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Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi

Next: Saturday, 7 November 2026

Runs until Sunday, 21 February 2027 (See all dates)

Time
10:30 - 17:00
Venue
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, EX4 3RX
Price
Standard – £8 (concessions available)

This unique art exhibition explores the cultural world of fungi through a lens of scientific enquiry.

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By bringing together the work of leading contemporary artists, Living Labyrinths suggests ways to reimagine our relationship with the earth. It explores themes of symbiosis, and biodiversity, as well as concepts from medical mycology.

Through artworks in a range of media including ceramic, glass, photography, painting and textile, Living Labyrinths offers thought-provoking interpretations of mycorrhizal networks. The exhibition considers how fungi shape both our physical and conceptual worlds.

Newly conserved dried specimens, natural history drawings and lantern slides from across RAMM’s collections of fungi have inspired two new art commissions. A large-scale drawing of the human mycobiome by Gemma Anderson-Tempini, and bio-sonic sound art of mycelial networks by Jason Singh feature in the exhibition.

Also on display will be watercolours of fungi by Beatrix Potter, better known as the children’s author and illustrator, and Cy Twombly’s influential collage series Natural History, Part I, Mushrooms from 1974. These major loans will be displayed alongside innovative and inspiring work by eight internationally renowned contemporary artists: Sian Bonnell, Seana Gavin, Andy Harper, Hilde Hauan Johnsen, Lucy Mercer, Jo Pearl, Chantal Powell, and Holly Stevenson.

The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery would like to acknowledge the following institutions who have helped to make this exhibition possible: the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Tate. 

With special thanks to the artists.

There are a limited number of 45-minute tours available for this show (for up to 20 people). Tours cost £115 (plus VAT) on top of the total ticket price. If you are an art or education group and would like to book, please ring the museum: 01392 265858.

Header image: Land of the Midnight Mushrooms, Seana Gavin, 2019 © Seana Gavin

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Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Queen St
Exeter
EX4 3RX

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