Artwave Festival 2025!

Celebrating Artists & Makers Across The Lewes District, the 2025 Artwave Festival!
You can follow trails around Lewes, Seaford, Peacehaven, Newhaven and the surrounding villages this September, from Saturday 6th through to Sunday 21st.

Now in its 32nd year, Artwave continues to be one of the largest visual arts festivals in the South East, connecting hundreds of artists and makers with tens of thousands of appreciative viewers and visitors each year.

Online guides search exhibition information for the separate trails are available via the website www.artwavefestival.org. You can also pick up free printed copies from Lewes, Seaford, Newhaven Tourist Information Centres and from Charleston Lewes.

There are more than 160 venues, with free-to-visit exhibitions in private homes, studios, potteries, windmills, railway stations, farms and churches, many of them opening their venues for the first time.