A retrospective of the work of Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), one of the most significant American artists of the twentieth century. A key member of the second generation of abstract expressionist painters, she […]
Huma Bhabha’s exhibition Against Time, focusses on the figure. Bhabha’s work addresses themes of colonialism, war, displacement and memories of home. Her influences are wide ranging, from ancient Egyptian statuary, African art, Classicism, […]
In this exhibition, which they have curated, Christine and Jennifer Binnie use their own work to complement pieces chosen from the Gallery's collection. The exhibition guides the visitor through a […]
Can You Hear Me? by Nalini Malani is a commissioned work, which embodys the role of the artist as social activist. In her exhibition Malani gives voice to the marginalised through visual stories […]
The space of the gallery is transformed by a series of Trulee Hall’s self-contained, elaborate vignettes – the viewer moves through discordant scenes, each presenting a tangled meta-narrative. Installations comprising […]
Installation artist and sculptor Susie MacMurray presents 'Murmur' - a compelling body of work comprising tactile and thought-provoking sculptures, an ambitious new installation, intricate drawings, striking bronze works and silver […]
Our latest commission, Forest on Fire, developed by contemporary artist Lucy Skaer is available for viewing digitally. The installation is inspired by the image of the Tauroctony, the iconic centrepiece of […]
This is a major exhibition of existing and new work by South Korean artist Haegue Yang, who is renowned for her vast and non-binary artistic languages. The materiality and aesthetics of […]
‘Lost Summer’ is a solo exhibition of new work by Alys Tomlinson. The Lost Summer series consists of Tomlinson ́s recent prom portraits photographed in June 2020 as lockdown eased and is accompanied by ‘Night Wanderings’, taken during lockdown as part of the artist’s daily exercise. The prom portraits capture the poignancy of a lost summer […]
In this landmark exhibition, Tracey Emin selects masterpieces by Edvard Munch to show alongside her most recent paintings. The exhibition features more than 25 of Emin’s works including paintings, some of which will be on display for the first time, plus neons and sculpture. These works, which explore The Loneliness of the Soul, were chosen by […]
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is an artist and writer acclaimed for her enigmatic portraits of fictitious people. This exhibition, Fly in League with the Night, brings together around 80 paintings and works on paper […]
This survey exhibition includes paintings and drawings from the past decade alongside recent work. Jennifer Packer is known for painting intimate portraits of friends and family members, and flower still […]
Aliza Nisenbaum is best known for her bright, large-scale portraits of community groups. Inspired by the dedication of Liverpool's key workers, the artist created a series of new paintings of […]
The first in a 12-month programme dedicated to the writings of the German-born, American political philosopher Hannah Arendt, ‘The Modern Age’ extends Arendt’s examination of tradition and the modern age into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries or what she understood as “the modern world.” We are living through a very difficult period of history marked […]
Emma Cousin’s figurative paintings feature dynamic, carnivalesque scenarios that explore the space between realism and fantasy, felt experience and communication. Responding to the limitations of language when used to articulate the complexities of human experience and emotions, Cousin considers how we might interact without it, in pre- or post-linguistic states. Taking this idea of ‘the […]
Liz Fontaine works with performance, drawing, text and video. Concerned with sex, relationships, people and politics, her live performances are excruciatingly funny: filled with heartbreak, devastation and charm. In Hurt Agony Pain Love It, Fontaine's compulsive, titillating and densely detailed drawings take the viewer on a journey through her mind. Part diary, part fantasy and part […]
In ‘Mercy’, Sabine Moritz presents a selection of paintings, works on paper and, for the first time, photographs, encapsulating the full-range of the artist’s practice. Collectively, the works in the show reflect upon and respond to the unprecedented political, economic and environmental shifts of the last 12 months, which, compounded by an incessant, global news […]
An online exhibition of works by Rachel Kneebone forms a dialogue with the artist Robert Morris and the avant-garde choreography of Mary Wigman and Merce Cunningham. ‘I have always been fascinated by dance: how bodies meld and merge, how new forms are created by dancers and how dance allows us to escape to a different […]
A major new commission and solo exhibition by Candice Lin, comprising a virtual reality animation, flesh-like sculptures and a large-scale medieval trebuchet.
With a career spanning more than 50 years, Marinella Pirelli’s artistic efforts and talent are under-recognised. A leading experimental filmmaker in the 1960s and 1970s, Pirelli’s 16mm film explorations have […]
The exhibition Nomi presents a focused body of work that was born from grief and trauma. Over the past two years, Zoe Buckman has undertaken a difficult, complex and spiritual journey resulting in a tentative yet defiant proclamation of love and joy as an antidote to the darker side of life. From a real voyage in […]
Taking inspiration from Central Core Imagery, this two-part online exhibition explores the work of leading female ceramicists: Lynda Benglis, with her Bird’s Nest Series; Zoe Williams creates unwearable shoes; and Jacqueline Poncelet creates abstract forms infused with sexuality. They all use central core imagery – whether explicitly or not – through the ‘open’ form.
Jessie Homer French’s exhibition, West Coast, brings together a vast range of works that encompasses a thorough investigation of the artist’s long-time practice.