Four Sussex Artists

Four Sussex Artists are showing at the Highdown Gallery in Worthing across two separate runs in 2027: the first from 29 May to 6 June, and the second from 7 August to 15 August. It's a group exhibition, so you'll see work from four local artists together in one space rather than a single person's solo show.

The gallery itself is part of Highdown Gardens, a chalk garden in Worthing that Sir Frederick Stern spent 58 years building. His collection of rare, chalk-tolerant plants has been admired since 1910, and he wrote A Chalk Garden and The Study of the genus Peonia (1946). He was also the first to describe the snowdrop species Galanthus rizehensis. The gardens sit in a former chalk quarry in the South Downs National Park and draw around 80,000 visitors a year. There's a waterfall too, originally fed by a natural chalk spring and revived with an off-grid solar system called 'The Solar Pagoda'.

Because the exhibition runs twice, you've got two windows to catch it. The first is late spring, from 29 May to 6 June, and the second is mid-summer, from 7 August to 15 August. Both are at the Highdown Gallery, the exhibition space within the gardens. If you're planning a visit, it's worth remembering the gallery is inside the gardens, so you can wander through Stern's chalk collection before or after you look at the art. The first run is 29 May to 6 June; the second is 7 August to 15 August.