Art in Merseyside
Arts Calendar lists 32 exhibitions at 16 venues in Merseyside. Liverpool has the most, with 15.
Exhibitions on these days
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Opens Thu 3 Dec
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Opens Sat 5 Dec
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Closes Wed 2 Dec
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Closes Fri 4 Dec
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Closes Sun 6 Dec
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Closes Sun 6 Dec
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Closes Sun 13 Dec
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Closes Sun 13 Dec
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Closes Sun 13 Dec
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Closes Sun 13 Dec
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Closes Fri 18 Dec
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Closes Fri 18 Dec
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Closes Sat 19 Dec
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Closes Sat 19 Dec
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Closes Sat 19 Dec
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Closes Sun 20 Dec
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Closes Sun 20 Dec
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Closes Sun 20 Dec
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Closes Sun 20 Dec
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Closes Sun 20 Dec
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Closes Wed 23 Dec
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Closes Thu 24 Dec
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Closes Thu 31 Dec
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Until 3 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven
The Whitworth, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 5 Jan 2027
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Until 9 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Printmakers in Focus: Dela Anderson & Jasmine Violet
Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Denbighshire
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 24 Jan 2027
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Until 30 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Making a Mark: Artworks from the Studio Prints Collection
Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool, Merseyside
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Until 30 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Select Omissions and New Acquisitions
Fylde Gallery at Lytham Hall, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Supermedium: Kelan Andrews and Petra Szemán
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Until 6 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Echoes of the Floating World: Japanese Prints
Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, Merseyside
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Until 7 Feb 2027
Exhibition
The Theatrics of Nature: Jessica Brodigan
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, Greater Manchester
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Until 14 Feb 2027
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Until 14 Feb 2027
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Until 20 Feb 2027
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Until 20 Feb 2027
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Until 20 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Witches & Healers: something that was ours
The Portico Library, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Until 27 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Taking Centre Stage: Female Artists in The Atkinson’s Collection
The Atkinson, Southport, Merseyside
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Until 27 Feb 2027
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Until 27 Feb 2027
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Until 28 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Memory Keepers by Yan Wang Preston
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, Greater Manchester
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Until 4 Apr 2027
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Until 4 Apr 2027
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Until 17 Apr 2027
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Until 16 May 2027
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Until 29 Aug 2027
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Until 29 Aug 2027
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Until 13 Feb 2028
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Until 7 May 2028
Tuesday 1 December
Born on this day: Charles F. Tunnicliffe (1901)
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Tue 1 Dec 19:30 21:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Plus Tuesdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Thursday 3 December
Born on this day: Frederic Leighton (1830) and Victor Pasmore (1908)
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Thu 3 Dec 19:30 21:45
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Manchester Thursdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Saturday 5 December
Born on this day: Alexander Rodchenko (1891) and David Bomberg (1890)
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Sat 5 Dec 10:30 13:00
Workshop
Atmospheric Landscape in Oil and Cold Wax: Morning Session
Manchester Craft and Design Centre, Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Sat 5 Dec 14:30 17:00
Workshop
Atmospheric Landscape in Oil and Cold Wax: Afternoon Session
Manchester Craft and Design Centre, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Monday 7 December
Born on this day: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598) and Stuart Davis (1892)
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Mon 7 Dec 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Ancoats
Creative Art Courses, AWOL Studios, Hope Mill, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Tuesday 8 December
Happy birthday to Cai Guo-Qiang (69 today)
Born on this day: Adolph Menzel (1815), Aristide Maillol (1861), Camille Claudel (1864), Diego Rivera (1886), Lucian Freud (1922) and Wifredo Lam (1902)
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Tue 8 Dec 19:30 21:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Plus Tuesdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Thursday 10 December
Happy birthday to Barbara Rae (83 today), Gillian Wearing (63 today) and Runa Islam (56 today)
Born on this day: John Clerk of Eldin (1728) and Leon Kossoff (1926)
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Thu 10 Dec 19:30 21:45
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Manchester Thursdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Monday 14 December
Happy birthday to Taysir Batniji (60 today)
Born on this day: Alberto Morrocco (1917), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824) and Roger Fry (1866)
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Mon 14 Dec 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Ancoats
Creative Art Courses, AWOL Studios, Hope Mill, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Tuesday 15 December
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Tue 15 Dec 19:30 21:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Plus Tuesdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Wednesday 16 December
Happy birthday to Ed Ruscha (89 today)
Born on this day: Remedios Varo (1908) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866)
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Wed 16 Dec 18:00 20:00
Drawing Group
Salford Museum Life Drawing Late
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, Greater Manchester
Thursday 17 December
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Thu 17 Dec 19:30 21:45
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Manchester Thursdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Monday 21 December
Born on this day: Masaccio (1401) and Winifred Nicholson (1893)
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Mon 21 Dec 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Ancoats
Creative Art Courses, AWOL Studios, Hope Mill, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Tuesday 22 December
Born on this day: Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960) and John Crome (1768)
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Tue 22 Dec 19:30 21:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Plus Tuesdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Thursday 24 December
Born on this day: Ad Reinhardt (1913), Carol McNicoll (1943), Joseph Cornell (1903) and Pierre Soulages (1919)
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Thu 24 Dec 19:30 21:45
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Manchester Thursdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Monday 28 December
Born on this day: Vladimir Tatlin (1885)
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Mon 28 Dec 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Ancoats
Creative Art Courses, AWOL Studios, Hope Mill, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Tuesday 29 December
Born on this day: David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896) and Elizabeth Forbes (1859)
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Tue 29 Dec 19:30 21:30
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Plus Tuesdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Thursday 31 December
Born on this day: David Foggie (1878) and Henri Matisse (1869)
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Thu 31 Dec 19:30 21:45
Drawing Group
Life Drawing Manchester Thursdays
Studio Bee, above The Peer Hat, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Everything listed in Merseyside
Exhibitions 32
- Beyond the Brotherhood: The Legacies of the Pre-Raphaelites
- Echoes of the Floating World: Japanese Prints
- Guest Artist: Kerry Dunning
- Leonard McComb: Nature & Humanity
- Marc Davenant: REBELLION!
- Comfort Work
- Becky Beasley: A Gentle Man (Part II) (1975-2029)
- Big Data; Networked Narratives: Decentring Collection Histories with Data from the John Moores Painting Prize
- BRB
- Fractured Landscapes and How We Heal
- Made from Scratch: Celebrating Julia Carter Preston, Ceramicist
- Making a Mark: Artworks from the Studio Prints Collection
- New Faces, New Focus: Stories We Share
- Next Up 2026
- NOWHERE
- Pomp & Circumstance by LR Vandy
- Rae-Yen Song: TUA MAK
- Seema Mattu: Local Superstar II
- St Brigid’s Arms
- Vivienne Westwood: Designer in Focus
- Wide-Angle View
- May Morris: Crafting a Legacy
- ARTIST ROOMS: Gilbert & George
- Brian & George Fell: Always Something New
- New Faces, New Focus: Stories We Share
- Taking Centre Stage: Female Artists in The Atkinson’s Collection
- The Landing: Southport Palette Club, By Invitation
- A Cabinet of Curiosities
- The British Glass Biennale 2026
- Imagined Places
- LAKE Gallery Open 2026
- Time and Tide
Towns in Merseyside
- Liverpool (15)
- Birkenhead (5)
- Southport (5)
- West Kirby (3)
- St Helens (2)
- Kirkby (1)
- Port Sunlight (1)
Something in Merseyside we are missing?
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