Art in Kent
Arts Calendar lists 29 exhibitions, 4 workshops and classes and 1 drawing group at 18 venues in Kent. Margate has the most, with 9. Sunday is the busiest night, with 3 of the regular listings.
Exhibitions on these days
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Opens Thu 11 Feb
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Opens Thu 11 Feb
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Opens Thu 25 Feb
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Closes Sat 6 Feb
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Closes Sun 7 Feb
Exhibition
Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation
National Gallery, London, Greater London
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Closes Sun 7 Feb
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Closes Sun 7 Feb
Exhibition
Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care, Spaces of Grief and Possibility
Wellcome Collection, London, Greater London
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Closes Sat 13 Feb
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Closes Sat 13 Feb
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Closes Sun 14 Feb
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Closes Sun 14 Feb
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Closes Sun 21 Feb
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Closes Sun 21 Feb
Exhibition
British Wildlife Photography Awards
Horniman Museum and Gardens, Forest Hill, Greater London
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Closes Sun 21 Feb
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Closes Sun 21 Feb
Exhibition
William Eggleston: All that goes unnoticed
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Greater London
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Closes Sun 21 Feb
Exhibition
Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Greater London
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Closes Sun 28 Feb
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Closes Sun 28 Feb
Exhibition
Sam Belinfante: All that I have to say is…
Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, Greater London
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Until 6 Mar 2027
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Until 7 Mar 2027
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Until 7 Mar 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 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 31 Mar 2027
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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 11 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 24 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 3 May 2027
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Until 5 May 2027
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Until 16 May 2027
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Until 23 May 2027
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Until 30 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
Monday 1 February
Happy birthday to Takashi Murakami (65 today)
Born on this day: Thomas Cole (1801)
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Mon 1 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Mon 1 Feb 19:00 21:00
Tuesday 2 February
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Tue 2 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Tue 2 Feb 19:00 21:00
Drawing Group
London Drawing Covent Garden Tuesday Studio
Quaker Meeting House Covent Garden, London, Greater London
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Tue 2 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Tue 2 Feb 19:30 21:30
Wednesday 3 February
Born on this day: Alvar Aalto (1898) and Gillian Ayres (1930)
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Wed 3 Feb 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
London Drawing Waterloo Wednesday Studio
Waterloo Action Centre, London, Greater London
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Wed 3 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Wed 3 Feb 19:00 21:00
Thursday 4 February
Happy birthday to El Anatsui (83 today)
Born on this day: Fernand Léger (1881) and McIntosh Patrick (1907)
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Thu 4 Feb 15:00 19:00
Friday 5 February
Happy birthday to Mali Morris (82 today) and Olafur Eliasson (60 today)
Born on this day: William Nicholson (1872)
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Fri 5 Feb 19:00 21:00
Saturday 6 February
Happy birthday to Laura Ford (66 today)
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Sat 6 Feb 12:00 16:00
Monday 8 February
Born on this day: Franz Marc (1880), Guercino (1591), John Ruskin (1819), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), Peter Lanyon (1918) and Sebastião Salgado (1944)
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Mon 8 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Mon 8 Feb 19:00 21:00
Tuesday 9 February
Happy birthday to Gerhard Richter (95 today)
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Tue 9 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Tue 9 Feb 19:00 21:00
Drawing Group
London Drawing Covent Garden Tuesday Studio
Quaker Meeting House Covent Garden, London, Greater London
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Tue 9 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Tue 9 Feb 19:30 21:30
Wednesday 10 February
Born on this day: Lawrence Weiner (1942)
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Wed 10 Feb 18:00 20:00
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Wed 10 Feb 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
London Drawing Waterloo Wednesday Studio
Waterloo Action Centre, London, Greater London
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Wed 10 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Wed 10 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Wed 10 Feb 19:30 21:30
Thursday 11 February
Born on this day: James Fitton (1899), Robert Borlase Smart (1881) and William Henry Fox Talbot (1800)
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Thu 11 Feb 15:00 19:00
Friday 12 February
Born on this day: Joan Mitchell (1925) and Max Beckmann (1884)
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Fri 12 Feb 19:00 21:00
Saturday 13 February
Born on this day: Grant Wood (1891) and Sigmar Polke (1941)
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Sat 13 Feb 12:00 16:00
Monday 15 February
Happy birthday to Shepard Fairey (57 today)
Born on this day: Charles-François Daubigny (1817), Nickolas Muray (1892) and William Scott (1913)
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Mon 15 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Mon 15 Feb 19:00 21:00
Tuesday 16 February
Born on this day: Jeong Seon (1676) and Kanō Eitoku (1543)
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Tue 16 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Tue 16 Feb 19:00 21:00
Drawing Group
London Drawing Covent Garden Tuesday Studio
Quaker Meeting House Covent Garden, London, Greater London
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Tue 16 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Tue 16 Feb 19:30 21:30
Wednesday 17 February
Born on this day: Fay Godwin (1931)
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Wed 17 Feb 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
London Drawing Waterloo Wednesday Studio
Waterloo Action Centre, London, Greater London
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Wed 17 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Wed 17 Feb 19:00 21:00
Thursday 18 February
Happy birthday to Yoko Ono (94 today)
Born on this day: Anders Zorn (1860), Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848) and Thomas Girtin (1775)
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Thu 18 Feb 15:00 19:00
Friday 19 February
Happy birthday to Maarten Baas (49 today)
Born on this day: Constantin Brâncuși (1876), Corinne Day (1962), Gabriele Münter (1877), Lucio Fontana (1899) and Nicolaes van Verendael (1640)
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Fri 19 Feb 19:00 21:00
Saturday 20 February
Born on this day: Ansel Adams (1902) and Lucien Pissarro (1863)
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Sat 20 Feb 12:00 16:00
Monday 22 February
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Mon 22 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Mon 22 Feb 19:00 21:00
Tuesday 23 February
Born on this day: Alan Lowndes (1921), G. F. Watts (1817) and Kazimir Malevich (1879)
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Tue 23 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Tue 23 Feb 19:00 21:00
Drawing Group
London Drawing Covent Garden Tuesday Studio
Quaker Meeting House Covent Garden, London, Greater London
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Tue 23 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Tue 23 Feb 19:30 21:30
Wednesday 24 February
Born on this day: Richard Hamilton (1922) and Winslow Homer (1836)
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Wed 24 Feb 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
London Drawing Waterloo Wednesday Studio
Waterloo Action Centre, London, Greater London
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Wed 24 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Wed 24 Feb 19:00 21:00
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Wed 24 Feb 19:30 21:30
Thursday 25 February
Born on this day: Martin Kippenberger (1953), Masahisa Fukase (1934) and Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841)
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Thu 25 Feb 15:00 19:00
Friday 26 February
Happy birthday to Frank Bowling (93 today)
Born on this day: Honoré Daumier (1808) and Katherine Cameron (1874)
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Fri 26 Feb 19:00 21:00
Saturday 27 February
Happy birthday to Nicky Hirst (64 today)
Born on this day: James Dickson Innes (1887) and Joaquín Sorolla (1863)
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Sat 27 Feb 12:00 16:00
Everything listed in Kent
Exhibitions 29
- Between the Keys
- Commons: A Film by David Blandy
- Eerie: The Canterbury Bestiary
- Jason and the Adventure of 254
- Mark Making
- In Turner’s Wake: Contemporary Visions by Jake Wood-Evans
- National Historic Ships Photography Exhibition
- Lottie Cole
- Right in Time
- Autumn Open Show 2026
- CONNECTIONS
- East Kent Artists’ Open Houses 2026
- David Hockney: Sunley Window 2026
- Entangled
- Lures
- LUX Pottery & Something Familiar
- Rebalancing the Abstract
- Sophie Calle: Something Missing?
- The Long Memory
- Winging It
- Winter Show
- Vessels For Unmet Needs
- Skinners Kent Academy and St Gregory’s Catholic School Student Art Showcase
- East Kent Open Houses: Venue 27
- Gaven Alexander
- Jade Taylor and Judith Westrup
- Making Space for Young Women
- Martin Cheek
- We Are Our Memory
Workshops and classes 4
Drawing groups 1
Towns in Kent
- Margate (9)
- Faversham (7)
- Whitstable (6)
- Canterbury (5)
- Chatham (2)
- Deal (2)
- Maidstone (1)
- Sevenoaks (1)
- Tunbridge Wells (1)
Something in Kent we are missing?
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