Chichester BID

Shippam's Memory Morning at The Novium Museum
2025-09-10 10:30 - 12:00 UTC | Novium Musuem, 1 Tower Street, Chichester, PO19 1QH, United Kingdom
Do you remember the sights, sounds and smells of Shippam’s?
Join us for a friendly drop-in session where you can visit the exhibition, handle original Shippam’s objects, and share your stories of Chichester’s famous factory.
Whether you worked there, had a family connection or just loved the taste of the pastes, we’d love to hear your memories.
Tea, coffee and biscuits provided.
Free drop in.

Open Day at Pallant House Gallery
2025-09-13 10:00 - 17:00 | Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ
Visit our exhibitions for FREE
Find out more about our incredible collection of art with our Highlights of the Collection tours
Let our Curatorial team unveil the fascinating stories behind some of our artworks in our Library Show and Tell
Join our Artist Educators for a range of fun, drop-in creative activities suitable for all ages
Discover the story of our Gallery and Historic House with our Secrets of Pallant House Gallery guided tour
Take part in our Portrait Challenge, where we’ll be asking you to draw a portrait with a difference!

Whether you’re a seasoned art lover or just curious, there’s something for everyone. Bring your friends, bring your family, and most importantly—bring your imagination!
No booking required. Just turn up and enjoy!

Shippam's Family Day at The Novium Museum
2025-09-20 11:00 - 15:00 | Novium Musuem, 1 Tower Street, Chichester, PO19 1QH, United Kingdom
Celebrate the story of one of Chichester’s most iconic businesses at our Shippam’s Family Day – a fun, hands-on event suitable for all ages.
Children can enjoy themed craft activities inspired by the Shippam’s brand, while grown-ups can explore fascinating stories and share memories of a local company that left a lasting impression on generations.
Handle real objects from the Shippam’s archive, dive into family-friendly heritage trails, and take part in memory-sharing sessions that bring the past to life. No need to book – just drop in and join the fun!
11am – 3pm | Free | Drop In

Wedding Fair at Edes House
2025-10-05 10:00 - 14:00 | Edes House, 27 West Street, Chichester, PO19 1QW
We’re thrilled to announce our upcoming Wedding Fair on Sunday 5th October!

Join us for an inspiring day filled with love, creativity, and expert advice. The house will be buzzing with a selection of amazing wedding suppliers, all ready to help you plan your perfect day.

Whether you’re newly engaged or putting the final touches to your big day, this is an event you won’t want to miss!

William Nicholson at Pallant House Gallery
2025-11-22 - 2026-05-10 | Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ
This is the first major exhibition of the celebrated artist William Nicholson (1872 – 1949) in more than 20 years.

Spanning Nicholson’s entire career, this landmark show reveals the breadth of his artistic vision – from world-renowned still lifes, insightful portraits and evocative landscapes to his poster designs and playful book illustrations.
Highlights include the bold posters he produced with his brother-in-law James Pryde as ‘J. & W. Beggarstaff’, his celebrated woodcuts from An Alphabet (1898), original illustrations for The Velveteen Rabbit, works created during travels to India, and poignant wartime paintings, as well as his glittering still lifes, which showcase his mastery of light and texture.
Visitors can view rarely seen works, and intimate depictions of family and friends – including a newly displayed portrait of his son, artist Ben Nicholson.
The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to rediscover one of Modern British art’s most beloved and versatile figures and is accompanied by a new catalogue, with contributors including Stephen Calloway, Simon Martin, Miriam O’Connor Perks, Jane Pritchard, Patricia Reed, and Melanie Vandenbrouck.

Caroline Walker: Mothering at Pallant House Gallery
2025-11-22 - 2026-04-26 | Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ
Explore the beauty, strength, and unseen labour of childcare in the powerful exhibition, Caroline Walker: Mothering.

Celebrated for her luminous brushwork and moving depictions of women’s lives, Walker transforms everyday acts of care into striking scenes. From maternity wards to nurseries, her paintings reveal the tenderness, intensity and resilience of motherhood and the often-unacknowledged work that shapes our society.
Featuring highlights from the past five years alongside new works, this exhibition brings together Walker’s lively pencil sketches, delicate ink studies, intimate panels and large-scale canvases. Her use of light, colour and scale creates works that feel both universal and deeply personal.
Caroline Walker: Mothering is organised by The Hepworth Wakefield in collaboration with Pallant House Gallery. Shown within the unique setting of the historic townhouse, this is a rare chance to experience Walker’s work in an environment that resonates with her themes of home, family and care.
Caroline Walker: Mothering is accompanied by an illustrated monograph of the same title, published by Lund Humphries in September 2025. See below.

50 Years Fired Up at Oxmarket Contemporary
2025-11-25 10:00 - 2025-12-07 16:00 | Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
Oxmarket Contemporary are delighted that The Southern Ceramic Group will be with us across both galleries in November.
50 Years Fired Up – the 50th Anniversary of the Southern Ceramic Group
The Southern Ceramic Group was started in 1975 by a small group of enthusiastic potters. Their aim was to enable potters and sculptors normally working alone to meet other like-minded people and share ideas and techniques. The idea worked so well that the Southern Ceramic Group now has over 200 members from Hampshire, West Sussex and the surrounding counties. Our members are potters, sculptors, professional and amateurs, teachers and students, collectors and enthusiasts. The Southern Ceramic Group consists of keen ceramicists who live and work in the South of England and share a passion for creating in clay. The members are as diverse as the objects they create. Some have spent a lifetime perfecting their craft while others have come to it only recently, after careers ranging from engineering to medicine to dance and teaching. What they all share is intense creativity and a love of clay.

Baffins Pop-Up Art Exhibition
2025-11-27 10:00 - 2025-11-29 17:00 | Unit 7 Baffins Court, Baffins Lane, Chichester, PO19 1UA
A three-day pop-up art exhibition will be taking place in Baffins Court from at the end of November. The artists are Jill Boggiss, Morna Hinton, Terry Merritt and Deborah Rainsford who are all based in the Chichester area. The show includes paintings, mixed media and stone sculpture. Expect to see vibrant colours, varied materials and inventive subject matter.
Open 27 to 29 November, 10am – 5pm with an evening opening on Friday 28 November 5 – 7 pm at Unit 7 Baffins Court, Baffins Lane, Chichester PO19 1UA.

The Chi Arts Salon – A Pop-Up Art Exhibition
2025-12-05 17:30 - 20:00 | 11 Crane Street, 11 Crane Street, Chichester
Discover a vibrant mix of art at The Chi Arts Salon — a pop-up show bringing together six established local artists this December.
Join us this December for a vibrant pop-up exhibition showcasing work by six established local artists: Ben Cavanagh, Chloe Dowsett, CurlyMark, Louise Duggan, Samuel McGann and Wocco.
Housed in an empty retail space we’ve activated for this pop-up, The Chi Arts Salon brings together a diverse mix of illustration, painting, mixed media and street-art–inspired work. This four-day exhibition celebrates creativity in Chichester and gives the public a chance to discover, connect with, and support local artistic talent.
Your free ticket secures entry to the Private View on 5th December, 5.30–8.30pm, where you’ll have the first chance to see the collection, meet the artists, and enjoy an inspiring evening with the creative community.
This exhibition is supported by Chichester Creative Art Network (CAN) and Chichester City Council, as part of an ongoing mission to create more space and visibility for local creatives.
We can’t wait to welcome you.

Focus Group Offshoot at Oxmarket Contemporary
2026-05-12 - 2026-05-24 | Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
Oxmarket are delighted to welcome back 3 members of The Focus Group for an exhibition in our Wilson Gallery. Iain McGowan, Nigel Chapman and Bill McKnight are all members of the Focus Group who have exhibited at Oxmarket on several occasions.
Their work is often different, Iain likes to make collages of images, Nigel is well known for photographing plants and flowers while Bill concentrates on landscapes. They bring together their collective styles for a 2 week exhibition of recent work.

Borderlands Artists at Oxmarket Contemporary
2026-05-12 - 2026-05-24 | Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
Oxmarket are delighted to welcome back The Borderlands Artists who are a long-established group of professional contemporary artists who live on the borders of Surrey, Hampshire, and Sussex. The members include painters, printers, sculptors, ceramists, and photographers. They exhibit individually and collectively throughout the south of England. In addition, they meet regularly to draw, critique, and support each other.
Most of the members of Borderlands have a degree in fine art and have worked in a variety of occupations from graphic design to teaching students in secondary school, and tutoring life drawing, watercolour and other media to adults. Some have exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and have work exhibited in the USA, Europe and even Africa!
The exhibition will showcase each artist’s work and is an eclectic mixture of large and small works from large vibrant abstracts to smaller floral watercolours, large theatrical and miniature still life oil paintings, small oil and watercolour landscapes, contemplative acrylics, collage and print, textile wall hangings, and even featuring the birds of Chichester Harbour. Such is the range of artworks that there will be something for everyone to enjoy.

Stephen Bushnell - The Alphabet Collections at Oxmarket Contemporary
2026-05-26 10:00 - 2026-06-07 16:00 | Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
Oxmarket are delighted to welcome Stephen Bushnell to Oxmarket for a 2 week exhibition. Stephen was born & grew up in London and worked for Local Government until moving to West Sussex in 1997.
Stephen has always owned a camera and was excited to make the move from 35mm film to his first digital camera in 2004.
Having completed my photography course in 2016 Stephen decided to work towards making photography a key part of his life. In 2019 he started work on his first major photography project, which as a priority in his life, shaped what has now become his Alphabet Collections.
The work he has produced on this, his inaugural project, was intended to explore as many different ideas and genre as possible and by using the alphabet, he has been able to focus on 26 different themes.
The main focus of his work is around trying to be creative in what he sees and captures with his camera, although that is only part of the process. Having a creative idea upfront will sometimes drive the places and subjects that he chooses to go to and photograph but there are also times when the creative idea comes after a photo shoot, when Stephen is looking at the images he has captured.
A key driver for Stephen has been to try and produce a collection of works that offers something a little bit different.
The majority of his work is printed using a range of different types of Giclee archival grade, acid free paper at 230gsm or 320gsm. A small number of Gloss prints are offered printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper and all prints measure 15 X 10 inches with a surrounding white mount. In some cases canvas prints are available printed on a premium quality 420g polycotton canvas, coated with a UV protection varnish.
At the very least, Stephen hopes visitors to his exhibition will leave knowing that they have seen something a bit different, not just a collection of printed photographs but also a number of creative ideas or a group of photographs that seen together, tell a story. He hopes it might influence some visitors to pause and think more about pictures they may take in the future or perhaps research some of the subject areas, places or charities that he has presented to them through his work.
Finally, Stephen would encourage visitors to look for pictures (single or collectively) that might provoke memories or their imagination, to perhaps think beyond the image they see. He has taken many photographs as part of this project without fully understanding the true history or background behind them, only to be uplifted when through research, he has fully appreciated the true meaning of a place, subject or sculpture afterwards.

Haroun Hayward: Path through Trees at Pallant House Gallery
2026-05-30 - 2026-11-01 | Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ
This exhibition is Haroun Hayward’s first solo institutional show and showcases a new body of work.

Rooted in his experience studying the Sussex landscape, Hayward combines ideas from abstract expressionism, 90s dance music, rave culture, graffiti, and his mother’s South Asian and West African textiles. His vibrant, hybrid approach blends rhythm and texture, using oil stick techniques that echo embroidery.
This series of new works was inspired by postwar British art by artists such as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Edward Burra, Ceri Richards, Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland in the Gallery’s collection, and which can be seen in the major exhibition British Landscapes: A Sense of Place, running concurrently with Path Through Trees.
Developed following a joint residency with Pallant House Gallery and West Dean College, this show offers a bold, contemporary response to British landscape painting.
Alongside the exhibition, Hayward has worked with the Gallery’s Community Programme to create Gathered in the Landscape, a large-scale collaborative artwork exploring landscape as a shared experience, which can be seen in Room 17.

British Landscapes: A Sense of Place at Pallant House Gallery
2026-05-30 - 2026-11-01 | Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ
This landmark exhibition explores how artists from the 18th to the 20th century have responded to the landscapes of the British Isles. Bringing together works by more than 60 artists, the exhibition reveals landscape not simply as scenery, but as a powerful expression of memory, identity and emotion.

Spanning Romanticism, Modernism and postwar abstraction, the exhibition traces a rich lineage from Thomas Gainsborough and the golden age of British watercolour to the postwar works of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Barbara Hepworth, Paul Nash, and Eric Ravilious.
From quiet lanes and chalk hills to industrial sites and abstract coastlines, painters, printmakers and sculptors have depicted places shaped by labour, conflict and imagination. British Landscapes: A Sense of Place invites visitors to reflect on how Britain’s landscapes have been lived in, remembered and reimagined – and how they continue to shape our collective sense of belonging and resilience.
This exhibition is accompanied by a new illustrated catalogue written by Director Simon Martin, with contributions from contemporary artist, Haroun Hayward, whose exhibition Haroun Hayward: Path through Trees runs alongside British Landscapes: A Sense of Place.

Say It With Flowers at Oxmarket Contemporary
2026-06-09 - 2026-06-21 | Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
Oxmarket are delighted to welcome back Sheryl Pape for a second year with her Open Call Exhibition – Say It With Flowers. This year’s theme is Nature’s Embrace in conjunction with Chichester Cathedral. Sheryl will be showcasing 10 selected art works at the Festival of Flowers Private View. To book the Festival of Flowers private view click here.
This vibrant floral art exhibition spans both our galleries, bringing together a diverse collection of artists and makers. Say It With Flowers – Nature’s Embrace explores the enduring symbolism, beauty, and emotional language of flowers across a range of artistic disciplines. From botanical accuracy to expressive interpretation, the works celebrate nature’s ability to communicate memory, hope, love, and renewal. The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the powerful relationship between art, nature, and human experience.
The event is curated by Sheryl Elaine Pape SBAF, an internationally award-winning artist. She regularly exhibits at the Mall Galleries in London and has been Artist in Residence for prestigious horticultural societies including the British Iris Society, as well as shows at Wisley, Bridgewater, and notable exhibitions at West Dean and Sissinghurst Castle (National Trust), Kent.
Town criers will bring lively announcements in Chichester’s main street on the 9th, culminating in the official show opening at 6pm Private View. By popular demand the Illustrated Botanical Diaries of Bill Lowe will be on show again. The show features an exquisite selection from around 130 artists. For 2026, both the John Rank Gallery and the Wilson Gallery will be dedicated to floral-themed paintings and artifacts, offering a rich, immersive experience.
Say It With Flowers – Nature’s Embrace celebrates floral and botanical art in diverse forms. It presents a kaleidoscope of color and creativity, providing both a joyous and uplifting experience for visitors. The exhibition captures varied interpretations of floral themes, making it a must-see event.
