Focal Point Gallery

The gallery is south Essex’s only publicly funded gallery for contemporary visual art. It currently produces up to seven major gallery exhibitions a year. Each programme includes a series of educational activities and aims to establish ongoing collaborations with international arts institutions and a wide range of local community groups. Focal Point Gallery runs Radical ESSEX, a programme partnering with organisations across the county to re-examine Essex in relation to thought, lifestyle, politics and architecture, celebrating the crucial role it played during the twentieth century in the history of British Modernism and its utopian ideologies. The gallery is located on the ground floor of The Forum building in Elmer Square, 100 metres from Southend Central Station. (Trains are every fifteen minutes from London Fenchurch Street, journey time fifty minutes.) Focal Point Gallery is funded by Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and Arts Council England. Gallery opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday 10.00am to 5.00pm, Sunday 11.00am to 4.00pm