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The modernist home and studio of the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Charleston was a gathering point for some of the 20th century’s most radical artists, writers and thinkers known collectively as the Bloomsbury group. It is where they came together to imagine society differently, and has always been a place where art and experimental thinking are at the centre of everyday life.
Our new space, Charleston in Lewes is now open. Alongside two new unmissable exhibitions, our cultural centre hosts a shop, café and a free programme of co-produced community projects, artist-led workshops, gallery activities, and a learning programme for local state schools, further education and higher education groups.
We believe in the power of art, in all its forms, to provoke new ways of thinking and living.