March 2025 by Linda
Clean bright gallery of modern art with lots of smallish rooms - I kept getting lost though there was a floor plan guide. A mix of styles and ideas. The current Dora Carrington (Bloomsbury Group) exhibition was fabulous, the paintings glowed with colour and everything was well explained. I didn't stay for lunch as it seemed to be either cakes or a full meal and I was looking for a sandwich.
December 2024 by Alan Wenham
Would go back when the whole gallery is fully open. Some lovely pictures on display there!
November 2024 by John Clissold
Nice space for Art display. Good use of natural light.
September 2024 by David Heffernan
Nice courtyard
July 2024 by Peter Carter
This is my favourite art gallery. Its focus is essentially British modern art from the late nineteenth century to contemporary. Its strongest holdings are from the twentieth century, and it holds some significant work. Its exhibitions are important and often ground-breaking. It's had a terrific run of exhibitions - John Craxton last autumn, then Gwen John earlier this year, and now The Shape of Things, a survey of the Britsh contribution to still life, with particular emphasis on the Twentieth century but coming right up to the present day - a wide collection of excellent work.
February 2024 by Neon_ Lines
What an amazing gallery, with so much in!I loved the temporary exhibition here, as well as the usual exhibits!It was very lovely, staff were friendly and it was a very good day out!
November 2023 by Steve Gerry
John Craxton exhibition fantastic. Have seen some in books etc but close up the colours and techniques really come to life.
November 2023 by Tom Oakley
A beautiful place to visit. It's a lovely space with some interesting pieces in its permanent collection and the exhibitions on until April are really worth seeing. The Jake Grewal is a small ish collection of work by a young artist and the John Craxton is a major (posthumous) retrospective of a painter who deserves to be recognised. I found it thoroughly moving. I also really liked a small exhibition in which local refugees had written their responses to printed works. Well worth the journey to Chichester to spend a few hours looking round.
November 2023 by Chris Benham
"As a coffee stop; absolutely the best in the town.Good coffee, pleasent service, lovely place and civilised customers."That was my review, until yesterday's visit. The management have re-jigged the layout, moving the seating into the hall area which is less comfortable, they've killed the warm and welcoming atmosphere. Spoiled it for us, we'll probably go elsewhere in future.
September 2023 by Into Beauty
I came here to specifically eat at the restaurant, which is gorgeous. Inside or outside it's a lovely space to be with your best friend and have a good old gossip, whilst drinking excellent wine and eating delish food. We meant to follow this with a visit to the actual gallery, but never got there as we were made so welcome in the courtyard part of the restaurant. Next time I will drag my reluctant friend around the excellent gallery as I've been there before and loved it, but my friend is a little impatient with such things! Staff all lovely and helpful.
August 2023 by Louise Brew
One of the best art galleries and experiences in a long time. Would recommend going on a weekday when not too busy, take your time. Many of the paintings feels they have different meanings for different people. Ensure to give you plenty of time. What I also really liked was the seating areas, where you could sit down and enjoy. A lot of interesting information about artists as well. Recommended
August 2023 by Jonathan Gosling
Lovely intimate space for an exhibition, with a side-gallery showing selected work by local artists in response to the main show. One room dedicated to a revolving academy-style hanging of paintings from the permanent collection includes some surprises. I loved a smallParing of open woodland by Keith Vaughan - grateful to have seen it. The main (temporary) exhibition (Gwen John) was well supported by on-line written and spoken notes by the curator. Impressed by two war-time pictures of a brown tea-pot ?. The tenuousness of even that sparse comfort.
August 2023 by Dan Jones
I went to the Pallant House Gallery cafe as it is open late on Thursdays during the summer. They had musician Glenn Palmer playing guitar in the garden which was very nice, his music was great and playing was very professional, it made for great ambience while relaxing with a pot of tea.We also took a look in the bookshop, which I would highly recommend if you are interested in art. There were also some other interesting books in the shop, like first editions and signed books.We didn't get the opportunity to look around the gallery fully but will definitely want to return to do this. I would highly recommend checking the gallery, bookshop and cafe out if you are visiting Chichester, it is very central and easy to get to...
August 2023 by Nata b
It was worth visiting Chichester and this gallery was its highlight. I went to see Gwen Jones' exhibition and loved how it displayed community art projects inspired by this artist. Fantastic to see how art interacts with people. I was inspired too and went home thinking how I can use what I have seen in my day to day life and small projects. It was also a female empowering exhibition in my view
July 2023 by Thomas Traddles
The Gwen John exhibition is terrific but ruined by the hopeless audio tour. The narrator dwells too much on how tough it was for women at this time and uses ?kinda? endlessly whilst rambling on . Hard to navigate and too long. I gave up and just read the info cards.
