Earthly Paradise exhibition opens at William Morris Gallery on 3 October
The show, funded by the Art Fund’s £5.36 million Going Places programme, will travel to Wales, the Lake District and Scotland after its six‑month run.
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The William Morris Gallery announced that Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK will open its doors on Saturday 3 October 2026. The exhibition runs until 28 March 2027 and invites the public to explore how artists, activists and communities have reshaped domestic life over the past two centuries.
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Curated with partners in Wales, the Lake District and Scotland, the project traces households, collectives and social experiments that have questioned conventional ideas of class, gender, politics and belonging. Objects on display range from 19th‑century textiles to contemporary photographs that comment on housing policy after the 1980 Right to Buy reforms.
William Morris was in an open marriage and wanted to completely blur the lines between domestic life and making and experiencing art.
Hadrian Garrard, director, William Morris Gallery
Hadrian Garrard explained that the exhibition reflects Morris’s own practice of mixing art with everyday life. He added that the show highlights how homes have acted as laboratories for social change, from the Ladies of Llangollen to modern feminist housing projects.
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Funding and touring schedule
The Art Fund’s Going Places programme provides £5.36 million to enable the exhibition to travel. Jenny Waldman, director of the Art Fund, said the funding allows museums to share collections and reach new audiences across the country.
After the London run, the exhibition will move to Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham from April to September 2027. It will then travel to Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts house in Bowness‑on‑Windermere for a period from October 2027 to February 2028, before reaching Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh from March to September 2028.
Each venue will present the full programme, allowing visitors in different regions to experience the same mix of historic artefacts and new commissions. Ticket prices and opening times will be set by the host institutions.
The exhibition offers a chance for London residents to engage with a narrative that links past radical domestic experiments to contemporary debates about housing security and community living. It also provides a platform for emerging artists whose work addresses precarity and collective ownership.
Questions this report answers
+When does the exhibition open and close?
Earthly Paradise opens at the William Morris Gallery on 3 October 2026 and remains on view until 28 March 2027. After that date the show will leave London to continue its tour of three further venues.
+How much funding supports the touring programme?
The exhibition is part of the Art Fund’s Going Places programme, which supplies £5.36 million to enable the show to travel to Wales, the Lake District and Scotland. The funding covers logistics, staffing and promotional costs at each site.
+Which venues will host the exhibition after London?
Following its London run, the exhibition will travel to Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham (April‑September 2027), then to Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts house in Bowness‑on‑Windermere (October 2027‑February 2028), and finally to Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh (March‑September 2028).
+What types of works are on display?
The show combines paintings, photographs, sound installations and domestic objects. It features historic pieces linked to William Morris’s Red House and contemporary works by artists such as Martin Parr, Sunil Gupta and new commissions that explore modern housing precarity.
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