Sarah Refitt

Sarah Refitt is showing at the Highdown Gallery from 4 September to 12 September 2027, a short run that puts her work right in the heart of Highdown Gardens. The gallery itself is the visitor centre, which was given a makeover to work as a versatile space for art and craft exhibitions, workshops and talks.

If you've never been, the gardens are a chalk garden shaped over 58 years by Sir Frederick Stern, with collections going back to 1910. They sit in the South Downs National Park and drew around 80,000 visitors in the last 12 months. They're open every day of the year and free to visit, so you can easily make the exhibition part of a longer day out. One of the best-known features is the waterfall, originally fed by a natural chalk spring and revived with an off-grid solar system known as the 'Solar Pagoda'.

Refitt's exhibition runs for just over a week, from Saturday 4 September to Sunday 12 September, so it's a relatively tight window to catch it. The gallery is inside the visitor centre, and the gardens around it are open every day of the year and free to visit.