Curators at a Coventry gallery are building on one of their busiest ever years with three new exhibitions arriving in the first half of 2024.

The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum has revealed a trio of exhibitions running from February to June, working alongside renowned international artists and celebrating the most talented creatives in the region.

CASE: Coventry Art Societies Exhibition will see the works of around 75 local artists showcased from 2 February to 3 March. It will be the first time the exhibition, which brings together art groups and societies throughout Coventry and Warwickshire, has run since lockdown.

Acclaimed photographer, writer and broadcaster Johny Pitts will bring After the End of History: Contemporary Working Class Photography 1989 - 2024, a national exhibition from Hayward Gallery Touring, to the Herbert for the first leg of its three-location tour.

Running from 29 March to 16 June, it will explore the challenges, beauty and diversity of contemporary working-class life. The collection marks 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the symbolic end of Communism, with the weakening of the Soviet Union prompting economist Francis Fukuyama’s widely debated claim that Western Liberal Democracy represented an ideal form of government.

Collecting Coventry, which will kick off on 10 May, will bring together incredible works and artefacts from the Herbert’s vast collections including paintings and natural sciences to fascinate lovers of arts, animals and history.

The gallery hosted a number of popular exhibitions in 2023, with Divided Selves, its most-visited exhibition of contemporary art ever, and the launch of Dippy in Coventry, on loan from the Natural History Museum until March 2026, proving hugely popular alongside the likes of Wildlife Photographer of the Year, which runs until 1 April.

For more information, visit heherbert.org