Exhibitions

This exhibition showcases the role that fashion plays in defining culture. These portraits have been captured by some of the world’s most celebrated fashion photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Norman Parkinson and Miles Aldridge. The subjects are all style icons over the last hundred years including The Beatles, Twiggy and Lily Cole. Fashion...

The exhibition considers the role of the artist by exploring images of Royal Academicians past and present which are going on display from the collection of the Royal Academy. The works show how artists have sought either to reveal or disguise their identities, in both cases controlling how their image is presented. From the founding...

This exhibition represents a unique opportunity to see masterpieces from Kenwood House featuring six by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88), including two of his most iconic paintings, Mary, Countess Howe (c. 1764) and Lady Brisco (c. 1776). This exciting exhibition also includes work by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–92), George Romney (1734–1802), Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807), Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695–1736)...

Katherine Jones is a contemporary printmaker and painter who brings together complex narratives based on literary influences and natural forms. Using a wide range of techniques, her rich and layered surfaces often reflect ideas about safety and danger, with archetypal motifs of domesticity and nature. Elected as an RA in 2022, Jones is a widely...

Gainsborough’s House is partnering with Stanley Spencer Gallery to present a major exhibition of the works of one of England’s greatest twentieth-century painters, Sir Stanley Spencer (1891–1959). The exhibition will include major loans from Tate, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, and other public lenders, as well as rarely-seen works from private collections. Stanley...

Humphrey Ocean (b. 1951), Home, brings together paintings and drawings, spanning three decades, inspired by familiar but unassuming motifs that help define modern places. He has long been concerned with the detail of design within his own lifetime: the horizontal window, road signs, cars, concrete, a bungalow, all the human and haphazard incident that has...

Hannah Brown (b. 1977) is a contemporary artist based in east London whose work centres on the psychology of the English landscape. She tends to focus on quiet, overlooked corners of terrain that she knows intimately, which are often either hemmed in by urban development or are about to be developed. An exhibition of her...

2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Suffolk-born artist John Constable (1776–1837). To celebrate, this exhibition explores the emergence of the tradition of landscape painting in Britain through three of its greatest exponents. Key works include Gainsborough’s idyllic scene, Landscape with Cattle, a Young Man Courting a Milkmaid (early 1770s), which has...

Land, Sky, Light features fifteen of David Dawson’s (b. 1960) recent large-scale paintings of his native countryside in Montgomeryshire, Wales, painted en plein air. Painted outdoors during each season of the year, the artist then continues to work on them in his London studio before completing them back in the Welsh countryside, taking several years...

Suffolk-born and Norfolk residing artist Kate Giles (b. 1962) creates expressive work rooted in her native landscape, specifically drawing on the legacy of John Constable.  This exhibition primarily showcases new paintings and drawings, several of which explicitly refer to Constable’s six-footer of the Suffolk landscape, The Leaping Horse, which will be on display as part...