The Vulcan Building,
Gunwharf Quays,
Portsmouth
PO1 3BF
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023 9277 8080 [email protected] aspex.org.uk
Wed-Sun 11am-4pm
Open 11am - 4pm on bank holidays
Portsmouth Harbour Station
Sorry I’m Not Sorry, Lauren Joy Kennett
Until Jun 30
Aspex Portsmouth in partnership with Photoworks present Lauren Joy Kennett’s first solo show, an exploration of living with undiagnosed autism.
I Saw You in Blue…, Laxmi Hussain
Until Jul 14
Aspex Portsmouth is pleased to present I Saw You In Blue…, a new exhibition from London-based artist Laxmi Hussain
School Lane,
Liverpool
L1 3BX
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0151 702 5324 [email protected] thebluecoat.org.uk
Wed-Sun 11am-5pm
Lime Street, Liverpool Central
Dahong Hongxuan Wang
Private view May 2
May 3 – Jun 30
Role Model is an exhibition by Dahong Hongxuan Wang as part of our The Lives of Artists season.
Roche Court,
East Winterslow,
Salisbury
SP5 1BG
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01980 862244 [email protected] sculpture.uk.com
Mon-Sun 11am-4pm
Essence
Until Jun 2
A group of work inspired by our history, space, light and sloping landscape surrounding us. Showing Barbara Hepworth, John Hubbard, Ian Stephenson and Edmund de Waal.
Sculpture in the Park
Until Jan 1 2025
An ongoing survey of 20th and 21st-century sculpture situated across parkland and three gallery spaces. Barbara Hepworth, Anthony Caro, Barry Flanagan, Edmund de Waal, Michael Craig-Martin.
133 Cumberland Road,
Bristol
BS1 6UX
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0117 929 2266 [email protected] spikeisland.org.uk
Wed-Sun 12-5pm
Olu Ogunnaike
Final week
Until May 5
A site-specific commission by Olu Ogunnaike transforms Spike Island’s eight-metre-high gallery space to investigate social and historical properties embedded in the materiality of wood.
Young In Hong: Five Acts
Final week
Until May 5
A new commission by Spike Island studio holder Young In Hong.
Mann Island,
Liverpool
L3 1BP
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0151 702 7400 tate.org.uk/visit/tate-liverpool
Mon-Sun 10am-5.30pm
Liverpool ONE bus station
You Get a Car [Everybody Gets a Car]: RESOLVE Collective
Until Jul 14
See an exciting new installation created using material from Tate Liverpool
Porthmeor Beach,
St Ives
TR26 1TG
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01736 796226 [email protected] tate.org.uk
Mon-Sun 10am-5pm
Outi Pieski
Final week
Until May 6
Discover visual artist Outi Pieski’s exploration of identity, culture and environment
Art and Design Gallery,
University of Hertfordshire,
Hatfield
AL10 9AB
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01707 285395 [email protected] uharts.co.uk
Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 11am-3pm
West Bretton,
Wakefield
WF4 4LG
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01924 832631 [email protected] ysp.org.uk
Mon-Sun 10am-6pm
Open daily. Spring/summer opening times are operational from 25 March 2024–29 September 2024.
1 mile from M1 junction 38
Yukihiro Akama: Basho no Kankaku – A Sense of Place
Until Jun 30
Yukihiro Akama: Basho no Kankaku – A Sense of Place will showcase a new collection of beautiful, intricately carved wooden houses and will be the artist’s largest show to date.
Jonathan Baldock: Touch Wood
Until Jul 7
Jonathan Baldock’s exhibition, Touch Wood at The Weston Gallery is a sensory feast that takes inspiration from medieval sculpture, sacred geometry, the seasons and folk motifs.
Damien Hirst
Until Sep 1
Four major sculptures by Damien Hirst in the 18th-century Country Park.
Leilah Babirye: Obumu (Unity)
Until Sep 8
Leilah Babirye’s exhibition Obumu (Unity) features new sculptures made at YSP specifically for this exhibition, largely from materials found onsite.
Yorkshire Artspace: Maker showcase
Until Oct 6
This collaborative exhibition between YSP and Yorkshire Artspace will showcase the work of 17 exceptional makers spanning contemporary ceramics, silversmithing, jewellery and leather work.
Gallery Square,
Walsall
WS2 8LG
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01922 654400 [email protected] thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk
Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-4pm
The World that Belongs to Us
Until Jun 9
Curated by Aziz Sohail with Head of Exhibitions, Deborah Robinson, this exhibition brings together a constellation of intergenerational artists from the South Asian diasporas of the UK, USA and Canada
Sophia-Layla Afsar, Alex Billingham
Until Jun 30
'…as we gathered on the shards of a fallen mirror ball'. Co-curated by Aziz Sohail. New works by Sophia-Layla Afsar (based in Karachi, Pakistan) and Alex Billingham (based in the West Midlands, UK).
Fox Road,
Bourn,
Cambridge
CB23 2TX
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01954 718881 [email protected] wysingartscentre.org
Mon-Fri 9.30am-5.30pm and by appointment
Closed on bank holidays.
The Forum,
Elmer Square,
Southend-on-Sea
SS1 1NS
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01702 534108 [email protected] fpg.org.uk
Wed-Sat 11am-5pm
Southend Victoria, Southend Central
Principal Boy: Maz Murray
Until Jun 15
Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Maz Murray (b. 1995) an artist filmmaker based in London and Basildon. (at Big Screen Southend)
88 Wood St,
Liverpool
L1 4DQ
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0151 707 4444 [email protected] fact.co.uk
Tue-Sun 11am-6pm
Liverpool Central, Liverpool Lime Street
On the other side
Until Jun 2
Melanie Crean, Katrina Palmer and Pilvi Takala consider the impact of systems of control on those who design them, those who administer them, and those who are subject to their enforcement.
Ain Bailey
Until Jul 7
Ain Bailey presents an immersive installation that explores the concept of ‘sonic autobiographies’ through collaboration with imprisoned men and their families at HMP Buckley Hall in Rochdale.
The University of Manchester,
Oxford Road,
Manchester
M15 6ER
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0161 275 7450 [email protected] whitworth.manchester.ac.uk
Tue-Wed 10am-5pm, Thu 10am-9pm, Fri-Sun 10am-5pm
Traces of Displacement
Until May 12
This exhibition uses the Whitworth’s collection to address one of the major humanitarian concerns of the 20th and 21st centuries – forced displacement.
Exchanges
Until Nov 24
A vibrant display of new art and textiles from the Whitworth’s collection.
Shirley Craven
Until May 11 2025
Vivid, colour-filled textiles by post-war designer Shirley Craven (b. 1934)
10b Wensum St,
Tombland,
Norwich
NR3 1HR
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01603 612428 [email protected] norwichoutpost.org
Thu-Sun 12-6pm
OUTPOST at 20
Until Jun 20
Join us with a new exhibition celebrating 20 years as East Anglia’s oldest artist-led space
28 Union Crescent,
Margate
CT9 1NS
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020 7684 8890 [email protected] carlfreedman.com
Wed-Sun 12-6pm. Mon, Tue by appointment.
Studio Lenca: Leave to Remain
Until Jun 16
Recent painting and sculpture by Salvadoran artist Studio Lenca, his debut show for Carl Freedman Gallery.
Arts University Bournemouth,
Wallisdown,
Poole
BH12 5HH
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01202 363272 [email protected] aub.ac.uk/thegallery
Mon-Thu 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-1pm
AUB International Collective exhibition
Opens today
May 2 – May 17
AUB Students’ Union (AUBSU), in partnership with TheGallery and AUB International, present AUB International Collective.
86 Heath Mill Lane,
Birmingham
B9 4AR
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0121 771 1778 [email protected] eastsideprojects.org
Wed-Sat 12-5pm
Birmingham New Street, Birmingham Moor Street
Birmingham Coach Station, Mill Lane, Birmingham B5 6DD
Idols of Mud and Water
Jun 8 – Jul 27
For Idols of Mud and Water, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran will populate Eastside Projects’ second gallery with a melange of exuberant multi-limbed, fertility, protector, joker and warrior figures.
Weekday Cross,
Nottingham
NG1 2GB
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0115 948 9750 [email protected] nottinghamcontemporary.org
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 11am-5pm
Dora Budor
Final week
Until May 5
Dora Budor’s first UK institutional exhibition features a series of newly commissioned works concerned with techniques of the built environment and the forms of psychosocial control induced by it.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Exposure
Final week
Until May 5
A major monographic exhibition by the Los Angeles-based artist, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, bringing together over 40 works in his first institutional presentation in the UK.
Rock-a-Nore Road,
Hastings
TN34 3DW
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01424 728377 [email protected] hastingscontemporary.org
Wed-Sun 11am-5pm
Quentin Blake: A Hundred Portraits
Until Sep 8
This spring, the legendary artist Sir Quentin Blake returns to Hastings Contemporary with an exhibition of one hundred portraits.
Elias Sime: Eregata እርጋታ
Until Sep 8
Experience the extraordinary craftsmanship of one of Ethiopia's leading contemporary artists.
Queen St,
Blackpool
FY1 1PU
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01253 478170 [email protected] thegrundy.org
Tue-Sat 10am-4.30pm
Last entry 4.20pm
Closed Sunday, Monday and Bank Holidays
RA Walden: Object Transformations Through the Coordinate of Time
Until Jun 15
‘Object transformations through the coordinate of time, is a solo exhibition that explores the marking and passing of time through the lived experience lens of disability.
Collection Spotlight: About Time
Until Jun 15
The next in an ongoing series of exhibitions that profile works from the Grundy collection in thematic displays. In this exhibition works have been gathered around the themes of time.
West Dean,
Chichester
PO18 0QZ
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01243 818300 [email protected] westdean.ac.uk/
West Dean Summer Show 2024
Private view Jun 28
Jun 29 – Jul 5
The hugely-popular West Dean Summer Show will be open to the public from 29 June – 5 July 2024, 10am-5pm.
The Headrow,
Leeds
LS1 3AA
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0113 378 5350 [email protected] museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/leeds-art-gallery
Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-3pm
New Sculpture Acquisitions
Until Jul 28
Display of recent sculpture acquisitions featuring Claire Barclay, Phyllida Barlow, Andrew Bick, John Carter, Jesse Darling, Norman Dilworth and Charles Hewlings.
'An Axis of Abstraction': Art in Cornwall and Yorkshire - Then and Now
Until Mar 30 2025
Exhibition featuring works from our collection by artists including Emii Alrai, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Barbara Hepworth, Peter Lanyon, Marlow Moss, Henry Moore, Ro Robertson and Veronica Ryan.
Unit 30, Irwell House,
East Philip St,
Salford
M3 2LE
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07595 397861 [email protected] divisionoflabour.co.uk
3 Adelaide Crescent,
Hove
BN3 2JD
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+44 20 7729 4112 [email protected] maureenpaley.com
Sat-Sun 12-6pm
Studio K.O.S.: Where we have gone
Until Jun 16
Trumpington Street,
Cambridge
CB2 1RB
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+44 1223 333230 [email protected] fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm
Cambridge (approx. 20 mins walk)
William Blake’s Universe
Until May 19
Discover William Blake’s universe and a constellation of European artists seeking spirituality in their lives and art in response to war, revolution and political turbulence.
71 Eyre Lane,
Sheffield
S1 4RB
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0779 152 8277 blocprojects.co.uk
Wed-Sat 12-6pm
Chris Alton & Emily Simpson: Grief must be Love with Nowhere to Go
Final week
Until May 4
A collaborative exhibition of socially engaged work exploring the inadequacy of the English language to express and support bereavement.
The Box,
Tavistock Place,
Plymouth
PL4 8AX
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01752 304774 [email protected] theboxplymouth.com
Tue-Sun 10am-5pm
The Box is open from 10am-5pm on Easter, May and August Bank Holidays.
It's closed on the Christmas and New Year Bank Holidays.
The Cottonian Research Room is available by appointment Tuesday to Saturday.
All stops to Royal Parade, Coburg Street and Drake Circus
Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now
Until Jun 2
This major exhibition explores how the traditions of South Asian miniature paintings have been reinvented by modern and contemporary artists.
John Akomfrah: Arcadia
Until Jun 2
The UK première of a new multi-screen film by artist John Akomfrah. 'Arcadia' is about the settling of the 'New World' and the invisible forces that are always at play regardless of human ambition.
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA: End of Empire
Until Jun 23
This large-scale sculpture comments on the balance of power at the outset of the First World War, making a striking visual connection between the conflicts of the West, globalisation and empire.
Planet Ocean
Until Feb 23 2025
Immerse yourselves in an exhibition that explores pivotal moments in our past and present relationship with the sea.
Manaccan, Helston,
Cornwall
TR12 6HU
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01326 231811 [email protected] kestlebarton.co.uk
Tue-Sun 10.30am-5pm
Nina Royle: And so, the magpies multiply
Until Jun 9
74 The Headrow,
Leeds
LS1 3AH
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0113 246 7467 [email protected] henry-moore.org/henry-moore-institute
Tue-Sun 10am-5pm
[Sculpture Research Library open Mon-Fri 10:00–17:00; Archive of Sculptors’ Papers open Tue-Fri by prior appointment.]
Leeds Station (500m / 0.3 miles walk)
Hany Armanious: Stone Soup
Private view Jul 11
Jul 12 – Nov 3
The Henry Moore Institute will reopen after refurbishment with an exhibition of work by Hany Armanious, one of Australia’s leading sculptors.
7 Moon Grove,
Manchester
M14 5HE
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07713 930510 [email protected] moongrove.org
Thu-Fri 12-6pm
Dean Hughes: Felt Tip Drawings
Private view May 30
May 31 – Jul 26
New work by the Manchester born artist, who specialises in scrambling and recoding familiar ready-made objects and ephemera, this time by working into cut sheets of A4 paper with felt tip pen.
Chobham Road,
Woking, Surrey
GU21 4AA
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01483 737800 [email protected] thelightbox.org.uk
Tue-Sat 10.30am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm
The Vanity of Small Differences by Grayson Perry
Until Jul 7
Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry’s The Vanity of Small Differences is on display for the first time in Surrey and tells the story of Tim Rakewell, embarking on a journey of social mobility.
Kofi Perry: Remnants From a Distant Future
Until Jul 21
2023 Ingram Prize winner Kofi Perry presents a solo exhibition of his recent work.
Great Pulteney Street,
Bath
BA2 4DB
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01225 388569 [email protected] holburne.org
Mon-Sun 10am-5pm
Henry Moore in Miniature
May 3 – Sep 8
A survey of Moore’s sculptural output from his earliest works through to his last years, in which nothing is more than 30cm in size.
Newlyn Art Gallery,
New Road,
Newlyn
TR18 5PZ
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01736 363715 [email protected] newlynartgallery.co.uk
Tue-Sat 10am-4pm
WINTER TUE – SAT, 10.00 – 16.00
SUMMER DAILY, 10.00 – 17.00
Sophie Harding
Just opened
Until Jun 8
The Picture Room, Newlyn Art Gallery
OPEN: TUE - SAT,10.00 - 16.00
CLOSED: SUN & MON
King’s Lynn,
Norfolk
PE31 6UE
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+44 1485 528569 [email protected] houghtonhall.com
Wed-Thu 12-4pm, Sun 12-4pm
Antony Gormley: Time Horizon
Until Oct 31
Antony Gormley’s most spectacular large-scale installations shown across the grounds and through the house at Houghton Hall, Norfolk.
New Cut,
Halesworth, Suffolk
IP19 8BY
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01986 873285 [email protected] thecut.org.uk
Tue-Sat 10am-4pm
Richard Pinkney: no red tram at the CUT 1958 - 2024
Until May 25
A retrospective exhibition of graphic, pictorial, serial, digital and mixed media work by Suffolk born and bred artist Richard Pinkney.
University of East Anglia,
Norfolk Road,
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
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01603 593199 [email protected] sainsburycentre.ac.uk
Tue-Sun 9am-6pm
Jeffrey Gibson: no simple word for time
Until Aug 4
In his first solo exhibition at a UK museum, American artist Jeffrey Gibson (b.1972) will create a new site-specific installation for the Sainsbury Centre.
In Event of Moon Disaster
Until Aug 4
Using AI to tell an alternative history, this show brings to light how an event as influential as the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing could be manipulated, and how doubt can be cast on well-known of facts
99 Victoria Rd,
Cliftonville,
Margate
CT9 1RD
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traceyeminfoundation.com
Sat-Sun 12-4pm
We Do Not Sleep
Until May 19
An exhibition by artists at TKE Studios:
Layla Andrews, Elissa Cray, Tracey Emin, Laura Footes, Joline Kwakkenbos, Gabriela Max, Lindsey Mendick, Vanessa Raw, Mercedes Workman
