Art in Nottinghamshire
Arts Calendar lists 22 exhibitions at 13 venues in Nottinghamshire. Nottingham has the most, with 17.
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
Exhibition
Autumn Colours Exhibition
Nottingham Society of Artists Gallery, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Closes Sat 24 Oct
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
Exhibition
BrightSparks Open Art Exhibition: Fortuity
Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, Leicestershire
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Closes Wed 28 Oct
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Closes Wed 28 Oct
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Closes Fri 30 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
Exhibition
CROWNED: Black Hair, Identity and Adornment
Danum Gallery, Library and Museum, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
Exhibition
Stories of Bassetlaw: Original Works by Christy Burdock
Bassetlaw Museum, Retford, Nottinghamshire
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
Exhibition
Lives in Focus: Photography in Sheffield’s Collection
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
Exhibition
Revolution, Revelation, Reinforcement: Queer Legacies in Sheffield’s Art Collection
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
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Closes Sun 1 Nov
Exhibition
Lincoln Camera Club: Work and Play in Lincolnshire 2025
Usher Gallery, Lincoln, Lincolnshire
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
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Closes Sat 7 Nov
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Closes Sun 8 Nov
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Closes Sun 8 Nov
Exhibition
Echoes of the House: Stories in Light and Motion
Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
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Closes Sat 14 Nov
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Closes Sun 15 Nov
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Closes Thu 19 Nov
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Closes Sat 21 Nov
Exhibition
The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists
Mansfield Museum, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
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Closes Sat 28 Nov
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Until 5 Dec
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Until 12 Dec
Exhibition
Alan Lodge: Common Grounds, Counterculture & Confrontation since 1976
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Until 12 Dec
Exhibition
Bonington Vitrines #31: The Velvet Acronyms, It’s a Wonderful Protest
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Until 24 Dec
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Until 24 Dec
Exhibition
The Ruskin Collection: Storm-Cloud, The Look of the Sky
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 7 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
LagosPhoto: Stories of Movement and Belonging
Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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A Fair Story: A contemporary exploration of travelling Showmen
Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
New Era: Collecting Art Photography since the 1980s
Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
The Flower & The Wall: Byron Mohammad Hamzah
Angear Visitor Centre, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 16 Jan 2027
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Until 16 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Good Morning: A Day in Art by Chantal Joffe & Ishbel Myerscough
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Until 18 Jan 2027
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Until 14 Mar 2027
Exhibition
Jemisha Maadhavji: I Dream From Where You Are
Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, Leicestershire
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Until 21 Mar 2027
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Until 23 Sep 2027
Exhibitions opening soon
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
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Opens Thu 22 Oct
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Opens Fri 23 Oct
Exhibition
The Cat That Slept For A Thousand Years
20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
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Opens Sat 24 Oct
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Opens Tue 27 Oct
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Opens Wed 4 Nov
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Opens Wed 4 Nov
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Opens Fri 6 Nov
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Opens Sat 7 Nov
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Opens Tue 10 Nov
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Opens Tue 10 Nov
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Opens Sat 14 Nov
Exhibition
Alan Carr-Linford: A Retrospective
Danum Gallery, Library and Museum, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
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Opens Sat 14 Nov
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Opens Sat 14 Nov
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Opens Sun 15 Nov
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Opens Sat 21 Nov
Exhibition
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, Derbyshire
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Opens Sat 21 Nov
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Opens Sat 21 Nov
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Opens Tue 24 Nov
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Opens Tue 24 Nov
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Opens Thu 26 Nov
Tuesday 20 October
Born on this day: Aelbert Cuyp (1620), Andrea della Robbia (1435) and Enid Marx (1902)
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Tue 20 Oct 18:00 20:00
Drawing Group
Attenborough Arts Weekly Life Drawing
Attenborough Arts Centre, Studio 4, Leicester, Leicestershire
Friday 23 October
Happy birthday to Maggi Hambling (81 today)
Born on this day: Lygia Clark (1920) and M H Baillie Scott (1865)
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Fri 23 Oct 10:30 12:30
Tuesday 27 October
Born on this day: Lee Krasner (1908) and Roy Lichtenstein (1923)
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Tue 27 Oct 18:00 20:00
Drawing Group
Attenborough Arts Weekly Life Drawing
Attenborough Arts Centre, Studio 4, Leicester, Leicestershire
Friday 30 October
Born on this day: Alfred Sisley (1839) and Angelica Kauffman (1741)
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Fri 30 Oct 10:30 12:30
Tuesday 3 November
Born on this day: Annibale Carracci (1560), Benvenuto Cellini (1500), Elizabeth Thompson (1846) and Walker Evans (1903)
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Tue 3 Nov 18:00 20:00
Drawing Group
Attenborough Arts Weekly Life Drawing
Attenborough Arts Centre, Studio 4, Leicester, Leicestershire
Wednesday 4 November
Born on this day: Guido Reni (1575) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946)
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Wed 4 Nov 18:00 21:00
Friday 6 November
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Fri 6 Nov 10:30 12:30
Saturday 7 November
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Sat 7 Nov 10:30 16:00
Tuesday 10 November
Born on this day: Emmy Bridgwater (1906), Jacob Epstein (1880) and William Hogarth (1697)
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Tue 10 Nov 18:00 20:00
Drawing Group
Attenborough Arts Weekly Life Drawing
Attenborough Arts Centre, Studio 4, Leicester, Leicestershire
Friday 13 November
Born on this day: Simon Carroll (1964)
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Fri 13 Nov 10:30 12:30
Tuesday 17 November
Happy birthday to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (59 today)
Born on this day: August Sander (1876), Bronzino (1503), Isamu Noguchi (1904) and Pierre Mignard (1612)
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Tue 17 Nov 18:00 20:00
Drawing Group
Attenborough Arts Weekly Life Drawing
Attenborough Arts Centre, Studio 4, Leicester, Leicestershire
Friday 20 November
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Fri 20 Nov 10:30 12:30
Tuesday 24 November
Born on this day: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864) and Lynn Chadwick (1914)
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Tue 24 Nov 18:00 20:00
Drawing Group
Attenborough Arts Weekly Life Drawing
Attenborough Arts Centre, Studio 4, Leicester, Leicestershire
Thursday 26 November
Happy birthday to Cristina Mittermeier (60 today) and Kara Walker (57 today)
Born on this day: Félix González-Torres (1957)
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Thu 26 Nov 18:00 20:00
Friday 27 November
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Fri 27 Nov 10:30 12:30
Everything listed in Nottinghamshire
Exhibitions 22
- Inspire Community Open Exhibition 2026
- The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists
- A Fair Story: A contemporary exploration of travelling Showmen
- Alan Lodge: Common Grounds, Counterculture & Confrontation since 1976
- Autumn Colours Exhibition
- Bonington Vitrines #31: The Velvet Acronyms, It’s a Wonderful Protest
- Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien
- Familiar Strangers
- Francisco Tún
- Julia IsÃdrez: Mud is everything
- LagosPhoto: Stories of Movement and Belonging
- Lands of Uncertain Shape
- New Era: Collecting Art Photography since the 1980s
- Quilla Constance: Activating Intersections
- Santiago Mostyn: Natural History (Lessons)
- Sarah Cunningham: Midnight Sun
- Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch the Archive
- The Flower & The Wall: Byron Mohammad Hamzah
- Trish Brown
- Stories of Bassetlaw: Original Works by Christy Burdock
- Coal Mining Stories
- The Harley Open 2026
Towns in Nottinghamshire
- Nottingham (17)
- Worksop (2)
- Beeston (1)
- Mansfield (1)
- Retford (1)
Something in Nottinghamshire we are missing?
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