British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers

British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers is running at Warwick Arts Centre from 2 October 2026 to 10 January 2027. It's not just at the Arts Centre, though – the exhibition is spread across three Coventry venues, with the other two being the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum and the Delia Derbyshire Building at Coventry University. The part at the Arts Centre is in The Mead Gallery.

For a bit of context, the British Art Show is the UK's largest recurring contemporary art exhibition, produced by Hayward Gallery Touring at the Southbank Centre. It only happens once every five years, and this is the tenth edition, which comes as part of the Southbank Centre's 75th-anniversary national programme. Since it started in 1979, it's reached more than 2.3 million people and introduced artists like David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Sonia Boyce and John Akomfrah. This edition takes its cue from the spirit of the 1951 Festival of Britain, and instead of being held in a single gallery, it's split across the three Coventry sites.

Curated by Ekow Eshun, the show features 37 artists, including Okiki Akinfe, Alvaro Barrington, Shiraz Bayjoo, Jesse Darling, Joy Gerrard, Nengi Omuku, Precious Okoyomon, Emma Talbot and Osman Yousefzada. The central question it asks is what it means to live alongside people different from us, with three themes drawn from the writing of Virginia Woolf, Stuart Hall and Timothy Morton. After its run here, it'll tour on to Swansea, Bristol, Sheffield and Newcastle Gateshead.

Entry is free and drop-in, so you can just turn up when it suits you. The exhibition runs from 2 October 2026 through to 10 January 2027, with The Mead Gallery at Warwick Arts Centre as one of the three Coventry venues.