Sun Pier House CIC

Wednesday Art Club
2026-06-24 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-07-01 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Creation Space, Ground Floor, Sun Pier House, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF
Artist-led sessions allowing participants to work on their own projects or explore new techniques

Centa Co Circle - Autistic Female Group
2026-06-24 13:45 - 15:45, 2026-07-01 13:45 - 15:45 | Creation Space, Ground Floor, Sun Pier House, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF
Centa Co Circle is a social and creative club for autistic women aged 18+. It provides a calm, supportive environment where members are able to socialise, build friendships, and take part in arts and crafts.

Thursday Art Club
2026-06-25 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-07-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Creation Space, Ground Floor, Sun Pier House, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF

Café Open
2026-06-25 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-06-26 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-06-27 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-02 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-03 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-04 10:00 - 16:00 | Café, Second Floor, Sun Pier House, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF
Perched on the top floor of Sun Pier House, our café offers stunning panoramic views of the River Medway, stretching from Rochester Castle to Upnor Castle. This peaceful spot provides a welcome escape from the bustle of Chatham High Street and is the perfect place to soak up the atmosphere Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Feminine Blooms - Susie Bear
2026-06-25 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-06-26 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-06-27 10:00 - 16:00 | Café, Second Floor, Sun Pier House, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF
Step into a vibrant world where the elegance of the female form intertwines with the delicate allure of florals. “Feminine Blooms” showcases a captivating collection of artworks in pretty, inviting colours that celebrate grace, strength, and the timeless beauty of nature and femininity. Experience a harmonious blend of artistry that blooms with life, colour, and inspiration.

Works on Paper; from Northfleet with love
2026-06-25 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-06-26 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-06-27 10:00 - 16:00 | Riverside Gallery, Second Floor, Sun Pier House, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF
Exhibition – Bold, layered works exploring memory, movement, place, and personal history through colour, structure, and observation shaped by life in North Kent and beyond.
Steven J Knowles is a multidisciplinary visual artist working across painting, drawing, and community arts, based between Gravesham, Kent and the North Devon coast. His practice holds two things in productive tension: the intimacy of the studio and the scale of the public wall; the personal and the systemic; the mark made in private and the image that belongs to a community.
Knowles grew up moving between building sites with his father — an education conducted not in classrooms but in the smell of raw timber, wet concrete, and spaces mid-becoming. These formative years instilled in him a way of reading the world through its structures: what is built, what is neglected, who decides, and what remains. Nearly thirty years working in social housing gave that instinct consequence, and it is this rarely spoken biography that runs like a current beneath the painted surface.
His mark-making is grounded in a crosshatch and grid language — less a style than a way of thinking. It speaks of accumulation, of time registered, of the act of sustained attention. Against this structural skeleton he places colour that refuses to be polite: bold, often in conflict with itself, always chosen with intent. His works are built in series, each one a chapter in a longer argument.
Knowles surfs regularly at Woolacombe in North Devon — a place he returns to not as escape but as orientation. His travel, from Sicily to Norway, Romania to Lisbon, feeds a practice sustained by the conviction that observation, accumulated slowly and honestly, is its own form of argument.

Zen Go Yoga
2026-06-29 09:15 - 12:30, 2026-07-06 09:15 - 12:30 | Community Hire Space, First Floor, Sun Pier House, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF
Join Angela from Zen Go yoga for 3 different classes every Monday.

Life Drawing Sessions
2026-06-29 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-07-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Creation Space, Ground Floor, Sun Pier House, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF
Self-led Life Drawing sessions held weekly in the Creation Space organised by a local art group.
Contact Lynn for more information at lynn-drew@outlook.com

Zest - Dementia Friendly Arts Experiences
2026-06-30 10:00 - 12:00 | Community Hire Space, First Floor, Sun Pier House, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF
Bright Shadow’s Zest Groups are shaped to individual needs and are safe and accessible. They introduce a rich mix of arts experiences that are mood-boosting, invigorating and which enhance communication and relationships. You don’t need to have experience of being creative to enjoy them. They offer a wide range of creative activities designed and led by professional artists based on the interests and needs of those taking part.

The Anchor
2026-06-30 15:30 - 17:30 | Café, Second Floor, Sun Pier House, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF
The Anchor is an after-class social club where older teens can stop by for a drink, get creative, learn something new, or just chill with friends.

Culture Surgery
2026-07-02 10:00 - 15:00 | Café, Second Floor, Sun Pier House, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF
Book some time with Medway Council Culture Development Officer and/or Youth Service Operations Manager for an informal chat

Being Human - Sam Scoggins
2026-07-02 10:00 - 15:30, 2026-07-03 10:00 - 15:30, 2026-07-04 10:00 - 15:30 | Riverside Gallery, Second Floor, Sun Pier House, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF
Discover the latest exhibition by Sam Scoggins, featuring a striking collection of large-scale abstract paintings. Bold, expressive and full of energy, the works range from vibrant bursts of colour to powerful black-and-white compositions. Built from layers of dynamic lines, marks and movement, each piece invites viewers to find their own meaning.

As part of Medway Open Studios & Arts Festival

Medway Open Studios & Art Festival
2026-07-04 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-05 10:00 - 16:00 | Sun Pier House, Medway Street, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4HF
We’re excited to be welcoming you behind the scenes, with 19 our of resident artists opening their studio doors to the public, alongside a brand-new exhibition in the Riverside Gallery.
If you’ve ever wondered what happens on the “other side” of our building, now’s your chance to take a look. Over the next two weeks, pop in for a nosy, explore working studios, see artworks in progress, chat with our artists, and discover the incredible creativity happening behind those private doors.

Now in its 14th year, Medway Open Studios & Arts Festival was founded by our very own Heather Burgess, who grew up in Medway and has always been passionate about championing the area’s creative community.

Today, the festival is run by a dedicated team of Medway-based creatives: Xtina Lamb, Wendy Daws and Matilda Flood.

4th – 19th July 2026, for times please see individual listings for each studio

https://medwayopenstudios.org/…/2026/06/mos-2026-web.pdf
