Welcome to New Expressions

A collaboration between contemporary visual artists and museums in the South West

New Expressions is a partnership programme for museums in South West England. It pioneers sustainable collaboration with artists and audiences to invigorate museum collections, buildings and spaces. It enables museums to commission new work and to join forces with contemporary artists to create high quality, participative projects and compelling visitor experiences.

Museums in Exeter, Plymouth, Bristol, Barnstaple, Falmouth and Cheltenham are taking part in the programme between 2011 and 2012.

'Exploring Solitude' (2012) Neville & Joan Gabie

'Exploring Solitude' (2012) Neville & Joan Gabie

  • Antony Penrose

    Antony Penrose is a writer, artist, playwright, lecturer and curator and runs the Lee Miller Archive and the Roland Penrose Estate. His latest book, 'The Boy wh...more

  • Neville Gabie & Joan Gabie

    Neville Gabie was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1959. His work includes photography, sculpture and video. Neville Gabie was artist-in-residence at the H...more

  • Acerone (Luke Palmer)

    Acerone’s recent work comprises of street paintings, screen prints, photographic collage and interior installations that record fragments of time and replay t...more

  • Jeremy Millar

    Jeremy Millar is an artist living in Whitstable and tutor in art criticism at the Royal College of Art, London. He has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad inc...more

  • Clare Twomey

    Clare Twomey works directly with clay, frequently in collaboration with the ceramics industry, and constructs large-scale ceramic installations for galleries, m...more

  • Andrew Lanyon

    Andrew Lanyon is a filmmaker, installation and sound artist, painter, sculptor, automata maker, photographer, writer and publisher of artists' books. His next o...more

Latest News

  • Museums are from Mars, artists are from Venus

    04 May 2012

    ‘Museums are from Mars, artists are from Venus’, I glibly joked to a colleague on New Ex...read more

  • Last chance to tell us what you thought of New Expressions commissions

    05 April 2012

    Online audience survey closes Thursday 12 April, There are just a few more days to tell us your thou...read more

  • Last few days: Exploring solitude: an Antarctic commission by Neville and Joan Gabie

    22 March 2012

    Gardens Gallery, Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham, until 27 March, open daily 10am to 5pm, See ...read more

  • Artist Jeremy Millar unveils new film at Devon museum

    15 March 2012

    ’Theatrical and unusual’ work inspired by Victorian scientific curiosity, Jeremy Millar ...read more

Audience Survey

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