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Press Start
13 January - 5 February 2023
You are invited to experience artwork and play a selection of games by students and graduates from the University of Northampton’s Game Design course.
Upcoming
Family Fun
Art Club (Key Stage 1)
10 January - 7 February 2023
Creative weekly after school workshops with MK Gallery’s Associate Artists exploring different art forms and media. Sessions provide new experiences for budding artists to enjoy independently, designed for their Key Stage and levels of ability with supervision provided by MK Gallery staff and volunteers.
£6
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Family Fun
Art Club (Key Stage 2)
10 January - 7 February 2023
Creative weekly after school workshops with MK Gallery’s Associate Artists exploring different art forms and media. Sessions provide new experiences for budding artist to enjoy independently, designed for their Key Stage and levels of ability with supervision provided by MK Gallery staff and volunteers.
£6
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Press Start
13 January - 5 February 2023
You are invited to experience artwork and play a selection of games by students and graduates from the University of Northampton’s Game Design course.
Exhibitions
Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body
4 February - 7 May 2023
Trickster Figures presents the next chapter in the story of British sculpture, bringing together a selection of work by eleven contemporary artists. The exhibition explores the body’s newly configured relation to the world which involves increasingly fluid movement between binary systems, technology, human forms, animals, identities, and the environment.
From £6.90 - £13.80
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Cinema
Enys Men
4 - 7 February 2023
A mind-bending Cornish folk horror set in 1973 that unfolds on an uninhabited island off the Celtic Sea. A wildlife volunteer’s daily observations of a rare flower take a dark turn into the strange and metaphysical, forcing both her and viewers to question what is real and what is nightmare.
From £7 - £9
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This year, everyone’s favourite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline returns.
Exhibitions
The Drawing Room
10 - 26 February 2023
Inspired by the mental and psychological health benefits of drawing, this month, the Project Space will be transformed into a giant, interactive canvas for exploration through the rhythmic, repetitive movement of drawing.
Talks & Events
Teacher’s Night
10 February 2023
MK Gallery welcomes teachers and teaching staff to join our team through a tour of Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body.
Free
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Family Fun
Cardboard Creations – Family Fun Day
11 February 2023
What can you make from cardboard? Can you take on the challenge to help create something that you can wear? Join us for this fun afternoon with plenty of activities for all the family to enjoy.
From Free - £5
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From Damien Chazelle, ‘Babylon’ is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart.
Workshops
Art Together: SEND Family Workshop
16 February 2023
MK Gallery’s Art Together programme offers a unique workshop every half-term holiday, designed specifically for families who have a child or children aged 5+ with additional or complex support needs. Join the IPA team and two Associate Artists, to create, play, and explore as a family in an open and friendly shared space.
Exhibitions
Relaxed Exhibition Viewing – Trickster Figures
19 February 2023
These are quiet hours tailored to support visitors with neurodiversity, inclusive of communication or sensory needs. Ear defenders and sensory aids are available, the hand dryers in the toilets are switched off, and tickets are limited to reduce the number of people in the galleries.
From £5.75 - £11.50
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Cinema
Broker (Preview with Q&A)
21 February 2023
Preview + recorded Q&A with Hirokazu Kore-eda
129 mins + approx 30 mins Q&A
Heartwarming, funny and moving, Broker is the outstanding new film from Hirokazu Kore-eda, the acclaimed director of Shoplifters, staring Song Kang-ho (Parasite). This preview screening will be followed by a special pre-recorded Q&A with acclaimed director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
From £7 - £9
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Art Club (Key Stage 1)
21 February - 28 March 2023
Creative weekly after school workshops with MK Gallery’s Associate Artists exploring different art forms and media. Sessions provide new experiences for budding artists to enjoy independently, designed for their Key Stage and levels of ability with supervision provided by MK Gallery staff and volunteers.
£6
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Art Club (Key Stage 2)
21 February - 28 March 2023
Creative weekly after school workshops with MK Gallery’s Associate Artists exploring different art forms and media. Sessions provide new experiences for budding artists to enjoy independently, designed for their Key Stage and levels of ability with supervision provided by MK Gallery staff and volunteers.
£6
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Workshops
Create and Connect
22 February 2023
Create and Connect, hosted at the MK Gallery Café, provides a space and opportunity to get creative in a friendly and social environment.
Led by artist Gemma Kimmings, the sessions are designed to bring together and inspire our community to connect through the love of arts and crafts in a hope to help tackle loneliness and isolation.
£5
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Workshops
Young Sculptor: Abstract Sculpture Workshop (10-19yrs)
25 February 2023
Join local ceramic artist Andrew McDermott in our Learning Studio for an abstract sculptor workshop. Work with clay and other materials to create unique 3D piece using interesting shapes, colours and textures to represent your ideas about the world around you.
£15
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Young Sculptor: Abstract Sculpture Workshop (4-11yrs)
25 February 2023
Join local ceramic artist Andrew McDermott in our Learning Studio for an abstract sculptor workshop. Work with clay and other materials to create unique 3D piece using interesting shapes, colours and textures to represent your ideas about the world around you.
£15
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Workshops
Drawing from Life Club
28 February 2023
Our monthly drawing club inviting you to draw from a live model alongside our associate artist Paul Berryman. Sessions change from portrait and figurative. All skill levels are welcome but please note that these sessions are only lightly guided.
£15
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Exhibitions
Audio Described Exhibition Tour – Trickster Figures
28 February 2023
Experience in-depth visual descriptions, alongside hand-held and touch elements, of key works from our Trickster Figures exhibition. This event is led by tour guide Jonny Clapham and is suitable for those who are blind or partially sighted, and their companions.
From £6.90 - £13.80
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Exhibitions
MK Gallery Late
3 March 2023
Join us for the chance to visit the exhibition after hours and then relax in the Cafe while enjoying some music and creative activities.
From £3 - £12
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The story of super smart mouse Pattie and her feline friend Sam, as they embark upon an exciting adventure of paw-some proportions through Ancient Greece.
Talks & Events
Curators Talk with Jes Fernie
11 March 2023
Join exhibition curator Jes Fernie as she discusses her inspiration and motivation behind Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body, which explores new configurations of the body’s relation to the world expressed through sculpture.
£8
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Exhibitions
SEND Exhibition Tour – Trickster Figures
11 March 2023
Take a journey on our award winning sensory tour and experience Trickster Figures like never before. A unique sensory exploration designed especially for individuals of all ages with additional and complex support needs, and their families. Makaton signing used throughout.
£5
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Exhibitions
Toddle Exhibition Tour – Trickster Figures
11 March 2023
A fun-filled sensory experience for you and your little ones! Our Trickster Figures exhibition will be brought to life by our sensory tour guide Julia Collar, who will ignite the galleries with music, story-telling, object handling and play. Not to be missed!
£5
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Cinema
Exhibition on Screen: Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman
12 March 2023
Mary Cassatt was born in America and became one of America’s most well-known artists. She made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Cassatt’s radical images showed them as intellectual, feminine and real. This was a major shift in the way women appeared in art.
From £7 - £9
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Relaxed Exhibition Viewing – Trickster Figures
19 March 2023
These are quiet hours tailored to support visitors with neurodiversity, inclusive of communication or sensory needs. Ear defenders and sensory aids are available, the hand dryers in the toilets are switched off, and tickets are limited to reduce the number of people in the galleries.
From £5.75 - £11.50
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Create and Connect
22 March 2023
Create and Connect, hosted at the MK Gallery Café, provides a space and opportunity to get creative in a friendly and social environment.
Led by artist Gemma Kimmings, the sessions are designed to bring together and inspire our community to connect through the love of arts and crafts in a hope to help tackle loneliness and isolation.
£5
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Workshops
Elemental Bodies with Teresa Paiva
25 March 2023
Drawing inspiration from the work in the exhibition Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body, and in tandem with her current practice both as an artist and yogini, Teresa Paiva’s workshop will explore the connection between the human body and nature’s elements.
£60
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Workshops
Young Sculptor: Foraged and Found Sculpture Workshop (10-19yrs)
25 March 2023
Join local artist Sarah Hunt in our Learning Studio to bring together materials that have been foraged or found. Celebrate the natural and the organic or breathe new life an old, manufactured objects. Sessions are 1 hour 30 mins and limited to 15 young sculptors per workshop.
£15
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Young Sculptor: Foraged and Found Sculpture Workshop (4-11yrs)
25 March 2023
Join local artist Sarah Hunt in our Learning Studio to bring together materials that have been foraged or found. Celebrate the natural and the organic or breathe new life an old, manufactured objects. Sessions are 1 hour 30 mins and limited to 15 young sculptors per workshop.
£15
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Exhibitions
SEND Exhibition Tour – Trickster Figures
8 April 2023
Take a journey on our award winning sensory tour and experience Trickster Figures like never before. A unique sensory exploration designed especially for individuals of all ages with additional and complex support needs, and their families. Makaton signing used throughout.
£5
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Toddle Exhibition Tour – Trickster Figures
8 April 2023
A fun-filled sensory experience for you and your little ones! Our Trickster Figures exhibition will be brought to life by our sensory tour guide Julia Collar, who will ignite the galleries with music, story-telling, object handling and play. Not to be missed!
£5
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Family Fun
Spring Family Fun Day
8 April 2023
An afternoon filled with activities for all the family to celebrate spring.
From Free - £5
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Exhibitions
BSL Exhibition Tour – Trickster Figures
15 April 2023
Join Associate Artist Chisato Minamimura, in exploring Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body. This event will be delivered in BSL only and is suitable for anyone who uses or is learning BSL.
From £6.90 - £13.80
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Workshops
Create and Connect
19 April 2023
Create and Connect, hosted at the MK Gallery Café, provides a space and opportunity to get creative in a friendly and social environment.
Led by artist Gemma Kimmings, the sessions are designed to bring together and inspire our community to connect through the love of arts and crafts in a hope to help tackle loneliness and isolation.
£5
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Workshops
Young Sculptor: Figurative Sculpture Workshop (10-19 yrs)
22 April 2023
Join artist Teresa Paiva in our Learning Studio to create unique sculptures inspired by our exhibition Trickster Figures: Sculptor and the Body. Explore the ways the body communicates and how to represent this in 3D models that combine sculpture and iconography from around the world.
£15
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Young Sculptor: Figurative Sculpture Workshop (4-11 yrs)
22 April 2023
Join artist Teresa Paiva in our Learning Studio to create unique sculptures inspired by our exhibition Trickster Figures: Sculptor and the Body. Explore the ways the body communicates and how to represent this in 3D models that combine sculpture and iconography from around the world.
£15
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Talks & Events
Riding the Wind & Sun for 50 Years plus Other Stories, Dr. Derek Taylor
26 April 2023
Presented in partnership with the Buckinghamshire Society of Architects, this talk by Dr. Derek Taylor will tell the story of how renewable energy has grown from almost zero to becoming the dominant form of energy and the least expensive form of electricity.
From £8 - £10
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Workshops
Young Sculptor: Wearable Sculpture Workshop (10-19yrs)
6 May 2023
Join artist Lee Farmer in our Learning Studio to create exciting wearable sculptures inspired by our exhibition Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body. Wearable sculptures are fun, interactive and designed to be worn. They can extend the body, create new silhouettes and fit the body and move with the wearer.
£15
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Young Sculptor: Wearable Sculpture Workshop (4-11yrs)
6 May 2023
Join artist Lee Farmer in our Learning Studio to create exciting wearable sculptures inspired by our exhibition Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body. Wearable sculptures are fun, interactive and designed to be worn. They can extend the body, create new silhouettes and fit the body and move with the wearer.
£15
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Cinema
Exhibition on Screen: Tokyo Stories
23 May 2023
A thrilling encounter with one of the world’s great art capitals. Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly dynamic art – ranging from the delicate woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, to Pop Art posters, contemporary photography, Manga, film, and brand-new artworks that were created on the streets. The exhibition was a smash-hit five-star success and brought a younger and more diverse audience to the museum. The film uses the exhibition as a launchpad to travel to Tokyo itself, and explore the art and artists of the city more fully.
From £7 - £9
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Exhibitions
Boyd & Evans
27 May - 10 September 2023
This first major survey of artist duo Boyd & Evans in over a decade marks 55 years of their collaboration.
The exhibition will focus on paintings, spanning their careers from the 1960s to today. It will display many of their experiments: from collage and stencil to spray-gun and brushes; surreal dramas that unfold in domestic, urban and suburban settings; and visual games between the real and artificial.
From £6.90 - £13.80
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Workshops
Art Together: SEND Family Workshop
1 June 2023
MK Gallery’s Art Together programme offers a unique workshop every half-term holiday, designed specifically for families who have a child or children aged 5+ with additional or complex support needs. Join the IPA team and two Associate Artists, to create, play, and explore as a family in an open and friendly shared space.
Talks & Events
Volunteer Recruitment Evening
6 June 2023
MK Gallery is hosting a volunteer recruitment evening for those who are curious to find out more about volunteering.
Potential newcomers will have an after-hours, volunteer-led tour of our Boyd & Evans exhibition while learning about the role of a gallery assistant.
Workshops
Art Together: SEND Family Workshop
26 October 2023
MK Gallery’s Art Together programme offers a unique workshop every half-term holiday, designed specifically for families who have a child or children aged 5+ with additional or complex support needs. Join the IPA team and two Associate Artists, to create, play, and explore as a family in an open and friendly shared space.
