Guernsey Arts

An image featuring white text reading Guernsey Arts (white out logo) Proudly Participating in Purple Tuesday 2025. This is against this year's Purple Tuesday brand colours of purple and yellow, featuring a purple background and yellow dot design.

An image featuring the Guernsey Arts pink logo and the navy blue endorsement logo of the Communication Accessible Scheme. Guernsey Arts has been accredited as Communication Accessible.

At Guernsey Arts, we believe that access to the arts is of paramount importance for all Islanders 💜 Accessibility is at the heart of what we do - which is why we are proud to champion the ethos of Purple Tuesday everyday.

Join Guernsey Arts and Guernsey Museums in celebrating the work and legacy of David Robilliard!

We're looking for poetry, prose, sketches, doodles - anything that responds to David's work and legacy. Head to arts.gg/events/words-doodles for more info!

The Guernsey Arts Open is Open! 

Come and join in the island’s largest annual showcase of local artistic talent within the visual arts✨

Open to all resident artists of any age and experience, submissions are free and can be in any medium.

Find out more here - forms.gle/oEyKiCeHtN9E...

🚨 Calling all art supporters! There's one week left of auction bidding on our postcard auction - tr.ee/oyTSqX

From vibrant abstracts and whimsical landscapes to nautical wonders of the deep and pearlescent flights of fancy, no postcard in 100 : The Art of Expression is the same! ✨

Have you placed your postcard bid yet? 👀
Here's a round up of the top five currently leading on bids! Browse for yourself - tr.ee/oyTSqX
There's plenty of treasure to be found and all proceeds go to Guernsey Arts (CH280)

Calling all Opera fans - Guernsey Arts is back with a free Opera Screening! 🎟️ Book now at www.guernseytickets.gg

Experience Mozart’s beloved masterpiece The Magic Flute as part of 2025’s free Opéra sur écrans screening.

The screening is performed in German with French subtitles.

We've hit the 1K mark! 🤩 Bid now - tr.ee/oyTSqX

There are over 100 affordable artworks in the greenhouse gallery and some of these artists have exhibited internationally! This is your chance to purchase something exceptional with all proceeds going to help further the arts - happy bidding! 🇬🇬❤️

Thank you Guernsey Press for this coverage on 100 : The Art of Expression ❤️

Calling all Opera fans - Guernsey Arts is back with a free Opera Screening! 🎟️ Book now at www.guernseytickets.gg

Experience Mozart’s beloved masterpiece The Magic Flute as part of 2025’s free Opéra sur écrans screening.

The screening is performed in German with French subtitles.

Guernsey Arts has sent the following Manifesto out to all Guernsey 2025 election candidates - please give it a read!

Heading to Arts Sunday? Here are all the stage times you need to know ✨

🎨 PAID ARTIST OPPORTUNITY ✨

Action For Children Guernsey & Guernsey Arts are commissioning a mural for a communal outdoor space. Young people who use the space want something bright and uplifting. The mural will be created with their input.

For full brief please see - arts.gg/media/nvaphs...

The legacy of the Island Games Cultural Programme lives on ✨

Thank you so much for this coverage - there's still time to submit work for Orkney 2025!

We’re looking ahead to 2026-2027 and preparing to join in the celebrations for The Year of the Normans!

The Guernsey Arts team were pleased to meet with representatives from Normandy to discuss plans for visual exhibitions, projects and partnerships that celebrate Guernsey’s Norman heritage.

The winners of the very successful 2025 @guernseylitfest.bsky.social Poetry Competition read their poems at a special presentation event at the Guille-Allès Library this evening judged by Imtiaz Darker.
Sponsored by @specsaversuk.bsky.social Supported by @guernseyarts.bsky.social

Last call for Stallholders! 🎨🛒✨

This year’s Arts Sunday is on the 8th June! Help us celebrate 15 years of arts market success by applying to be a stallholder today -
forms.gle/MLs4xWEgvht2...

For a PDF version, please contact grace@arts.gg. Physical copies can also be picked up from Candie Museum.

"Dear Unknown Friend" is a contemporary art exhibition commissioned & curated by Guernsey Arts to mark 80 years of Liberation. The show brings together the artwork of 13 local creatives as they give a voice to Guernsey's evacuated children in an emotional and heartfelt tribute.

Detailed tree with animals, and windows in the trunk

Thanks to everyone that took part in today's biodiversity #OnlineArtExchange

Next week is windmills for Anglesey Windmills at Oriel Môn 💨

'Tree of Life' by Peter Le Vasseur (b.1938) © the artist. 📷 Guernsey Museums and Galleries

With 120 votes, we're pleased to announce that Chris Bale is your 2025 Bailiwick Wildlife Photography Exhibition Public Choice Award winner!

As the show sails off to delight a new audience, we'd like to thank Mourant once again for their invaluable support throughout this exhibition 📸

We ❤️ this! Here's a preview of the puppetry skills that will be coming to the greenhouse gallery this Summer :

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We can't wait to meet all his friends too - fantastic work, James Kitts! A huge thank you to Kate Prout and Kit Gillson for this feature.

Today marks World Wildlife Day! 🦉
Did you know that the term for a group of owls is a Parliament?
Discover all the wonders of Guernsey's wildlife in the Bailiwick Wildlife Photography Exhibition, curated by Guernsey Arts & supported by Mourant.

As part of the Bailiwick Wildlife Photography Exhibition supported by Mourant, we've been discovering ways to be creative and learn about nature this week 💚

We've also been joined by artists and friends from The Pollinator Project and The Guernsey Nature Commission.

Looking for creative Half Term activities? Guernsey Arts has got you covered! 🦋🪲

We will be hosting a series of educational arts activities as part of the Bailiwick Wildlife Photography Exhibition, supported by Mourant.

💡 Admission to the Museum is free with a Discovery Pass.

Sailing into Monday with all the sass and curiosity of a Tompot Blenny 🐟✨

These marine creatures are known for being little fish with BIG personalities!

Discover this little fish and more in the Bailiwick Wildlife Photography Exhibition supported by Mourant.

📸 Grace Bailey

Concrete Poetry & Listening Post Reveal!
The Clarence Battery Steps are open... with a new public art piece powered by Guernsey Arts in situ, featuring a recording and poem from local poet Chloe Gallie ✨

🎨 ✈️ Calling all Guernsey artists! ✈️ 🎨

Aurigny, in partnership with London City Airport and Guernsey Arts, invites you to be part of a special Liberation 80 exhibition in London! 🇬🇬✨

🔗 Find out more & apply at www.aurigny.com/put-guernsey-in-the-frame

We're getting wild in the centre pages of The Guernsey Press today!

Congratulations to category winners :

🦋 Keith Monk
🐬 Thomas Ozanne
🐞 Georgia Saunders
🐦 Alan Drillot
🦔 Julie Margison
🍄 Jo Ferguson
🎥 Ben Le Prevost
🐝 Ajax Amy

This year's exhibition is proudly supported by Mourant.

What a night - the Bailiwick Wildlife Photography Exhibition, supported by Mourant, is now open!
Stay tuned for more photos of the night, exhibition highlights and the reveal of our Awards List. Remember... the Public Choice Vote is now open too ✨

It's not long now! We're looking forward to the opening of this year's Bailiwick Wildlife Photography Exhibition supported by Mourant.

Tonight, we'll be hosting a Private View for the featured photographers and will discover the winners of each category!

Did you know that the short snouted seahorse (Hippocampus Hippocampus) is a Priority Species under the UK Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework?

Discover this local image (and more!) in the Bailiwick Wildlife Photography Exhibition opening this Friday.