The Art Gallery on the 1st floor is temporarily closed until 24 May 2024 whilst we install our summer exhibitions.
The Discovery Box on the 2nd floor continues to display Heywood & Stippl‘s exhibition until Saturday 6 July.
The Landing Gallery on the 1st floor will display works from the Liver Sketching Club from Saturday 11 May.
You can view all of our exhibition listings here.
Summer Exhibitions 2024
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- A Christening Party, François Antoine de Bruycker (1816–1882). Atkinson Art Gallery Collection.
The Ties That Bind
25 May 2024 – 15 March 2025
Family life, working relationships, love stories and close-knit communities. This exhibition examines how artists have taken inspiration from our personal and communal bonds.
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- Suffolk Pastoral, Philip Connard (1875-1958). Atkinson Art Gallery Collection.
Eternal Summer: Paintings by Philip Connard
1 June – 30 November 2024
From an unpromising start as a Southport painter and decorator, Philip Connard rose to prominence as a successful Impressionist artist and a Royal Academician.
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- Theatre of Young Artists, Dieppe, France, Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942). Atkinson Art Gallery Collection.
Edwardian Impressionists: Philip Connard’s contemporaries
1 June – 30 November 2024
Connard worked alongside some of the greatest artists of his generation, many of them leading British Impressionists who opposed the artistic establishment at the turn of the nineteenth century.
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- Is there any news of the iceberg, Bill Tidy MBE (1933 – 2023).
Bill Tidy: “Is there any news of the iceberg?”
8 June – 5 October 2024
The late cartoonist, TV personality and author lived for many happy years in Southport. This exhibition pays tribute to the comic genius who gave us The Cloggies and The Fosdyke Saga.
View exhibition listings here.
Posted on 5 May 2024 under Exhibition, General news
