Celebrating Winter at MEAA
2025-11-29 12:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | Museum of East Asian Art, 12 Bennett Street, Bath, BA1 2QJ, United Kingdom
Celebrate the festive season at MEAA with delicious East Asian–inspired pastries, traditional English winter treats, and a hands-on winter-themed origami session for all ages!

Sugarcane Studios, a local Bath favourite, have joined in to celebrate the festive season with some winter inspired sweet treats! Sample some delicate macarons, and some special taro red bean puffs made especially for the event!

Sugarcane Studio is Bath’s destination for exquisite East Asian–inspired French patisserie. Indulge in handcrafted pastries, premium matcha and hojicha imported from Japan, and fine teas from Taiwan. Blending artistry and flavour, we bring a modern, cultural twist to the traditional café experience — where every creation celebrates craftsmanship, taste, and the joy of discovery.

There will also be some traditional English winter treats. Mulled apple juice and mince pies will be joining the delicious offerings from Sugarcane Studio.

Along with your treats, join in with their winter themed origami session! Create Christmas trees, shape snowflakes, and fold festive ornaments. Get ready for the festive season and make beautiful handmade cards, gifts, and decorations with this ancient Japanese art form.

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Japanese Woodblock Workshop with Hiroko Imada
2025-12-06 14:30 - 17:30 | Museum of East Asian Art, 12 Bennett Street, Bath, BA1 2QJ, United Kingdom
Learn about woodcut printing with artist Hiroko Imada at MEAA this December. Working with Hiroko, the creator of Sakura Saku of the In Bloom exhibition, you will be led through designing, carving, and printing your own woodblocks. By the end of the workshop, you will have your own beautiful creation to display in your home!

Hiroko Imada studied at the Slade in printmaking and specialises in teaching Japanese Woodblock Printing, so you will be in expert hands.

At a Glance– Learn Japanese woodcut printing with artist Hiroko Imada– Design, carve, and print your own artwork– Discover traditional techniques and tools– Enjoy a small, hands-on session with expert guidance– All materials included– Includes Museum and In Bloom exhibition entry– Take home your finished woodblock print

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COURTING COLOUR EXHIBITION
2025-12-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Sandra Higgins Art Gallery, 41 Milsom Street, Bath, BANES, BA1 1DN, United Kingdom
Join the Sandra Higgins Art Gallery for the PRIVATE VIEW of the exhibition ‘Courting Colour’ in Shires Yard. Courting Colour invites viewers to slow down, look deeply, and allow colour to do its transformative work. It celebrates colour as a living, expressive force, one that continues to inspire, challenge, and delight.

Through vibrant contrasts, muted harmonies, or unexpected juxtapositions, Louisa Burnett- Hall, Gina Parr and Robin Sewell, invite us into a different emotional register, revealing a unique chromatic world shaped by personal inspiration – whether drawn from nature, memory, emotion or pure abstraction.

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Jane Austen Walked Past Here: East Asia and Austen Tour
2025-12-16 11:00 - 11:45 | Museum of East Asian Art, 12 Bennett Street, Bath, BA1 2QJ, United Kingdom
The MEAA celebrates Jane Austen 250 with a mini-tour connecting the Museum’s collection with Jane Austen and the Regency world of Bath.

For Jane Austen’s birthday, discover how East and Southeast Asian art and culture shaped daily life in Georgian Britain from tea rituals to porcelain prestige with a unique tour that connects Bath to East Asia.

Learn about Austen from a new perspective at the Museum of East Asian Art, located just steps from the Assembly Rooms, and explore exquisite Chinese teacups, blue-and-white porcelain, and the surprising global influences in Jane’s world.

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Handle with Care: Cornelia Parker & Historic Glass at No.1 Royal Crescent
2026-02-07 00:00 - 2026-05-10 23:59 | No.1 Royal Crescent, 1 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LR
A new exhibition at No.1 Royal Crescent7 February – 10 May 2026The Gallery at No.1 Royal Crescent, Bath

No.1 Royal Crescent presents Handle with Care: Cornelia Parker & Historic Glass, an exhibition that looking through the eyes of one of Britain’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Cornelia Parker, at the historic glass and found objects that inspire her work and artistic process.

This exhibition will juxtapose Cornelia Parker’s series One Day This Glass Will Break (2015); Thirty Pieces of Silver (exposed) (2015); Fox Talbot’s Articles of Glass (2017) and Through a Glass Darkly (2020) with Georgian historic glass. The show explores Parker’s enduring fascination with the histories of objects and materials by pairing her photogravures of light and shadow cast by glassware with the historic artefacts that inspired them. This dialogue invites visitors to consider how these familiar forms, as Parker notes, “descend from their shelves and create new compositions” within her prints.

Inspired by 19th century photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot’s ground-breaking photographs and photogravure technique, Parker has created a hybrid technique by placing actual glassware onto an etching plate treated with a light sensitive emulsion, which captures the objects’ shadows when exposed to ultraviolet light. In doing so she transforms the once familiar items into something very unfamiliar. This process is part of Parker’s career-long fascination with taking the recognisable, and pushing it to a point of abstraction. This slow, contemplative method of printing creates an effect on some of the monochrome prints that is almost painterly, as items blur in and out of focus.

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