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 “nothing happens here” and to show the town—on your own terms.

Submission Guidelines

Exhibition Dates:
25 July – 31 August 2025 (Opening Reception - 25th July 7-9pm)
Location: New House Art Space, Fays Passage Guildford

Deadline for submissions:
Friday 18 July 2025

£4 per entry

We are particularly keen to hear from artists who are underrepresented in the arts, including LGBTQIA+, working class, neurodivergent, and global majority artists.

New House Art Space is an inclusive and artist-led space in the heart of Guildford. This summer, we want to make space for the stories that don’t usually get told.
If that sounds like your kind of conversation, we want to hear from you.