20 artists from the Gallery’s Collections have been selected by Director Stephen Snoddy, one to represent each year of the first 20 years of The New Art Gallery. They will each tell individual stories about particular moments in the history of the Gallery.   Richard Billingham, Sonia Delaunay, Richard Forster, Lucian Freud, Cameron Galt, Andrew Gifford, […]

We Are 20! To mark this special occasion, we are bringing together works of contemporary art collected over the last 20 years, many from artists who have featured in our exhibitions programme. Works span a wide range of media and scale.   We have selected both international artists as well as those closer to home […]

To coincide with the display of the Garman Ryan collection through 2020, work by Birmingham based artist Sarah Taylor Silverwood will displayed within our Floor 2 temporary exhibition space. This body of drawings is based on text and images abstracted from photographs, letters, and documents relating to the two creators and donors of the Garman […]

Join in online from home with our children’s workshops, devised by our talented artist educators. Suitable for all ages, though preschool children will require assistance from an older child or adult. There will be a new workshop every Wednesday #WednesdayWorkshop We hope you have been enjoying our workshops. We’d appreciate your feedback, so please do […]

INSIGHTS is a new series of films created during lockdown, which aim to provide access to artists for an insight into their particular skills and techniques.     Sarah Taylor Silverwood: ‘Making Hand Books’ Duration 4 minutes   During lockdown Birmingham-based artist Sarah Taylor Silverwood reflected on the process of making Hand Books, an ongoing […]