Family Cooking Sessions!

Fun Free Family cooking sessions!
Gain essential kitchen skills and cook nutritious, budget friendly meals!

Every Wednesday - 4th February - 11th March
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Sax Arts Fest 2026!

Sax Arts Fest Returns!
Save the Date! Saturday 13th June 2026

Have a look at Sax Arts Fest 2024 to get a taste of what's to come by clicking the link below!

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PhotoShed 2026

PhotoShed is a weekly photography session, led by photographer Richard Allenby-Pratt.
Meeting Fridays in The Old Bank, Saxmundham, IP17 1AE 10:45am - 12:45pm

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Port to Port

Port to Port embarks on it's final journey to Felixstowe in September 2026
More details coming soon!

Click the link to watch the Port to Port installation come to life!

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Donate to The Art Station

Support our dynamic Art & Learning programme, comprising of exhibitions, talks, creative workshops, educational opportunities and work experience.

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Volunteer with us

If you would like to get involved with our dynamic arts and learning programme, and enjoy pitching in with a range of different tasks, we would love to hear from you. We value diversity and welcome applicants from all backgrounds and abilities.

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Putting Creativity At The Heart Of A Suffolk Market Town

The Art Station is an arts charity offering an innovative Art and Learning programme in East Suffolk. We’re located in a 1950s telephone exchange and an old bank, on the high street in Saxmundham, a historic rural market town in coastal Suffolk. The Art Station’s unique venues have become a base for a dynamic and engaging arts and community programme.
We aim to unlock potential and effect real change – enabling people to come together to form communities around culture and creativity. The Art Station is developing a creative and cultural network in the region and provides free access to unique creative opportunities for all ages. Developing the local and regional cultural economy has a hugely positive impact for communities and business and characterises our region as a wonderful place to live, work and visit.
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About Us

The Art Station is an arts charity located in a historic market town in rural East Suffolk. The Art Station’s two unique venues on the high street have become a base for a FREE dynamic and engaging Art and Learning programme that serves the local community and coastal rural Suffolk and provides access to unique creative opportunities.

We aim to unlock potential and effect real change – enabling people to come together to form communities around creative experiences. By developing a professional network for creatives and offering affordable workspace The Art Station is developing the local creative industries in the region.

Art & Learning

The Art Station’s innovative Art and Learning Programme comprises exhibitions, events, talks, walks, tours and screenings, with sessions for all ages built around the programme to offer access to and increase engagement with contemporary creative practice.

Our community activities offer a range of accessible creative opportunities for different social groups in the local area with an emphasis on art, wellbeing and collaboration. Our riverside garden engages people in our local natural heritage and how we can all value and support the increase of biodiversity and protection of local habitats.

Large office space with moveable desks

Our spaces

We have a range of permanent studio/work spaces, daily/weekly/monthly co-working desks and occasional hire project spaces available for hire.

Please get in touch with us for more information

info@theartstation.uk  or 07927770421

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“The creation of studios, work spaces and a meeting point for the cultural and creative community in rural East Suffolk, has the potential to build the local economy and sense of place.”

Jayne Knight (arts development manager, Suffolk County Council)

What's On

Port to Port

Port to Port is an ambitious, travelling installation project by artist Sophie Giller.

Travelling to Felixstowe September 2026
More details coming soon!

Sax Arts Fest 2026!

Save the date!
Sax Arts Fest, Saturday 13th June, 2026

More info coming soon!

A Love Letter to Suffolk

Join photographer Richard Allenby-Pratt as he discusses ‘The Suffolk Project’, a unique photography project recording rural life in the county for the past 8 years.

THE MOTHER LODE

The Mother Lode is a series of solo exhibitions by artists who are also mothers, exploring motherhood as a profound creative force rather than a detour from artistic practice.

19th Feb – 9th May 2026

Exhibitions are open 10am – 4pm Monday – Friday and by appointment on Saturdays.

Family Cooking Sessions

Fun Free Family cooking sessions!
Gain essential kitchen skills and cook nutritious, budget friendly meals!

Book now! Sessions start 4th February – 11th March 2026