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A Day Out in Nailsworth

Looking for the perfect autumn day out? Nailsworth is full of charm, creativity and interesting shops - ideal for a day trip or cosy weekend break....

Tour and Talk with Gulshan Khan

Artist Tour : 18 October 2025 from 11:00. Join us for a tour and talk with award-winning photojournalist Gulshan Khan....

Woman in a green coat and a white hat behind a glass window

Capturing the Zeitgeist

If there was ever cause for celebration, it’s a centenary. One hundred years ago, the ‘Grand Old Lady of Finnish Photography,’ Claire Aho, was born in Helsinki....

The Joyful Woman Collective

Launch event and taster session: 6 November 2025 18:30 - 20:30...

A Tribute to Textiles

Co-curated installation: 20 September 2025 from 11:00 with Lisl Ponger as part of Heritage Open Days...

Garden Party Invitation – Poisoned Futures

Join us in Mortimer Gardens for an early evening gathering beneath the trees to celebrate the summer season and the artists, thinkers and changemakers shaping a better future....

Visible Mending Workshop

Workshop : 31st July 2025, 18:30 - 20:30, Join us for a creative, hands-on session exploring the art of visible mending...

Poisoned Futures?

13.06.25 - 25.10.25 EXHIBITION "Poisoned Futures" - entanglements of climate change featuring Gulshan Khan, Laura El-Tantawy and Lisl Ponger...

Green: Photo Competition

Photography competition to see your work featured in the Art Garden and be in with a chance to win a prize!...

Self portrait (in robe with masks attached) © Claude Cahun. Courtesy of the Jersey Heritage Collections

Hidden Histories: Claude Cahun

For Claude, exploring the limits of male & female identities was not merely a critique of societal gender norms, but rather a highly introspective endeavour...

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Anti-Violence Projects Featured Forthcoming Event InMuseum Previous Youth Projects

For the month of February, in support of the Knife Angel’s month in Gloucester, as part of its National Anti-Violence tour, and the Knife Rose at the Heroines Quarter, we're running art activities in our Creative Canvas space.

Del Barrett30th January 2023

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Kashmir: The Making of a Family Album

The family photos from this series, symbolically remind us of the inevitability of the past, loss and death. The constructed images are replete with memories that can neither be touched nor altered, only re-lived in our imaginations on an endless loop.

PlanetHeroines12th January 2023

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Kashmir: The Chandelier

Conceived as a decorative piece, this mushroom-shaped chandelier was made using over 3600 pages of legal correspondence between the courts, petitioners, and respondents in Kashmir. This piece draws parallels to the perfectly taxidermized busts and heads of kills that camouflages the violence underneath.

PlanetHeroines12th January 2023

Colour photograph. Six young women in band uniform (large orange hats and sequined clothes) gaze down the lens.

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Collage: Women of the Prix Pictet since 2008

Collage showcases the work of sixty-four women in photography, all of whom have been shortlisted or nominated for the Prix Pictet award.

Katherine Riley9th January 2023

Black and white photograph. A woman in a long coat stands holding an umbrella in one hand and a pair of shoes in the other.

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Marilyn Stafford: Obituary

The legendary photographer Marilyn Stafford, recognised for her portraiture and street photography, has died at the age of 97.

Katherine Riley4th January 2023

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Knife Angel: Photo Competition

Photography competition to see your work featured in the Eastgate Centre and be in with a chance to win a prize!

Del Barrett3rd January 2023

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Knife Rose: Renate Bertlmann

To coincide with the arrival of the Knife Angel – the National Monument for Serious Violence - we have acquired a Knife Rose, thanks to the support of the Stronger, Safer Gloucester Partnership

Del Barrett3rd January 2023

Sepia photograph. Carolee swings from a rope while making pencil marks on a white wall and floor.

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Body Politics: Carolee Schneemann

Body Politics traces Carolee Schneemann's transgressive, interdisciplinary artistic expression over six decades.

Katherine Riley22nd December 2022

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Penny Slinger’s Photocollage Couture

Penny Slinger’s ever-evolving oeuvre encompasses Surrealism, feminism, and eroticism (to name a few) through the mediums of collage, fashion, film, prose and poetry, and sculpture.

PlanetHeroines22nd December 2022

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Margaret Gross Michaelis-Sachs

Margarethe (Margaret) Gross was born in 1902 into a Jewish family in Dzieditz, near Cracow, in what was then Austria (now Poland). Her liberal upbringing led her to studying photography at the Institute of Graphic Arts and Research in Vienna, followed by apprenticeships in some of the leading Viennese studios of the…

PlanetHeroines15th December 2022