Walker Art Gallery Turner exhibition tickets and details
- Catherine Jones
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The Walker Art Gallery will stage an exhibition this autumn which considers the enduring influence of British painter JMW Turner.
Tickets for Turner: Always Contemporary go on sale today, the 250th anniversary of the artist’s birth in London on St George’s Day 1775.
The exhibition, which is due to run from October 25 to February 2026, will explore both Turner’s own work and his impact on successive generations of artists.
It will include National Museums Liverpool’s own collection of Turner’s paintings, works on paper and prints, exhibited alongside modern and contemporary artworks which consider themes like travel, tourism, landscape, climate change and artistic experimentation. A number important and influential loaned artworks will also be on show.
Among the works from other artists are those by Liverpool war artist Albert Richards, Maggi Hambling, Claude Monet, Bridget Riley, Ethel Walker, Jeff Koons, George Frederick Watts and Annie Louisa Swynnerton.
Above: Albert Richards' Seacombe Ferry in Wartime (1941). Top: JMW Turner's The Wreck Buoy. Both images courtesy of the Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool.
NML has one of the most significant collections of Turner's work in the country including watercolours and delicate works on paper which are rarely displayed due to their light sensitivity. In 2014 it staged an exhibition titled Turner: travels, light and landscape at the Lady Lever Art Gallery.
Dr Melissa Gustin, NML Curator of British Art, said: “This is a hugely exciting opportunity to reconsider National Museums Liverpool’s collection of works by Turner.
“This exhibition will showcase the treasures in our collection and explore how Turner’s work has always been challenging, exciting and contemporary for audiences in Britain and around the world.”
Turner was born on April 23 1775 in Covent Garden, and died in 1851 at the age of 76.
Turner: Always Contemporary is at the Walker Art Gallery from October 25 to February 22, 2026. Tickets HERE