Discover the first major retrospective of the visionary British artist and designer, whose enchanting and original works will finally receive public recognition.
Join us for a summer evening of art, creative workshops, live performances, a pop-up bar and much more inspired by Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons.
Create an ever-lasting floral bouquet from hand-dyed linen. Learn how to prepare and use natural dyes.
Join artist Ailsa Munro for this one-day course which will guide you through experiments with different forms of collage.
Join Neal's Yard Remedies and Earthchild remedies, for an evening of wellbeing and natural stress management.
Led by Heritage Cheese’s resident curd nerd and wine expert, we will be tasting five cheeses matched with five wines. Expect anecdotes, titbits, and laughter!
Learn to make your own beaded jewellery using freshwater pearls.
Join us for a dazzling new adaptation of Thackeray’s tale of greed, ambition, love and betrayal that will transport audiences from Regency salons and ballrooms to the battlefield of Waterloo!
Join James Russell, curator of Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious for an inspiring introduction to the exhibition.
Join Jane Findlay, curator of Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons for an inspiring online introduction to the exhibition.
Explore storytelling through art and play, collaborate, create and play together.
Playful painting for little creatives under 5, with new themes each month to keep them engaged.
Spark your child’s imagination through interactive storytelling.
Spark your child’s imagination through interactive storytelling.
In line with the LFA2025 theme, Voices, we invite Families to collaborate in fun, family friendly participatory creative art and play sessions with an aim of amplifying and capturing diverse perspectives and experimenting with fresh ideas for transforming local spaces.
In these free creative workshops you'll experiment with materials and techniques to create drama and atmosphere while being the master of your own story.
Get inspired to make art together as a family in these free monthly creative activities in the Art Studio.
A sculptural composition in five parts, whose shapes evoke sea creatures and underwater plant life.
Material (SG) IV captures the idea of harnessing the wind, freezing it in time.
Carved from glacial erratic boulders by the British sculptor Peter Randall-Page, Walking the Dog I, II & III is situated permanently in the Gardens for everyone to enjoy. The sculpture was commissioned in celebration of the Gallery’s bicentenary in 2011 with support from the Art Fund and was our first piece of major contemporary sculpture.
Our dementia friendly Creative Conversation sessions invite you to take notice, be curious and discuss.
This BSL talk led by John Wilson will look at highlights from our Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons exhibition.
Dr Monika Hinkel, curator of Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking gives an inspiring online introduction to the exhibition.