Lightbulb moments
From 11 September 2025
This exhibition explores the origins of some of the city’s most remarkable discoveries, innovations, and insights, and invites visitors to reflect on what makes ideas possible in the first place.
Independents Biennial - Claire Beerjeraz
7 June - 14 September 2025
Claire Beerjeraz examines the lasting impacts of colonialism and slavery and how these histories are displayed, contained, and remembered in institutional settings.
Rising Darkness
7 June - 14 September 2025
In the exhibition Rising Darkness, artist Brigitte Jurack presents a suite of stark, large drawings, objects, books, writing and the design for a new floor mosaic.
All That Remains: a curator's choice
17 May – 20 September 2025
Our departing curator, Dr Amanda Draper, selects some of her favourite paintings from the University’s collection that she has not exhibited before.
Seeing Green
Ongoing
This display of paintings invites viewers to consider the colour green. Associations differ around the globe and through history, but in modern Britain green tends to be linked to nature and environmental issues.
Play of Light – A display of darkness and illumination
Ongoing
Using the play of light against darkness to add drama and mood has been a feature of art since the Renaissance. This small display shows a variety of ways the technique was applied by British artists of the late Georgian and Victorian eras.