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A touring collection of modern and contemporary art by more than 40 international artists.

ARTIST ROOMS is a touring collection of over 1,600 works of modern and contemporary art. The collection is displayed across the UK in solo exhibitions that showcase the work of more than 40 major artists, and this touring programme gives young people the chance to get involved in creative projects, discover more about art and learn new skills. Since 2009, 40 million people have visited more than 150 displays at over 75 museums and galleries. ARTIST ROOMS is jointly owned by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. The collection was established through The d’Offay Donation in 2008, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, and the Scottish and British Governments. The ARTIST ROOMS touring programme is delivered by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate in a partnership with Ferens Art Gallery until 2019, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, by Art Fund and by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.

02/10/2026

One of Chadwick’s most famous works, P**s Flowers (1991-92), was created during a residency in Canada, emerging from a playful collaboration between Helen Chadwick and her partner, David Notarius.

Taking turns to urinate into flower-shaped moulds pressed into the snow, they created forms that were later cast in bronze and enamelled white to resemble plaster. The resulting sculptures transform an unconventional bodily act into flowers, inverting the downward flow of urine into an upward-reaching bloom. Both intimate and provocative, the work brings together the bodily and the beautiful, fertility and sexuality, humour and transformation, which were recurring themes throughout Chadwick’s practice. Don't miss the chance to see it at Oriel y Parc on until 10 January!

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Installation view of Helen Chadwick: Body and Landscape at Oriel y Parc. ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Photo © Tate (Lucy Green with Larina Fernandes)

30/09/2026

Warhol’s Index Book (1967) turns the traditional art book into a playful, interactive Pop object. Instead of just reproducing images, the book invites the reader to participate, incorporating pop-ups, a record, a balloon, a fold-out nose, a Hunt’s tomato paste can and other unexpected elements.

Created with contributions from figures including Stephen Shore, Paul Morrissey and Nico, it offers a glimpse into the collaborative, experimental world of Warhol’s Factory.

Held in the collection of and on view as part of Andy Warhol: Art Star, the Index Book reflects Warhol’s interest in dissolving the boundaries between art, popular culture, publishing and everyday life.

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Installation view of Andy Warhol: Art Star at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Photo © Tate Lucy Dawkins

22/09/2026

A town in north-west Greece, Anatoli, inspired the title of one of Chadwick’s etchings and aquatint prints, on view at .

Its composition recalls Meat Abstract No. 1 (1989), also known as Black Sun, but here the sombre palette gives way to a luminous yellow sun suspended in a golden haze.

Printed at the Oxford Printmakers Cooperative, the work was created as part of the King’s Fund Hospital Project, which brought together limited-edition prints by six artists, including Richard Long, Anish Kapoor and Bruce McLean, to encourage greater engagement with the arts in NHS hospitals.

Helen Chadwick Anatoli 1989. Tate © The Estate of Helen Chadwick, Courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery. Photo: © Jai Monaghan

20/09/2026

Born in Glasgow in 1966, Douglas Gordon turns 60 today!

Across film, video, photography, drawing, writing and installation, Gordon has developed a practice concerned with the fragile space between intention and perception: that moment when something familiar begins to reveal itself as something more complex.

Drawing on literature, folklore, Hollywood films and his own footage, Gordon manipulates time, language and memory to disorient and challenge the viewer. His work explores moral and ethical questions alongside mental and physical states, collective memory and selfhood, often transforming recognisable images and narratives into encounters that ask us to look again.

Douglas Gordon, Berlin 2012. Oliver Mark (b.1963) © Oliver Mark / CC BY-SA 4.0

17/09/2026

You’re invited to The Factory Party!

On Saturday 19 September, join to celebrate Andy Warhol: Art Star with a Factory-themed night at
Inspired by the music, experimentation and creative communities that surrounded Warhol’s legendary New York studio, the evening brings the spirit of The Factory to Birmingham with a programme of participatory activities.

Contribute to a large-scale group Pop Art work, record your own Warhol-inspired screen test to be projected throughout the night, and take part in a recreation of Warhol’s iconic Burger King performance.

Polaroid photography will capture the evening! 📸

The Factory Party
Pan-Pan, Digbeth
Saturday 19 September | 6pm-2am

11/09/2026

Philosopher’s Fear of Flesh (1989) is on view as part of Helen Chadwick: Body and Landscape at Oriel y Parc!

Chadwick placed the body at the centre of her exploration of identity, challenging the traditional separation between mind and body, human and animal, nature and culture. Rather than depicting her own body directly, she used flesh as a universal material through which to explore the self. Here, photographs of chicken skin and a hairy human belly are arranged in an hourglass-shaped lightbox, creating an ambiguous form that is simultaneously sculptural and photographic.

A lightbulb shines through the chicken skin, traditionally associated with consciousness and the mind, playfully disrupting the philosophical distinction between the intellectual and the bodily. By transforming familiar bodily and animal materials into luminous, abstract forms, Chadwick makes the familiar strange, asking us to reconsider the boundaries between ourselves and the natural world.

Helen Chadwick Philosophers Fear of Flesh 1989. Tate © The Estate of Helen Chadwick, Courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery. Photo: © Matt Greenwood

09/09/2026

Today we remember Sol LeWitt, born in 1928.

A pioneering figure in conceptual art, LeWitt transformed the relationship between idea, instruction and ex*****on. He developed detailed guidelines and diagrams for his wall drawings, which were then realised by assistants, making the concept and the system behind the work as important as the final drawing itself.

Working with basic elements such as lines, geometric forms and repetition, LeWitt explored the possibilities of drawing through simple combinations of horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines. His practice demonstrates how fundamental principles of geometry can become the basis for complex and ever-changing forms of visual expression.

Although his work is often associated with simplicity, LeWitt was far from absent from its making. He carefully conceived and documented each work, producing plans and instructions for his works.

Schiff, John: Portrait photograph of Sol LeWitt, Leo Baeck Institute, F DM 343 018.

04/09/2026

Throughout his practice, Andy Warhol (1928-87) transformed familiar images from everyday life into icons of American popular culture.

On view at , Campbell’s Soup (1962) is perhaps the clearest example: a product that was both instantly recognisable and deeply ordinary; it also carried a personal connection to Warhol’s childhood, when his mother, Julia, fed him Campbell’s Soup. By bringing this everyday memory into the gallery, Warhol combined popular culture, personal experience and fine art.

His Cow (1966) imagery similarly began with an ordinary subject, taken from an agricultural publication after art dealer Ivan Karp suggested that Warhol make a work about cows. In 1966, he transformed the animal into a striking Pop image, printing its head repeatedly across bright pink-and-yellow wallpaper. Removed from its pastoral setting and presented through repetition and vivid colour, the cow becomes at once familiar and strange, another example of Warhol’s ability to make the everyday newly visible.

Installation view of Andy Warhol: Art Star at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Photo © Tate Lucy Dawkins

01/09/2026

Did you know that Chadwick spent time in Pembrokeshire?

Get to know more at Helen Chadwick: Body and Landscape, on view at !

The region profoundly influenced her exploration of the relationship between body, landscape and visuality, inspiring her Viral Landscapes series, created between 1988 and 1989 following an Artists in National Parks commission from the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Walking the Coast Path between Fishguard and Castlemartin, Chadwick photographed the meeting point of land and sea, responding to the landscape through her body and senses. Now, these works return to the landscape that inspired them, marking the first time her Pembrokeshire photographs have been exhibited here.

The exhibition also brings together major works including P**s Flowers, revealing the breadth, intensity and originality of Chadwick’s practice.

Don’t miss the chance to visit! On until 10 January 2027

Installation view of Helen Chadwick: Body and Landscape at Oriel y Parc. ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Photo © Tate (Lucy Green with Larina Fernandes)

31/08/2026

Don’t miss the chance to see Andy Warhol: Art Star at !

The exhibition offers a fresh perspective on Warhol’s practice, exploring his engagement with q***r identity, self-representation and his role within New York’s LGBTQ+ and q***r artistic circles.

Alongside the exhibition, Wolverhampton Art Gallery is presenting a programme of events that explores different aspects of Warhol’s practice, from his early career as an illustrator to the experimental techniques and processes that shaped his later work as one of the most influential figures of Pop Art.

Installation view of Andy Warhol: Art Star at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Photo © Tate Lucy Dawkins

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