Contemporary Exhibitions
2 February — 6 May 2018

ARTIST ROOMS
Vija Celmins

 To coincide with Wilderness, we are delighted...
Free Admission
Contemporary Exhibitions
2 February — 6 May 2018

Wilderness

 Boyd & Evans, Ralph Fleck, Noémie Goudal, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Esther Johnson, Richard Long, Boomoon, Ben Rivers, Hiraki Sawa,...
Free Admission
Contemporary Exhibitions
1 December 2017 — 21 January 2018

Walsall Society of Artists 68th Annual Exhibition

 The 68th annual exhibition by Walsall Society...
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Contemporary / Floor 3
22 September 2017 — 14 January 2018

Legacies
JMW Turner and contemporary art practice

 JMW Turner, Christopher Le Brun, Cornelia Parker,...
Free Admission
Contemporary / Floor 4
11 August — 19 November 2017

Barbara Nicholls
Sedimentary Flow

 Barbara Nicholls’ monumental watercolour works emerge by...
Free Admission
Contemporary / Floor 1/ Long Gallery
29 July — 24 September 2017

Promiscuous Collaboration
Artist Teacher Scheme 2017

 The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted...
Free Admission
Contemporary / Floor 3
26 May — 3 September 2017

Soheila Sokhanvari
Heart of Glass

 Soheila Sokhanvari is an Iranian-born artist whose...
Free Admission
Contemporary / Floor 3
26 May — 3 September 2017

Rachel Goodyear
Catching Sight

 The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted...
Free Admission
Contemporary / Floor 4
5 May — 30 July 2017

Joanne Masding
Plaster Ghost Finger Cast

 The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted...
Free Admission
Contemporary / Floor 3
3 February — 7 May 2017

Idris Khan
A World Within

 The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted...
Free Admission
Contemporary / Floor 4
3 February — 23 April 2017

Andrew Gillespie
Anti-Scrape

 Andrew Gillespie’s work revolves around the application...
Free Admission
Contemporary / Floor 3
24 September 2016 — 15 January 2017

Eva Rothschild
Alternative to Power

 Eva Rothschild is one of the leading...
Free Admission
Contemporary / Floor 4
5 August — 20 November 2016

Oliver Jones
Divine

 Oliver Jones is known for his photorealist chalk drawings, which consider how the media advertises, manipulates and exploits imagery...
Free Admission
Contemporary / Floor 3
27 May — 4 September 2016

Land, Sea and Air

 Frank Bowling (UK/Guyana) Tiffany Chung (Vietnam/USA) Agnes Denes (USA/Hungary) Shilpa Gupta (India), Amar Kanwar (India) Tania Kovats (UK), Cornelia...
Free Admission
Contemporary / Floor 4
29 April — 24 July 2016

The Humble Vessel

 Throughout history, artists have looked to boats and the sea as subject matter, sometimes romantically, yet oftern addressing issues...
Free Admission
Contemporary / Floor 3
13 May — 31 May 2016

Laura Lancaster

 Laura Lancaster is a painter who draws inspiration from forgotten and discarded photographs and home movies, found in flea...
Free Admission
Contemporary / Floor 3
29 January — 7 May 2016

Jan Vanriet
The Music Boy

 Jan Vanriet is a hugely influential painter...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
13 January — 5 April 2026

ANDI

 Artist residency - ANDI will spend the residency developing new paintings, working at a larger scale for the first...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
15 July — 19 October 2025

Sophie Huckfield

 Residency: Huckfield will document one of the last leather saddle workshops in Walsall.
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
4 February — 29 June 2025

Chantal Pitts

 Artist residency
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
4 June — 17 November 2024

General Public

 General Public will create links with Walsall growing initiatives and community groups.
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
27 February — 5 May 2024

Planet Brill

 This residency will focus on the theme of seasonal eating and food waste
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
11 July — 24 September 2023

Daisy Askins
A collaboration with The Bumblebee Conservation Trust

 Following an open call, West Midlands-based artist...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
17 April — 28 May 2023

Boyana Aleksova

 Boyana will use her residency to explore concepts of rewilding, degrowth and detachment from nature.
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
13 March — 9 April 2023

Joshua Mirabueno
I’m just Joshing you!

 For his residency, Joshua will experiment with...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
23 January — 5 March 2023

West Midlands Open Residency Award
Courtenay Welcome

 Courtenay will spend six weeks focused on...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
3 October 2022 — 8 January 2023

Alex Billingham
Belonging/Disbelonging

 As I'm writing this, we're about a...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
3 October 2022 — 8 January 2023

Belonging / Disbelonging residencies

 The New Art Gallery Walsall and Indus...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
15 August — 18 September 2022

EXPLORERSproject residencies with Project Art Works and Outside In
in collaboration with the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

 We're delighted to announce that Naoibh McNamee...
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Artists' Studio
9 May — 26 June 2022

Sarah Byrne
Homebody

 Sarah Byrne’s work references her experience of growing up in a mixed heritage family and involves a process of...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
7 March — 17 April 2022

Caitlin Doherty
A Public Enquiry

 Caitlin Doherty was the recipient of the...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
4 October 2021 — 30 January 2022

Exodus Crooks
A Tale or Two

 Exodus Crooks residency explores Caribbean tales, more familiarly known as “old wives tales”, using them as a springboard for...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
23 June — 18 September 2021

Daniella Turbin
SP010986

 Wolverhampton based artist Daniella Turbin took up the pursuit of long distance walking out of necessity when she was...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
29 March — 9 May 2021

Corinne – Outside In artist residency

   Corinne’s distinctly dark and evocative self-portraits reflect...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
15 February — 28 March 2021

Outside In artist residency collaboration

 We are delighted to announce that following...
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Artists' Studio
15 February — 28 March 2021

Tess Radcliffe – Outside In artist residency

 Tess Radcliffe is interested in the overlooked...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
30 November 2020 — 10 January 2021

Residency opportunity

 The New Art Gallery Walsall have collaborated with Outside In to offer two remote artist residencies. The 6-week long...
Opportunity
Artists' Studio
1 July — 29 July 2020

The Stay at Home Residency series
Antonio Roberts

 In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, The...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
1 June — 29 June 2020

The Stay at Home Residency series
Faye Claridge

 In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, The...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
1 May — 29 May 2020

The Stay at Home Residency series
Farwa Moledina

   In response to the Coronavirus pandemic,...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
14 January — 5 April 2020

The University of Wolverhampton
School of Art MA Graduate Residencies

 Jack Nelson: 14 January – 23 February...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
16 July — 25 August 2019

Common Ground residency

 Public presentation: Until 25 August Gareth Proskourine-Barnett and Oliver Tirré have been selected for the Common Ground residency which aims...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio/ Floor 1
2 April — 2 June 2019

Andrew Lacon

 Andrew Lacon works with sculpture and imagery to question how materials are understood and valued in different contexts and...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
19 February — 31 March 2019

Tod Jones

 The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to host the second of two 2018 graduates from the MA Fine...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
17 September — 9 December 2018

Lily Wales
Blue Streak

 Working with photomontage, Birmingham-based artist Lily Wales creates 2D and sculptural works that reference the language of military weaponry....
Free Admission
Artists' Studio/ Artists' Projects
25 June — 26 August 2018

Mark Essen
The Building as Material ll

 To mark The New Art Gallery Walsall’s...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio/ Floor 1
20 February — 13 May 2018

Leah Carless
Hidden Processes

 Leah Carless works with sculpture to explore ideas around making and materiality and the emotional qualities we attach to...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio
17 October — 17 December 2017

Adam Grüning
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Free Admission
Artists' Studio/ Floor I
4 July — 22 August 2017

Glasshouse Residency 2

 The New Art Gallery Walsall and Eastside Projects are working in partnership to offer Glasshouse, two opportunities for five...
Free Admission
Artists' Studio/ Floor 1
10 January — 10 March 2017

Steve Evans

 Steve Evans’s work is informed by an interest in architectural detail, geometry and space. His drawings incorporate the techniques...
Free Admission
Regular Event
Sundays throughout the year

SUNDAY ART CLUB

 Our weekly art club for children & young people
Free Admission
Event
5 November 2025 — 3 December 2026

Stitchety Workshops with artist Kate Tilley

 Learn techniques in sewing, knitting, crochet and...
£5 / £4.50
Regular Event
Every second Saturday of the month

Walk and Draw

 Make sketches inside the Gallery and of the local area in these fast-paced and fun workshops.
Free, booking essential
Regular Event
Sunday 24 May 12:00 — 15:00

SUNDAY ART CLUB
Petal Prints

 12-3pm, Ages 4+ Free, drop-in Print colourful patterns using plants and ink pads. Our weekly art club for children...
Free Admission
Event
26 May — 31 May 2026

HALF-TERM
Bird Cage Thaumatropes

 10am-4pm. Free, drop-in. All Ages welcome Trick...
Free Admission
Regular Event
Tuesday 26 May 11:00 — 13:00

MINI MAKERS
Toddler Tea Party

 11am-1pm. Ages 2-5. Drop-in, £4 Use fine motor skills to cut, scrunch and stick colourful paper and tissue to...
Drop-in, £4
Regular Event
Wednesday 27 May 11:00 — 15:00

WEDNESDAYS FOR ALL
Block Houses

 11am-3pm, Ages 4+. Free, drop-in Turn a...
Free Admission
Regular Event
Thursday 28 May 11:00 — 15:00

Young Masters
Slab Pot Houses

 Ages 6+ Workshop 1: 11am-12.30pm Workshop 2: 1.30-3pm £5 per child. Advance booking essential. Numbers limited. Inspired by the...
£5 per child. Advance booking essential
Regular Event
Sunday 31 May 12:00 — 15:00

SUNDAY ART CLUB
Blow Painting

 12-3pm, Ages 4+ Free, drop-in Using tubes and stamps, blow paint across the page to make colourful abstract paintings....
Free Admission
Regular Event
Sunday 7 June 12:00 — 15:00

SUNDAY ART CLUB
Spirit Animal Collage

 12-3pm, Ages 4+ Free, drop-in Experiment with...
Free Admission
Regular Event
Wednesday 10 June 10:30 — 14:00

BABY & ME

 Wednesday 10 June, 10.30am-12.30pm & 12.30-2pm. Ages 0-2, £4 per child. Booking essential. Multi-sensory sessions for parents, carers and...
£4 per child. Booking essential
Regular Event
Sunday 14 June 12:00 — 15:00

SUNDAY ART CLUB
3D Letter Shop Signs

 12-3pm, Ages 4+ Free, drop-in Learn to...
Free Admission
Regular Event
Sunday 21 June 12:00 — 15:00

SUNDAY ART CLUB
Junk Invention

 12-3pm, Ages 4+ Free, drop-in Have fun...
Free Admission
Regular Event
Sunday 28 June 12:00 — 15:00

SUNDAY ART CLUB
Mini Matchbox Suitcases

 12-3pm, Ages 4+ Free, drop-in Pack-up your...
Free Admission
Regular Event
Sunday 5 July 12:00 — 15:00

SUNDAY ART CLUB
Tinted Photographs

 12-3pm, Ages 4+ Free, drop-in Add a...
Free Admission
Regular Event
Wednesday 8 July 10:30 — 14:00

BABY & ME

 Wednesday 8 July, 10.30am-12pm & 12.30-2pm. Ages 0-2, £4 per child. Multi-sensory sessions for parents, carers and their babies....
£4 per child. Booking essential
Regular Event
Sunday 12 July 12:00 — 15:00

SUNDAY ART CLUB
Foil Embossed Patterns

 12-3pm, Ages 4+ Free, drop-in Embossed metal...
Free Admission
Regular Event
Sunday 19 July 12:00 — 15:00

SUNDAY ART CLUB
Draw with Shadows

 12-3pm, Ages 4+ Free, drop-in Play with...
Free Admission