@BarberInstitute

Art gallery and concert hall on the @unibirmingham campus. Galleries closed for building project.

 Birmingham
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Joined August 2009
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We've been selected for the new Clore Schools Connect cohort – a 3-year grant programme expanding our schools work to reach young people facing barriers to engagement. A huge thanks to the Clore Duffield Foundation for their support.
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We've raised £14.8million for our transformation project! This will help make our building more accessible, create a new Learning Wing and undertake improvements to our concert hall and gallery spaces. Thank you to our supporters, who've made this possible.
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We're deeply saddened to learn that Tess Jaray, RA has passed away at 88. One of Britain's most distinguished painters and printmakers, her 2019 exhibition 'FROM OUTSIDE' at the Barber was inspired by our building's elegant 1930s architecture. Her work remains in our collection.
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We’re delighted to announce we’ve been awarded a £150,000 grant from the @DCMS / @wolfsonfdn Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund. We're incredibly grateful. This support will help us carry out our building improvements work to make the Barber more accessible and welcoming.
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The Barber Institute retweeted
College of Arts+Law@artsatbham3 Nov 2025
The @BarberInstitute have launched a new online exhibition: Fragments of Devotion - A Sensory History of Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings 🖼️ The fantastic exhibition was developed by our MA History of Art and Curating students! Learn more: birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/t…
A colourful painting of Jesus.

ALT A colourful painting of Jesus.

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The Barber Institute retweeted
Digital Culture Network
@ace_dcn30 Sep 2025
🎙 New podcast episode! How can one survey serve an entire org? Nadia Sommella from @BarberInstitute shares how a simple shift in approach to working across teams led to richer insights & better decisions. 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts! digitalculturenetwork.org.uk…
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🎨 Calling all budding artists! We’re launching a new monthly #BarberArtChallenge to celebrate the creativity of our community. ✅ All ages welcome 🎨 All styles and skill levels encouraged 🏆Prizes provided by @CASSART1984 🔗Find out more: barber.org.uk/join-the-barbe…
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This week’s #OnlineArtExchange theme is Portraits of Artists for ‘Turner 250 and his early Patrons’ @TableyHouse. We’ve chosen this 1900 etching of Auguste Rodin by Albert Besnard from our collection. Rodin’s impressive beard certainly gives him a strong profile 🧔
Sepia toned print of a bearded man with short hair shown from the side.

ALT Sepia toned print of a bearded man with short hair shown from the side.

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#OnlineArtExchange is looking at Welsh art for ‘From the Collection’ @Oriel_Mon We’re lucky to have this work by one of the most famous Welsh-born artists – Gwen John – in our collection. We love the stripped-back colour palette and calming vibe 🎨
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The Barber Institute retweeted
National Portrait Gallery
@NPGLondon7 Aug 2025
A martyred King shows the importance of religious imagery in troubling times. Explore this theme further with @BarberInstitute’s online exhibition. For this week's #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg. 📷 Charles I by Unknown Artist, 17th Century © NPG, London
Alt text: A coloured painting of a white man with his arms held up and a golden crown being taken off his head revealing a sun halo. He has long brown hair and a large beard. He looks spell bound.

ALT Alt text: A coloured painting of a white man with his arms held up and a golden crown being taken off his head revealing a sun halo. He has long brown hair and a large beard. He looks spell bound.

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The Barber Institute retweeted
blooloop@Blooloop7 Aug 2025
Today's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange theme is religion for Fragments of Devotion: A Sensory History of Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings’ at @BarberInstitute. This is John Byam Shaw's 'The Victory of Christ' (1899).
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The Barber Institute retweeted
Lynn Museum@Lynn_Museum7 Aug 2025
Today's #OnlineArtExchange by @artukdotorg theme is religious art for Fragments of Devotion: A Sensory History of Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings’ at @BarberInstitute. Here is a print of a section of the painting by Jan van Eyck depicting the Virgin Mary on The Ghent Altarpiece.
Oil painting of Virgin Mary holding a book and reading from it. A jewelled crown adorns her head with red roses and white lillies on top. He wavy brown hair flows over her shoulders and she is dressed in a deep blue gown with gold and jewelled hem decoration. Around her head is golden holy light.

ALT Oil painting of Virgin Mary holding a book and reading from it. A jewelled crown adorns her head with red roses and white lillies on top. He wavy brown hair flows over her shoulders and she is dressed in a deep blue gown with gold and jewelled hem decoration. Around her head is golden holy light.

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This week’s @artukdotorg #onlineartexchange theme is Religious art for 'Fragments of Devotion: A Sensory History of Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings' at @BarberInstitute. We have picked the @NationalGallery piece ‘Apollo slaying Coronis’ by Domenichino.
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The Barber Institute retweeted
The Pier Arts Centre@PierArtsCentre7 Aug 2025
This week @artukdotorg are looking at Religious art for Fragments of Devotion: A Sensory History of Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings’ at @BarberInstitute for the #OnlineArtExchange Lots to see in Entrance for a Red Temple No. 1, 1960 by Alan Davie (1920–2014) from @Tate
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Today's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange theme is religious art for Fragments of Devotion: A Sensory History of Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings’ at @BarberInstitute Check out this sampler by Mary Turner Wattisfield in 1819 which includes a religious text.
Textile Sampler in a decorated border there is the alphabet in capitals an numbers 1-13. below, in a separate panel is the alphabet in lower case. Below that ina another panel are 8 lines of religious text. The bottom panel has Mary Turner Wattisfield 1819 The whole in a wooden frame which is veneered, and the whole is glazed. There are stitched words: "Teach me to feel anothers wo To hide the Fault i see That mercy I to others show That mercy show to me This day be bread and peace my lot All else beneath the sun Thou knowst if best bestowed or not, And let thy will be done"

ALT Textile Sampler in a decorated border there is the alphabet in capitals an numbers 1-13. below, in a separate panel is the alphabet in lower case. Below that ina another panel are 8 lines of religious text. The bottom panel has Mary Turner Wattisfield 1819 The whole in a wooden frame which is veneered, and the whole is glazed. There are stitched words: "Teach me to feel anothers wo To hide the Fault i see That mercy I to others show That mercy show to me This day be bread and peace my lot All else beneath the sun Thou knowst if best bestowed or not, And let thy will be done"

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The Barber Institute retweeted
Art UK@artukdotorg7 Aug 2025
Today's #OnlineArtExchange is religious art for @BarberInstitute's online exhibition Fragments of Devotion 🌟 Check it out 👉 devotion.barber.org.uk/ Liberale da Verona, Historiated Initial ‘C’ showing Christ in Glory from a Gradual for Siena Cathedral © @BarberInstitute
Medieval illuminated manuscript page depicting a robed figure in blue surrounded by a circle of red-winged angelic beings against a gold and blue background.

ALT Medieval illuminated manuscript page depicting a robed figure in blue surrounded by a circle of red-winged angelic beings against a gold and blue background.

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We’re hosting #OnlineArtExchange to celebrate our online show ‘Fragments of Devotion’! 🔍Can you guess the letter illustrated in this colourful manuscript cutting from our collection? 👉devotion.barber.org.uk/
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Out of office on until further notice. If you need us, we’re wandering through a cornfield at dusk – admiring the moonlight 🌙 🖼️ Arthur Illies, ‘Ripe Cornfield: Evening (Ahrenfeld am Abend)’, 1896
Coloured etching of a crescent moon and cornfield in dusk lighting

ALT Coloured etching of a crescent moon and cornfield in dusk lighting

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We’re looking to the big screen this #OnlineArtExchange for ‘May the Toys be with You’ @lynnmuseum. This dramatic 1887 aquatint by Max Klinger is like a still from a vintage horror film –Nosferatu, eat your heart out! 🦇 Who knew 19th-c printmaking could be so cinematic? 📽️
A black-and-white aquatint by Max Klinger showing a dramatic, shadowy castle by the sea with gothic elements.

ALT A black-and-white aquatint by Max Klinger showing a dramatic, shadowy castle by the sea with gothic elements.

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With this summer’s weather hotter than ever and the school holidays around the corner, today’s #OnlineArtExchange theme is summer☀️ We’ve chosen Boudin’s ‘A Beach near Trouville’ from our collection! It captures the vibrant colours of a beach beautifully, don’t you think? 🏊
Painting of a beach with sand and rocky cliff

ALT Painting of a beach with sand and rocky cliff

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