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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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



