What’s on: exhibitions, open studios and art events
Today
Happy birthday to Pierre Alechinsky (99 today)
Born on this day: Umberto Boccioni (1882)
Exhibitions on these days
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Opens Tue 8 Dec
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Closes Thu 10 Dec
Exhibition
Iris Murdoch Amongst the Artists
University of Chichester Library, Bishop Otter Campus, Chichester, West Sussex
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Closes Thu 10 Dec
Exhibition
The Hedgerow Project
Borderland Visual Arts Gallery Oswestry Library, Oswestry, Shropshire
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Closes Thu 10 Dec
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Closes Fri 11 Dec
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Closes Fri 11 Dec
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Closes Fri 11 Dec
Exhibition
Zoe Maxwell: Came and Gone Before
Leeds Arts University Vernon Street Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Closes Sat 12 Dec
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Closes Sat 12 Dec
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Closes Sat 12 Dec
Exhibition
Alan Lodge: Common Grounds, Counterculture & Confrontation since 1976
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Closes Sat 12 Dec
Exhibition
Bonington Vitrines #31: The Velvet Acronyms, It’s a Wonderful Protest
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Closes Sat 12 Dec
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Closes Sun 13 Dec
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Closes Sun 13 Dec
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Closes Sun 13 Dec
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Closes Sun 13 Dec
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Closes Sun 13 Dec
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Until 15 Dec
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Until 16 Dec
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Until 16 Dec
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Until 17 Dec
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Until 18 Dec
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Until 18 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
Exhibition
Pleasurable Painting Group Exhibition
Caistor Arts and Heritage Centre, Caistor, Lincolnshire
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
Exhibition
FUAM 2026: The Friends of University Art and Music Graduate Art Prize
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 20 Dec
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Until 20 Dec
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Until 20 Dec
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Until 22 Dec
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Until 22 Dec
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Until 22 Dec
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Until 22 Dec
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Until 23 Dec
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Until 23 Dec
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Until 23 Dec
Exhibition
Hartlepool Art Club 79th Annual Exhibition
Hartlepool Art Gallery, Hartlepool, County Durham
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
Exhibition
The Ruskin Collection: Storm-Cloud, The Look of the Sky
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Until 27 Dec
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Until 31 Dec
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Until 31 Dec
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Until 31 Dec
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Until 31 Dec
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Until 31 Dec
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Until 31 Dec
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Until 31 Dec
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Until 31 Dec
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Until 1 Jan 2027
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Until 2 Jan 2027
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Until 2 Jan 2027
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Until 2 Jan 2027
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Until 2 Jan 2027
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Until 2 Jan 2027
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Until 2 Jan 2027
Exhibition
For A Time: Sanctuary Seekers in North Devon
Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon, Barnstaple, Devon
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Until 2 Jan 2027
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Until 2 Jan 2027
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Until 2 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Circus of Curiosities: An Exhibition of Moving Marvels
American Museum & Gardens, Bath, Somerset
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Reading the Room: Domestic Interiors in Art
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
Exhibition
West Wight Portraits of a Landscape
Dimbola Museum & Galleries, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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The Art of Looking: from Dutch Masters to Modern Britain
The Wilson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven
The Whitworth, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Worcester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition 2026
Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, Worcester, Worcestershire
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Between the Lines
Burton Constable Stables Community Gallery, Sproatley, East Riding of Yorkshire
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Until 3 Jan 2027
Exhibition
This Place We Share
Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre Muriel Baker Gallery, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 4 Jan 2027
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Until 7 Jan 2027
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Until 9 Jan 2027
Exhibition
The Art of the Newlyn School: Paintings from The Bowerman Collection
Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance, Cornwall
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Until 9 Jan 2027
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Until 9 Jan 2027
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Until 9 Jan 2027
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Until 9 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Alan Carr-Linford: A Retrospective
Danum Gallery, Library and Museum, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
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Until 9 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Ancient Landscape, Modern Times: Eric Ravilious and the Artists of the Chalk Downs
The Holburne Museum, Bath, Somerset
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Picturing Place: Three Carlisle Artists: Bushby, Bough, Blacklock
Tullie, Carlisle, Cumbria
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, West Midlands
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Coventry Biennial Presents: A Display of John Riddy’s Modernist Spaces
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, West Midlands
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers
Coventry University Delia Derbyshire Building, Coventry, West Midlands
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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‘Some Steel’: Sculpture and Steel in Britain, 1960-90
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Ebb & Flow: Bookworks by Yoko Terauchi from the Research Library
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Sustain: from the past, for the future
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
LagosPhoto: Stories of Movement and Belonging
Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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A Fair Story: A contemporary exploration of travelling Showmen
Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
New Era: Collecting Art Photography since the 1980s
Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
The Flower & The Wall: Byron Mohammad Hamzah
Angear Visitor Centre, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific
V&A South Kensington, London, Greater London
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Until 11 Jan 2027
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Until 15 Jan 2027
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Until 16 Jan 2027
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Until 16 Jan 2027
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Until 16 Jan 2027
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Until 16 Jan 2027
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Until 16 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Sven Berlin: Disturbance in the West (1934-1970)
St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire
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Until 16 Jan 2027
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Until 16 Jan 2027
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Until 16 Jan 2027
Exhibition
The Potter’s Canvas: Ceramics and Painting in the 20th Century
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
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Until 16 Jan 2027
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Until 16 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Spotlight: Washington Open Exhibition 2026
Arts Centre Washington, Washington, Tyne and Wear
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Until 16 Jan 2027
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Until 16 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Audrey Amiss: Kitchen Sink Realism
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
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Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Good Morning: A Day in Art by Chantal Joffe & Ishbel Myerscough
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 18 Jan 2027
Exhibition
And So I Watch You From Afar and The Most Beautiful Anthropocene
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, East Sussex
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Until 19 Jan 2027
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Until 22 Jan 2027
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Until 23 Jan 2027
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Until 23 Jan 2027
Exhibition
David Steans: Paperhouse
Leeds Arts University Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Until 24 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Michael Agnew: A Real Kind of Fiction
The Gallery at Linlithgow Burgh Halls, Linlithgow, West Lothian
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Until 24 Jan 2027
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Until 24 Jan 2027
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Until 24 Jan 2027
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Until 24 Jan 2027
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Until 24 Jan 2027
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Until 30 Jan 2027
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Until 30 Jan 2027
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Until 30 Jan 2027
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Until 30 Jan 2027
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Until 30 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Making a Mark: Artworks from the Studio Prints Collection
Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool, Merseyside
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Until 30 Jan 2027
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Until 30 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
Exhibition
The Anthony Ansell Modern Art Collection
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, Northampton, Northamptonshire
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 6 Feb 2027
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Until 6 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Echoes of the Floating World: Japanese Prints
Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, Merseyside
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Until 7 Feb 2027
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Until 7 Feb 2027
Exhibition
The Theatrics of Nature: Jessica Brodigan
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, Greater Manchester
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Until 7 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation
National Gallery, London, Greater London
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Until 8 Feb 2027
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Until 8 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Bridget and Crispian Beattie: 2026 Collection
Shaftesbury Arts Centre Gallery, Shaftesbury, Dorset
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Until 12 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026
TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth, Poole, Dorset
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Until 13 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Seiko Kinoshita: Distant: Shared Memories of Home
The Art House, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Until 13 Feb 2027
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Until 14 Feb 2027
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Until 14 Feb 2027
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Until 14 Feb 2027
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Until 16 Feb 2027
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Until 20 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Drawing Together: The Bath Academy of Art at Corsham
Chippenham Museum, Chippenham, Wiltshire
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Until 20 Feb 2027
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Until 20 Feb 2027
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Until 20 Feb 2027
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Until 20 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Witches & Healers: something that was ours
The Portico Library, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Until 20 Feb 2027
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Until 20 Feb 2027
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Until 21 Feb 2027
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Until 21 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM), Exeter, Devon
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Until 21 Feb 2027
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Until 21 Feb 2027
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Until 21 Feb 2027
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Art Then! British Painting, Sculpture and Drawing, 1910-1960
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, Hampshire
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Until 21 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Ornament Unbound: Tissue Transferware Reframed
Museum of Royal Worcester, Worcester, Worcestershire
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Until 21 Feb 2027
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Until 21 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, Derbyshire
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Until 21 Feb 2027
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Until 26 Feb 2027
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Until 27 Feb 2027
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Until 27 Feb 2027
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Until 27 Feb 2027
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Until 27 Feb 2027
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Until 27 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Taking Centre Stage: Female Artists in The Atkinson’s Collection
The Atkinson, Southport, Merseyside
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Until 27 Feb 2027
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Until 27 Feb 2027
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Restless Objects: Migration, Memory and Survival in the Afterlives of Empire
Gallery Oldham, Oldham, Greater Manchester
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 28 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Memory Keepers by Yan Wang Preston
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, Greater Manchester
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 28 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Vibration Calibration: Black Country Type & Claire Buckerfield
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands
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Until 28 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Angela Harding: A Chronicle of Birds and Beasts
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 6 Mar 2027
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Until 6 Mar 2027
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Until 7 Mar 2027
Exhibition
Sisters, Brothers, Others: Nationality and 20th-Century Chinese Art
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Oxfordshire
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Until 7 Mar 2027
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Until 7 Mar 2027
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Until 7 Mar 2027
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Until 14 Mar 2027
Exhibition
Impressions of Light: Masterpieces from MuMa Le Havre and The Bowes Museum
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
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Until 20 Mar 2027
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Until 21 Mar 2027
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Until 21 Mar 2027
Exhibition
The Biba Look: Photography and Fashion
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, East Sussex
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Until 21 Mar 2027
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Until 21 Mar 2027
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Until 28 Mar 2027
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Until 29 Mar 2027
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Until 31 Mar 2027
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Until 4 Apr 2027
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Until 4 Apr 2027
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Until 10 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
Exhibition
Edo Women: Japanese Prints 1820 to 1900
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
Exhibition
Charmaine Watkiss: The things we hold sacred
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands
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Until 11 Apr 2027
Exhibition
Lace & Legacy: Fashion Treasures from The Blackborne Collection
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 17 Apr 2027
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Until 18 Apr 2027
Exhibition
From the Collection: Architecture
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, Northampton, Northamptonshire
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Until 25 Apr 2027
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Until 25 Apr 2027
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Until 30 Apr 2027
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Until 1 May 2027
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Until 1 May 2027
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Until 3 May 2027
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Until 3 May 2027
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Until 3 May 2027
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Until 9 May 2027
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Until 16 May 2027
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Until 16 May 2027
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Until 23 May 2027
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Until 23 May 2027
Exhibition
Face Value: Contemporary Portraits from the Collections
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands
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Until 1 Jun 2027
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Until 6 Jun 2027
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Until 13 Jun 2027
Exhibition
Ashmolean NOW: Garry Fabian Miller: Between the Moon and the Hawthorn
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Oxfordshire
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Until 26 Jun 2027
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Until 27 Jun 2027
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Until 9 Jul 2027
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Until 11 Jul 2027
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Until 29 Aug 2027
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Until 29 Aug 2027
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Until 29 Aug 2027
Exhibition
Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Until 5 Sep 2027
Exhibition
What’s in Store? The Harrogate Fine Art Collection Revealed
Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
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Until 10 Sep 2027
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Until 19 Sep 2027
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Until 19 Sep 2027
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Until 26 Sep 2027
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Until 26 Sep 2027
Exhibition
Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts
V&A South Kensington, London, Greater London
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Until 10 Oct 2027
Exhibition
Charmaine Watkiss: From the ones who came before…
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM), Exeter, Devon
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Until 31 Dec 2027
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Until 13 Feb 2028
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Until 7 May 2028
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Until 21 Oct 2029