Exhibitions and Events | The Local Art Scene

Browse through forthcoming events and exhibitions

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What's on This Month : March

Essex

17 January - 12 April 2026

Colchester Art Society at 80

Firstsite | Colchester

London

26 February - 31 August

Tracey Emin : A Second Life

Tate Modern | Southwark

28 February - 19 April

Rose Wylie

Royal Academy of Arts | Piccadilly

12 February - 4 May

Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting

National Portrait Gallery | Covent Garden

25 March - 11 April

Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours | 214th Exhibition

Mall Galleries | Westminster

25 March - 3 May

Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life

Hayward Gallery | Lambeth

30 January - 19 April

Julia Phillips

Barbican | City of London

Until 12 April

Turner and Constable

Tate Britain | Westminster

Until 6 April

Ming Wong: Dance of the sun on the water

National Gallery

27 March - 6 May

Caroline Wong: Girls Who Devour

Saatchi Gallery | Kensington and Chelsea

East Sussex

31 January - 12 April

Gender Stories

Brighton Museum Art Gallery | Brighton

15 October - 12 April 2026

Learning Exhibition: Reimagining the Gallery

Charleston | Lewes

Dorset

31 January – 10 May 2026

People Watching

Dorset Museum Art Gallery | Dorchester

20 March - 4 April

Adilson Naueji: Boscombe Beyond Your Eyes

Boscombe Arts Depot | Bournemouth

Merseyside

Ongoing

Chinese pottery and porcelain

Lady Lever Art Gallery | Wirral

Until 17 October

Vivienne Westwood: Designer in Focus

Walker Art Gallery | Liverpool

Until 6 Sep 2028

Ugo Rondinone: Liverpool Mountain

Tate Liverpool | Liverpool

Hampshire

06 February - 30 May

Spring Greens

Chalk's Gallery | Lymington

14 February - 03 June

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA: Patterns of Power

Arc Winchester | Winchester

20 February – 9 May

Chris Zhongtian Yuan: Wuhan Punk

John Hansard Gallery | Southampton

7 February - 25 April

What is colour?

Gosport Museum & Art Gallery | Gosport

07 March – 31 August

Emma Richardson

Southampton City Art Gallery | Southampton

20 March- 24 May

RAFTS by Alistair Debling

God's House Tower | Southampton

4 March – 2 May

Subject to Disruption, Aspire

Aspex Portsmouth | Portsmouth

Buckinghamshire

14 February - 31 May

Euan Uglow: An Arc from the Eye

MK Gallery | Milton Keynes

Bedfordshire

15 November 2025 - 2 September

Noel Carrington

The Higgins Bedford | Bedford

Cornwall

16 February - 19 May

Magic of Movement: Automata and the Memory Cafe

The Falmouth Art Gallery | Falmouth

06 December - 12 April

Emilija Škarnulytė

Tate St Ives | St Ives

West Midlands

18 February - 31 May

Andy Hollingworth: I photograph comedians!

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | Birmingham

24 January - 4 April

Sarah Al-Sarraj - NAR MARRATU

Eastside Projects | Birmingham

25 March - 06 September

Angela De La Cruz: Upright

Ikon Gallery | Birmingham

Devon

24 January - 31 May

Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy

The Box | Plymouth

Berkshire

27 February - 26 April

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026

The Base | Newbury

Greater Manchester

Until 19 April

Held in the Quiet Light: Briony Jenkins, Stephen Milner and Mike Thorpe

Salford Museum and Art Gallery | Salford

Channel Islands

Until 31 December

Seeing the Light

Jersey Museum and Art Gallery | Jersey

Shropshire

1 March - 31 May

Spring 2026 Exhibition

Ironbridge Fine Arts | Ironbridge

Somerset

14 February – 12 April

Don McCullin 90

Hauser & Wirth Somerset | Bruton

31 March - 24th April

From River to Sea

Ilminster Art Centre

Wiltshire

16 January - 24 April 2026

Group 7

Young Gallery | Salisbury

Worcestershire

17 January - 14 June

John Singer Sargent: an American in Worcestershire

Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum | Worcester

Bristol County

26 March - 17 May

Friends of the RWA Exhibition

RWA Bristol | Bristol

31 October 2025 - 26 April 2026

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025

Bristol Museum Art Gallery | Bristol

Surrey

31 March - 12 April

Flora and Form

The Fountain Gallery | East Molesey

West Sussex

Until 10 May

William Nicholson

Pallant House Gallery | Chichester

Oxfordshire

Until 28 June

Pat Suet-Bik Hui & The Three Perfections

Ashmolean Museum | Oxford

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