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

NEW ART BLUECOAT
Apr 13 - Jun 23, 2019
Throughout 2019, the Vide space is hosting exhibitions about Bluecoat’s long history as an arts centre, the first in the UK. Formalised in 1927 with the establishment of Bluecoat Society of Arts, this followed two decades of activities organised by a group of artists, the Sandon Studios Society, who had moved into the building in 1907.

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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)

WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
May 18 - Sep 8, 2019
Discover awe-inspiring images capturing the incredible diversity of the natural world, from extraordinary animal behaviour to breathtaking landscapes. Uncover the surprising and sometimes challenging stories behind the photographs

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INFORMATION TO COME
May 6 - Jul 1, 2019

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STILL I RISE : FEMINISMS, GENDER, RESISTANCE, ACT 2
Feb 9 - May 27, 2019 FINAL WEEK
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.

HOW CHICAGO! IMAGISTS 1960S & 70S
Jun 15 - Sep 8, 2019
The first significant exhibition in the UK in almost 40 years of work by the Chicago Imagists.

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YVA JUNG : MONDAY MORNING
May 30 - Jul 12, 2019
Private view Thu May 30 6pm - 8pm
Yva Jung’s exhibition ‘Monday Morning’ commenced in late April with a performance at the Luton Mall, where shoppers and passers-by were offered sculptures - made with morning dew - in exchange for their stories with which Jung will create new works that will form part of her exhibition at Departure Lounge.
Monday Morning, is Jung’s first UK solo exhibition and brings together photographs, video and sculptures The exhibition will conclude on Saturday July 13 (1.00 - 3.00 pm) with a closing party where Jung will present illustrated booklets recording her performance and the stories she has collected. Supported by Arts Council England
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ANTHONY CARO: IRON IN THE SOUL
May 8 - Jul 20, 2019

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MONSTER CHETWYND : HELL MOUTH 3
May 18 - Jul 27, 2019
Monster Chetwynd’s Hell Mouth 3 channels the decline of Western Civilisation and legacies of Heavy Metal. Part of Home of Metal season.

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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.

INFORMATION TO COME
Jun 17 - Jul 1, 2019

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JOHN WONNACOTT : THE ESTUARY
May 4 - Jul 7, 2019
Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the work of British artist John Wonnacott. Having lived and worked from his studio in Southend-on-Sea for over 50 years, Wonnacott’s work captures a unique and introspective view of the changing landscape of the Thames Estuary in this time.

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PREP HE SUMMER SHOW 2019
May 23 - Jun 1, 2019
Private view Wed May 22 6pm - 8pm
The exhibition celebrates the achievements of our Foundation Diploma students.

BA SUMMER SHOWS 2019
Jun 14 - 21, 2019
Private view Thu Jun 13 6pm - 9pm
A celebration of the work and achievements of our 2019 graduating students

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COOKING SECTIONS:THE EMPIRE REMAINS SHOP—BIRMINGHAM FRANCHISE
Jun 14 - Sep 28, 2019
Private view Fri Jun 14 6pm - 8pm
Building on a previous attempt to open an Empire Shop in Birmingham in January 1931, the first franchise of The Empire Remains Shop opens in Junctions Works, the future home of Grand Union in the historical Canal & River Trust Office grade-II listed building in Birmingham, in the heart of the post-post-industrial landscape of Digbeth. Conceived for the renovation period of the building, the Empire Remains Shop will take over the facade and windows to host a range of new commissions and existing works that employ food as a tool to assemble new sites and geographies, while exploring origins, destinations and exchanges across the present and future of our postcolonial planet. Visitors to The Empire Remains Shop—Birmingham can take part in the rolling programme of visual and sound installations facing Fazeley Street, the railway and the canal. The series of works aim to uncover Birmingham’s past and present relationship to Empire through culinary, chemical, cultural and agricultural extractions, inventions and interventions, while exploring other possible futures.

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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.

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UNCONSCIOUS LANDSCAPE. WORKS FROM THE URSULA HAUSER COLLECTION
May 25 - Sep 8, 2019
Private view Fri May 24 6pm - 8pm

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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.

YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE INTERNATIONAL
Jun 22 - Sep 29, 2019
Exploring sculpture in its many forms by international artists, this festival of sculpture across Leeds and Wakefield builds upon Yorkshire’s rich history as the birthplace of pioneering sculptors Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Yorkshire Sculpture International is organised by four world-renowned cultural institutions – the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, The Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park – and will include major new outdoor commissions across both cities.

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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

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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.

THE AERODROME
Jun 12 - Sep 8, 2019
Private view Wed Jun 12 6pm - 8pm
Co-curated with David Austen and George Shaw and structured loosely on Rex Warner’s war-time novel The Aerodrome (1941), a book that made a great impression on Stanley, it includes a wide variety of work and features many of the artists he worked with.

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INFORMATION TO COME
May+June

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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.

INFORMATION TO COME
Jun 10 - Jul 1, 2019

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RESIST: BE MODERN (AGAIN)
May 25 - Aug 17, 2019
Curated by Alice Maude-Roxby and Stefanie Seibold, Resist: be modern (again) explores the practices of women artists, designers and writers of the 1920s and 30s through the work of contemporary artists. These early pioneering women were important groundbreakers for their time, many of their ideas are reverberating until today. Their battles against social conventions and aesthetic dogmas paved the way for today’s understanding of an expanded field of art, as well as for contemporary personal freedoms. Using the lens of contemporary art, theory and design, the exhibition highlights the importance and influence of these long-lost early avant-garde practices into the present.

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FRACTURE PATTERNS
16 June
Private view Sun Jun 16 8pm - 10pm
Experimental pop fantasy with Eartheater and Semiconductor.

DAMIEN GRIFFITHS : LIGHT OBSERVED
Jun 28 - Aug 17, 2019

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OSCAR MURILLO: VIOLENT AMNESIA
Apr 9 - Jun 23, 2019
This exhibition includes painting, installation, sound and live performance, taking place in the galleries, across Kettle’s Yard and in St Peter's Church next door.
 
Oscar Murillo was born in 1986 in Colombia and moved to London with his family when he was ten years old. His practice incorporates a variety of techniques and media including painting, performance, drawing, collaborative works, sculpture and sound, often using recycled materials and fragments collected from his studio.
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