Exhibitions and Events | The Local Art Scene

Browse through forthcoming events and exhibitions

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What's on This Month : February

Essex

17 January - 12 April 2026

Colchester Art Society at 80

Firstsite | Colchester

Hampshire

17 January – 14 March

Kurt Jackson: Lymington River

St Barbe Museum Art Gallery | Lymington

February 6 - March 14

For Me Being a Woman

Gallery Grounds | Southampton

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

7 January – 22 March

Joanne Lamb: Samhain

Aspex Portsmouth | Portsmouth

Bristol County

20 January - 08 March 2026

Elemental

RWA Bristol | Bristol

31 October 2025 - 26 April 2026

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025

Bristol Museum Art Gallery | Bristol

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

5 February - 23 March

Domestic Relics

Saatchi Gallery | Kensington and Chelsea

Until 22 March

Karimah Ashadu - Tendered

Camden Arts Centre | Camden

Until 29 March

Triple Trouble

Newport Street Gallery | Vauxhall

30 January - 19 April

Julia Phillips

Barbican | City of London

Cornwall

30 January - 21 March

Sarah Woods: A Quiet Landscape

Newlyn Art Gallery | Newlyn

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

East Sussex

31 January - 12 April

Gender Stories

Brighton Museum Art Gallery | Brighton

Until March 15 2026

Sophie Barber

Hastings Contemporary | Hastings

15 October - 12 April 2026

Learning Exhibition: Reimagining the Gallery

Charleston | Lewes

Wiltshire

16 January - 24 April 2026

Group 7

Young Gallery | Salisbury

17 January - 9 March 2026

Inheritance: Painting – A Changed Environment

Messums West | Salisbury

Dorset

31 January – 10 May 2026

People Watching

Dorset Museum Art Gallery | Dorchester

Until 8 March 2026

Artist as Witness: The Impact of War

The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery | 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

Buckinghamshire

14 February - 31 May

Euan Uglow: An Arc from the Eye

MK Gallery | Milton Keynes

Somerset

14 February – 12 April

Don McCullin 90

Hauser & Wirth Somerset | Bruton

Bedfordshire

15 November 2025 - 2 September

Noel Carrington

The Higgins Bedford | Bedford

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

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

Isle of Wight

28 February - 06 April

Our Folktastic Isle

Quay Arts | Newport

Cambridgeshire

Until 1 March

Harold Offeh: Mmm Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet

Kettle's Yard | Cambridge

West Sussex

Until 10 May

William Nicholson

Pallant House Gallery | Chichester

Aberdeenshire

Until 15 March

Works on Paper: Women Artists

Aberdeen Art Gallery | Aberdeen

Greater Manchester

Until 19 April

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

Salford Museum and Art Gallery | Salford

Oxfordshire

Until 28 June

Pat Suet-Bik Hui & The Three Perfections

Ashmolean Museum | Oxford

Channel Islands

Until 31 December

Seeing the Light

Jersey Museum and Art Gallery | Jersey

Ayrshire

Until 8 March

Ayr Sketch Club Annual Exhibition 2026

The Maclaurin Art Gallery | Ayr

Worcestershire

17 January - 14 June

John Singer Sargent: an American in Worcestershire

Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum | Worcester

Cumbria

20 September - 13 March 2026

Simon Starling: Boat Works

Abbot Hall | Kendal

Kent

03 October - 15 March 2026

Simone Leigh: Recent Sculptures

Turner Contemporary | Margate

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