Living Labyrinths: Art & Fungi

Living Labyrinths: Art & Fungi is on at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) in Exeter from 3 October 2026 to 21 February 2027. It's an exhibition that looks at fungi from both an artistic and a scientific angle, and it pulls in a fair few different threads: medical mycology, surrealism, Romantic landscape painting, Jungian psychology, and alchemical symbolism.

The show grew out of a contemporary art commission that drew more than 100 applications from artists across the South West. The two chosen were Jason Singh, based in Newton Abbot, and Gemma Anderson-Tempini, from Exeter, neither of whom had shown at RAMM before. Singh's contribution is an immersive bio-sonification soundscape built from the electrical biodata and sounds of fungi, mycelium, soil, and Devon field recordings, layered with interviews with mycologists, storytellers, and herbalists. Anderson-Tempini's large-scale drawing, Body Mapping the Mycobiome, reimagines her own body as an assemblage of cellular communities, made with mycological inks and Killerton Estate soil pigments in partnership with scientists from the University of Exeter.

It's not just new work, though; the exhibition draws on RAMM's own collections, including newly conserved dried fungal specimens, natural history drawings, and lantern slides. There are also loans from elsewhere: watercolours by Beatrix Potter and Cy Twombly's collage series Natural History, Part I, Mushrooms (1974).

Tickets are £6 online and £8 at the desk, with students, under 25s, and MA members paying £4, and Art Fund members £3. Accompanying carers and under 19s go in free. The museum is on Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3RX.