Ten Out of London Exhibitions Winter 2024-25
Here is the Artlyst pick of out-of-London exhibitions on view this winter.
26 November 2024
Paula Rego
Paula Rego: Letting Loose
An exhibition of works by Paula Rego from the 1980s, a period of liberation and self-discovery
Tuesday–Saturday: 10am–6pm.
Paula Rego And Lord Harries Respond To Art And Religion – Rev Jonathan Evens
Paula Rego and Richard Harries respond to the Western tradition of art and religion in different ways.
5 September 2023
Paula Rego: Abortion Etchings Acquired By US Public Collections
The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum in New York have expanded their collections of Paula Rego’s graphic work.
18 July 2023
Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden
Explore the relationship between Dame Paula Rego’s monumental painting and the 15th-century altarpiece and National Gallery staff that inspired it.
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
Paula Rego: A Generation’s Defining Figurative Painter Dies Aged 87
Dame Paula Rego, one of the finest UK based figurative painters of her generation, has died suddenly in London aged 87.
8 June 2022
Paula Rego: An Intimate Look – Victoria Miro
The artwork of Paula Rego, whose career spans an impressive half-century, has been largely informed by her childhood in Portugal, the tension of her conservative upbringing with the looser morals of her London experience at the Slade school of art, and her relationship with her parents.
29 November 2021
Paula Rego: The Forgotten
To be held across the entirety of its Wharf Road spaces, the gallery’s first solo exhibition by Paula Rego brings together significant individual works and important series, many rarely shown, drawn principally from the past 20 years.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Paula Rego Ambiguous Persuasive and Subversive Tate Britain – Marina Vaizey
Paula Rego (b 1935) is an artist who is vividly expressive and imaginative in her use of colour deployed in the service of brilliantly choreographed compositions.
8 July 2021
Paula Rego: The Policeman’s Daughter 1987 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In an era when modernism was dictating that painting should abandon all connection to narrative, Paula Rego
6 July 2021
Paula Rego: An Enduring Journey
Cristea Roberts Gallery presents its first solo exhibition with Dame Paula Rego RA, one of the most important figurative artists of her generation, who places women’s lives and stories at the centre of her work.
Tuesday - Friday 11am - 5.30pm Saturday 11am - 2pm (Closed 1-31 August 2021)
Paula Rego
The UK’s largest and most comprehensive retrospective of Paula Rego’s work to date
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Paula Rego Retrospective Announced At Tate For Summer
This Summer sees Tate Britain open the largest and most comprehensive retrospective of the work of Paula Rego.
6 May 2021
Paula Rego Severs Ties With Marlborough And Joins Victoria Miro
The British/Portuguese artist Paula Rego has severed ties with her long-term gallery Marlborough and joined Victoria Miro
2 October 2020
Blockbuster Rego, Freud And Murillo Books Released Autumn 2019 – Edward Lucie-Smith
A short time ago, it seemed as if making and publishing books about art – contemporary art, in particular, was a doomed enterprise.
18 September 2019
Victor Willing Reassessed In Hastings Contemporary Retrospective
Hastings Contemporary is to mount the first major UK retrospective of work by British artist Victor Willing (1928-1988) since his… Read More
29 July 2019
Twelve Exhibitions To See Outside London Summer 2019
Summer has finally arrived in the UK so if you’re planning on heading out of London, Artlyst has put together a list of twelve exhibitions to see around the UK. Don’t miss the Keith Haring extravaganza at Tate Liverpool; major sculpture exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park including David Smith and Damien Hirst as part of Yorkshire Sculpture International; seaside photography at Turner Contemporary and painting shows galore from early 20th century masters such as Vuillard to contemporary giants Bridget Riley and Paula Rego and historical exhibitions such as Last Supper in Pompeii at the Ashmolean.
4 July 2019
Paula Rego Where The Personal Is Political – Marina Vaizey
All art is perforce autobiography, and every picture tells a story. How could it be otherwise? No outstanding artist almost literally makes visual these underlying possibilities more than Paula Rego.
18 June 2019
Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance
The first major retrospective of Paula Rego’s work in England for over 20 years.
Tuesday - Saturday 11am – 7pm Sunday 11am – 5pm
Paula Rego Abortion Paintings To Feature In MK Retrospective
The first major retrospective of Paula Rego’s work in England for over twenty years will go on show at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes 15 June – 22 September 2019.
2 June 2019
Paula Rego: From Mind to Hand Drawings from 1980 to 2001
An exhibition devoted to Paula Rego’s preparatory sketches demonstrating how essential drawing is to an understanding of her work.
Monday - Friday: 10am - 5.30pm Saturday: 10am - 4.00pm
Outstanding Art in Kendal Cumbria – Frink, Rego and Scott
Cumbria is an idyllic landscape where rugged mountains meet sparkling lakes. It has a history steeped in art and literature. William Wordsworth, JMW Turner, John Ruskin, Beatrix Potter, Kurt Schwitters and Andy Goldsworthy have all found inspiration here. In addition, it is no wonder it was the centre for the British Arts and Crafts movement. This summer Kendal is hosting major exhibitions featuring Elisabeth Frink, Paula Rego and Rebecca Scott.
28 June 2018
All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life
All Too Human celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships and surroundings in the most intimate of ways including Bacon, Freud, Auerbach and Paula Rego.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Artlyst Podcast: Curator Aretha Campbell Discusses Paula Rego And Autobiographical Themes
Rook & Raven presents ‘She Came To Stay’, an exhibition that takes its title from the novel of the same… Read More
9 July 2015
Major Artists Auction Work For Freedom from Torture Charity
Artists Draw A Line Under Torture: has gathered together leading artists uniting to fundraise by selling their work at Freedom… Read More
24 October 2013
RCA Secret Postcard Sale Nets £111,000 For College Bursary Fund
This year’s RCA post card sale has netted a grand total of £111,000 for the college’s hardship and bursary fund…. Read More
26 March 2013
A List Artists Donate Postcards To 2013 RCA Secret Sale
This year works of by well known artists such as, Paula Rego, Julian Opie and David Bailey are going on… Read More
27 February 2013
Francis Bacon And Paula Rego Feature In New Cumbrian Exhibition
Abbot Hall’s summer exhibition in Cumbria has mounted an exhibition titled; “Francis Bacon to Paula Rego”. It celebrates and explores… Read More
25 June 2012
Lily Cole Fronts New TV Show On Art
Lily Cole is present a new art TV programme, visiting leading artists, observing them at work, and interviewing them about… Read More
7 March 2012
Curators Of The Future Stage Major Courtauld Exhibition
East Wing X: Material Matters @ Courtauld Institute of Art – REVIEW Every other year, coming on for two decades,… Read More
9 February 2012
Top Artists Tackle Torture
Leading artists, including Antony Gormley, the Chapman brothers, Paula Rego, Cornelia Parker, and Gavin Turk, band together to raise funds… Read More
25 November 2011