CURRENT EXHIBITION
In the Face of It; Cabaret, LGBTQiA+ equity & Fabulousness | 15 January - 13 February 2026
Surabi Wade, Lena Lenman, Andy Clift
In the Face of It; Cabaret, LGBTQiA+ Equity & Fabulousness is a bold and celebratory visual art exhibition that confronts identity, visibility, and resistance through the lens of cabaret culture. Drawing on the theatrical, the glamorous, and the unapologetically fabulous, the exhibition places LGBTQiA+ lives and histories front and centre—refusing erasure and demanding equity with style and defiance.
Through diverse visual practices, the works explore cabaret as both performance and protest: a space where self-invention, gender play, satire, and joy become powerful tools for survival and social change. The exhibition honours the resilience of LGBTQiA+ communities while acknowledging the ongoing struggles for recognition, safety, and equality.
At once intimate and spectacular, In the Face of It invites audiences to look directly—at bodies, faces, stories, and histories that insist on being seen. It is a declaration of presence, a celebration of difference, and a reminder that fabulousness itself can be a radical act.
Interested in more? Check out Disco Fabulous 27th Feb, 27th March, 24th April @ West End Centre and Hundred Watt Club 11th April @ Forest Arts.
(C) Andy Clift
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Images of Neglect | 16 - 27 February 2026
Yossef El Nahas & Amy-Leigh Bird
Not Clean Creative Gallery Takeover | 3 - 28 March 2026
Not Clean Creative - Perennial Processes Exhibition
Not Clean Creative presents the Perennial Processes exhibition with live performances and workshops. Perennial Processes features three multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriters — Charlotte Hatherley, Ruth Mac and Enid. The exhibition highlights the cyclical nature of songwriting craft and creative processes, exploring how they can shape sonic and visual composition in the realm of popular music.
The Perennial Processes Exhibition is a collaboration between Not Clean Creative, Forward 4 Wiz Trust and West End Centre with a programme of performances and workshops through March 2026. If you are a creative in the area and interested in songwriting, music production, and gaining more knowledge in the music industry, this is for you.
Not Clean Creative is an artist community, production company, and consultancy helping individual artists and creative companies to explore their full potential through instinct-led communal music production.
Spectrum Art Studios | 31 March - 24 April 2026
Stephen Critchley
PAST EXHIBITIONS
OPEN EXHIBITION 2025
3 December 2025 – 10 January 2026
Our annual Open Exhibition is a free to enter local showcase of artwork from across the community, from professional or aspiring artists and hobbyists to children and young people, all are welcome to submit work for display.
All work must remain up for the duration of the exhibition and artists can submit up to 2 pieces.
Sound good? Here's all you need to know...
Dates for your diary:
Thursday 4 December 2025 - Saturday 10 January 2026 – Exhibition Open
Thursday 4 December 2025 – Private View (7pm - 9pm) - family and friends are welcome to attend - the bar will be open!
Thursday 15 January 2026 – Artwork Collection (5pm – 9pm)
AND Saturday 17 January 2025 – Artwork Collection (10am – 2pm)
Note: you will be asked to fill in some forms on the day that you drop off your work, so all you need to do in the lead up is get creative!
If you would like to read/fill out the forms in advance, you are welcome to do so here:
ArTTalk | 1 - 28 November 2025
ArTTalk is a small group of professional Artists from around the Farnham area. They support each other by meeting monthly in their studios where they discuss their
work, interests, problems, the world and the state of art in general. The ArTTalk artists share similar ideals and “ languages “ in the work that they make. The pieces
emerge from continuous processes of research and experimentation with an awareness of traditions, Modernism and the contemporary
Home and Away | 5 - 31 October 2025
Michael Kelly
Forward 4 Wiz x Rushmoor Music Trail | 13 - 30 September 2025
Experience Aldershot's rich musical past, from indie rock to rave, on a unique self-guided audio journey.
Including the launch of Aldershot Mixtape, a self-guided musical audio trail and exhibition at the West End Centre on 13th September 2025.
Aldershot Mixtape takes you on a sonic journey around Aldershot town, highlighting the town’s rich and diverse musical history. The trail leads you from the indie vibes of the legendary Buzz Club to songs from Himalayan landscapes and the lively early days of rave music. You will hear a blend of instruments, field recordings, and voice, as well as distant chants from Aldershot Football Club. By combining music, sound design, and interviews, Aldershot Mixtape offers a uniquely immersive experience of the town's distinctive history.
Featuring audio work by
Jo Bartlett, Hattie Croucher, ElectroSonic Alchemists, Enid, The Memory Band feat. Andrews of Arcadia, Tara Manandhar, Phillip Osborne and Ben Unwin.
Beyond the High Street | 30 March 2025 - 30 April 2025
"Beyond the High Street" is an artwork based on a series of images exploring the evolving landscape of Britain’s urban spaces, shaped by migration, commerce, and historical ties. Through a series of photographs, Aisha captures the transformation of shopfronts and markets in Aldershot, a military town with deep colonial connections. Aisha is a UK-based Pakistani visual artist using photography as her primary medium. With a journalistic and travel-focused approach, her work explores the transformation of spaces by the influence of migration.
The Fourth Wave: Ourselves | 4 - 25 March 2025
Pen and ink, newsprint and glue, oil paint and canvas, charcoal and acrylic... different lives, different styles, one mixed-media show!
2024
Beyond the Bassline | 2 - 14 October 2024
Inspired by the British Library’s new Beyond the Bassline exhibition, the panel display at the West End Centre documents 500 years of Black music in Britain and explores the people, places and genres that have formed a British soundtrack. Augmented by Aldershot Library's own collection, regional connections and Rushmoor's local music scene, the Beyond the Bassline display and events programme helps to tell a national story about Black music in Britain.
Kiln Photo | July - August 2024
Kiln Photo is a community workspace for photographers and image makers. We offer the perfect setting in which to pursue your interest, whether you are an enthusiastic beginner, or looking to expand your knowledge of photography and try different styles. This exhibition reflects the diverse interests of the members at Kiln Photo, revealed in their wide ranging photographic styles.
Wayne Jefferson -Trees, Tracks and Tides | 3 - 31 May 2024
Dr. Wayne Jefferson was born and grew up in a small Hampshire village. He studied Fine Art – Painting at Winchester School of Art and an Art teacher’s course at Hornsey Art College. For a number of years, Wayne was Head of Art in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University. He now devotes his time to his own artwork and has exhibited in a range of venues. He now lives in another small Hampshire village.
Blackham Images - Photography Exhibition | February - March 2024
Rob Blackham is a renowned photographer who specialises in portrait and studio work. He’s worked with some of the most recognisable names in the industry, and his portfolio of live shots is also bursting with emerging talent. The exhibition was specifically curated for the West End Centre -to include shots of some the artists that have been through the venue, alongside genres that fit the programme.
OPEN EXHIBITION - 7 November 2023 – 11 January 2024
The West End Centre's annual Open Exhibition. Open Exhibition 2023 is a local showcase of artwork from across the community, from professional or aspiring artists and hobbyists to children and young people, all are welcome to submit work for display.
2023
Artist Collective -InHale...ExHale - 3 - 30 October 2023
InHale... ExHale' is a collection of work from artists living in and around Hale, Weybourne and Aldershot. The covid pandemic forced us all to take time to breathe in and out and focused our attention on the absolute necessity of the breath of life. We hope this varied collection of mixed media pieces will also offer an opportunity to pause for a moment and breathe.
JO HECKETT - The Split Second of Awakening 5 - 25th September 2023
What if I told you you belong, here on this Earth, in this galaxy? That the stars shine for you? The Earth turns for you? The moon rises for you? The grass grows for you? This exhibition explores the relationship between the physical and the divine, the deep way humans are connected to the Living Earth. Taking you to outer space and inner space, via the oceans, the earth and your own body, Jo Heckett paints a path for you to feel that connectedness for yourself. See more art works from Jo and learn about them at www.joheckett.com
_SPACES, with Xoanxo Cespon - 5 May to 1 July 2023
Local artist resident in Aldershot, he has been painting for over 30 years in a spontaneous style that denotes his early influences by the abstract expressionist movement. His works have been exhibited in several cities and locations since 1993, amongst them, London (Bolivar Hall, Canning House, John Jones Gallery…), Manchester (Portico Gallery, Instituto Cervantes, Manchester Airport…), Macclesfield (West Park Museum), Stockport (Howard Francis Gallery), Amsterdam (Art Hotel, Schichol Airport…), Hoofddorp, Madrid (Circulo de Bellas Artes). For more information you can visit www.xoanxo.com
WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM, with Golnoosh Golestani. Golnoosh is an Iranian photographer and graphic designer who showcase a collection of images that reflect the feelings of the women in Iran, not being able to express themselves freely or dress the way they would want. Opening on International Women's Day 2023
BIO GRAPH, with Tina Crawford and Darshana Vora. BIO GRAPH speaks of time and journeys through personal history in the artists' lives. 16 - Friday 27th January 2023
CONVERSATIONS WITH ALDERSHOT, PHASE 2, with Susan Merrick. An intimate archive and artistic response to local lives during and coming out of the lockdowns. This work and exhibition was co-created by the Conversations with Aldershot group, Susan Merrick, Candice Camacho, Asia Mahmood, Daisy Edwards, Debbie Nobbs, Melanie Chiwera, Sameea Jonnud. Many more local people have been involved and this exhibition is a celebration of this collaboration and an opportunity to share this intimate archive with the community. This project is made possible with thanks to public funding from a National Lottery project grant from Arts Council England as well as support from Rushmoor Borough Council and the West End Centre.
‘ART’, with Kim Riches. - 4 -28 October 2022
HOLD TIGHT, LET GO: 'Painting Series in Identifying Limited Beliefs’, with Christy del Fresno- 3 -30 May 2022
ICE Heritage Programme, with photographer Paul Gonella and students. ‘Anemoic Rise’ 2 - 24 July 2022. The ICE Heritage project is a two-year collaboration between Hampshire Cultural Trust and Hampshire CAMHS, and is supported by National Heritage Lottery Fund and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.