Mead Gallery
The Mead Gallery is a space where people can meet, create, discuss and discover the arts.
The Mead Gallery opened in 1986, it quickly developed an international reputation for its exhibitions of contemporary art. It has presented the work of world-renowned artists including Hurvin Anderson, Phyllida Barlow, Gerard Byrne, João Penalva and Lindsay Seers.
It's also hosted major survey exhibitions including, The Indiscipline of Painting and Slipping Abstraction.
The Mead Gallery opens in University term-times and entry is free.
Upcoming Exhibition
Summer Exhibition 2024
This summer we present three concurrent exhibitions.Francis Offman and Nicole Bachmann present their first solo exhibitions in a UK gallery. Concerned…
Visual Art Events
Yoga in the Gallery: 2024
Join us for yoga sessions, facilitated by Warwick Sports Instructor Ray Cluer.The sessions are inspired by the artworks on display. These are relaxed…
Past Exhibitions
The Reason for Painting (2023)
The Reason for Painting continued the Mead Gallery’s longstanding examination of abstract painting. It built on previous Mead exhibitions including: Slow…
Katrina Palmer What's Already Going On? (2023)
For her largest commission to date, Katrina Palmer created a site-specific commission that radically transformed the architecture in the Mead Gallery.
Radical Landscapes (2022)
This exhibition visited us is 2022, it offered an expanded view of British landscape art focusing on the early twentieth century until now.
Art for you
Sculpture Park
You can discover parts of the University art collection - including two giant steel dinosaurs by Jake and Dinos Chapman - by following one of our special Sculpture Trails.
DiscoverUniversity Art Collection
Founded in 1965, the University of Warwick’s art collection features major works by some of the most exciting artists of the last few decades.
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