The Great Nurdle Exhibition takes place at Quay Arts from Saturday 19 September. The run continues until 10 October, with daily hours shown in the event schedule.
The exhibition uses creative work to examine nurdles, the tiny plastic pellets that enter seas and shorelines. It turns a hard-to-see form of marine pollution into something you can study at close range, with an Isle of Wight coastline context close at hand. Nurdles often disappear into shingle and tidelines, which makes their environmental cost easy to overlook. Bringing them into a gallery gives visitors time to see the material, scale and creative responses together. Quay Arts combines free galleries, performance rooms and a café-bar beside Newport harbour. A visit can move between those spaces, which helps exhibitions and live events feel part of the same creative centre.
The exhibition runs at Quay Arts from 19 September to 10 October, with daily hours of 09:00 to 16:00. Entry is free and no booking is listed, so you can fit a visit around another Newport errand or a wet morning. The work belongs among the Island’s arts and creative events, but its subject stays rooted in the coast outside the gallery. Give yourself time to read as well as look; the value lies in understanding a form of plastic pollution that many beach walks conceal in plain sight.
