Art

This exhibition has been facilitated by Devon Partnership NHS Trust’s Eastern Community Rehabilitation and Recovery Service.

Exeter Contemporary Open returns for 2026. It forms a major highlight of the South West’s cultural calendar and a vital springboard for the careers of emerging contemporary artists. This year’s shortlist showcases the work of twelve contemporary visual artists who work across painting, sculpture, photography and drawing.

Gemma Mackenzie is an artist whose practice investigates the shifting dynamics between control and its collapse, the reversible and the irreversible, and the transitional states that occupy the space between these conditions.

Boldly experimental and famously witty, Whistler disrupted the strict conventions of Victorian society in pursuit of a new cult of beauty, creating ‘art for art’s sake’ and earning himself a place in the history of great art.

Artist and filmmaker Boris Thompson-Roylance spent a year filming pre-christian ceremonies, pagan practices and traditions across the country alongside his work documenting displacement and forced migration, focusing on the Bibby Stockholm Barge.

South West Women’s Art Group (SWWAG) presents works made from at least 70% re-used, recycled & reclaimed materials.

Be transported back to a Parisian summer of love through the eyes of a true visionary. An unmissable opportunity to fall in love with Renoir this winter.

To celebrate Tate Britain’s blockbuster Monet and Time exhibition, Exhibition on Screen is delighted to bring the iconic story of Claude Monet to cinema screens in May 2027.