The drawings and paintings on show are the work of six women who worked as war artists during the First World War. They provide an interesting perspective on women’s roles during the war, and on the relationships between men and women in a variety of wartime situations.

Sharing a common thread of combining autobiography and activism, and working across a wide range of media including painting, photography, film, animation, wall drawing and site-specific installation, these practices activate a wide range of conversations around community and belonging, friendship and intimacy, migrant and diasporic storytelling and queer world-making. In The World Belongs to us, […]

An exhibition of Kim Lim’s work offering unparalleled insight into the artist’s life and work.  Space, Rhythm & Light, displays over 100 artworks created over four decades by Lim, alongside extensive archive material, most of which has never been seen publicly before, to show the full breadth of Lim’s work.

The exhibition, Chinwag, presents an array of Alice Irwin’s new works, including colourful, multi-layered screenprints and etchings, complemented by sketches and preparatory studies that offer insights into her meticulous creative process. Through diverse shapes, sizes, and colours of Irwin’s cast of characters, the exhibition presents a dialogue on the range of personalities in social gatherings and […]

The exhibition, The Lightclub of Batavia, showcases a combination of new and existing works by Sinta Tantra.  It features iridescent gold and Prussian blue paintings that adorn the Manor’s walls and platforms, complemented by brass sculptures. These pieces, shimmering in the changing light of the day and changing seasons, offer a unique sensory experience similar to […]

This group exhibition brings together works by international artists and collectives, who use the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional protest photography. The exhibition, Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest, explores feminism and activism from an international and contemporary perspective.  It looks at different approaches to feminism from the past 10 years, and highlights shared concerns including […]

A collection of contemporary artists who explore the transformative and subversive potential of textiles to challenge power structures and reimagine the world. The exhibition brings together over 100 artworks by a diverse range of international practitioners, to examine the ways in which artists have embraced textiles to communicate multi-layered stories about lived experience.  It addresses […]

Soulscapes explores our connection with the world around us through the eyes of artists from the African Diaspora.  It considers the power of landscape art and reflects on themes of belonging, memory, joy and transformation. Artists include: Hurvin Anderson, Phoebe Boswell, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Kimathi Donkor, Isaac Julien, Marcia Michael, Mónica de Miranda and Alberta […]

Spanning more than seven decades, the exhibition, Music of the Mind, focusses on key moments in Ono’s career, including her years in London from 1966 to 1971. The show explores some of Ono’s most talked about artworks and performances, from Cut Piece (1964), where people were invited to cut off her clothing, to her banned Film No.4 (Bottoms) (1966-67) […]

Monica Alcázar-Duarte examines western society's obsession with speed, expansion and resource accumulation at a time when ecological disaster looms. She raises critical questions - where does knowledge lie? Who and what is classified?- joining together the threads of dissociated knowledge systems, as displayed  in her exhibition, Digital Clouds Don't Carry Rain.

The exhibition, The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora, including Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Amy Sherald; and highlights the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. In addition, the exhibition […]

Angelica Kauffman RA was one of the most celebrated artists of the 18th century. In this major exhibition, her trajectory is traced from child prodigy to one of Europe's most sought-after painters. This exhibition covers Kauffman’s life and work: her rise to fame in London, her role as a founding member of the Royal Academy […]

This group exhibition, Acts of Resistance Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest, brings together works by international artists and collectives who are using the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional protest photography. Artists include: Laia Abril, Hoda Afshar, Poulomi Basu, Nan Goldin, Guerrilla Girls, Sofia Karim, Mari Katayama, Teresa Margolles, Sethembile Msezane, Zanele Muholi, Wendy Red Star, Tabita Rezaire, Raphaela Rosella, Aida Silvestri, Sheida Soleanimi, Hannah Starkey, […]

A major group exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day. The exhibition addresses diverse experiences of motherhood across three themes: Creation, which looks at conception, pregnancy, birth and nursing; Maintenance which […]

An Idea of a Life, responds to everyday histories of the women-led community who lived in Barking Abbey from c.666AD through to the early 16th Century. This exhibition tells stories that are both imagined and informed by archaeological finds, records and ongoing research emerging from the site of the former Abbey. The exhibition holds newly […]

We do not Sleep, is the title of  an exhibition by artists: Layla Andrews, Elissa Cray, Tracey Emin, Laura Footes, Joline Kwakkenbos, Gabriela Max, Lindsey Mendick, Vanessa Raw, and Mercedes Workman.

Showcasing more than 150 rare vintage prints, Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In, spans the career of both artists – and suggests new ways to look at their work, and the way photographic portraiture was created in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Wayfinding, is an exhibition by Amelia Bowles, which sits between sculpture, painting and architecture.  Making use of the activity of light, colour and form, she claims the void and what is immaterial to facilitate the conditions for a series of physiological, cognitive and perceptual encounters.

In 1963, fashion illustrator Barbara Hulanicki established a mail-order company selling affordable fashion appealing to a new generation of young women, which she named Biba. The Biba Story explores how it became the world’s first lifestyle label, sparking a revolution in how people shopped, and how Biba earned its spot as the fashion brand of […]