After 6am, Visual art

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John Wood & Paul Harrison: 10 x 10

Contemporary single screen and video installation works created by the duo, who have been working collaboratively since 1993. Their practice investigates the relationship between the human figure and architecture.

Stroud Valleys Artspace

Sun 19 May

Free / 01453 751440

  • 11:00 – 18:00

Jupiter Artland

The celebrated outdoor sculpture park opens its doors for the fourth summer season with works on show by Anya Gallacio, Andy Goldsworthy, Henry Castle, Antony Gormley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Charles Jencks, Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker and others.

Jupiter Artland, Wilkieston

Sat 25 May

£8.50 (ages 6–16 £4.50; Family £23.50–£31.50; Seniors £6; Students £4.50; under 6s & disabled badge holders free) / 01506 889900

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sun 26 May

£8.50 (ages 6–16 £4.50; Family £23.50–£31.50; Seniors £6; Students £4.50; under 6s & disabled badge holders free) / 01506 889900

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Thu 30 May

£8.50 (ages 6–16 £4.50; Family £23.50–£31.50; Seniors £6; Students £4.50; under 6s & disabled badge holders free) / 01506 889900

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 63 more dates until 15 Sep

Keith Medley: Double Take

Photographic portraits made between 1964 and 1968, selected from an archive of 20,000 images documenting Merseyside life throughout the mid-to-late-20th century.

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Sun 19 May

Free / 0151 242 1133

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Mon 20 May

Free / 0151 242 1133

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Tue 21 May

Free / 0151 242 1133

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 117 more dates until 15 Sep

The Kemp Town Carnival 2013

The Kemp Town Carnival is one of Brighton’s longest running and largest community street festivals.You will find a wonderfully diverse selection of entertainment including live music, street theatre, creative workshops, arts and crafts, the grand custard pie fight and much much more! A family friendly event (i.e. suitable…

St George's Church, Brighton

Sat 1 Jun

Free / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Ken Currie

Ken Currie is one of Scotland's most outstanding figurative painters, perhaps best known for his haunting portrait Three Oncologists. In this major exhibition of new work, he further explores the idea of portraiture and its significance in the modern world.

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Sat 20 Jul

Free / 0131 624 6200

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sun 21 Jul

Free / 0131 624 6200

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Mon 22 Jul

Free / 0131 624 6200

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 62 more dates until 22 Sep back to top

Lynn Ahrens: Liberation

Paintings drawing on mythical and intuitive sources.

Art's Complex, Edinburgh

Sun 19 May

Free / 0131 661 1924

  • 11:00 – 18:00

Mon 20 May

Free / 0131 661 1924

  • 11:00 – 18:00

Tue 21 May

Free / 0131 661 1924

  • 11:00 – 18:00
…and 5 more dates until 26 May

Manet: Portraying Life

An exhibition of more than 50 works, including masterpieces like Music in the Tuileries, Olympia, Luncheon on the Grass and The Railway. Hosted by Tim Marlow with expert guests and featuring behind-the-scenes footage and a biography of Manet and 19th century Paris.

Stamford Arts Centre

Tue 21 May

01780 763203

  • 20:00

Mia Nelle Drøschler: DreamEscape

Art imagining a world without the presence of human life.

The Danish Cultural Institute, Edinburgh

Mon 20 May

Free / 0131 225 7189

  • 10:00 – 16:00

Tue 21 May

Free / 0131 225 7189

  • 10:00 – 16:00

Wed 22 May

Free / 0131 225 7189

  • 10:00 – 16:00
…and 21 more dates until 27 Jun

Middlestone Moor Primary School: Art Project

Contemporary works created by local school children in a variety of styles, genre and media.

Spennymoor Town Hall

Sat 8 Jun

Staircase

Free

  • 10:00 – 14:00

Mon 10 Jun

Staircase

Free

  • 12:00 – 16:00

Tue 11 Jun

Staircase

Free

  • 12:00 – 16:00
…and 28 more dates until 13 Jul

Naoko Miyazaki

Works on paper created by the award-winning Japanese artist.

Artsdepot, London N12

Sun 19 May

Apthorp Gallery

Free / 020 8369 5454

  • 10:00 – 16:00

Mon 20 May

Apthorp Gallery

Free / 020 8369 5454

  • 10:00 – 16:00

Tue 21 May

Apthorp Gallery

Free / 020 8369 5454

  • 10:00 – 16:00
…and 54 more dates until 14 Jul back to top

Nina Beier

Work by the Danish artist, who is concerned with time and mortality. Previous works include Tragedy, in which dog-owning members of the public were invited to get their dogs to play dead, and The Blues, consisting of faded photographs of haircut models from a Copenhagen salon.

Glasgow Sculpture Studios

Sat 13 Jul

Free / 0141 353 3708

  • 11:00 – 17:00

Wed 17 Jul

Free / 0141 353 3708

  • 11:00 – 17:00

Thu 18 Jul

Free / 0141 353 3708

  • 11:00 – 17:00
…and 30 more dates until 7 Sep

North Park Primary School Art Project Work

Contemporary works by a variety of local primary school children in a variety of media.

Spennymoor Town Hall

Mon 20 May

Free

  • 12:00 – 16:00

Tue 21 May

Free

  • 12:00 – 16:00

Wed 22 May

Free

  • 12:00 – 16:00
…and 3 more dates until 25 May

Order Of Change

A dynamic mix of contemporary works created by four artists responding to their understanding of the world around them. Including works by Irene Marot, Christina Reading, Stephanie Kirk and Valerie Everitt.

Hop Gallery, Lewes

Sun 19 May

Free / 01273 709709

  • 11:00 – 17:00

Tue 21 May

Free / 01273 709709

  • 10:30 – 17:00

Wed 22 May

Free / 01273 709709

  • 10:30 – 17:00

Thu 23 May

Free / 01273 709709

  • 10:30 – 17:00

Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary

Drawings, paintings, films, installations, textiles, sculpture and performances exploring the globalisation of culture and its effect on the modern psyche, by artists including Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, Doug Fishbone and Martin Creed.

The Public, West Bromwich

Sun 19 May

Free / 0121 533 7161

  • 11:00 – 15:00

Wed 22 May

Free / 0121 533 7161

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Thu 23 May

Free / 0121 533 7161

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 93 more dates until 29 Sep

Our Autonomous Nature II

More than 30 artists from variety of genres present works on the themes of man, nature and new landscape.

Testbed1, London SW11

Wed 22 May

Free

  • 09:00 – 20:00

Thu 23 May

Free

  • 09:00 – 20:00

Fri 24 May

Free

  • 09:00 – 20:00
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Our Street

What's it like living on your street? Show and tell in a comic strip you design and draw yourself. Ages 8+.

People's Palace & Winter Gardens, Glasgow

Sat 1 Jun

Free / 0141 276 0788

  • 14:00 – 15:30

Out of the Shadow: Women of Nineteenth Century Scotland

An exhibition looking at how women were depicted (not to mention which women were depicted) in the visual arts between the late 18th and early 20th centuries, from Newhaven fishwife Elizabeth Hall to ruler of the British Empire Queen Victoria. Also Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780–1872), an exceptionally intelligent science…

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Sun 19 May

Free / 0131 624 6200

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Mon 20 May

Free / 0131 624 6200

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Tue 21 May

Free / 0131 624 6200

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 224 more dates until 31 Dec

Paint The Garden: Workshop

Take inspiration from Belton's picturesque gardens and recreate them in either paint, pastel, pencil or crayon.

National Trust: Belton House, Grantham

Sun 26 May

Free, plus admission £11.60, child £7.50, family £31.60 / 01476 566116

  • 11:00 – 16:00

Sun 30 Jun

Free, plus admission £11.60, child £7.50, family £31.60 / 01476 566116

  • 11:00 – 16:00

Sun 25 Aug

Free, plus admission £11.60, child £7.50, family £31.60 / 01476 566116

  • 11:00 – 16:00

Sun 29 Sep

Free, plus admission £11.60, child £7.50, family £31.60 / 01476 566116

  • 11:00 – 16:00

Photographic Workshop

Improve your wildlife photography skills by taking pictures of the varied animals around the zoo, with advice and support from James Neale.

Banham Zoo

Sun 16 Jun

£99 per person / 01953 887771

  • 10:30 – 15:30

Sun 21 Jul

£99 per person / 01953 887771

  • 10:30 – 15:30

Sun 15 Sep

£99 per person / 01953 887771

  • 10:30 – 15:30

Sun 13 Oct

£99 per person / 01953 887771

  • 10:30 – 15:30

PixelAge

Showcase for digital media work including illustration, concept art, graphic design, motion graphics, time based media/video, 3D modelling and 2D animation, by Edinburgh College HND2 Computer Art & Design students.

Art's Complex, Edinburgh

Sat 1 Jun

Free / 0131 661 1924

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sun 2 Jun

Free / 0131 661 1924

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Mon 3 Jun

Free / 0131 661 1924

  • 10:00 – 17:00
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Playing for Scotland: The Making of Modern Sport

A major new exhibition examining the way sport was transformed by wider social and infrastructural changes between the 19th and 20th centuries. Check out the fabulously suspicious scowl of the gentleman on the poster; whoever he played for, he looks like he was a sore loser.

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Sun 19 May

Free / 0131 624 6200

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Mon 20 May

Free / 0131 624 6200

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Tue 21 May

Free / 0131 624 6200

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 589 more dates until 31 Dec 2014

Llanover Hall Arts Centre, Cardiff

Thu 23 May

£8 ( £6; Children £5) / 029 2063 1144

  • 13:00 – 15:00

Thu 30 May

£8 ( £6; Children £5) / 029 2063 1144

  • 13:00 – 15:00

Thu 6 Jun

£8 ( £6; Children £5) / 029 2063 1144

  • 13:00 – 15:00
…and 7 more dates until 25 Jul

Radical Figures: Post-war British Figurative Painting

In the post-war period of surrealism, abstraction and pop art a school of artists pioneered the reinvention of figurative art. The display explores the work of The London School featuring works by Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud and David Hockney.

Manchester Art Gallery

Sun 19 May

Free / 0161 235 8888

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Mon 20 May

Free / 0161 235 8888

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Tue 21 May

Free / 0161 235 8888

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 299 more dates until 16 Mar 2014

Ruth Nicol: Tributary

Landscapes by Scottish artist.

RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow

Thu 20 Jun

Free / 0141 248 6386

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Fri 21 Jun

Free / 0141 248 6386

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sat 22 Jun

Free / 0141 248 6386

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 12 more dates until 6 Jul

Saatchi Online - Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill Presents Burning Bright

A group show featuring art by emerging artists including Daisy Clark, Kazuya Tsuji and Chantal Powell, derived from Saatchi Online. The art works are available for purchase.

Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill, W1H

Sun 19 May

Free / 020 7486 5800

  • 09:00 – 18:00
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