Art galleries in Exeter
Exeter, England has 25 art galleries on the map. That's 25 galleries mapped around Exeter. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Many are free to enter, so the only cost of a gallery afternoon is your time.
This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Exeter (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Birdwood House Gallery and Thelma Hulbert Gallery, plus Haddon Galleries. If a gallery's missing from Exeter's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Exeter gallery lineup
25 mapped within about 40 km:
Birdwood House Gallery
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Thelma Hulbert Gallery
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Thelma Hulbert Gallery — Art gallery, found on Dowell Street in Honiton. Also worth knowing about Thelma Hulbert Gallery: the map lists its hours as Th-Sa 10:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Dowell Street, Honiton, EX14 1LX
Hours: Th-Sa 10:00-17:00
Phone: +44140445006
Haddon Galleries
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Haddon Galleries — Art gallery, found on 6 Victoria Parade in Torquay.
6 Victoria Parade, Torquay, TQ1 2BB
Martin Gallery
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Strand Art Gallery
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Strand Art Gallery — Art gallery, found on 2 The Strand in Brixham. Also worth knowing about Strand Art Gallery: it has a website with more detail.
2 The Strand, Brixham, TQ5 8EH
Vandlys Galleri
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Vandlys Galleri is Art gallery on Piazza Terracina, Exeter. Vandlys Galleri also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
Piazza Terracina, Exeter, EX2 8GT
Brook Gallery
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Brook Gallery — Art gallery, found on 30 Fore Street in Budleigh Salterton.
30 Fore Street, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 6NH
Ruth Smith Gallery
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Ruth Smith Gallery — Art gallery, found on 5 The Square in North Tawton. Also worth knowing about Ruth Smith Gallery: it has a website with more detail.
5 The Square, North Tawton, EX20 2ER
Exmouth Gallery
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Exmouth Gallery is Art gallery on 46 Exeter Road, Exmouth.
46 Exeter Road, Exmouth, EX8 1PY
Art Gallery Phone Box
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Art Gallery Phone Box — Art gallery. Also worth knowing about Art Gallery Phone Box: the map lists its hours as 24/7.
Hours: 24/7
Ludgate Gallery
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Ludgate Gallery — Art gallery, found on 5 Old Fore Street in Sidmouth.
5 Old Fore Street, Sidmouth, EX10 8LS
Atrizan Collective Gallery
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Cocklington Gallery
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Colours of Brixham
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Grandpa's Gallery
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Grandpa's Gallery is Art gallery on 4 Cross Street, Seaton. Grandpa's Gallery also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
4 Cross Street, Seaton, EX12 2LH
Gallery 8
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Gallery 8 is Art gallery. Gallery 8 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 11:00-17:00.
Hours: Tu-Sa 11:00-17:00
Talent Gallery
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Talent Gallery is Art gallery on 11 Fore Street, Wellington. Talent Gallery also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 10:00-17:00; it has a website with more detail.
11 Fore Street, Wellington, TA21 8AA
Hours: Tu-Sa 10:00-17:00
Field System
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Field System — Art gallery on 13 West Street. Also worth knowing about Field System: it has a website with more detail.
13 West Street
A Picked Thought
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The Bowie Gallery
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Davidson Fine Art
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Whitespaceart
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Little Blue Budgie
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Yvonne Coomber Art Gallery
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Yvonne Coomber Art Gallery — Art gallery. Also worth knowing about Yvonne Coomber Art Gallery: it has a website with more detail.
Jason Liosatos Gallery
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What the map tells us about art galleries in Exeter
4 of the 25 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.
8 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.
8 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.
The Exeter gallery walk
The efficient Exeter gallery walk strings these together: Birdwood House Gallery, Thelma Hulbert Gallery on Dowell Street, Haddon Galleries on 6 Victoria Parade, Martin Gallery, Strand Art Gallery on 2 The Strand, Vandlys Galleri on Piazza Terracina, Brook Gallery on 30 Fore Street, and Ruth Smith Gallery on 5 The Square — 25 stops, one logical order. 17 more are listed below.
Gallery tips for Exeter
How the regulars do Exeter's galleries:
- Follow the galleries online at Birdwood House Gallery. Openings and one-night events get announced on social media first. One follow catches them all.
- Trust your own reaction at Thelma Hulbert Gallery. You don't need the wall text's permission to love or hate a piece. Your honest reaction is the whole point of going.
- Take the long way through. Galleries reward slow looking. One extra lap always reveals something the first pass missed.
- Ask about private views. Mailing lists get you invited to previews — quieter, with the artists around and first pick of the work.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Exeter — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Exeter can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 25, or a art gallery we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.
We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.
If you run one of the 25 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Art gallery listings for Exeter: 25 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.