Threads: Clothing, Memory and Identity
2025-08-07 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-08 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-09 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-10 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-11 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-12 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-13 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-18 10:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) and 10 more dates
Celebrate all things fashion in our summer exhibition and explore ideas
of memory and identity through the clothes we wear.

Subversive Forms: Revolutionary approaches to clay
2025-11-15 10:00 - 2026-02-21 16:00 | Chippenham Museum, 9-10 Market Pl, Chippenham, SN15 3HF, United Kingdom
Featuring artworks by some of the leading sculptors and innovators working with ceramics in the UK today, join us for our next exhibition ‘Subversive Forms: Revolutionary approaches to clay’.
‘Subversive Forms’ will shine a spotlight on contemporary artists who push the boundaries of possibility with clay. Each selected artist disrupts and manipulates traditional ceramic preconceptions, creating enigmatic artworks that push the medium beyond the functional, and using clay as a non-apologetic material for sculpture.
The exhibition features work by the following artists:
Dan Allen, Felicity Aylieff, Kelly Allsopp, Halima Cassell, Matthew Chambers, Claire Curneen, Richard Deacon, Laura Ford, Keith Harrison, Mimi Joung, Jonathan Keep, Nicholas Lees, Claire Loder, Sam Lucas, Peter Randall Page, Sarah Purvey, Matt Smith, Jo Taylor, Annie Turner, Patricia Volk, and Maria Wodjat.
📅 Saturday 15 November – Saturday 21 February
⏲️ Monday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
🎟️ Free entry
Find out more about the some of the artists featured in this exhibition, at our special ceramics symposium, being held at Chippenham’s Town Hall in February.

Curious Cabinets Exhibition
2026-01-31 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-02 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-04 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-06 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-07 10:00 - 16:00 | The Yelde Hall
In celebration of the entries submitted to our Curious Cabinets competition, Public Art Chippenham is hosting an exhibition of the artworks received at the Yelde Hall.

A panel of local artists and dignitaries, along with a public vote, will select the winning designs to be painted or vinyl wrapped onto roadside communication cabinets in the Artisan Quarter of town.

Come to the exhibition and vote for your favourite!

Lady Chatterley’s Cover: The Book Designs of Stephen Russ
2026-03-07 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-09 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-10 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-11 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-12 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-13 10:00 - 16:00 | Chippenham Museum, 9-10 Market Pl, Chippenham, SN15 3HF, United Kingdom
The post-war book designs of artist and teacher, Stephen Russ, are coming to life at Chippenham Museum.
From the forties to the seventies, Russ produced dozens of dust jackets, from striking first editions of Graham Greene at Bodley Head to a wide range of titles at Collins, including nature books and the famous Collins Crime Club.
He is perhaps best known for his work with Penguin, designing covers for the main orange series, the lesser-known music scores, and the highly collectible Penguin Poets series. His phoenix motif for DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover became famous during the 1960 obscenity trial and featured in the marketing that helped make the book a bestseller.
The exhibition also celebrates Russ’s thirty-year career as a tutor at the renowned Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, brought together with the generous support of the Russ family and loans from the Penguin Archive and the University of Bristol.
