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Tuesday: 10am - 5pm

Wednesday: 10am - 5pm

Thursday: 10am - 5pm

Friday: 10am - 5pm

Saturday: 10am - 5pm

Sunday: 11am - 5pm

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Discover our collection

We share the story of British art from 1900 to the present. Through our world-class collection of Modern British art, made up of over 5000 artworks, we explore the contributions of British artists from new perspectives.

Discover artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Graham Sutherland, Paul Nash, Rachel Whiteread, Damien Hirst, Barbara Walker and others within different contemporary, historic, and international contexts.

Current exhibitions

A landscape painting of a valley with a number of farm buildings with trees either side. In the foreground are two walking figures in white.

Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury

9 November 2024 – 27 April 2025

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Abstract landscape of gold and black paint

Maggi Hambling: Nightingale night

9 November 2024 – 27 April 2025

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Two portrait photographs in sepia. On left a man in a black coat and hat with messy white hair looking left. On right a woman with long chest length hair holding a lute wearing a pearl necklace. She looks left.

Julia Margaret Cameron to Eileen Agar: The Hewat Collection

19 October 2024 – 12 January 2025

Free admission

Pallant House Gallery outside

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A thin bronze pole topped with a small bird stands in a sunny courtyard. Plane trees in full leaf cover small groups of people enjoying dinner and drinks.

Pallant Café

Photograph shopwing the interior of a bookshop with white shelves packed full of art books. A man in the background reaches for a book on a shelf.

Pallant Bookshop

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Upcoming talks and workshops

people from front in room 2 (c) Chris Ison 2018

Creative Conversations

Every first Thurs

[ Workshop )

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Piper tapestry at Chichester Cathedral

Tapestry Weaving: Earth, Air, Fire, Water with Caron Penney

Sat 9 & Sun 10 Nov

[ Workshop )

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Photograph of a coloured mesh cloud installation suspended in a staircase with a large window left

Rana Begum in conversation with Melanie Vandenbrouck

[ Talk )

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Support the gallery and help us continue our work, including exhibitions, learning, and community engagement. Every donation makes a difference.

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Explore our Perspectives Blog

Take a deep dive into our exhibitions, read interviews with contemporary artists and discover our Shelf Life series in our Perspectives blog.

Painting of a table laden with food and drink and elaborate crockery including a lobster, a shell, fruit and goblets. All are painted with a technique that makes the whole thing seem as if the paint is dripping away.

10 Things you need to know about still life

Discover the 10 key things you need to know about still life, it’s origins, symbology, and more of the basics.

Painting of a vase of flowers with a butterfly and grapes

Tracing the Roots of Still Life in Britain

Oliva Ghosh explores the arrival of still life in Britain from the influence of Dutch masters to the first great British still life painter.

Painting of a table with a baguette, a knife, a crystal decanter and a goblet

From Stillness to Movement: John Craxton in the Jerwood Collection

Lara Wardle, explores two works by John Craxton leant by the Jerwood Collection for our past exhibition, John Craxton: A Modern Odyssey.