THE SUSSEX 2026
We are delighted to announce the artists and artworks selected for THE SUSSEX 2026: SHELTER.
This year’s exhibition brings together 262 artworks exploring SHELTER through a wide range of artistic responses. Every submission was considered by all of our judges, and we would like to thank every artist who put their work forward.
The exhibition opens to the public on the 7th November and closes on the 29th November and is free to visit. 11am - 4pm Thurs - Sat 11am - 3pm Sundays.
BN9 Studio Newhaven, Marine Workshops, BN9 0ER
Congratulations to the selected artists. We look forward to bringing your work together for the exhibition.
The list below is arranged alphabetically by artist surname. Only the artworks listed have been selected.
SELECTED ARTISTS AND ARTWORKS
Linda Abrahams • Roses are not always red
Robin Adams • Shady Graze
Roger Adams • Immersed • The Beekeeper
Mayowa Akande • Outside-In
Maria Albiez • Listen to my Inner Melody
Jan Alcoe • Umbrellas in snowy Gion
Karl Allen • Diaspora
Graham Allum • Shelter From The Storm
Rebecca Angel • Held Within
Sophie Ansar • Brick kilns
Cristina Ariza • Threshold
Star Arkana • The Pigeon House
Sam Atkins • Marine Tubular
Steve Avis • In passing from Artemisia
Ian Baker • Blue Jumper • Without walls
Polly Baker • They stop your drinks from getting wet
Claire Barnes • life at the bus stop
MARIA BARRETT • " HOME IS MY HEART "• HOME
William Baynes • Books
Holly Bazett • A Waiting Game
Jan Beesley • The Rushes Remember
John Beetham • Autumn, Sheffield Park
Guy Beggs • A Matter of Balance • Ancient Pollarded Oak • Roost, Beachy Head
Kim Bell • Mexican Dream
Loren Beven • Setting Out
Loren & Kati Beven & Saqui • Miracle Julie
Karen Birchwood • Time for coffee
Ella Blower • What the Pomegranate Remembered
Kiki Bond • Unwatched hour
Emily Brady • Self-Portrait in Bed
Neil Breeden • Haus
Vanessa Breen • Sheltered
Terrence Brett • Migrant no.27
Caron Buckingham-Rhyder • My Church
Linda Burris Webster • Somalia: Steps Away
Justin Butler • Toward shelter - Skye
Zena Cairns • Sheltering In The Benthic Zone
Susan Calverley Parker • Shelter
Sandra Camargo • Unveiled
Harriett Chapman • Friends for life
Anna Chocola • Just one step.
Donna Christman • Fixing the Camp in the Spring
Anna Clement • The Gentle Green Tide
JOHN COELLO • Silent Refuge from the Seige
Sue Cohen • Baby Child
Louise Colbourne • An Aspiration to Enfold All
Emma Coleman-jones • Rocky Lane: heatwave summer.
Marina Collard • Franco
Mango Collins • Hop Pickers' Hut
Colleen Conti • Mossy Brook
Hayley Cox • Ramshackle Sheds
Elod Pal Csirmaz • Desert House
Philip Cundall • Black Rock I • Fret
Mark Currah • Twentieth of August 2026
Ben Dale • Witnessed, Buttermere 2026
Clare Dales • Peas
Olivia Davis • Protection
Rene de Lange • In Plain Sight
Tim Dean • Reflection in glass at home
Robin DEane • Hermit Cave, Hastings Country Park
Jenia Demchenko • Undone
Jane Denman • Cordoarias Garden
Claire Diedrichsen • Snail Ground Zero
Mandeep Dillon • Nothing gold can stay
John Dilnot • Early Architecture
Stuart Dodman • Garret
Peter Doubleday • Seed 1
Pat Drake • Out Like a Girl
Eloise Dumasy • Old Friend
Joanna Duncan-Smith • Reflection
Nicholas Ebdon • Rabbit
Liban Elmi • Inked
Sue England • Looking in...or out? • Things aren't always what they seem
Liz English • Tropical Tittle Tattle, When The Chat's So Good You Don't Realise It's Stopped Raining
James Evans • Heading Home
Jill Evans • Pause
Tom Farthing • East Street
Simon Fell • Triumph of the bankrupt • Uninvited Masterpiece
Ian Fenton • The Sycamore Tree that Once Stood Outside 25 Marley Lawn, Rathfarnham, Dublin, Ireland
Elaine Field • Hugged
Sue Fields • Arborial Reflection
Clare Filskow • Under the weather at Tarring Neville
Samantha Foster • Rootbound
Sue Foster • Iford hill
Nadia Fowle • Displaced • Unmoored
Jacqueline Freeman • Retreat in the Ruins
Jackie Fretten • Four trees, caravan, pink sky • Galaxy Trees
Jedediah Gainer • Crushed Beneath but not Forgotten
nick gardner • House Warming
Prachi Gawas • Beneath the Ancient Oak
Martin Gayford • 'Growing Up'
Sheri Gee • Every Day I Went The Same Way
Mikey Georgeson • Return to the womb
Chris Gilbert • Stand-off
Marc Gooderham • Coming Home
Joanna Goodwin • A Measure of Shade
Kevin Goodwin • My Burrow
Donna Gray • Nazca • Prefab
Lisa Green • Home on Adur
Penny Green • Quiet place
Sophie Green • Animism
Karen Gunn • Fragile Protection
Bill Hall • Drumlane Window
Liz Hankins • Shelter Under The Mountain
Chris Harrison • Orange Chairs
Denise Harrison • Aquaponics Delight • Pond Life (Make Mine a 99)
Mala Hassett • Shelter 2
Kevin Hayeck • Release
David Hayward • OTRANTO (The Princess)
John Haywood • The first sliver of light at the campsite
Isobel Heath • Courgette
Lorraine Heaysman • Quiet Shallows
Faye Heller • Mies van der Rohe Under a Malevich Square
Hannah Hernø-Toftiild • Marshland #7
Roë Holcombe • Mighty Oaks
Roger Hopgood • Contested Object XVI (Olive Morris)
Nataliia Hrytsenko • The Shelter of My Soul
Angus Hudson • A canopy of woven wind
Jill Iliffe • Popping out for some bits
steve johnston • standing with uncertainty
S JORDAN • The Island Tower
Stephen Jowitt • BN9 Gallery • Station Triptych, Grange-over-Sands
Charles Karsenbarg • Safely home
Sojung Kim-McCarthy • Haircut at the Soup Kitchen
Andrew Kingham • Unsheltered – People Keep Talking to Me.
Josep Laffan • Hollow
Kirsty Latham • Hiding Place
Kally Laurence • Under Canvas
Nicole Lenihan • “Belonging”
Dion Salvador Lloyd • Wintertrees
Penny Lower • Hollow Way
Rosalind Lymer • Heat Haze
Rob Macdonald • CITY OF GHOSTS
Emily Mackey • Möbius Contention
Sarah Maddox • Nature's Sanctuary
Sarah Mann • La Maison des Allemands
Rachel Mansfield • Fallen Nest
Ron Marsh • Blue Prospects
Sophie McAllister • Where peace resides
Kimmy McHarrie • Stateless
Dione McKenna • At Ease
Kate McMinnies • Lay of the Land II
Moira McNair • The Space Between
Rachel McNamara • Impermanence
John Meikle • Storm
Helen Melia • Somewhere Else
JONATHAN MILLWARD • St Leonard’s V-1 Doodlebug Church
Janet Milner • Sitting on Stools (stripe)
John Mitchell • Plugged in
Sarah Money • Companionship • Stone people
Nazarin Montag • Bus Shelter Window 1.
Tyrone Moreno • Seize the Lighthouse
LUCY MORICE • The Divyne
Francesca Grace Muirhead • Nestled in
Yuliana Mulvany • The Tree Cathedral
Claire Mumford • Sheltering
KATE NEWTON • Borrowed shelter
Edie Nightingall • Sonny & Sky
Kezia Noel-Paton • Shelter, 2026
Matt Noir • The Night Shed
Mary norowzian • the ground beneath my feet
Elizabeth Ockford • A Soft Spot Between the Rocks
Lucinda OESTREICHER • Whitewash
Nicholas Owen • What Holds Us Here
Mark Painter • Loose Ends
Clare Parfree-Mitchell • Sometimes by moonlight • The mint pot
Michele Payne • Our Place
Sally Pennington • Overcasting
Christina Perry • Arlene and her Grandmother
Susi Petherick • Under the canopy
Kate Phillips • Survival Kit
Catherine Pink • My New Street
Natalja Poplavska • Locked
Ingrid Press • Nest
Lynne Quilter-Page • Everyone deserves home sweet home
Deborah Rainsford • Untouched
Nessie Ramm • A21 at John’s Cross (Bus Stop Bank) • Changed Priorities Ahead (Marbled White) • Hot Food Next Layby (Cuckoo Flower and Orange-tip Butterfly)
Christina Reading • My Grandmothers Wedding (2026)
Phil Rewssen • The Nightjar Place
Jennifer Roberts • Leg of Plumpy
Kate Rugg • It's OK
Harriet Rutter • Interrupt
Janet Sang • Coverage
Ellie Sargant • This was handled with varying levels of grace
Mark Scammell • Now The Inner Refuge
Lizzy Schiraldi • Nesting
Sarah Sellers • The crab
Laura Seymour • Mossycoat
Gallit Shaltiel • Blow Wind Blow
Melissa Sharpe • Her Fragile Dwelling
Chris Shaw Hughes • Bender
k shields • bed rest
Cathryn Shilling • Ghost Town - Titled Balance
Paul Shires • A Cage Is No Shelter
Jess Skelton • HullK
Sofia Skold • Verdure, Moment
Jonathan Smith • Harbour
Laurie Smith • In the SPAN house 2
Poppy Smith • I'll be home soon x
Sally Smith • The Comfort of Stuff
Olga Sorokina • All Portraits Are Self-Portraits. Red Lips 1 • All Portraits Are Self-Portraits. Red Lips 2 • All Portraits Are Self-Portraits. With a Rabbit
Annie Soudain • Half Sovereign Cottage
Michael Spark • Shelter in the woods
Alan Stewart • We Are Over Wintered
john suddons • Abduction of Helen
Amanda Sumpter • Trace Lines
Geraldine Swayne • The Concious Cave
Josephine Sweeting • Lewth • Thicket
A Lincoln Taber • Pod Caravan Nocturne • Under the M4
Alan Taylor • Tree Canopy
Louisa Taylor • Orchadia
Marion Taylor-Russell • Dry Valley (Devil’s Dyke, Sussex)
Louis TF • I dreamt I escaped the apocalypse
Olivia Thompson • Mirrors perspective
Charlie Todman • Seeking shelter in the void
David Tothill • Safe Haven
Thomas Treherne • Psalm 29
Lara Tremayne • Untitled
Luke Tupper • Burrow
Jenny Turtill • Green chysophaize stone with gold leaf sheltering in white carved stone
Elizabeth Vaz • Hut in the Mist
Branka Vrhovski-Stanton • 'Interior' • 'Shelter'
Tracy Wadey • Moon over Kerrison Mews • Night in St Ann's Well Gardens
Kevin Warren • waves and wings
Vicky Waters • Egg
Alexander Watson • Punch Buggy
Tracy Watt • The Light
Zoe Webb • Becoming
Sally Webber • Homage to Ian Hamilton Finlay
Jacob Weeks • Empty Chair
Roger White • Elsewhere, Briefly
Lil WILKINSON-O'Dwyer • Asmodeus
Kathy WilliamsArtist • Enveloping care
Josef Williamson • Dream Forest
Caitlin Isobel Winter • Held by the Earth
Agata Wojcieszkiewicz • Retreat
luke woodgate • Borderlands
Wendy Wren • Rest Easy
Scarlett Yang • Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise I