900
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset
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Opens Sat 31 Oct
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Opens Mon 2 Nov
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Opens Wed 4 Nov
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Opens Wed 4 Nov
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Opens Sat 7 Nov
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Opens Sat 7 Nov
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Opens Sat 7 Nov
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Opens Sun 8 Nov
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Opens Wed 18 Nov
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Opens Wed 18 Nov
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Opens Sat 21 Nov
Exhibition
Long Exposure: Men and Mountains from the Dawn of Alpinism
Messums West, Tisbury, Wiltshire
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Opens Fri 27 Nov
Exhibition
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026
TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth, Poole, Dorset
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Opens Sat 28 Nov
Everything listed in Dorset
Exhibitions 41
- Rhythm of the Hills
- Searching for Shadows
- Tsumugu
- Edo Women: Japanese Prints 1820 to 1900
- Portals
- Reading the Room: Domestic Interiors in Art
- 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)
- Lyme Regis (4)
- Shaftesbury (4)
- Wimborne Minster (4)
- Blandford Forum (3)
- Bournemouth (3)
- Dorchester (3)
- Sherborne (3)
- Christchurch (2)
- Morcombelake (1)
- Puddletown (1)
- Swanage (1)
Something in Dorset we are missing?
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