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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A major new commission and solo exhibition by Candice Lin, comprising a virtual reality animation, flesh-like sculptures and a large-scale medieval trebuchet.
On the deeds of many houses in Southchurch there is a covenant stating; residents are not allowed to make bricks or tiles from the clay underneath their feet, a seam […]
An exhibition of landscape paintings by Yasmin David (1939-2009) Yasmin’s work explores the beauty and light of the South Devon landscape near Dartmoor. One of few women working in landscape […]
The Duveen Gallery is transformed by an immersive art work; this year the commissioned work is by Heather Phillipson.
Challenging Convention explores four women artists – Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), Laura Knight (1877-1970), Gwen John (1876-1939) and Dod Procter (1890-1972) - through their lives and work in a climate of modernism, […]
The exhibition explores our relationships between nature and the built environment through Alison Milner's creative use of imagery and materials. Decorative Minimalist features a large-scale, illustrated tile mural entitled Walk in the Park. […]
This major new touring exhibition challenges the male-dominated narratives of post-war British sculpture by presenting a diverse and significant range of ambitious work by women. Breaking the Mould represents the work […]
Rebecca Chesney was a YSP Visiting Artist in 2010 and spent time surveying the parkland for species of bumblebees and solitary bees, and all the plants they feed on. After setting up […]
Jade Fadojutimi’s large-scale paintings combine abstract and figurative elements in compositions that have intense graphic energy. At the heart of Fadojutimi’s work is an introspective mining of facets of her […]
Alchemy is an inaugural exhibition of abstract paintings by, Rosannagh Scarlet Esson. The exhibition brings together Rosannagh's dynamic explorations into the chemistry of paint, metals, pigment and the elements, including brand […]
Temples, a solo exhibition of new works by Daiga Grantina, whose practice investigates the encounters between materials to propose a synthetic concept of the many relationships that shape our world. Grantina […]
Internal Objects, is an exhibition of new work by Rachel Whiteread, who employs the formal language of Minimalism to objects’ minor details. She employs existing artifacts and spaces—including domestic objects like chairs and […]
Alice Anderson’s oeuvre hybridises the worlds of technology and ancestral cultures. Her works include sculptures, paintings and drawings generated through dance-performances, each with ritual at their essence. For this exhibition, […]
Working across a range of media Melanie Smith explores notions of modernity in relation to art history and contemporary society. She has consistently addressed a number of interrelated themes encompassing […]
The exhibition, Rising Heat, is accompanied by a new video with Anne Hardy; a selection of unique photograms that were produced in 2020 and form a new series titled The Depth of Darkness, […]
Penny Goring's, No Escape from Blood Castle, is the second iteration of this body of work; the first of which was entitled Escape from Blood Castle. Goring makes drawings, paintings, sculptures, […]
Gabriella Sanchez is a multidisciplinary artist, whose practice is largely influenced by her background in graphic design. The elements of typography, text, form and color play a central role in her visual vocabulary, referencing artists who also utilize script in their work. Gabriella's work, whether it is the use of metallic fonts on her canvases […]
Nicola Hicks is widely renowned for working on a monumental scale, this presentation focuses on rare smaller sculptures by Nicola, including works in bronze and for the first time, special studio cast plasters. Creating small-scale works during 2020 has allowed Hicks to embrace a year in which existing plans have been postponed and given her the room, both […]
Other Forms of Travel, is an exhibition of new vision boards and internet manipulations by search engine artist and the self-proclaimed “internet imperialist” Gretchen Andrew. The show includes new vision boards from the series "Best MFA" and "Map of the EU". Other Forms of Travel unleashes two new series that reprogram the artificial intelligence underlying the […]
'Megaflora' is an exhibition of new works by sculptor Alice Channer. The exhibition takes, as it’s starting point a bramble stem. It is also making an appearance in Rosanna Mclaughlin’s short […]
"The object aimed at by this series of handbooks is the recall of the designer and craftsman to a saner view of what constitutes originality by setting before them something of the experience of past times, when craft tradition was still living and the designer had a closer contact with the material in which his […]
Taking its title from Yuko Tsushima’s story of the same title, Julia Adelgren’s exhibition. The Watery Realm, uses water as a poetic protagonist, and chimes with the more folkloric events of Tsushima’s […]
In her exhibition Hot Water, Frances Waite explores the domestic bathroom setting as the backdrop for a new suite of drawings, exposing the ambiguities of this secluded space and private activity. It is this environment, traditionally associated with cleansing and ritualistic purification, that becomes fertile ground for her main conceptual concerns: the stage on which scenes […]
Rewild, an exhibition by Orlanda Broom, features a new series of paintings created over the course of the last lockdown year; these buoyant works provide a colourful escape from our current state of being. Through her signature lush and saturated style, the artist depicts worlds both fantastical and surreal, absent of human or animal but abundant […]
An exhibition of work by Carol Rhodes (1959–2018). Organised in partnership with the Carol Rhodes Estate, whose curator Andrew Mummery worked closely with the artist for much of her career, the exhibition will include landmark paintings and rarely-shown drawings dating between 1995 and 2016. Rhodes produced a highly individual body of paintings describing the encroachment […]
The show presents Rana Begum’s ongoing investigation into the interaction between colour, light and form and how this operates within both two and three dimensional space. This new collection of work reveals how Begum’s practice has diverged and evolved, setting her precise minimalism against a new exploration into amorphous materials. She uses a layering process across […]
The works in our current exhibition, Dancing Into the Light - "letting rip", are from Wilhelmina Barnes-Graham's highly productive period. Dancing into the Light, refers to this confident unleashing of expression. 'Willie' said her work was about expressing what she felt as well as what she saw. These works are packed full of movement, balance and […]
Stories of the Imaginary (self-portrait of two lemons), is an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Stefanie Heinze - a playful and introspective body of work, which blurs the boundaries between waking and dreaming. Through expressive arrangements, Heinze draws on recent experience of restricted movement and limited social interaction, offering the surface of the canvas […]
For Cache, Kapwani Kiwanga created a series of formal sculptures and installations that continue her interrogation of history, power and resistance. Using materials including ceramic, metal, gold leaf, embroidery, textile and mirror, Kiwanga’s mixed-media works and wall-based reliefs revolve around the formal exploration of Cosmogonies, which encapsulate numerous creation myths from Asia, Latin American and Africa. Kiwanga’s research-based […]
A solo exhibition featuring four key works Spite Your Face (2017), Eyes To Me (2015), Germs (2013) and The Lion and the Unicorn (2012) showcases a decade of Rachel Maclean’s fantasy worlds. Alongside the unveiling of Maclean’s new commission upside mimi ᴉɯᴉɯ uʍop, audiences are invited to delve further into the imagination of Rachel Maclean […]
Pakui Hardware (artists Neringa Cerniauskaite and Ugnius Gelguda presents a newly devised commission created specially for Baltic's level 2, gallery space. It explores the subject of robotic and virtual care at a particularly significant moment, when we find ourselves more concerned than ever with the quality and accessibility of healthcare. Pakui Hardware’s work considers the […]
Greta Schödl is one of the most significant visual and concrete poetry artists living in Italy today. Active from the 1960s, when the presence of female artists using text represented a minority, Schödl has spent the past six decades honing a unique visual language through a range of mythical compositions. Her work incorporates letters and symbols, […]
The techniques and materials that Carey Mortimer uses are quintessential to her work. The paintings have their beginnings far beyond the first brush strokes; with pigments being ground from collected rocks, coral and burnt vines, ink taken from local cuttlefish. Carey is a contemporary British painter who uses these ancient techniques to convey her very […]
This exhibition of work by Prunella Clough (1919 – 1999) and Alan Reynolds (1926 – 2014), brings together two of the most important figures in twentieth-century British painting, exploring between them, figuration, abstraction, cubism, ‘concrete’ art, and collage. Prunella Clough is widely regarded as one of the most singular and significant British artists of the […]
DATES TBC This exhibition is a rare chance to experience two of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms. These immersive installations will transport you into Kusama’s unique vision of endless reflections. Infinity Mirrored Room – Filled with the Brilliance of Life is one of Kusama’s largest installations to date and was made for her 2012 retrospective at the […]
This exhibition of new works by Bronwyn Katz is titled ‘I turn myself into a star and visit my loved ones in the sky’. It includes ten new sculptures that deal with materiality, narrative and social history and addresses how each of these are intrinsically interconnected. Her thinking is developed around ‘earth matter: its origins […]
p- ool- s o-f t- he ou- t- l- ine- s incorporates a score titled Knives (2017), collaboratively produced by Anna Barham through computer and human reading processes. The score contains over a hundred versions of a short passage from Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, by the Brazilian Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist, Vilém Flusser. The book presents a speculative investigation of the vampire squid to consider human and […]
Group Show with Cigdem Aky, Jack Bidewell, Gabriela Giroletti, Emilia Kina, Adeline de Monseignat, Natascha Schmitten, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Panos Tsagaris, Adia Wahid. In the context of art, the ancient Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi is often defined as a kind of flawed beauty, an appreciation for the anomalies that arise in nature or during the process […]
Curtiss’ first exhibition in London, featuring new paintings, works on paper and sculptures. Curtiss’ paintings are carefully composed, framed and cropped with a cinematographic instinct for arresting image and a keen eye for the absurdities of everyday life. With their saturated colour, crisp detail, and scenarios which are at once banal and bizarre, they have […]
Hilary Pecis paints kaleidoscopic portraits of her Los Angeles environs, spanning interior scenes, cityscapes, still lifes and landscape paintings, that draw from photographs and memories. Piecemeal Rhythm is Pecis’ first solo exhibition in the U.K. The title of the exhibition references the cadences of daily life depicted in Pecis’s paintings, where the casual disarray of […]
Mélanie Matranga's films, installations and sculptures are at once intimate and elegiac. Her work asks fraught and timely questions about images and memory, privacy and proximity. Titled 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, the artist presents works that were made over the last year. At a time when we have become accustomed to confinement and isolation, 0, 1, 2, […]