Save the date: Open School East Summer Exhibition 2026
OSE Summer Exhibition 2026
Preview: Thursday 18 June 2026, 5-8pm – RSVP here.
Open: Friday 19 – Sunday 21 June 2026, daily 12-5pm
Open School East
39 Hawley Square, Margate CT91NZ
We are very excited to share dates for the Open School East Summer Exhibition 2026 with you, as we celebrate the end of the Associates Programme 25-26 and the work developed as part of our 2 year thematic cycle Home is where the garden is.
Over a long weekend in June we invite you to see the show & participate in a programme of tours of the exhibition led by the Associates, Despacito Art School & our Guest Curator Harun Morrison.
For updates please add key dates to your calendar & RSVP for the opening night on Thursday 18 June 2026, 5-8pm.
The OSE Summer Exhibition features new works and research by Open School East’s Associates 2026: Milly Aburrow, Serena Mirambeau Brey, Hannah Chaney, Annabelle Edginton, Ffion Colquhoun-O’Brien, Ezekiel, Clara Frain-Atallah, Imogen Naomi Herd, Eve Jefferies, Suds McKenna, Cara Murray, Dre Spisto, Helen Savage, and Awra Tewolde-Berhan.
The exhibition features new works from our Civic Programme made by Despacito Art School with the Associates 2025–26 and guest artists.
As part of Home is where the garden is our learners have worked with Sepake Angiama, Simeon Barclay, Polly Brannan, Marley Starskey Butler, Amauta García and David Camargo, Anna Cutler, Benedict Drew, Thom Eagle, George Harding, Aaron McKay, Harun Morrison, Hugh Nicholson, Harold Offeh, Sally O’Reilly, Shenece Oretha, Camilo Pachón, Flora Parott, Keith Piper, Gabriella Riccio, Samara Scott, Cooking Sections, Slate Studio, Sara Trillo and Dan Thompson.
Announcing the Summer Exhibition Curator for 2026.
Each year Open School East invites a Guest Curator to work closely with the current cohort of Associates in the build-up to our summer exhibition. Through 1:1 mentoring sessions, group crits & curatorial development sessions, the Guest Curator helps to shape individual Associate projects and the exhibition as a whole.
This year we are excited to announce Harun Morrison as our Guest Curator. We look forward to working with Harun to deliver another exciting Associate Exhibition!
Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based in London and a former associate artist with Greenpeace UK on the project Bad Taste. Last year Harun showed work in the Brent Biennial 2025: Bones, stones and calling the four elements. He recently presented work in the group show, SOIL: The World at Our Feet. In 2024, he was in the two person show, DONO, at Somerset House Studios project space G31 alongside Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom and the solo show Conjunction at VOLT, Devonshire Collective in Eastbourne . His forthcoming novel, The Escape Artist will be published by Book Works.
Recent group exhibitions include Sonic Acts 2024: The Spell of The Sensuous, Amsterdam, Chronic Hunger / Chronic Desire in Timișoara, Romania, BALATORIUM Disturbed Waters, in Veszprém, Hungary as part of the European Capital of Culture 2023 programme and Bamako Biennial, 2020 in Mali.