New Walk Museum & Art Gallery is home to a stunning collection of artworks by world famous artists including Bacon, Doig, Durer, Lowry and Marc. Our Senior Curator of Fine Art often conducts tours of these galleries – visit the events page for further details.
Our World Through Art – The Permanent Collections
Artists enable us to design and communicate visual ideas about the world in which we live. They show us new, exciting ways to imagine and see our surroundings and ourselves. 'Our World Through Art' displays a regularly changing selection from Leicester's permanent collections featuring artworks from the 16th to the 21st centuries. The gallery enable visitors to discover and explore the different ways that art has celebrated our changing world.
Showing the brightest and best of the permanent collection, key works range from powerful 20th-century artists such as Francis Bacon, Peter Doig and the Old Masters to new, vibrant works from African-Caribbean and South Asian artists. These changing displays will re-invigorate this beautiful gallery with space, colour and life, offering new connections and pathways of meaning to our diverse audiences. Visit our online gallery...
Restless Visions: Prints by Albrecht Durer
Painter and printmaker Albrecht Durer (1471 - 1528) is generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. In his lifetime he produced a vast body of work, including altarpieces, religious works and portraits. His serial woodcuts of the Apocalypse (1498) and The Life of the Virgin, (c.1500-10) are amongst his finest achievements as a draughtsman. Presented in 1891 by Louisa Dudgeon, the prints in this exhibition demonstrate a richness of detail, from plants, animals and mythological creatures to deeply expressive religious figures, opening a window into the mind of a gifted and visionary artist. For further information on this exhibition, go here
Expressionism & Beyond
A gallery dedicated to Leicester's internationally outstanding collection of 20th-century German Art. It explores the groundbreaking ideas behind Expressionism, showing how these artists perceived the world through heightened colour and inner emotions and feelings. The gallery features a changing selection of oil paintings and works on paper from this significant collection including paintings and prints by artists including Beckmann, Klee, Marc, Nolde, Schmidt-Rottluff and Münter. The gallery contains three striking and powerful artworks, recently acquired by Leicester Arts and Museums Service, by E. L. Kirchner (1880-1938), Erich Heckel (1883-1970) and Ernst Neuschul (1895-1968).
For further details on these new works and our German Expressionist collection as a whole, go here
The City Gallery is Leicester’s leading contemporary arts venue – view their temporary exhibitions programme.