Past Exhibitions

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Explore our past exhibitions and discover our diverse collection and exciting research.

Each year Watts Gallery hosts several exhibitions. Responding to themes explored by our artist-founders George and Mary Watts, below you can explore our exhibitions from previous years, arranged chronologically.

List of Exhibitions

2025

  1. A ceramic plate decorated with a painting of Lubaina Himid. The plate is resting on a grey background. The plate is pale orange with circles of darker orange around the edge. The portrait of Himid sits in the centre of the plate, depicting a women looking off to the side, she is wearing a light blue long sleeve top and orange glasses. Above the portrait it reads 'Lubaina Himid' and below at the bottom of the plate is says 'We will be'.

    Women of 'Our Time'

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  2. Painting of a red-haired woman in a green flowy dress, holding a pomegranate up to her chest with both of her hands.

    Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850—1915

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  3. Women’s Support Centre Surrey: New Beginnings Art Awards

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  4. Flower Fairies logo
    Final Weeks

    Flower Fairies™: The Magical World of Cicely Mary Barker

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  5. The Spirit of Charleston

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2024

  1. A bronze and black artwork featuring women shapes in a circular pattern

    Mary Watts: A Legacy Reimagined

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  2. Blue lustreware plate with blackbird on a twig design

    Jonathan Chiswell Jones: 50 years a potter

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  3. Edges

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  4. New Beginnings: Past, Present, Future

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  5. Final Weeks

    Hiroko Imada at Watts

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  6. Japanese woodblock print of a traditionally dressed Otokodate looking off to the side.

    Edo Pop: Japanese Prints 1825 - 1895

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  7. Hanga Ten at Watts: Japanese printmaking today

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