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✨ Where art is alive
❓ What is the Meaning of Life?
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Charges apply for special exhibitions.
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Free entrance to our permanent collection, shop, cafe and sculpture park.

14/10/2026

What does it really mean to love someone? And to be loved in return? ❤️

In one month, our new season opens at the Sainsbury Centre, exploring the messy, complicated and very human business of love, desire and intimacy.

Across four exhibitions, artists explore everything from the first spark of attraction to heartbreak, devotion, friendship, family, q***r love and the ways technology is changing how we connect with one another.

💋 The Last Human Kiss explores the kiss as a symbol of love, desire, devotion, betrayal and belonging, bringing together works by artists including Auguste Rodin, Tracey Emin, Wolfgang Tillmans and Dorothy Cross.

❤️‍🔥 Ecstasy and the Aftermath asks what happens when love changes us. Looking at desire, identity, belonging and heartbreak, the exhibition brings together artists including Judy Chicago, Marina Abramović and Ulay, Somaya Critchlow and Phoebe Boswell.

📸 Love Stories looks at the everyday realities of relationships through photography, from friendship and family to partnership, community and selfhood. Featuring work by photographers including Richard Billingham, Martin Parr, Zanele Muholi and Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh.

And at the heart of the season, How Do We Find Love? asks us to sit with love in all its contradictions. As wound and remedy, sacred and profane, private and political.

From paintings and sculpture to photography, textiles, film, moving image and sound, this season is an invitation to think about connection differently.

Our autumn 2026 season opens 13 November

Who will you be bringing with you?

Auguste Rodin, The Kiss, 1901-4. Courtesy: Tate

09/10/2026

Make a little space for curiosity this half term. 🍂🎨

Looking for something a little different to do this autumn? Come and explore the Sainsbury Centre, from discovering something new in the galleries to wandering through the Sculpture Park.

✨ See the collection differently

Pick up an Explorer Tool from the front desk and set off on your own gallery adventure. Follow your curiosity, look a little closer and see where the artworks take you.

🌳 Take art outside

Pick up a Pocket Map and head into the Sculpture Park, where artworks sit among ancient oaks, open parkland and the Broad and Yare river valley. Look out for works by Henry Moore, Elisabeth Frink, Lynn Chadwick, Antony Gormley and more, including Kirstine Roepstorff’s Lightning Rod.

🎨 For young creatives

Our Young Associates programme returns this autumn for 16 to 25 year olds looking to develop creative ideas, experiment with new ways of working and meet future collaborators.

Led by artists Anna Brass and Possible Worlds, the programme runs on Tuesdays from 6 October to 10 November, 4.30 to 6.15pm in the Learning Studio.

It’s free to join, but booking is essential.

This half term, come and wander, wonder, make and discover. 🍁

07/10/2026

🏛️ We’re hiring! We’re looking for three new members to join the Sainsbury Centre team.

🎯 Executive Assistant to the Executive Director

Provide high-level support to the Executive Director, helping coordinate schedules, meetings, reports, travel and day-to-day activity. We’re looking for someone with strong executive support experience, excellent judgement and discretion.

📋 Administrative Assistant

Help keep the Directorate and wider Centre running smoothly through a varied mix of administrative and secretarial support, including organising meetings, travel, reports and supporting new starters.

Across all three roles, you’ll be joining a team working to make the Sainsbury Centre a place where art, ideas and people come together.

🎬 Creative Production and Media Manager

Help shape how the Sainsbury Centre’s Living Art concept and radical exhibition programme reach audiences around the world. You’ll develop engaging digital content and explore new and creative ways to connect with online audiences.

Find the full job descriptions and details on how to apply via this link:
https://vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/vacancy-search-results.aspx

Know someone who could be a great fit? Tag them below!

04/10/2026

🌟 Help Usagi Kannon live her best life at the Sainsbury Centre! 🐰

Our beloved rabbit girl is set to leave our Sculpture Park this year unless we help her stay.

Created by Leiko Ikemura, this iconic bronze sculpture is a magical fusion of nature and humanity, and one of the most cherished artworks at the Sainsbury Centre, bringing joy to more than a million visitors every year.

We need your help to make her a permanent part of our collection so future generations can fall in love with her, too. As the saying goes: “Don’t let the rabbit hop away…!”

Every donation helps brings us one hop closer. Every penny goes straight toward keeping Usagi Kannon right here in the Sculpture Park.

Donate today: Click the link below to visit our giving page and support the campaign!

https://tr.ee/RoK0Qy

Thank you so much for your support! ❤️

03/10/2026

What does Young Associates actually look like?

Hear from Gladys ( on instgram), who took part in the programme last year, in this video made during their time as a Young Associate.

Young Associates returns this autumn, giving 16–25 year olds the chance to develop their own creative projects, experiment with new ideas and connect with artists, curators, researchers and other young creatives.

This year, the programme will be led by artists Anna Brass and Possible Worlds.

📅 Tuesdays, 6 October-10 November
🕟 4.30-6.15pm
📍 Learning Studio, meet at Gallery Reception
🎟️ Free, booking essential

02/10/2026

How can we sustain a meaningful, creative life?

What do we need to make art, write, play music and keep creating, especially when time, money, space and energy are under pressure?

Join us tomorrow at the Sainsbury Centre for a conversation with artists, writers and musicians exploring the condistions that support creative practice.

We'll think together about the physical, social and political structures that shape creative lives, and ask what role withdrawl, collective working, rest and community might play.

This event marks the end of ED Webb-Ingall's artist residency and mutual aid, the residency's production budget was redistributed to five artists - Sam Cottington, Robbie Ellen, Jaye Hudson, Jacob V Joyce, and Mercy Moktar - framing resource-sharing itself as a core artistic practice.

Come along for an open conversation about making, living and sustaining a creative life.

🎟️ Free. Booking required: https://sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/dialogue-event-the-hermit-and-the-choir/

01/10/2026

⏳ Last chance to see these exhibitions!

From medieval manuscripts and ancient games to quantum multiverses and immersive play, there’s still time to experience three exhibitions exploring some very big questions about how we live, play and imagine.

📜 Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval explores the dialogue between medieval ways of organising life and contemporary reflections on routine, regulation and community, including the extraordinary Hatton Codex, Etheldreda Panels and illuminated psalters.

🎲 PLAY POWER explores the enduring role of play in human life, from ancient Egyptian senet and chess to toys, games, art and virtual worlds. Step inside Dream Shaping, an immersive play-space where physical and virtual worlds collide.

🌌 Life in the Multiverse by Libby Heaney invites you into a dream-like world of quantum coding, digital installations and new paintings exploring interconnectedness, identity and the many worlds we might inhabit.

✨ Don’t miss your final chance to experience these exhibitions.

Plan your visit and see them before they close on the 4th.

29/09/2026

✍️ Your weekend plans are sorted! This Saturday, The Hermit and the Choir comes to the Sainsbury Centre, bringing together readings, open conversation and shared reflection to mark the end of artist Ed Webb-Ingall’s residency.

At the heart of Ed’s residency project was a period of writing. Alongside, Ed extended the project to support the creative practices of 5 other artists, who also use writing in their work: Sam Cottington, Robbie Ellen, Jaye Hudson, Jacob V Joyce and Mercy Moktar.

Join us for an afternoon of conversation exploring withdrawal, attention, sharing and the conditions that allow creative work to happen.

🗓️ Saturday 3 October
📍 Sainsbury Centre
🎟️ Free. Booking required at https://sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/dialogue-event-the-hermit-and-the-choir/

28/09/2026

✍️ Less than one week to go until The Hermit and the Choir!

Join us next Saturday for an afternoon of readings, open conversation and shared reflection, as we mark the end of Ed Webb-Ingall's artist residency at the Sainsbury Centre.

Inspired by our Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval exhibition, and drawing from monks’ traditions of renunciation and mutual aid, Ed redistributed the residency’s production budget to five other artists: Sam Cottington, Robbie Ellen, Jaye Hudson, Jacob V Joyce and Mercy Moktar.

Join the artists for a dialogic event reflecting on how resources circulate, how artistic labour is supported, and how sharing might create new conditions for creative practice.

🗓️ Saturday 3 October
📍 Sainsbury Centre
🎟️ Free. Booking required at https://sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/dialogue-event-the-hermit-and-the-choir/

23/09/2026

🪩 TOMORROW! Don’t miss your last chance to grab a ticket for our most anticipated event, our Museum Late, 6-8.15pm! 🎨

Alice Theobald, Philip Ewe, National Rails and Tessa Norton will transform the museum for one night only with music, performance and film.

Together, these incredible artists will create performances, moving image, immersive audio landscapes, live music and more, exploring authenticity, self-help culture, digital vs. analogue life, and the messy, beautiful limits of language.

Doors open at 5.45pm. Performances will start at 6pm.

🎟️ Grab your ticket now for just £5 (or FREE for students) at https://sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/museum-late-good-harmonies-misbegotten-words-and-pre-ripped-jeans/

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Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

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