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Exhibition of Drawings opens 14 June 2024
12PM to 5 PM
Wednesday to Sunday
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The Heong Gallery at Downing College opened in February 2016 as a new gallery for exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. The Gallery was designed by Caruso St John Architects (winners of RIBA Stirling Prize 2016) and so named in gratitude for the generous benefaction of Alwyn Heong. It was awarded a RIBA East Award in 2017. FREE ADMISSION

It was great to host when he interviewed the wonderful Ai Weiwei recently for The Times and Sunday Times. They talked p...
25/06/2026

It was great to host when he interviewed the wonderful Ai Weiwei recently for The Times and Sunday Times. They talked politics, Hockney & buttons!

Love this photo of the artist in front of his ‘Cedar 2022’ tree at our gallery at Downing College. Downing College

Photo©️ Terry Harris

Ai Weiwei’s forthcoming exhibition ! opens soon at Aviva Studios in Manchester.

Great to see these names from in our ‘Ten Good Years’ visitor’s book yesterday. We hope you enjoyed the exhibition an...
04/06/2026

Great to see these names from in our ‘Ten Good Years’ visitor’s book yesterday.
We hope you enjoyed the exhibition and :)

NOW OPEN! at Downing College, Cambridge, is ten years old!Our new exhibition ‘Ten Good Years’ celebrates the gallery’s ...
03/06/2026

NOW OPEN! at Downing College, Cambridge, is ten years old!

Our new exhibition ‘Ten Good Years’ celebrates the gallery’s anniversary by paying homage to its inaugural exhibition ‘Generation Painting 1955–65: British Art from the Collection of Sir Alan Bowness’, reshowing work from Bowness’s collection alongside contemporary artists.

29 May – 11 October 2026

The exhibition features work by , , Alan Davie, , Terry Frost, , Patrick Heron, , , Peter Lanyon, Janet Leach, , , , Mark Tobey, , , and Veronica Ryan
Works by will be on show at and by Roger Hilton at

Open Wed to Sun 12PM to 5PM
Free Admission

Our new exhibition opens on Friday (29 May)! ‘Ten Good Years’ celebrates the tenth anniversary of The Heong Gallery & fe...
27/05/2026

Our new exhibition opens on Friday (29 May)!
‘Ten Good Years’ celebrates the tenth anniversary of The Heong Gallery & features work from our first exhibition ‘Generation Painting’ alongside works by new artists working in Britain today.

Curated by & feat. works by:
, , Alan Davie, , Terry Frost, , Patrick Heron, , , Peter Lanyon, Janet Leach, , , , Mark Tobey, , , Veronica Ryan

With work by on show at and Roger Hilton at

Image: ‘Aunties 8’, 2023 (detail). Acrylic on wood.

Install pic!Curator with tech-supremos & hanging the fabulous ‘Aunties 8’ by winning artist in the gallery this w...
21/05/2026

Install pic!
Curator with tech-supremos & hanging the fabulous ‘Aunties 8’ by winning artist in the gallery this week, ahead of the launch of our 10 year anniversary exhibition TEN GOOD YEARS.
Excited to see this and the work of the other brilliant artists we’ll be showing.

TEN GOOD YEARS opens May 29 & runs to Oct 11. Watch this space for more info, coming soon…



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Very excited to be exhibiting this beautiful piece by at our upcoming major 10-year anniversary show from 29 May. ‘Ten ...
16/05/2026

Very excited to be exhibiting this beautiful piece by at our upcoming major 10-year anniversary show from 29 May.

‘Ten Good Years’ re-shows selected works from our inaugural exhibition ’Generation Painting’ by significant mid-C20th artists such as Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, & introduces new works produced over the past 10 years by artists with connections to Cornwall.

One Good Day, 2026 (180x90cm) by Ro Robertson
- Gouache, graphite, ink stick & watercolour pencil on board.

As we prepare to hang our next major exhibition ’Ten Good Years’ we are reflecting on the wonderfully high standard of a...
13/05/2026

As we prepare to hang our next major exhibition ’Ten Good Years’ we are reflecting on the wonderfully high standard of art at our previous one, showcasing the talents of our very own students. The Twining Egginton Fine Arts Prize was an amazing collection of works but a special shoutout goes to .gn
& .sapph_ for their prizewinning pieces. shown here. Congratulations! 🙌

Cassidy Gattegno: ‘Bather’
Imogen Knight: ‘Bella, Retreating’
Sapphy Welch-Dunn: ‘Vessel of Humility’ & ‘Vessel of Liberty’

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Friday 12pm - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm
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