For this major exhibition, British/Argentinean artist Amalia Pica explores the material culture of bureaucracy. Pica repurposes materials and motifs such as shredded paper, rubber stamps, office furniture and stationery to produce works that parody and subvert the bureaucratic systems.   The artist’s personal experience of obtaining British citizenship and the wider context surrounding the UK’s exit from the European […]

Too Rich a Soil brings together photographers, Arpita Shah, Maryam Wahid and Nilupa Yasmin whose practices are rooted in the exploration of cultural identity.   Through making work about and in collaboration with their families and communities, these artists celebrate the rich and varied roles of women in society. This exhibition provides an opportunity to […]

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 […]

Jack Nelson: 14 January – 23 February 2020 Sarah Byrne: 25 February – 5 April 2020     Sarah Byrne, Chinese Burns, 2019 (detail), thermal print, installation view The New Art Gallery Walsall. Photo: Mark Hinton   Jack Nelson, The Elysian Platinum Fields Project, 2019 (detail), mixed media, installation view The New Art Gallery Walsall. […]

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 […]