79th Annual Art Exhibition – 9th to 20th October 2025
Venue: The Ocean, Exmouth Seafront
Exmouth’s highly respected Art Group will hold their 79th annual exhibition in the beautiful Ocean Suite at Ocean on Exmouth Seafront, displaying a wide range of artwork in all mediums and styles, and supporting Open Door Exmouth in their 30th anniversary year. The guest judge this year is Debbie Birdsey
The Exmouth Ceramic Group as well as Exmouth Community College Art students will also be displaying their work.
Open Daily 10am - 5pm.
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Photos below from the 2024 Preview Evening:
Photography kindly provided by Paul Turner, Art Group Member
The Art Group welcomes new members with the facility to enable people to sign up for membership on their website or in person at the exhibition. The website also features a gallery where people can view examples of work by some of the members: https://www.exmouthartgroup.co.uk/
Prizes and Awards
Through generous sponsorship, we are able to offer several awards. A substantial legacy left by Norah Pearse funds exhibition prizes at our major autumn event, and Clifford & Sandy Lenn and Nick & Carol Williams donated the Channel View Cup for the artist whose exhibit is voted visitors’ favourite. In recent years, two trophies have been inaugurated by retiring Presidents May Neilson and Colin Marshall. These are the Neilson Trophy for the 3D Best in Show in our major exhibition, and the Mayor’s Best in Show Trophy at the Exmouth Festival Exhibition. The President’s Award was inaugurated in 2019 by former president Gillie Newcombe – this is to recognise the artist whose exhibit is voted members’ favourite.
For competitions, a Salver donated by Paul Butler goes to the winner of Architecture and Landscape; a Cup bequeathed by the family of Neil Ashley for Monochrome Drawing; and the Roger Matthews Cup presented to the winner at our Christmas party.
We feel our members are encouraged and inspired in such a variety of ways to get creative – and you will find examples of some of their work on this website and have an opportunity to exhibit annually in October at the stunning Ocean venue on Exmouth seafront.