Exhibitions and Events | The Local Art Scene

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What's on This Month : May

London

26 February - 31 August

Tracey Emin : A Second Life

Tate Modern | Southwark

27 March - 6 May

Caroline Wong: Girls Who Devour

Saatchi Gallery | Kensington and Chelsea

12 February - 31 May 2026

Encounters Giacometti x Lynda Benglis

Barbican | City of London

20 March - 1 August 2027

German Expressionism: Modern Painting 1900-1918

National Gallery

26 March - 23 August

Hurvin Anderson

Tate Britain | Westminster

27 March - 21 June

Michaelina Wautier

Royal Academy of Arts | Piccadilly

29 May - 13 September

Jack White: These Thoughts May Disappear

Newport Street Gallery | Vauxhall

5 March - 31 May

Catherine Opie: To Be Seen

National Portrait Gallery | Covent Garden

7 - 19 May

Royal Society of Portrait Painters | Annual Exhibition 2026

Mall Galleries | Westminster

Aberdeenshire

Until 31 December 2028

All Fired Up

Aberdeen Art Gallery | Aberdeen

Dorset

31 January – 10 May 2026

People Watching

Dorset Museum Art Gallery | Dorchester

Merseyside

Ongoing

Chinese pottery and porcelain

Lady Lever Art Gallery | Wirral

Until 17 October

Vivienne Westwood: Designer in Focus

Walker Art Gallery | Liverpool

2 - 4 May

Annual Exhibition 2026

Sefton Art Group | Sefton

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

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

17 April – 15 May

Unsinkable Memories II

Gallery Grounds | Southampton

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

21 January - 18 April

Harry Penhaul: Life Through a Lens

Penlee House Gallery & Museum | Penzance

23 May – 31 October

Caroline Walker: Mothering

Newlyn Art Gallery | Newlyn

West Midlands

18 February - 31 May

Andy Hollingworth: I photograph comedians!

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | Birmingham

25 March - 06 September

Angela De La Cruz: Upright

Ikon Gallery | Birmingham

West Yorkshire

21 April - 11 April 2027

Lines of Enquiry: Drawings from the collection

Leeds Art Gallery | Leeds

Devon

24 January - 31 May

Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy

The Box | Plymouth

1 - 4 May

MIWAS 26

Mark Huntley | Axminster

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

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

West Sussex

Until 10 May

William Nicholson

Pallant House Gallery | Chichester

08 - 10 May 2026

Sussex Art Fair 2026

Sussex Art Fair | Chichester

Oxfordshire

Until 28 June

Pat Suet-Bik Hui & The Three Perfections

Ashmolean Museum | Oxford

Wiltshire

05 April

Art in the Square

Salisbury Art Scene | Salisbury

Lancashire

24 March - 1 June

The Gorgeous Somethings

Naomi Louise Rae B.A.(Hons) P.G Dip, M.Sc. | Lancaster

East Sussex

28 March - 31 May

The Open: Odyssey

Hastings Contemporary | Hastings

Isle of Wight

15 - 25 May 2026

Isle of Wight Open Studios 2026

Isle of Wight Arts

Lothian

30 - 31 May

Forth Bridges Creative Trail

Forth Bridges Creative Trail | Edinburgh

Kent

Until 4 May

Bridget Riley: Learning to See

Turner Contemporary | Margate

What's On