Site Gallery

02/06/2026

✨🎮 WHEN THE SKY GETS BRIGHT OPENS NEXT THURSDAY 🎮✨

Site Gallery, 5 - 8pm

A new exhibition by artist collective Babeworld in collaboration with Site Gallery's youth groups Society of Explorers and Creative Producers.

Featuring four video works and an interactive installation, the exhibition explores loneliness, isolation and the complex relationship between online and physical worlds.

When The Sky Gets Bright will run until 27 September.

Find out more > https://www.sitegallery.org/exhibition/when-the-sky-gets-bright/

21/05/2026

Join us for a night of live music in the gallery!
Thursday 25 June, 7 - 10pm

Experience performances from three artists working across drone, folk, and electronic sound.

🎶 utopian_realism - one of the artists behind the score for When the Sky Gets Bright - a research-driven music project exploring internet-native genres, digital nostalgia and escapist culture through experimental sound and contemporary online aesthetics.

🎶 Maisy Owen - Nashville-born singer-songwriter blending fingerpicked folk influences and stirring vocals into intimate, emotionally rich songs shaped by a lifelong immersion in music and songwriting.

🎶 Black Brunswicker - Manchester-based ambient folk project of Indiana-raised musician Etta Helfrich, combining fingerpicked guitar, field recordings and layered reverb into intimate soundscapes.

Find out more and book now >

Come and spend an evening in the gallery with live music from three artists whose work spans drone, folk and electronic sound. utopian_realism, one of the artists behind the score for When the Sky Gets Bright, will perform alongside Maisy Owen and Black Brunswicker. Access information: This event wi...

18/05/2026

WHEN THE SKY GETS BRIGHT 📺✨
Opening on 12 June

A new exhibition by arts collective Babeworld, developed in collaboration with our youth groups Society of Explorers and Creative Producers.

The exhibition brings together four new moving image works exploring how neurodivergent young people navigate loneliness, burnout and the complicated pull between the digital and physical worlds.

Join us for the opening night on 12 June, 5 - 8pm.
When The Sky Gets Bright will run until 27 September.

Find out more > https://www.sitegallery.org/exhibition/when-the-sky-gets-bright/

30/04/2026

Just Food: The ends and the means 🌽🌽

Join us at Heeley City Farm for an afternoon on collective action towards just food systems, labour and land work.

16 May, pay what you can.

Find out more and book here >
https://www.sitegallery.org/event/just-food/

We are living through the most unstable threat to food security seen in recent generations. With food, fuel and fertiliser shortages set to bite in the coming months as a consequence of war, climate crisis and large scale industrial farming; the issue of sustainable and equitable access to food is more urgent than ever.

This event brings together speakers developing imaginative and critical interventions to our current food system including Leslie Barson of Granville Community Kitchen, Claire Ratinon from Solidarity Across Land Trades (SALT), and Emiliano Mellino, investigative journalist at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Together, we will plot how capitalist forms of extraction, exploitation and exhaustion of both land and workers are challenged and overcome. The discussion will be facilitated by artist Rehana Zaman.

07/04/2026

Explore Plantation at Site Gallery until 17 May 🌱✨

Rehana Zaman's solo exhibition explores land use, labour and environmental collapse through the experiences of agricultural workers.

Featuring two new film works - Soft Fruit (filmed in Angus, Scotland) and Jo Kherray so Khaey (translated as ‘The one that ploughs has the right to the yield’, filmed in Punjab, Pakistan) - within a immersive sculptural environment.

Open Tue - Sun. Free entry.

Find out more here > https://www.sitegallery.org/exhibition/rehana-zaman/

24/03/2026

EASTER BANK HOLIDAY GALLERY OPENING HOURS 🐣

Friday 3 April, 11 - 4
Saturday 4 April, 11 - 5
Sunday 5 April, closed

17/03/2026

STORIES OF SOLIDARITY: SCREENING WEEKEND 📽️

Join us for a weekend of film screenings responding to the themes of Rehana Zaman’s Plantation.

Friday 24 - Sunday 26 April
Site Gallery Studio I
Free entry, drop in any time

Films will run on a loop throughout the weekend, featuring:

Tambaku Chaakila Oob Aali (1982)
Sweet Sugar Rage (1985)
Who Takes the Rap - Immigration (1986)
Midgie Noise (2013)

+ more to be announced soon!

Find out more > https://www.sitegallery.org/event/screening-weekend/

Image: Tambaku Chaakila Oob Aali (To***co Embers). Courtesy of Arsenal Filminstitut.

12/03/2026

MYTHICAL CREATURE CLAYMATION WORKSHOPS 🐉✨

Join us on Saturday 11 or Sunday 12 April for an action-packed claymation workshop inspired by the mythological beings referenced in Rehana Zaman’s Plantation.

11am - 1pm, Site Gallery Studio I
Pay what you can

Sculpt your own character in plasticine, explore the basics of storyboarding, and bring your ideas to life with stop-motion animation.

These are intergenerational workshops for individuals and families - all ages welcome. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Find out more and book now > https://www.sitegallery.org/event/claymation-workshops/

06/03/2026

"A necessary reminder of just how much Britain depends on love and labour from immigrants, and a warning of the dangers of exploitation and extraction – everywhere."

Wemmy Ogunyankin reviews Rehana Zaman's new exhibition Plantation – on now at Site Gallery. Read more – https://ourfaveplaces.co.uk/whats-on/plantation/

03/03/2026

We've curated a selection of books in the shop exploring themes from Rehana Zaman's Plantation exhibition - including agriculture, land rights, geopolitics, economics and the environment.

Featured books:

🌱 Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior
🌱 Common Treasures: Land, food & farming
🌱 The Future Is Degrowth by Matthew Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter and Aaron Vansintjan
🌱 The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard
🌱 Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva
🌱 The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato
🌱 Emergency by Daisy Hildyard
🌱 Anthropocene Communism by Paul Guillibert
🌱 A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore
🌱 Soil Not Oil by Vandana Shiva
🌱 Extractive Capitalism by Laleh Khalili
🌱 The Exhausted of the Earth by Ajay Singh Chaudhary
🌱 Living Things by Munir Hachemi
🌱 The Global Casino by Ann Pettifor

Open Tue - Sun. Find out more here > https://www.sitegallery.org/exhibition/rehana-zaman/