Brindley Archive

Saturday 23 April - Saturday 11 June 2016. Artists Greg Fuller, Jason Hicklin and Tracy Hill will produce new work developed from different locations along the Mersey each bringing their own unique perspective.

Saturday 27 February - Saturday 16 April 2016. As the new displays at Norton Priory museum (opening in the Summer) near completion we look back at the people of the local area who have shaped the site over the past 900 years.

Saturday 16 January - Saturday 20 February 2016. Over the last term four primary schools have been working with artists to explore design and construction, the environment and the local history of Halton. Pupils have created exciting new work in film, sculpture and mosaic.

Saturday 3 October – Sunday 29 November 2015. Following a 1999 Artist’s Residency at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital Trust, Julia’s drawings of 20th Century medicine were exhibited at The Royal College of Surgeons, London.

Saturday 5 - Saturday 26 September 2015. Creative Conversations: NHS Halton Clinical Commissioning Group AGM and exhibition.

Continues until 9 September 2015. A great display of ceramics by young artist / maker Aimee Bollu.

Saturday 25 July – Saturday 29 August 2015. This exhibition features highlights from Audrey’s career with work from her own collection and loans from museums and galleries in the northwest.

25 April - 31 May 2015 Free Niki Carlin creates beautiful images using vintage photographic processes including wet plate collodion and cyanotype. To complement the Karl...

25 April - 31 May 2015 Free A Hayward Touring exhibition which presents an original portfolio of 40 photogravures from 1932, entitled ‘Wundergarten der Natur’, edited...

28 February - 18 April 2015 Mon- Fri 10am - 5.30pm Sat 10am - 3pm. Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays Free Living Data is a new solo exhibition by the...

17 January – 21 February 2015 Open daily Free The arts development team’s innovative programme of artists in schools residencies celebrates its first decade. Featuring extraordinary art...

28 June – 9 August 2014 Mon – Fri 10.00 – 17.30, Sat 10.00 – 15.00, Closed Sundays & Bank Holidays Free From the draw of expansive spaces...

5 April - 3 May 2014 This interactive exhibition will guide visitors through a labyrinth of unsolved mysteries, unusual artefacts and audio adventures that piece together the...

22 February - 29 March Monday – Friday 10.00 – 17.00, Saturdays 10.00 – 15.00. Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays Free Experiencing landscape through colour, texture and...

18 January - 22 February Open Monday - Friday 10.00 - 17.00 and Saturdays 10.00 - 15.00. Closed Sundays & Bank holidays Free Students aged 11+ from...

7 December - 11 January Private View: Join us in the gallery on Saturday January 4 11.00 – 14.00 to meet local history groups and representatives from...

12 October - 23 November Mon – Fri 10.00 – 17.00, Sat 10.00 – 15.00. Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays Widely considered to be one the foremost landscape photographers...

7 September - 5 October Joy Adamson is perhaps best known for her conservation work with big cats (particularly the lioness 'Elsa'). The rearing and recording of Elsa's...

13 July - 31 August A new exhibition at the Brindley presents a selection of work by artists and designers who are challenging our notions about...

13 April - 18 May 2013 Our annual Open Art exhibition showcases painting, drawing, sculpture and print created by artists living, working, studying or who were born...

There is something disconcerting about a dead zebra . . .                                    Markmakers exploring narratives. 19 May  - 23 June 2012 Markmakers is the well-established Halton-based contemporary...

13 August - 17 September 2011 at The Brindley, 'The Lightfoot Letters' The Lightfoot Letters are remarkable historical documents which provide a detailed portrait of...

9 July - 6 August 2011 at the Brindley Arts Centre. 'Bridging the Gap' - 50 years of the Silver Jubilee Bridge and...

7th Halton Open Art Exhibition 28 May – 2 July 2011 The Halton Open exhibition returns, a little earlier and with a new partner. This year...

Now Showing 2 5 March – 16 April 2011 Now Showing 2 presents six new film and video works that explore some of the current concerns...

Colin Turner – retrospective of a local artist 26 April – 21 May 2011 Colin Turner (1937 -2008) was an artist who lived most of his...

'Playful Order' 21 August - 06 October 2010.Viewing: Tuesday 14 September 2010 18.00 - 21.00Jeni McConnell presents objects, documents and images from Halton's...

Paul Cousins: Painting Thin Air29 May  – 26 June 2010This exhibition is a continuation of Paul Cousins’ recent series of paintings which explore the...

Neon Types: Mark Anstee. April 10 – May 22The neon works are individual drawings in hand blown Murano glass. The subject, the...

Spots of Time: Henry E Iddon20 February - 27 March 2010 The Lake District photographed by night Photographer Henry E Iddon has created...

Inspired Responses 516 January – 13 February 2010Halton Arts Development’s unique programme of artists’ residencies with Halton’s high schools, special schools and FE College...

Crossing Place; Wendy Dison14 November - 9 January 2010This is a revised version of an exhibition that was part of Liverpool Independents Biennial in...

Jake and Dinos Chapman: My Giant Colouring Book4 July - 1 August 2009  A Hayward Touring Exhibition of etchings by Jake and Dinos Chapman....

The Brindley - 7 artists – 7 days - Inspired by Cézanne 25 April – 30 May 2009 In the centenary year...

Tidal: Markmakers Exploring The MerseyMarch 29 - May 10 2008 Halton's contemporary visual arts collective have been exploring different facets of the river, through...

Walker Evans: Photographs 1935 – 1936February 16th – March 15th 2008 `A Hayward Touring exhibition from Southbank...