Art in Essex
Arts Calendar lists 21 exhibitions, 5 workshops and classes and 2 drawing groups at 17 venues in Essex. Colchester has the most, with 15. Saturday is the busiest night, with 4 of the regular listings.
Today
Born on this day: Canaletto (1697) and Trevor Bell (1930)
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Closes Mon 19 Oct
Exhibition
Through Our Lens: Photography Course Exhibition
Harrow Arts Centre, Harrow, Greater London
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Closes Tue 20 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
Exhibition
Lucy Dodd: The good, the true and the beautiful
Sprüth Magers London, London, Greater London
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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 Sun 25 Oct
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
Exhibition
The Art and Life of Henry Moore
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
Exhibition
Henry Moore: The Shelter Drawings 1940 to 1941
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
Exhibition
Rod Shone: Moments Noticed
Broadway Gallery Letchworth, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
Exhibition
There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women: Jemma Desai
Somerset House, London, Greater London
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
Exhibition
Textiles Today? Three Generations of Artist Weavers
Fen Ditton Gallery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Wed 4 Nov
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
Exhibition
Mary Ramsden: The Feeling of What Happens
Pilar Corrias Conduit Street, London, Greater London
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
Exhibition
Nicola Turner: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, Greater London
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
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Closes Sun 8 Nov
Exhibition
Alasdair Lindsay and Caroline Mackintosh
Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Closes Sun 8 Nov
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Closes Sun 8 Nov
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Closes Sun 8 Nov
Exhibition
This Must Be the Place: Artists for Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery, London, Greater London
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Closes Sun 8 Nov
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Closes Sun 8 Nov
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Closes Sun 8 Nov
Exhibition
Duncan Grant: Worlds Through Desire: From Drawing to Cruising to DMs
Firstsite, Colchester, Essex
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Closes Thu 12 Nov
Exhibition
Other than Words: A Sense of Release in the Presence of Art
Clare Hall, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
Exhibition
Rirkrit Tiravanija: (situational awareness)
Pilar Corrias Savile Row, London, Greater London
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
Exhibition
William Crozier: Dance of the Living 1961 to 1974
Flowers Gallery Cork Street, London, Greater London
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
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Closes Sun 15 Nov
Exhibition
In Turner’s Wake: Contemporary Visions by Jake Wood-Evans
The Historic Dockyard Chatham, Chatham, Kent
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Closes Sun 15 Nov
Exhibition
National Historic Ships Photography Exhibition
The Historic Dockyard Chatham, Chatham, Kent
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Closes Sun 15 Nov
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Closes Sat 21 Nov
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Closes Sun 22 Nov
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Closes Sun 22 Nov
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Closes Sun 22 Nov
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Closes Mon 23 Nov
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Closes Sun 29 Nov
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Closes Sun 29 Nov
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Closes Sun 29 Nov
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Closes Sun 29 Nov
Exhibition
Celebrating Luton Carnival 50th Anniversary
Wardown House, Museum and Gallery, Luton, Bedfordshire
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Closes Sun 29 Nov
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Until 5 Dec
Exhibition
Living Water: Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers
Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Until 6 Dec
Exhibition
Painting with Light: The Art of Gerard Ceunis
North Hertfordshire Museum, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
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Until 6 Dec
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Until 12 Dec
Exhibition
This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London, Greater London
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Until 12 Dec
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Until 12 Dec
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Until 12 Dec
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Until 13 Dec
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Until 13 Dec
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Until 17 Dec
Exhibition
Misery and Beauty: Harry Becker and East Anglian Farm Labour around the Great War
Robert Cripps Gallery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Until 18 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 20 Dec
Exhibition
Wanda and Marion Wulz: Avant-garde Photography in 20th-Century Italy
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, Greater London
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Until 20 Dec
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Until 20 Dec
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Until 20 Dec
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Until 23 Dec
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Until 23 Dec
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Until 1 Jan 2027
Exhibition
A Year: A Thousand Years: Hockney, Bayeux and the Nature of Cultural Legacy
MODO Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 9 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Swaying in the Wind: Frédérick Yvan Manuel Gay
The Fan Museum, Greenwich, Greater London
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Until 9 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Compulsory Continuous Connectedness: rest in a networked world
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific
V&A South Kensington, London, Greater London
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 16 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Screen Portraits: Whitechapel Gallery Artists, Part 2
Whitechapel Gallery, London, Greater London
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 20 Jan 2027
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Until 22 Jan 2027
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Until 24 Jan 2027
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Until 24 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 6 Feb 2027
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Until 7 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation
National Gallery, London, Greater London
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Until 7 Feb 2027
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Until 7 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care, Spaces of Grief and Possibility
Wellcome Collection, London, Greater London
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Until 14 Feb 2027
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Until 14 Feb 2027
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Until 21 Feb 2027
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Until 21 Feb 2027
Exhibition
British Wildlife Photography Awards
Horniman Museum and Gardens, Forest Hill, Greater London
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Until 21 Feb 2027
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Until 21 Feb 2027
Exhibition
William Eggleston: All that goes unnoticed
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Greater London
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Until 21 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Greater London
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 7 Mar 2027
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Until 7 Mar 2027
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Until 21 Mar 2027
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Until 28 Mar 2027
Exhibition
Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK
William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, Greater London
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Until 4 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 25 Apr 2027
Exhibition
Metamorphoses: Porcelain Sculpture by Rachel Kneebone
The Wallace Collection, London, Greater London
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Until 30 Apr 2027
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Until 30 Apr 2027
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Until 3 May 2027
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Until 16 May 2027
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Until 11 Jul 2027
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Until 26 Sep 2027
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Until 26 Sep 2027
Exhibition
Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts
V&A South Kensington, London, Greater London
Exhibitions opening soon
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
Exhibition
My. Three. Words.: Voyages of the Imagination
Courtyard Arts Hertford, Hertford, Hertfordshire
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
Exhibition
Traces of Home: Contemporary Perspectives from Qatar
Mall Galleries, London, Greater London
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
Exhibition
Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji from the Iuchi Collection
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich, Greater London
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
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Opens Wed 21 Oct
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Opens Thu 22 Oct
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Opens Thu 22 Oct
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Opens Fri 23 Oct
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Opens Fri 23 Oct
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Opens Fri 23 Oct
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Opens Fri 23 Oct
Exhibition
A Call to Art: William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Opens Fri 23 Oct
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Opens Sat 24 Oct
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Opens Sat 24 Oct
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Opens Sat 24 Oct
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Opens Tue 27 Oct
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Opens Tue 27 Oct
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Opens Tue 27 Oct
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Opens Thu 29 Oct
Exhibition
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2026
National Portrait Gallery, London, Greater London
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Opens Fri 30 Oct
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Opens Tue 3 Nov
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Opens Wed 4 Nov
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Opens Thu 5 Nov
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Opens Thu 5 Nov
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Opens Fri 6 Nov
Exhibition
Suffolk Craft Society Guildhall Exhibition 2026
Bury St Edmunds Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
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Opens Fri 6 Nov
Exhibition
Episode 16: Katie Shannon, BACK/PRUNE/VIRGIN/RUIN
Goldsmiths CCA, New Cross, Greater London
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Opens Fri 6 Nov
Exhibition
The Contemporary British Painting Prize 2026
Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Woolwich, Greater London
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Opens Fri 6 Nov
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Opens Sat 7 Nov
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Opens Sun 8 Nov
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Opens Sun 8 Nov
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Opens Sun 8 Nov
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Opens Mon 9 Nov
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Opens Wed 11 Nov
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Opens Thu 12 Nov
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Opens Thu 12 Nov
Exhibition
Soko Hwang: Flesh of Vessel
198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Herne Hill, Greater London
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Opens Fri 13 Nov
Exhibition
Alchemies: May Cockcroft, Nour Malas, Sarah Martin-Nuss
Victoria Miro, London, Greater London
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Opens Fri 13 Nov
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Opens Sat 14 Nov
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Opens Sat 14 Nov
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Opens Tue 17 Nov
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Opens Tue 17 Nov
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Opens Wed 18 Nov
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Opens Thu 19 Nov
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Opens Thu 19 Nov
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Opens Fri 20 Nov
Exhibition
Louise Giovanelli: In the Light of False Suns
White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, Greater London
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Opens Fri 20 Nov
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Opens Fri 20 Nov
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Opens Fri 20 Nov
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Opens Fri 20 Nov
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Opens Sat 21 Nov
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Opens Sat 21 Nov
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Opens Tue 24 Nov
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Opens Wed 25 Nov
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Opens Wed 25 Nov
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Opens Thu 26 Nov
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Opens Thu 26 Nov
Exhibition
Royal Institute of Oil Painters: Annual Exhibition 2026
Mall Galleries, London, Greater London
Everything listed in Essex
Exhibitions 21
- Chelmsford College: What Matters Most
- 65 Years of the Munnings Art Museum
- Conceal & Reveal
- Duncan Grant: Worlds Through Desire: From Drawing to Cruising to DMs
- Museum of the Moon
- My Generation
- Out of Line: Banksy and the Art of Dissent
- Pictures from Private Collections
- Polly Braden: Against the Tide
- Simon Carter: From the Landscape
- The Influence of John Constable
- Double Agents
- Off The Wall
- Oasis: Photographs by Jill Furmanovsky
- Esmond Bingham: Constructions
- Fry’s Popular Delights
- Olga Lehmann: A Versatile and Vivacious Artist
- 62nd Essex Open Art Exhibition
- Between Us
- Compulsory Continuous Connectedness: rest in a networked world
- Open Call Autumn Exhibition 2026
Workshops and classes 5
Drawing groups 2
Towns in Essex
- Colchester (15)
- Chelmsford (3)
- Southend-on-Sea (3)
- Harlow (2)
- Saffron Walden (2)
- Maldon (1)
- Manningtree (1)
- Wivenhoe (1)
Something in Essex we are missing?
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