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Gwen John: Strange Beauties
On now until Mon 4 Jan 2027
Gwen John: Strange Beauties at Modern Two, in Edinburgh, is the first major retrospective in over forty years dedicated to one of Wales’s most accomplished artists, Gwen John. Through rarely seen drawings and watercolours, John’s reserved yet unwavering artistic vision is brought into sharp focus, revealing an artist whose quiet observations carried extraordinary depth. Looking at a broader range of subjects beyond biography, the exhibition situates her firmly within the wider landscape of modernism, exploring recurring subjects of solitude, womanhood, church interiors and domesticity alongside sketches of her beloved cats. The exhibition invites viewers to see her world as both deeply personal and quietly radical.
When: from now until 4th January 2027.
Where: Modern Two, Edinburgh.
Tickets: Standard addmission £14. Visit the National Galleries Scotland's website to book your tickets.
Lasting Impressions:
Women Printmakers, 1900 – Now
On view until 27th September 2026
Lasting Impressions: Women Printmakers, 1900 – Now at the Victoria & Albert Museum is a landmark exhibition celebrating 125 years of bold vision, political resistance and technical innovation by 25 pioneering women printmakers. Through works spanning traditional woodcuts and lithographs to contemporary mixed media and 3D printing, the medium is presented as more than a technical craft: it is shown as a powerful tool for confronting social, political, racial and patriarchal power structures. From early twentieth-century voices such as Laura Knight to modern iconoclasts like Faith Ringgold, it reveals how women artists across the world have used printmaking to assert identity, challenge convention and reimagine whose stories get told.
When: from now until 27th September.
Where:
Tickets: Free. Visit the V&A's website to find out more.
Echoes of Us
On view until 20th September
Echoes of Us at the Box, Plymouth, draws on over 300 years of British art from the Government Art Collection, exploring themes of belonging, memory and connection. Through works spanning a seventeenth-century portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller to contemporary pieces, identity is presented as more than a fixed inheritance: it is shaped by human experience, place and personal history. From Barbara Hepworth and Chris Ofili to Cornelia Parker and Phoebe Boswell, the exhibition places art in conversation with some of our most fundamental questions: where do we belong? What does it mean to revisit a place, a person, or a feeling? And how do the connections we make come to shape who we are? In doing so, it reveals how three centuries of British art can speak directly to the present, encouraging visitors to see identity as something continually shaped by the places and people that surround us.
When: Unil 20th September.
Where: The Box, Plymouth.
Tickets: Free entry. Visit The Box's website to book your tickets.
