Be the first to experience New Annual 2026 with a Preview Night at The Lock‑Up with artist Izabela Pluta in conversation. This special preview brings together artist Izabela Pluta in conversation with Stanisław Ruksza, curator and director of TRAFO Trafostacja Sztuki in Szczecin, facilitated by The Lock‑Up Director Alexandra Pedley.

TWISTED is a one-night-only celebration of creativity and self-expression and an invitation to dress up and go to town. Inspired by Damien Frost’s Night Flowers photographic exhibition, Bartholomew’s becomes an immersive world of art, music and performance – and most importantly dancing. Come out and play, petals.

Free

Night Flowers presents a selection of Damien Frost’s iconic photographic series, capturing the charged intimacy of late-night dancefloors where art, performance and self-reinvention collide. Shot over a decade in London and expanded through New Annual, the exhibition premieres new portraits of Newcastle’s queer and alternative communities, celebrating radical identity, place and exuberant self-expression. Soak up the brilliance with a free glass of bubbles on arrival.

Presented by Newcastle Art Gallery, Muse is first major survey of globally recognised and Newcastle-based artist Angela Tiatia.

Family Free

Australian electronic music pioneers Hermitude join forces with Newcastle-based DJ and Ode Label founder, Claire O'Brien for an audio sensory experience at the water's edge. A pairing that's never happened before and may not happen again.