CRAFTED FUTURES
Apr 3 - Jun 23, 2019
Crafted Futures is a showcase of local and international makers who are harnessing technology as a means of creative production, redefining craft for the modern age.
The exhibition comprises cross disciplinary and innovative works from Olufolake Ayeyemi (Portsmouth, United Kingdom) Eve Balashova (Murmansk, Russia), Taekyeom Lee (Boone, USA) and George Akerman (Portsmouth, United Kingdom).

MAGGIE ROBERTS : UNCANNY VALLEY, DIFFICULT KIN
Apr 5 - Jun 23, 2019
We are delighted to present Uncanny Valley, Difficult Kin, a new exhibition from artist Maggie Roberts (aka Mer) - winner of our biennial international open submission competition, EMERGENCY (2016).

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SERENA KORDA : THE BELL TREE
Sep 8, 2018 - Jul 28, 2019
Bluecoat is delighted to be working with artist Serena Korda and Trust New Art, the National Trust’s programme connecting people to places through contemporary art.
Serena Korda works across performance, sound and sculpture to find and highlight ritual in the everyday, which is developed through encounters, conversations and the researching of abandoned histories.
Set in Speke Hall’s ancient woodlands and grounds, The Bell Tree draws on the hall’s hidden history. Korda reconsiders aspects of communion and tradition, including underexplored feminist narratives or ‘herstories’ and alternative histories of folklore and witchcraft. The public commission is at Speke Hall, with a smaller element installed in Bluecoat's garden.
Speke Hall is free to visit with a National Trust Membership.

SERENA KORDA: UNDER THE ROSE
Mar 13 - Jul 28, 2019
Under the Rose is a new sound installation made for Speke Hall’s courtyard, inspired by the acoustics of secrecy.

SURVEY
Apr 13 - Jun 23, 2019
In April, Bluecoat will host Survey, a major study of new work by early career artists from
across the UK. The exhibition is the largest review of contemporary art practice in Jerwood
Visual Art’s 12 years of programming, spanning a breadth of disciplines including film,
performance and painting. 15 artists have been nominated by 35 established and mid-career artists, including Chris Alton, Simeon Barclay, Hazel Brill, Flo Brooks, Emma Cousin, Joe Fletcher Orr, Tom Goddard, Ashley Holmes, Lindsey Mendick, Nicole Morris, Milly Peck, Anna Raczynski, Will Sheridan Jr, Rae-Yen Song and Frank Wasser

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QUEER LOOKS
30 June 2018 to Summer 2019
This fascinating display of outfits and oral histories from LGBTQ individuals from Sussex, from the 1950s to the present day, looks at how individuals construct identities, both personal and collective, through dress.
Local LGBTQ communities have informed the content of this display, including the comedian Zoe Lyons, journalist Sophie Cook and trans campaigner Fox Fisher.

TOM HAMMICK : DREAMS AND VOYAGES
Jan 29 - Jul 30, 2019
A display of prints by artist Tom Hammick recently acquired for the Royal Pavilion & Museums’ collections. These exquisitely coloured woodcuts and etchings are very personal interpretations of several operas inspired by a visual arts residency at the English National Opera in London during 2015-16.

STEPHEN JONES HATS AT THE ROYAL PAVILION
Feb 7 - Jun 9, 2019
(at The Royal Pavilion)

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ALLISTAIR COVELL : CANVAS TO CARPET
Feb 8 - May 5, 2019
An exhibition focusing on Covell's colourful synaesthesia influenced abstract paintings and iPad drawings, which have inspired a series

THE ICKNIELD WAY PROJECT
Feb 8 - May 5, 2019
The Icknield Way is considered to be one of the oldest roads in Great Britain, tracing a path across the chalk uplands from Dorset to Norfolk. Along this route it crosses fields in Ickleford before passing through the residential and industrial areas of Letchworth. The Icknield Way Project was developed by artist Karen Picton to showcase works that embody the physical nature of this ancient roadway as it becomes progressively more unknown and lost amongst the materials of the world’s first garden city.

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STILL I RISE : FEMINISMS, GENDER, RESISTANCE, ACT 2
Feb 9 - May 27, 2019
Still I Rise is a timely exhibition exploring the history of resistance and alternative forms of living from the perspective of gender. This major group exhibition looks at the many forms resistance can take: from intimate acts to large-scale uprisings, from the late 19th century to the present and beyond.

HAYV KAHRAMAN : DISPLACED CHOREOGRAPHIES
Feb 9 - Jun 2, 2019
Hayv Kahraman’s solo exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion will be the artist’s first in a UK public gallery. Her work explores her experience of living between Western and Middle Eastern cultures: having fled Iraq with her family aged 11 during the first Gulf War as part of the Kurdish mass exodus, the artist migrated to Europe and now lives in the USA. A female figure recurs in her work, representing shared histories between women – particularly women of colour – and building on personal histories of migration.

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DICK JEWELL - 'PAUSE, POISE, POSE' YVA JUNG - STORY EXCHANGE PROJECT
Apr 4 - Jul 12, 2019
Dick Jewell 04.04 -18.05.19: Photographic conjectures on classical portraiture.
Yva Jung - 30.05 - 12.07.19: Trading Lutonians’ stories for her sculptures
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THE RANGE
Jan 26 - Apr 27, 2019 FINAL WEEK
New works by Hashim Ali, Ain Bailey, Beverley Bennett, Adam Farah, Seema Mattu and Zarina Muhammad, curated by Rehana Zaman.

FREYA DOOLEY : SOMEWHERE IN THE CROWD THERE'S YOU
Mar 2 - Apr 27, 2019 FINAL WEEK
We are working with Freya as she develops a multi-channel sound installation, incorporating moving image, activated with live performance which will oscillate in and out of control of broken narratives, individual and grouped voices: the solo and the chorus.

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ERICKA BECKMAN AND MARIANNA SIMNETT
Mar 29 - Jun 16, 2019
Featuring two artists who use technology and tropes of fairytale storytelling to create artworks that are at once alluring and repelling, sensual and troubling.

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DAZZLE & THE ART OF DEFENCE
Feb 18 - Apr 25, 2019 FINAL WEEK
This exhibition explores the work of the WWI & WWII Dazzle camouflage artists led by Norman Wilkinson and the roles of the artist and designer during wartime.

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TINA DEMPSEY : JOY
Jan 19 - Apr 27, 2019 FINAL WEEK

ON REPEAT
Mar 23 - Jun 22, 2019
Group exhibition: Louise Giovanelli, Vivian Greven, Will Kendrick, Oliver Laric, Guan Xiao, plus works from the Grundy Art Gallery Collection and the Lytham St Anne’s Art Collection.

DRAMA, DREAMS AND VISIONS
Mar 23 - Jun 22, 2019

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CATHERINE GOODMAN : EVE
Jan 19 - May 6, 2019
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by London and Somerset based artist Catherine Goodman. Goodman was artist-in-residence at Hauser & Wirth Somerset from January to May 2018 and many of the works in the exhibition were made during her residency.

MATTHEW DAY JACKSON : PATHETIC FALLACY
Jan 19 - May 6, 2019
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is pleased to present, ‘Pathetic Fallacy’, an exhibition by Matthew Day Jackson. The exhibition consists of works conceived during his time as artist-in-residence at the gallery in Somerset since August 2018, and is presented in a range of mediums, including: painting, drawing, sculpture, furniture, and installation.

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MODERN NATURE : BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE HYMAN COLLECTION
Jul 13, 2018 - Jun 2, 2019
The Hyman Collection is the private collection of Claire and James Hyman. The Collection seeks to support and promote British photography through acquisitions, loans and education. In 2015 britishphotography.org was launched to provide online access to British photographs in the collection and as a learning resource to increase international awareness of British photography.

SCHOOL PRINTS
Jan 19 - Jun 2, 2019

MAGDALENE ODUNDO : THE JOURNEY OF THINGS
Feb 16 - Jun 2, 2019
Kenyan-born Magdalene Odundo OBE is one of the world’s most esteemed ceramic artists. This major exhibition will bring together more than 50 of Odundo’s vessels alongside a large selection of historic and contemporary objects which she has curated to reveal the vast range of references from around the globe that have informed the development of her unique work.

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NEW GEOGRAPHIES
Mar 1 - Dec 1, 2019
An Arts Council England funded project creating a new map of the East of England based on personal thoughts, reflections and stories.
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BARBARA HEPWORTH: ARTIST IN SOCIETY
Mar 23 - Sep 8, 2019

FORM AND FLUX
Apr 30 - May 11, 2019

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HEW LOCKE: HERE'S THE THING
Mar 8 - Jun 2, 2019
This will be the most comprehensive exhibition to date of work by Hew Locke, involving a wide range of media – painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation – making extensive use of collage and found objects.

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QUENTIN BLAKE : DEDICATED READERS
Jan 12 - Jun 2, 2019
Sir Quentin Blake (b. 1932) has created an ongoing series of exhibitions for Jerwood Gallery featuring weird and wonderful creations and characters, all brought to life in his distinctive style. This latest series of work celebrates Blake’s love of reading and the important role that literature has played in his life and artistic career. Blake says: 'A lot of my work has been in books, and in fact reading books is the only thing in which I have a qualification! It is interesting to me to see the many different ways in which people do it.’

JERWOOD COLLECTION : 2019
Jan 22 - Jun 2, 2019
The upstairs at Jerwood Gallery is displaying a fantastic selection from the Jerwood Collection. Bringing colour and vibrancy to January, with old favourites and new, the current Jerwood Collection hang is a true celebration of Contemporary and Modern Painting.

JOHN CARTER : SIGHT LINES
Mar 30 - Jun 9, 2019
John Carter: Sight Lines is the first survey held in the UK of renowned Royal Academician and will cover the artist's work over the past 50 years. Carter is best known for his abstract sculptures and his dynamic combination of painting and sculpture.

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STEFAN GEC : THE SHEPHERD'S WHISTLE
Feb 16 - Apr 27, 2019 FINAL WEEK
'The Shepherd's Whistle' comprises the discovery of strategic cities in the UK, created during the Cold War by Soviet Intelligence. Artist Stefan Gec travelled sections of these routes on a reconditioned M-72 Soviet army motorcycle and sidecar from 1972.
The exhibition includes documentary footage of this journey, and the work calls upon current issues around identity and migration.

ANYA LEWIN: MORE THAN STORIES: A FILM TRILOGY
Feb 16 - May 4, 2019
More than Stories is a trilogy of films inspired by Anya Lewin’s family photographs and stories, and their interconnections with screen history and public archives. Each film has at its heart the haunted memories of Jewish life embedded in a particular story passed down to Lewin by her father.

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