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.
A quiet few weeks here, so this runs on to Wednesday 30 December.
Exhibitions on now
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Closes Sat 17 Oct
Exhibition
Skinners Kent Academy and St Gregory’s Catholic School Student Art Showcase
Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
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Closes Sat 17 Oct
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
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Closes Tue 20 Oct
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Closes Tue 20 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 Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Wed 4 Nov
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Closes Sun 8 Nov
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Closes Sun 8 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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Until 22 Jan 2027
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Until 24 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
Exhibitions opening soon
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Opens Sat 17 Oct
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
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Opens Wed 21 Oct
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Opens Fri 23 Oct
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Opens Tue 27 Oct
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Opens Tue 27 Oct
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Opens Sat 7 Nov
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Opens Sat 7 Nov
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Opens Sat 12 Dec
Wednesday 21 October
Happy birthday to Martin Creed (58 today)
Born on this day: Domenichino (1581)
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Wed 21 Oct 19:00 21:00
Wednesday 28 October
Born on this day: Audrey Amiss (1933), Francis Bacon (1909), Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925) and O.G.S. Crawford (1886)
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Wed 28 Oct 19:00 21:00
Sunday 1 November
Born on this day: Antonio Canova (1757), Hannah Höch (1889), L. S. Lowry (1887) and Pietro da Cortona (1596)
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Sun 1 Nov 10:00 16:00
Wednesday 4 November
Born on this day: Guido Reni (1575) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946)
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Wed 4 Nov 19:00 21:00
Saturday 7 November
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Sat 7 Nov 10:00 13:00
Wednesday 11 November
Happy birthday to Celia Paul (67 today)
Born on this day: Édouard Vuillard (1868), Ida Applebroog (1929), Paul Signac (1863) and Prunella Clough (1919)
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Wed 11 Nov 19:00 21:00
Sunday 15 November
Born on this day: Georgia O’Keeffe (1887)
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Sun 15 Nov 10:00 16:00
Wednesday 18 November
Born on this day: Ana Mendieta (1948), Bruce Conner (1933), David Wilkie (1785), Frank Dobson (1886), Louis Daguerre (1787), Norman Cornish (1919), Stanhope Forbes (1857) and Wyndham Lewis (1882)
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Wed 18 Nov 19:00 21:00
Sunday 22 November
Happy birthday to Charlie Phillips (82 today)
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Sun 22 Nov 10:00 16:00
Wednesday 25 November
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Wed 25 Nov 19:00 21:00
Wednesday 2 December
Born on this day: Georges Seurat (1859) and Otto Dix (1891)
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Wed 2 Dec 19:00 21:00
Wednesday 9 December
Born on this day: Mark Gertler (1891)
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Wed 9 Dec 19:00 21:00
Wednesday 16 December
Happy birthday to Ed Ruscha (89 today)
Born on this day: Remedios Varo (1908) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866)
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Wed 16 Dec 19:00 21:00
Wednesday 23 December
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Wed 23 Dec 19:00 21:00
Wednesday 30 December
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Wed 30 Dec 19:00 21:00
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?
If you run a gallery, an exhibition or a drawing group that is not here, add it. It takes a couple of minutes, and you can keep it right afterwards.