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What’s On for Art

Find out about art exhibitions, events, and workshops across all our venues.
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What's On?

Join us for a programme of workshops, talks and exhibitions. Open to everyone!

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Trapdoor to a Fantastical County Durham

Trapdoor to a Fantastical County Durham presents a fantastical world of monsters, shapeshifting as physical sculptures, Augmented Reality (AR) creatures and as inhabitants of a 3D digital world.

Trapdoor to a Fantastical County Durham presents a fantastical world of monsters, shapeshifting as physical sculptures, Augmented Reality (AR) creatures and as inhabitants of a 3D digital world.

Poster for Trapdoor exhibition, showing pink monster

Online Exhibitions

Explore from home with our online art exhibition programme.

  • What’s All the Fuss About?

    Part of the Let’s talk about sex project to address and challenge harmful sexual attitudes and behaviours.
    What’s All the Fuss About - Digital Exhibition Logo

  • Pushing Paper

    Contemporary drawing from 1970 to now. A British Museum touring exhibition co-curated with partner museums from around the UK and Durham University.
    Artworks created by Durham Sixth Form Centre art students in response to the Pushing Paper Exhibition

  • Norman Cornish: The Sketchbooks

    This exhibition of little-seen sketchbooks presents a new dimension to the practice of North-East artist Norman Cornish.
    Three black and white Norman Cornish sketches showing various figures and a man walking down a street.

What’s All the Fuss About?

Part of the Let’s talk about sex project to address and challenge harmful sexual attitudes and behaviours.
What’s All the Fuss About - Digital Exhibition Logo

Pushing Paper

Contemporary drawing from 1970 to now. A British Museum touring exhibition co-curated with partner museums from around the UK and Durham University.
Artworks created by Durham Sixth Form Centre art students in response to the Pushing Paper Exhibition

Norman Cornish: The Sketchbooks

This exhibition of little-seen sketchbooks presents a new dimension to the practice of North-East artist Norman Cornish.
Three black and white Norman Cornish sketches showing various figures and a man walking down a street.
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Past exhibitions and events

Find out more about our previous exhibitions and art installations.

A man and a woman draw onto a large monochrome hand-drawn map, attached to a wall, both are crouched while the man draws onto the map.
Three women students stand around a table, two of them have their hands in blue plastic tubs filled with water, rinsing off printed artworks.

Art for Durham University Students

If you are a student at Durham University with an interest in visual arts, find out more about opportunities to join our arts and creative network or submit work for the annual Student Art Prize.

Student Art Network Student Art Prize

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