Your Art, Unlocked

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• Helen Chadwick’s cube about childhood at Nottingham Castle

  October 20, 2026 · 18 min

  In this episode of Your Art, Unlocked, writer and art historian Lydia Figes visits Nottingham Castle to unlock a unique wooden sculpture by Helen Chadwick. On this wooden cube we catch glimpses of a woman’s body – in one image she’s…

• John Constable’s copy of a Dutch landscape at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

  October 13, 2026 · 26 min

  In this episode of Your Art, Unlocked art historian and curator Nicola Moorby visits Dulwich Picture Gallery to uncover why the English artist John Constable copied a moody Dutch landscape by Jacob van Ruisdael. Join Nicola as she gets to…

• Alice Maher’s fragile frock at the Ulster Museum, Belfast

  August 4, 2026 · 20 min

  In this episode of Your Art, Unlocked, writer and critic Gemma Tipton visits the Ulster Museum in Belfast to unlock a sculpture by artist Alice Maher made using a very surprising material. Picture a small girl’s party dress. It isn’t…

• Japanese woodblock prints at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

  July 28, 2026 · 15 min

  In this episode of Your Art, Unlocked, journalist, author and editor Holly E. J. Black visits Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery to unlock a remarkable collection of Japanese prints that transport us to Japan’s ‘floating world’. The…

• Nina Saunders’ decorative dustpan at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 

  July 21, 2026 · 21 min

  In this episode of Your Art, Unlocked, art historian, writer and educator Melissa Baksh visits Pallant House Gallery in Chichester to unlock a subversive sculpture by artist Nina Saunders. This object resembles a dustpan but it’s covered…

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