Love and Landscape: Stanley Spencer in Suffolk

The most ambitious exhibition dedicated to Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) in a decade transfers to the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham from 4 April 2026, following a highly successful run at Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury.

Held in partnership between the two museums, the exhibition will feature major loans from Tate, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, and other public lenders, as well as rarely seen works from private collections, presented alongside important works from the collection of the Stanley Spencer Gallery. This second leg of the exhibition will enable visitors to explore Spencer’s emotional connection with the county of Suffolk in the heart of the village – Cookham – that first gave rise to his deep sense of place.