Summer Exhibition Open Call

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Open Call: ‘Nothing ever Happens Here’. Summer Exhibition at New House Art Space, Guildford

New House invites artists working in any medium to respond to our 2025 summer exhibition theme

Guildford is often painted as quiet. Polished. Predictable. This exhibition asks: what lies beneath that surface? We’re calling for work that reclaims, reimagines, or resists the dominant narratives about this place. Work that surfaces the stories, subcultures, tensions, and contradictions often left out of the local brochure. Think back rooms and basement gigs, community resistance and quiet revolutions, underground networks and misremembered histories.

We’re interested in lived experience and folklore, nostalgia and nuisance, defiance and the domestic. Whether you’ve lived here all your life, passed through, or felt on the edges of belonging, we want your take. This is a chance to challenge the cliché that ...