2026 Festival Programme

Stroud Sensation
Jun
13
to Aug 29

Stroud Sensation

Showcasing 12 Stroud-based artists, whose sculptural practices incorporate multiple mediums, from bronze to feathers. Including work by Daniel Chadwick, Abigail Fallis, Kim Francis, Nick Grellier, Rachel Howard, Emily Lucas, James Merry, Polly Morgan, Colin Reid, Lorraine Robbins, Alice Sheppard Fidler and George Taylor.

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Clive Adams : Prints 1968-74
Jun
13
to Jun 21

Clive Adams : Prints 1968-74

Before starting his career as a curator at Arnolfini in 1974, Clive studied printmaking at Bath Academy and subsequently taught. This exhibition shows mostly unexhibited prints made by him in a variety of techniques, alongside a drawing by Michael Craig-Martin who taught him at Bath.

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Painswick Rococo Garden Plein Air Artists
Jun
13
to Jun 21

Painswick Rococo Garden Plein Air Artists

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Painswick Rococo Garden Plein Air Exhibition is a collection of work by artists who have painted in the Garden during 2025/2026. This has been as winning or highly commended participants in the annual Plein Air Competitions and/or as Artists in Residence.

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The Big Art Show
Jun
13
to Jun 21

The Big Art Show

An Exhibition by Gloucestershire's most exciting contemporary artists. We invite you to immerse yourself in this feast of colour. Showcasing the large-scale enigmatic & captivating paintings of Liz Boyce, Nancy Grayley, Sarah Granville & Vanessa Clemente Vincerò.

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PaintPrintClay
Jun
13
to Jun 21

PaintPrintClay

Stroud collective PaintPrintClay - Maggie Howe, Mandy Scott and Elizabeth Lee present a new series of works including paintings and drawings, printmaking and ceramics. The expansive theme is what inspires us as artists - whether it’s capturing light and shadow in landscapes, telling stories or celebrating our art heroes.

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Gravity
Jun
13
to Jun 21

Gravity

Gravity is Nick Grellier’s solo exhibition of drawing, sculpture, text and textile works, and experimental film made with Anna Cady. While ‘gravity’ suggests a weighty seriousness to the work - a tethering to the earth and it’s pull- there is a material and linguistic playfulness throughout Nick’s practice.

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Conversations across time
Jun
13
to Jun 21

Conversations across time

Multidisciplinary works by Angela Findlay trace forgotten chapters and lives lingering in the spaces between what is known. Memory falters, but the heart remembers. Retrieval binds real and imagined – the artist as plumber, reassembling fragments to restore flow. Check website for events accompanying this exhibition.

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An Act of Remembrance
Jun
13
to Jun 21

An Act of Remembrance

After her mother’s passing, Rita Long gathered fragile plants from the garden they once tended. In intimate, carefully lit photographs, petals and stems slowly collapse, reflecting lineage and inherited memory. Decay becomes remembrance. The garden becomes an archive. Photography carries forward what can no longer be held.

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Guideposts trust Exhibition
Jun
13
to Jun 21

Guideposts trust Exhibition

Expressive and self-reflective works of art and writing by adults with learning disabilities, mental health issues, and dementia, following on from our successful Being Human exhibition at the SVA last November.

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Fluid Memory : Nadia Ryzhakova
Jun
13
to Jun 21

Fluid Memory : Nadia Ryzhakova

Fluid Memory explores themes of childhood and nostalgia, reinterpreting personal memory through a combination of paint pouring and figurative realism. The paintings are characterised by organic streams of cellular and vacuolar forms that merge seamlessly with realistic figures.

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Raising up Stones
Jun
13
to Jun 21

Raising up Stones

A series of oil paintings by artist F. John Owen harnessing the raw presence of standing stones. From Carn Euny to Boscawen-un, Owen’s paintings are inspired by the megaliths of Cornwall and their geological and ceremonial significance.

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Roaming rites
Jun
13
to Jul 11

Roaming rites

'‘Roaming Rites’ is a solo exhibition of reconstructed landscape paintings by James D. Wilson at This House. Developed during his 2023 artist-in-residence, the works transform fleeting views into layered compositions, capturing movement, memory, and the quiet rituals of passage through landscape.

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