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Exhibitions and Shows

You will find here information on talks, exhibitions shows. If you have any information you would like to see included, please contact us. Please note these aren't necessarily in date order!

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What's on at the National Gallery

Fashion & Textile Museum, London SE1 3XF

Haegue Yang: Leap Year Until 5 Jan 2025 Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London

Stitched: Scotland's Embroidered Art 25 October 2024 – 18 January 2025 
North Gallery & South Gallery, Dovecot Studio, Edinburgh 

The Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery Exhibition 2024 Rosenfeld Gallery, 37 Rathbone Street, London, W1T 1NZ 14th November 2024, 10am - 4pm

Starry Night Retreat - A Van Gough garden

What's on at the National Gallery

28 November 2024 – 1 June 2025

Irish Writers' Weekend 22-24 November 2024 

The Irish Writers’ Weekend returns to the British Library, celebrating the rich literary heritage, global acclaim and growing diversity of Irish writing. 

What else is on at the British Library?

Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300 ‒1350 8 March – 22 June 2025 
Ground Floor Galleries National Gallery

Discover Constable & The Hay Wain Until 2 February 2025 
The Sunley Room National Gallery

The Hands-on Craft Show 9th November, Rayleigh Mill Arts Centre

The 80s - Photographing Britain. Tate Britain 21 November 2024 – 5 May 2025

3 October 2024 – 9 March 2025, Tate Modern

9 November 2024 - 16 February 2025 The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, Royal Academy, Burlington Gardens

Stitched: Scotland's Embroidered Art 25 October - 18 January
Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh

Michael Craig-Martin Retrospective 21 September - 10 December 2024
Royal Academy of Arts Main Galleries, Burlington House

A 12-Meter-High Wedding Cake by Joana Vasconcelos in Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury

Sculpture in the City  across the City of London until Summer 2025

Sculpture in the Park - Compton Verney

Medieval Women: In Their Own Words - The British Library 

25 October 2024 – 2 March 2025

A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang - The British Library 
27 September 2024 – 23 February 2025

Tales of Textiles: The RSN Collection in Focus - RSN Embroidery Studios, Hampton Court Pa

Bharti Kher: Alchemies

Until 27 April 2025 at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton

The Art of the Brick: An Exhibition of LEGO® Art  The Boiler House, 152 Brick Lane, London E1 6RU

NAOMI IN FASHION: Explore the unequalled career of the iconic fashion model. V&A South Kensington

From 10 July to 8 December 2024 at the Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Ealing Green, London W5 5EQ

Silk Roads Starts 26th September British Museum. The exhibition will explore how the journeys of people, objects and ideas that formed the Silk Roads dramatically shaped cultures 

Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers National Gallery 14 September 2024 – 19 January 2025

Judging a Book by its Cover - Online exhibition by The Grolier Club in New York

Zara’s approach to art is deeply personal and reflective. Working primarily with fibre and mixed media, she creates art that captures the rhythmic flow of her thoughts, often materialising as landscapes viewed from her window