Launch: LOOK Climate Lab 2026

Join us to celebrate this year’s programme focusing on gardens and how people connect with green spaces.

Join us to celebrate LOOK Climate Lab 2026, with drinks and music!

LOOK Climate Lab is a biennial programme exploring how photography can be a relevant and powerful medium for talking about climate change.

We are transforming the gallery into a lab, bringing together researchers, activists and artists to test their ideas, and encouraging our audiences to discuss systematic changes needed for dealing with the climate crisis.

LOOK Climate Lab 2026 will take place from 23 January 2026 to 29 March 2026, with this year’s programme focusing on gardens and how people connect with green spaces. From memorials to places to hang out with friends, from horticultural perfection to an accidental hedge near your house or a tree that brings back memories, we examine the role plants play in our lives, and how our lives shape theirs.

Full programme to be announced soon.

The events programme includes workshops, talks, open meetings and more.

Partners: dot-art, Chester Zoo, Homotopia, RHS Garden Bridgewater, Salford Youth Service, TreeStory Veterans' Oaks, University of Salford, Victoria Park Butterfly House and Garden, Wigan Borough Council.

With support from: Arts Council England, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.