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Upcoming events & exhibitions, 2026

Exhibition: TOWNHOUSE

Friday 17th April, 5:00pm - 10:00pm
Free but must be pre-booked here

Saturday 18th April, 11:00am - 4:00pm
Free, just turn up!

An exhibition of eight established artists, showing a mix of sculpture, paintings, collage, drawing and photography, and more.

The work spans contemporary and Pop Art, with enough variety to keep things interesting while still feeling coherent as a show.
Strong confident work throughout, with plenty of visual impact, and a wide range of price points.

Graphical artwork, depicting a shadowy figure on a red background manipulating the strings of a skeletal puppet figure

If you saw our previous TBOY exhibition last September, then you won't want to miss this one. The house will be filled with colour, graphics, textures and imagery, a modern challenge in an historic setting. Can't wait!

The artists showing are:

TBOY    @artbytboy
The Postman    @thepostman_art
Dan David    @dandavidsculptor
Vintage Shuffle    @vintage_shuffle
George Fox    @george-fox-illustration
Mark Woolley   @markwooley1
Jon Welsh    @_jonwelsh_
Neon Tony    @neon_tony

Don't forget to pre-book your timeslot here.

 

Kate Langdale presents… The Floral Eras Exhibition!

Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th April, times TBA
Tickets are £21.67 (inc. fees) and available here

Curated by Kate Langdale & Betty Blooming

The Floral Eras Exhibition is a curated showcase featuring designs from over 15 floral designers and mixed media artists who work with flowers as their creative medium. Set across two floors, the exhibition explores The Floral Eras - celebrating the evolving role of flowers in art, design, and personal expression.

Photo of the drawing room, with a floral arrangement hanging from the ceiling and three windows in the background

From romantic traditions to bold contemporary forms, it traces how flowers have shaped visual culture over time, highlighting changing styles, materials, and meanings - from early influences such as Ikebana to contemporary floral art and installation.

Photo of mantlepiece, decorated with flowers, cherubs, candles and a mirror behind.

Through immersive works and expressive installations, the exhibition reveals floristry as a powerful artistic medium that extends far beyond decoration. Kate is bringing together a veritable bouquet of florists to exhibit their skills and artistry here at the Town House.

Photo of a flower arrangement contained within an ornate cream and gold frame

There will be flowers.

Flowers in the dining room, flowers in the parlour, flowers in the drawing room, flowers on the stairs, flowers on the landing. 

There will be many flowers. 

 

Exhibition - ‘No Hard Shoulder’

Thursday 30th April - Sunday 10th May, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Free admission
Plus two free events - see below.

Following brilliant reviews last year, ‘No Hard Shoulder’ returns to The Regency Town House for eleven consecutive days of Artists Open Houses Festival 2026.

Nine established Sussex artists will be showing their latest work from large scale pieces of wall art and sculpture to smaller pieces of ceramics and a ‘wall of small’ paintings.

No Hard Shoulder exhibition poster, featuring an image of abstract foliage in green and cream, with a list of artists and event information.

Keith Pettit - Sculpture
Lucy Bristow - Painting
June Frickleton - Painting
Sarah Mitchener - Painting
Nigel Hunter - Sculpture
Thea Thompson - Ceramics
Rebecca Angel - Mixed Media
Barbara Gittings - Ceramics
Julian Sutherland-Beatson - Painting

Events during the week will include:

- Thursday 7th May:  Keith Pettit, printmaker, sculptor and artist, in conversation with Alex Leith, editor of ROSA Magazine, exploring Keith’s wide ranging practice from tiny wood engravings to monumental sculpture inspired by  the landscapes and legends of his Sussex home.
Free Eventbrite tickets for Keith Pettit event are here.

- Saturday 9th May: Phil Grabsky, BAFTA-award-winning filmmaker and the founder of Exhibition on Screen, talks about the making of ‘Caravaggio’, his recent 2025 cinematic documentary release which was hailed by the Guardian as “Articulate and Intelligent”, “Gripping” by the Times and a “Feast for the Eyes” by Eye for Film.
Free Eventbrite tickets for Phil Grabsky event are here.

 

Anna Dumitriu: BioArt Transformations

Tuesday 5th - Sunday 10th May, 10:00am - 5:00pm
CLOSED Monday 11th
Tuesday 12th - Sunday 17th May, 10:00am - 5:00pm 
Free admission
Guided tour with Anna Dumitriu on 9th, 10th, 16th and 17th May at 12:00 noon and 3:00pm. 

Art and science combine in “BioArt Transformations”, a cutting-edge new exhibition by internationally acclaimed contemporary artist Anna Dumitriu.

Exhibition title text in white on black, against a background of abstract glittering blue shapes.
Cellular Reprogramming Necklace, by Anna Dumitriu, photo Audrey Rose Mizzi 

A pioneer of the BioArt movement, Dumitriu works with living bacteria, DNA, and technology to create intricate sculptures, installations and textile works that draw threads across time from the history of science and medicine to cutting-edge research in synthetic biology, genomics and AI. Her strange and affecting objects take the form of relics of Dumitriu’s sublime laboratory-based processes created in contemporary biotechnological research settings, interwoven with historic stories of contagion and alchemy.

Photo of embroidered textile representation of a microbiome, in multi-coloured materials and varied shapes.
Fragile Microbiome, by Anna Dumitriu

A visually stunning and deeply thought-provoking experience, this exhibition is a must-see for the curious, challenging our view on the future of medicine, technology, and humanity.

There will be a series of events throughout the exhibition. Book for these via the artist’s website https://annadumitriu.co.uk/news/

A full length 1665-style dress, stuffed and surrounded by bunches of lavender, displayed in a bare brick room and flanked by two slit windows.
Plague Dress, by Anna Dumitriu

Anna Dumitriu is an internationally renowned pioneering British contemporary artist who works with BioArt, sculpture, installation, and digital media to explore our relationship with nature and technology focussing on infectious diseases, synthetic biology, AI and robotics.

Past exhibitions include ZKM, Ars Electronica, BOZAR, The Picasso Museum, Kunstlerhaus Vienna, MIT Museum, HeK Basel, the Nobel Prize Museum, Science Gallery Bengaluru, MOCA Taipei, Art Laboratory Berlin, the History of Science Museum Oxford, the 6th Guangzhou Triennial and Eden Project.

A gold heart-shaped amulet on a silk ribbon. It is decorated with small black spots and is dripping gold
Zenexton, by Anna Dumitriu

She holds visiting research fellowship/artist-in-residence roles at the University of Hertfordshire, the University of Cranfield and the National Institute of Health Research Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, and an artist-in-residence roles with Modernising Medical Microbiology at the University of Oxford, and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She was the 2018 President of the Science and the Arts Section of the British Science Association. Her work has featured in many significant publications including Frieze, Artforum International Magazine, Leonardo Journal, The Art Newspaper, Nature and The Lancet.

Dumitriu was part of the duo who created the Black Rock Beachcombers series of three public sculptures on Brighton beach along the boardwalk between the Volks Railway Workshop and the Reading Room cafe.

Artist social media links:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annadumitriuart/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annadumitriu
X: https://x.com/annadumitriu
Website: https://annadumitriu.co.uk/

Press Release can be downloaded here.

 

Exhibition - Forget-me-not
A solo exhibition from Camilla Perkins

Tuesday 12th - Monday 25th May, 11:00am - 5:00pm
(Closed Wednesday 20th May for Workshop)
Free admission

Oil Pastel Drawing Workshop on Wednesday 20th May,
click here for workshop details and booking.

Camilla Perkins returns to The Regency Town House for the first time since her sell-out exhibition 'Echoes of Summer' in 2022, with a brand new body of work 'Forget-me-not'.

Photo of an artist at work. She is wearing a blue overall and headscarf and we look over her shoulder as she paints two figures seated in a colourful garden landscape.

Perkins’ paintings act as portals into carefully curated worlds that balance realism and imagination. Her stylised figures inhabit spaces infused with light, pattern, and lush detail, inviting viewers to pause and enter moments suspended between memory and fantasy.

Through her work, she explores the emotional resonance of everyday life, using colour and composition to evoke both specific recollections and universal feelings. Her artistic approach celebrates the poetry in ordinary experiences, turning domestic and outdoor scenes into visually and emotionally immersive landscapes.

Photo of an artist's studio. A colourful garden landscape is propped up, in the foregrond a jug full of brushes, to the right a table is covered in coloured paint lids, in the background there are sketches taped to the wall.

Camilla Perkins (b. 1990)

British painter and illustrator Camilla Perkins was born and raised in East Sussex. She is known for creating vibrant, dreamlike works that transform everyday scenes into emotionally charged visual narratives.

Drawing on memory, personal experience, and the subtleties of light and colour, Perkins crafts compositions that feel intimate yet universal, where garden spaces, sunlit retreats, and stylised figures evoke nostalgia, warmth, and quiet reflection. Her work demonstrates a profound sensitivity to atmosphere, using colour as a central tool to convey emotion and the fleeting qualities of lived experience.

Her work has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs across the UK and internationally, engaging audiences with its joyous, contemplative sensibility. Across her practice, she continues to explore how memory, imagination, and emotion intersect, producing work that is both playful and profoundly affecting, offering viewers intimate windows into the delicate textures of human experience.

Instagram: @camillaperkins_

Click here for workshop details and booking

 

Exhibition - Seeing Unseeing
A solo show of work by Charmaine Evans

Satuday 30th May, 11:00am - 5:00pm

More information to follow.

 

Event - Historic House Tour with the Housekeeper and Butler
(including gifts, tea and buns) 

Sunday 7th June, 2:00pm - 4:00pm,
tickets are £21.43, available here from Eventbrite

Join a unique house tour hosted by our housekeeper Mrs Finnegan and our butler Mr Cubbage. For the first time they will show you the world where they live, work and order the rest of the staff around.

Image in painterly style of a housekeeper, seated and wearing a green dress and white bonnet. A butler stands behind her, he is wearing a dark suit and a white high-collared shirt

You will be welcomed into Mrs Finnegan's own room, visit the servants' hall and, as the Master and Mistress are away, also venture upstairs to see the dining room and magnificent drawing room, although a certain degree of imagination may be needed to appreciate all its fine attributes.

Finally, you will be offered generous hospitality in the well-appointed Regency kitchen where the cook and kitchen maids will be delighted to serve you with tea and freshly baked cake.

A copy of Mrs Finnegan’s "masterpiece" is included in the price. If you have already bought a copy bask in the knowledge that you are now able to bestow the gift of Mrs F's wit and wisdom on a friend. We are confident your popularity will soar as a result.

Places are limited.

Ticket available here from Eventbrite.

 

Event - Tea Leaf to Tea Bag
a history of tea, consumption & ritual

Saturday 13th June, 10:30am - 3:30pm, 
Tickets cost £25 plus booking fee here on Eventbrite.  

This summer we are joining forces with social and cultural historian Sarah Tobias to honour our national drink.Painting made in 1880 depicting two ladies seated indoors, one of whom is drinking tea.
The Tea, by Mary Cassatt, 1880.

We will study the history of growing, selling and long tradition of 'taking tea', its rituals and customs from a simple tea leaf, through to the pyramid-shaped ‘teapigs’ of today.

We will see how using Camellia Sinensis, an evergreen plant of the Camellia family to make a beverage, a whole industry grew up, requiring special equipment such as silver kettles, teapots, cutlery, drinking vessels made of fine china - and sugar and cream, which also needed special tools and containers. Also, beautiful, polished tea tables and how these were used in the charming ritual of afternoon tea.

There will be tea tastings and tea and biscuits supplied, but bring a packed lunch to enjoy in the special atmosphere of The Regency Town House.

Illustrated with many fascinating slideshow images.

Don't miss Tea Leaf to Tea Bag. 

 

Brunswick Town; Regency Tour and Tea 1831

Sunday 5th July, 1:15pm & 3:00pm.

Tickets, to include walk, tea and scrummy home-made cakes are £23 per person (plus booking fee).

Click here for 1:15pm event

Click here for 3:00pm event

Come on a unique historical experience!

Join a Regency gentleman as he offers you an authentic, engaging journey into Brighton’s past. Take a step back in time with our unique walking tour of Brunswick Town, led by a knowledgeable guide dressed as a Regency gentleman from Brighton in 1831.

A man in Regency costume leading a tour group past a row of cream coloured town houses
Mr Henry Adams in full stride

As you stroll through the streets, you'll hear tales of how the town came into being and learn about its most colourful characters. Your guide will bring the era to life, based on extensive research, transporting you back in time to the bustling, vibrant world of Regency England.

After your walk, you'll be invited back to The Regency Town House, where you can enjoy an authentic afternoon tea in a stunning period setting.

A table laden with tea and cakes

Sip on delicious tea and nibble on homemade cakes, scrumptious sandwiches, and delightful scones with cream and jam, all while basking in the ambiance of a bygone era.

Please let us know if you have any food allergies or special dietary needs when booking.

The guided walks will commence from The Regency Town House, 13 Brunswick Square, Hove BN3 1EH at 1.15 pm prompt and the walk will last approximately seventy-five minutes.

Tickets are just £23 per person (plus booking fee), so book your spot now and prepare to step back in time with us.

Book here for 1:15pm event

Book here for 3:00pm event

We look forward to welcoming you to discover Brunswick Town with new eyes.

Reviews:

"I did this tour today. It was fantastic, I can thoroughly recommend it. The Gentleman from the 1830s really knew his history and what a star he was. Thank you for a wonderful afternoon."

"I was thoroughly entertained and learnt so much. Grand afternoon. I'd recommend it to anyone."

"A wonderful experience with Mr. Adams - most informative."

Please note:

Mr. Henry Adams, a gentleman, will be in 1831 and will remain so throughout the walk!

Mr. Adams can be contacted via: MrHenryAdams@hotmail.com or https://www.facebook.com/regencydelights/

Course: How the Georgians Built - with elegance, methods and materials
From foundations to pots, with Neil England & John Zielinski

Thursday 23rd & Friday 24th July
Cost is £460; 15% discount for IHBC, SHT, RICS, RIBA and Regency Society members.

The course qualifies for 16 hours of CPD.

It encompasses the period from the 1780s to the 1830s – a seminal era in the architectural history of our country. It was a complex period of development, with many new materials becoming available, yet still shaped by significant transport restrictions. It is a particularly intriguing time to explore and understand building methods.

Two days is the minimum needed to engage with the subject. The course delves into the world of the contractors and skilled craftsmen of the age. These individuals were often trained traditionally, with knowledge passed from father to son and through formal indentured apprenticeships.

For further information and links to booking please see:
https://www.heritagebuildingadvisors.co.uk/s-projects-side-by-side

 

History Exhibition & Tea Room
HOUSE COLLECTIONS

Sunday 26th July

Times and more information to follow.

 

Exhibition - TBOY

Friday 4th & Saturday 5th September

Times and more information to follow.

 

Exhibition - The Presence of Absence

Four very different artists explore space, memory, loss and connection
Thursday 24th September - Sunday 4th October, 11:00am - 6:00pm

Photo of a Regency drawing room. In the centre of the floor is a deconstructed armchair and in the background there are three large windows

An upholsterer, a contemporary surrealist, a painter and a photographer will come together for a two-week interactive exhibition.

“Your absence is a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.”
Jacqueline Simon Gunn

At the heart of this exhibition are 4 vintage chairs, a collaboration between Frances Bloomfield and Emily Beaumont. The chairs will explore the concepts of memory; healing; secrets and retreat.

The exhibition has been created to explore the impact of an individual presence, the spaces created where someone or something used to be.

A photo close up of a deconstructed armchair and an abstract painting in blue and black

Jo Hathaway’s work on memory and reflection bring colour and light and the internal, abstract experience of the theme; Nick Bowman’s photographs each tell their own story of time and motion, alongside additional work by Frances Bloomfield and Emily Beaumont.

The exhibition invites you to be part of the visual conversation between the artists about how to interpret individual experiences of the past, present and future through the space we leave behind and the memories it holds of us whether it involves happiness, sadness, joy, loss, beauty, grief or hope.

Visitors are encouraged to be actively involved by discovering secrets concealed around the space and by leaving their own memories and experiences written down and hidden inside a chair.

Exhibition events:

• Film Screening, Saturday 26th September, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
• Local Wine Tasting, TBC
• Book Of Writing Around The Theme
• Further Community Events, TBC

The artists:

Emily Beaumont, Upholsterer emilybooupholstery.co.uk
Frances Bloomfield, Contemporary Surrealist francesbloomfield.com Jo Hathaway, Painter johathaway.com
Nick Bowman, Photographer @iamnotabene
Find out more about the artists johathaway.com/about-the-artists

Download Press Release here

 

Exhibition - PhotoWorks

Friday 2nd - Sunday 1st November 

Times and more information to follow.

 

Exhibition - Cameron Contemporary
A solo show of work by Amy Dury

Wednesday 28th October - Sunday 1st November 

Times and more information to follow.

 

Exhibition - Caroline Oleron

Wednesday 28th October - Sunday 1st November 

Times and more information to follow.

 

Exhibition - Kate Scott & Guests
A group show of work

Wednesday 4th - Sunday 8th November 

Times and more information to follow.

 

Exhibition - Geoff Lewis

Wednesday 4th - Sunday 8th November 

Times and more information to follow.

 

 

 

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