Exhibitions & Events
DO GEESE SEE GOD?
Riverside Studio
London, UK
25 March - 11 May 2025
An intriguing and philosophical palindrome ‘Do Geese See God’ heads a new exhibition by 34 members of the Riverside Artists Group (RAG). Formed at Riverside Studios in the mid-eighties, today RAG is a West London group of professional artists. Both individually and as a group its work impresses and stimulates viewers with a diverse range of images from landscape, both rural and urban, abstract and figurative, to experimental and conceptual works.
Sonia Leimer: Cosmic Dust
The Cosmic House
London, UK
2 October 2024 - 12 September 2025
In response to the themes of The Cosmic House and building on her previous research, Leimer’s new work explores the migratory system of ‘cosmic dust’. While space dust obscures our view into outer space when observed through the telescope, its microscopic image became an important source for scientists to study the formation of our Solar system.
PLATFORM: Bethan Laura Wood
Design Museum
London, UK
14 Feb- 25 Jan 2026
The world of designer Bethan Laura Wood is a sumptuous explosion of colour, pattern and texture. Her vibrant and varied work nods to different cultures and time periods, celebrating individuality and maximalism. Wood is passionate about collaboration and learning from artisans and specialist craftspeople, and her pieces prove that design can be decorative and fun yet functional.
Step into the serene world of Japanese carpentry. This exhibition transports visitors from the living forests that sustain the craft to the celebrated structures it has produced.
For centuries, Japanese master carpenters have developed tools and techniques informed by the extraordinary qualities of wood. They create structures of beauty and complexity – from exquisite joinery to robust architecture that withstands wind, snow and earthquakes.
The Craft of Carpentry celebrates the tools and craftsmanship behind Japan’s temples and shrines. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a life-size reconstruction of the Sa-an teahouse in the temple Daitoku-ji in Kyoto, offering visitors a rare opportunity to experience the intimate elegance of teahouse architecture.
Following the success of Cross Road Blues (2016–2020) which captured still moments of people waiting at crossroads, Kellett continues his exploration of the urban environment with his latest series, Fountains.
In Fountains, Kellett shifts his focus from wide cityscapes to the delicate, often unseen beauty of tiny water droplets propelled into the air by the fountains of Trafalgar Square in London. Having travelled the world for Cross Road Blues, the artist now finds inspiration much closer to home—just steps away from his beloved National Gallery.
This major exhibition celebrates the extraordinary creative output and internationalist culture of the Golden Age of the Mughal Court (about 1560 – 1660) during the reigns of its most famous emperors: Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan.
Tam Joseph (b.1947) is a Dominica-born British painter. Described as a uniquely talented, multidimensional artist by art historian Eddie Chambers, Tam Joseph has contributed a number of memorable paintings that locate themselves at the centre of socio-political commentary, often making work that shocks as it amuses, amuses as it shocks. Typical in this regard are paintings for which Joseph is universally loved and respected, such as 'Spirit of the Carnival' and 'UK School Report'.
The Ben Uri Research Unit (BURU) is honoured to present the exhibition Franciszka Themerson: Stories from the Life, which consists of her paintings and drawings of 1929 during her time as a student at the School of Fine Art in Warsaw, followed by her drawings of 1933, and concluding with examples of her early work in London. This representation focuses only on the rarely seen work from Warsaw. The exhibition and catalogue have been curated by Jasia Reichardt.
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery presents a new exhibition of sculpture by artist and designer Nicole Farhi. Farhi will display 25 cast ciment fondu busts, each hand painted with acrylic paint and depicting victims of miscarriages of justice across multiple countries around the world over the past 125 years. Running from 19 March to 15 June 2025, the exhibition portrays victims whose wrongful convictions have shaped legal history.
The exhibition takes its name from J’Accuse…! — Émile Zola’s famous open letter that exposed the wrongful conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in France in 1898. Inspired by Dreyfus’s case, Farhi has spent the past two years researching and sculpting figures from around the world who have been unjustly accused, from Timothy Evans, whose wrongful execution helped abolish capital punishment in Britain, to Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison before his conviction was overturned in 2023, leading to the resignation of Helen Pitcher, Chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
The Craft of Carpentry:Drawing Life from Japan’s Forests
Japan House
London, UK
12 March – 6 July 2026
Oli Kellett: Fountains
Hackel Bury
London, UK
10 Jun – 31 Aug 2025
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence
V&A South Kensington
London, UK
Until 5 May 2025
Tam Joseph: This Green and Pleasant Land
Felix & Spear
London, UK
20 Mar – 17 May 2025
Franciszka Themerson: Stories from the Life
The Ben Uri Research Unit (BURU)
London, UK
Until 25 May 2025
J’Accuse…! Sculptures by Nicole Farhi
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
London, UK
Until 15 June 2025
FLOWERS – Flora in contemporary art & culture
Saatchi Gallery
London, UK
12 February - 5 May 2025
Flowers have, throughout history, inspired artists, writers and creatives. FLOWERS – FLORA IN CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE seeks to reveal the myriad ways that flowers continue to be depicted by artists and their omnipresence within our contemporary culture. Occupying two floors and over nine major gallery spaces, this exhibition features large-scale installations, original art, photography, fashion, archival objects and graphic design exploring the ongoing influence of flowers on creativity and human expression.
Tarot - Origins & Afterlives
Warburg Institute
London, UK
31 January - 30 April 2025
Tarot cards are everywhere; but where do they come from, and what is at stake in the different forms they have taken? As tools to explore the unconscious, sources of artistic inspiration and emblems of counterculture, tarot decks have served as some of our most powerful shapers of fortune, creativity and even identity.
Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever
The Photography Gallery
London, UK
07 Mar - 15 Jun 2025
Peter Mitchell (b.1943, UK) is widely regarded as one of the most important early colour photographers of the 1970s and 80s. A powerful storyteller and social historian, Mitchell’s photography unfolds a longstanding and poetic connection with Leeds. He has chronicled the people and places, and the demolition and development of the city with warmth and familiarity for over 40 years.
Step into Siena. It’s the beginning of the 14th century in central Italy. A golden moment for art, a catalyst of change. Artists Duccio, Simone Martini and the brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti are forging a new way of painting.
They paint with a drama that no one has seen before. Faces show emotion. Bodies move in space. Stories flow across panels in colourful scenes.
Celebrated across the globe for his powerful portraits with eyes that gaze back at the viewer, and his drawings that engage with daily experiences, Nara is also known for his wood, fibreglass and ceramic sculptures as well as his installations of little houses.
Nara’s work explores themes of resistance, rebellion, isolation, freedom and spirituality. This thematic exhibition reveals enduring influences on the artist’s work, particularly nature and its mythology, the peace movement, the significance of home, and his interest in punk and rock music and popular culture.
Inspired by the collections of the British Library and Leeds Art Gallery, Furnace Fruit, by Leeds-based artist Karanjit Panesar, is a mixed media exhibition centred around new moving image work.
Karanjit Panesar is the recipient of the 2024 Collections in Dialogue co-commission from the British Library and Leeds Art Gallery. The resulting artwork, Furnace Fruit, is based on his research into the Leeds Sculpture Collections at Leeds Art Gallery and the Henry Moore Institute, together with the oral history collections at the British Library and Bradford Industrial Museum – made available thanks to the British Library’s Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project.
Traditionally attributed to Gu Kaizhi (about AD 345–406), it probably dates to between AD 400 and 700. Due to conservation precautions, it can only be displayed for six weeks a year.
The Admonitions Scroll depicts a poetic text composed by an official Zhang Hua (about AD 232–300) aimed at correcting the behaviour of an empress. The Scroll carries inscriptions by later collectors including the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736–1795). The British Museum purchased the Scroll from Captain Clarence Johnson (1870–1937) who was in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901). Originally a handscroll, the painting and later inscriptions were separated and mounted onto panels in 1914.
Tim Burton is the creative force behind some of the most celebrated films of the last four decades, internationally recognised as a master of the comically grotesque and the endearingly misfit.
This major exhibition invites visitors into his world through an exploration of the design of his unique aesthetic. While most well-known for his cinematic work, this show displays the full extent of his production as an illustrator, painter, photographer and author, as well as exploring key collaborations with designers. As a multi-disciplinary artist, his creations extend beyond the limits of mediums and formats.
Quantum science deals with the smallest particles in nature. It is bringing about a revolution in our understanding of the origins of the universe and delivering ground-breaking technology. At the forefront of quantum research are scientists from the University of Nottingham and across the country, whose pioneering work has established both the university and the UK as centres of excellence in this fast-evolving field.
The exhibition features new commissions by nine artists who have each spent time working alongside world-leading researchers in quantum physics. Through immersive sculptural installations and photography, they give expression to the excitement, wonder and poetry of cutting-edge scientific discovery that is transforming our future.
The power of memory and storytelling is central to Lind-Ramos’ work. He creates evocative sculptural assemblages that reflect Puerto Rican historical and contemporary experiences, imbued with the storytelling traditions of his Afro-descendent history and inviting reflections on sustenance and the regenerative power of community. The totemic sculptures incorporate objects found washed up on beaches and mangroves local to his hometown of Loíza, or gifted from friends, family and community members. Items such as kayaks, plant material, burlap sacks, boots and mattress springs, all individually allude to fragmented stories, but when combined they conjure imagery of the artist's home, its communities, customs and land as well as its entanglement with colonial histories and global environmental disaster.
Moon Grove is pleased to present ‘Recent Work’ by Sue and Terry Atkinson, an exhibition that combines drawings and paintings with a prescient relationship to current geopolitical events. Both artists, who are working hard in their mid-80s, have focused on overtly radical subject matter since the 1960s, with the potency of their work becoming stronger over time.
Launching with Matthew Wood’s multisite commission 40 Years of the Future: WINDOWS, Castlefield Gallery Associate and Manchester Open Awardee Kay Shah transformed the lower level of Castlefield Gallery’s Manchester venue into an immersive environment. Shah’s 40 Years of the Future: Degrees of Duality, is a large-scale installation simultaneously operating as a multifunctional space.
Shah’s work delves into the artist’s relationship with culture and identity; the spaces they create are a way to explore bi-cultural identity from an intercultural perspective.
In this vibrant and lively family exhibition, Lowry will be celebrating the work of one of the most popular and successful writers and illustrators of children’s books, Quentin Blake.
Known for his distinctive and whimsical style, Blake has written or illustrated over 500 books, including working with famous authors like Roald Dahl, David Walliams, and Michael Morpurgo. His illustrations have vividly brought to life some of the most beloved characters in children’s fiction, from The BFG to Mr. Stink, captivating the imaginations of readers young and old.
Bahar Noorizadeh is an artist, theorist, writer and filmmaker based in London. Her work explores the histories of neoliberalism, speculation, finance, fiction, credit, value, the weird and the unknown. In Free to Choose, she explores the credit banking system as a time-travelling machine through a story set in Hong Kong that spans decades. Free to Choose is created in collaboration with animator Rudá Babau and the experimental opera group Waste Paper Opera.
Liverpool Mountain is Swiss-artist Ugo Rondinone’s first public artwork in the UK and the first of its kind in Europe. Inspired by naturally occurring Hoodoos (spires or pyramids of rock) and the art of meditative rock balancing, this 10-metre high sculpture stands within Mermaid Courtyard, outside Tate Liverpool on the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool. It consists of coloured rocks, stacked vertically which seem to defy gravity.
This outdoor sculpture marks the 10th anniversary of Liverpool European Capital of Culture, the 20th anniversary of Liverpool Biennial and the 30th anniversary of Tate Liverpool.
Julia Chiang’s working method is meditative and considered, with each work reflecting a period of introspection. Her paintings appear caught in a state of transformation, tracing momentary interactions between different forces, represented by pools of colour, dots and multiple petal-like cells. The latter recall tangible corporeal effects, a sweat tinged brow or the rainbow purple-yellow of a bruised limb, for example, but could equally be related to celestial or microbial bodies. And while Chiang’s focus is bodily or organic, the works remain open. Each one has its own unique weather: Linger Longer, 2024, recalls a lakeside or body of water; Secret Smile, 2024, resembles the red and blue gas clouds of a nebula; and the yellow form in Swallowing Blues, 2024, could be mistaken for a rising sun. The patterning of petal forms and dots evokes contour lines, diagrams illustrating energy flows, or osmosis between watery zones.
Discover the groundbreaking exhibition in partnership with the Fleming Collection, which for the first time showcases the Scottish Colourists in the context of their European contemporaries, interrogating how this international generation of radical painters forged a new language of colour in the early 20th century.
The Scottish Colourists — SJ Peploe, JD Fergusson, GL Hunter, and FCB Cadell — are widely recognised as pioneers of early 20th-century Scottish art. Often exhibited as a quartet, their work will now be shown in the company of key figures such as Matisse and Derain, as well as the Bloomsbury Group’s Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.
Born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1985, Portia Zvavahera is one of the outstanding artists of her generation. She has developed a painting practice that combines a unique combination of techniques – painting, printmaking and batik – to construct a visually beguiling personal cosmology featuring figures, creatures, shapes and shadows that first appear to her in her dreams.
Zvakazarurwa means ‘revelations’ in Shona, the language in which Zvavahera thinks and dreams, and is curated by Tamar Garb, a recognised authority on contemporary art from Africa as well as the work of women artists and feminist aesthetics. Garb has followed Zvavahera’s practice for some years, and made several visits to her studio in the garden of her house in Harare in the course of preparing the exhibition, talking with her about her work and selecting together a sequence of paintings that root the most recent in the evolution of her image making since 2012.
Trace McLean’s humorous and lively six-decade long inquiry into sculpture and revel in his criticisms of the art world from within. Through works made across a range of media – including photography, performance, painting, printmaking, film, and ceramics – this display invites you to challenge your thinking about sculpture and expand your ideas of what it can be.
You’ll also be met with works that reveal McLean’s fascination with every aspect of human behaviour. From the trivial to the outright brash, you’ll encounter gestures, manners, the ‘theatre’ of social interaction, and the style and posturing of those who are intent to impress.
Marking 50 years since Queen Elizabeth II opened the RAF Museum in London on 15 November 1972, our current art exhibition celebrates the occasion with 50 key works from the collection by important 20th century British and European artists.
‘To the Stars’ takes its name from the RAF motto, ‘Per Ardua Ad Astra’, a translation of which is ‘Through Adversity to the Stars’.
Ranging from representations that chart early civil aviation at Hendon and the Royal Flying Corps, to the Second World War and the jet and space age of the Cold War, the exhibition explores artists’ perspectives on the operations and cultures of the RAF as well as on the broader themes of flight, ambition, myth, conflict, and technology.
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 ‒1350
The National Gallery
London, UK
8 March – 22 June 2025
Yoshitomo Nara
Southbank Centre
London, UK
10 Jun – 31 Aug 2025
Karanjit Panesar: Furnace Fruit
Leeds Art Gallery
Leeds, UK
4 October 2024 – 15 June 2025
Admonitions of the instructress to the court ladies
The British Museum
London, UK
14 July – 25 August 2025
The World of Tim Burton
The Design Museum
London, UK
25 October 2024 – 26 May 2025
Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe
Djanogly Gallery
Nottiingham, UK
25 Jan – 27 Apr 2025
Daniel Lind-Ramos: Ensamblajes
Nottingham Contemporary
Nottiingham, UK
2 Feb – 4 May 2025
Sue and Terry Atkinson‘Recent Work’
Moon Grove
Manchester, UK
28 February - 11 April 2025
40 Years of the Future: Degrees of Duality
Castlefield Gallery
Manchester, UK
16 February - 13 April 2025
Modern Life: The LS Lowry
Lowry Gallery
Manchester, UK
19 July - 31 Aug 2025
Bahar Noorizadeh
FACT
Liverpool, UK
21 February — 11 May 2025
Ugo Rondinone: Liverpool Mountain
Mermaid Courtyard
Liverpool, UK
Until 6 September 2028
Julia Chiang‘Secret Smile’
The Modern Institute
Glasgow, UK
24 January —05 March 2025
The Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives
Dovecot Studios
Edinburgh, UK
7 February – 28 June 2025
Portia Zvavahera:Zvakazarurwa
Fruitmarket
Edinburgh, UK
1March – 25 May 2025
Bruce McLean | I Want My Crown
National Galleries Scotland
Edinburgh, UK
until Sun 23 Nov 2025
To the Stars: Illuminating the Art Collection in 50 Works
Royal Air Force Museum
London, UK
15 October 2022 - 28 September 2025