The Midlands has a wealth of art galleries and museums hosting a range of fantastic exhibitions - both permanent and temporary. Here's a selection of what's showing across the region. 

ANDY WARHOL: ART STAR

Wolverhampton Art Gallery’s tribute to Andy Warhol is an Artist Rooms exhibition created in partnership with Tate and National Galleries of Scotland.

The display includes both iconic and lesser-known drawings, screenprints, paintings and photographs from the 1950s to the 1980s. Warhol’s famous Campbell’s soup tin features in the show, taking its place alongside images of The Beatles, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.

Wolverhampton Art Gallery, until Sunday 4 October

TEN.8 AFTERIMAGE

The legacy and enduring impact of Ten.8 - a photography journal that emerged from the Midlands’ radical cultural and political landscape in the late 1970s - is the subject of this fascinating exhibition. Engaging with the continued relevance of the concerns that the journal addressed - including Thatcherite neoliberal reforms and struggles against colonialism and state violence - the exhibition brings photographic works produced in the 1980s and 90s into dialogue with more recent artworks. 

New Art Gallery, Walsall, until Sunday 13 September

TROUBLEMAKERS AND PROPHETS

Described as an exploration of ‘art, isolation and extraordinary vision’, Troublemakers And Prophets is primarily a celebration of the output of Elizabeth Allen, a seamstress who lived in a small corrugated-iron shack in a wood in Kent for many years prior to her death in 1967. 

Known by her childhood nickname of ‘Queen’, Elizabeth created colourful, symbolic and made-from-fabric artworks which focused on a wide variety of subject matter, from biblical prophecies concerning the end of the world, to quirky comments on aspects of modern life. 

Alongside Elizabeth’s absurd, darkly funny and strikingly prophetic creations, the exhibition also features artworks produced by numerous other ‘visionary artists’.   

Compton Verney, Warwickshire, until Monday 31 August

CLAIRE HEWITT: EVERYTHING IN THE FOREST IS FOREST

Acclaimed photographer Clare Hewitt’s latest exhibition - a celebration of trees and their remarkable ability to nurture and communicate - is a direct response to a government report suggesting that loneliness and isolation are on the rise in rural areas of the country. 

Setting up a studio within a circle of 12 oak trees, Clare documented the forest and its seasonal changes, exploring nature through a range of sustainable photographic techniques.

Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham, until Monday 31 August   

Image: The-Peace-Tree_Summer-©-Clare-Hewitt

SHAQÚELLE WHYTE: SHATTERED DREAMS

Growing up in Wolverhampton, Royal College of Art graduate Shaqúelle Whyte has cited visits to the city’s art gallery as being pivotal in the development of his creativity. Now - in his mid-20s - Shaqúelle has his very own exhibition at the venue! 

What’s more, the gallery has recently acquired one of his paintings - the striking and nocturnal Blackbirds Singing In The Dead Of Night - for its permanent collection. 

The painting takes its place in the Shattered Dreams exhibition alongside five other similarly dynamic and large-scale works, all of which serve to showcase Shaqúelle’s bold figurative style and vigorous mark-making. 

Wolverhampton Art Gallery, until Monday 31 August 

BREAK THE MOULD

The final chapter in a trilogy of exhibitions exploring craft, art-school pedagogies and contemporary art practice, Break The Mould focuses the spotlight on ceramics. 

Bringing together a dynamic cohort of ceramicists for a series of residencies, the exhibition also explores the ways in which the craft and medium of clay can ‘speak to the future’.  

Ikon, Birmingham, until Sunday 6 September

DIPPY IN COVENTRY: THE NATION'S FAVOURITE DINOSAUR

The Natural History Museum’s iconic Diplodocus cast - life-size, made of plaster-of-paris, and affectionately referred to as Dippy - has taken up residence in Coventry for an initial period of three years. 

Diplodocus carnegii, to give it its official name, lived during the Late Jurassic period, somewhere between 155 and 145 million years ago. Huge, plant-eating dinosaurs with long, whip-like tails, they grew to about 25 metres in length and are believed to have weighed around 15 tonnes, making them three tonnes heavier than a London double-decker bus. 

Dippy first arrived in London in 1905 and recently visited Birmingham as part of an eight-city tour that attracted a record-breaking two million visitors.

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, until February 2027