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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
'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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
The exhibition brings together a group of new site specific paintings and works on paper by Sara Hughes, a series of large-scale flower paintings, which hangs together in the Nave, a […]
WOW: Women Only Works on Paper, a display of over 50 watercolours and pastels complemented by etchings and screen prints. The artists Vanessa Bell, Winifred Knights, Ithell Colquhoun, Annie French, Lucy Kemp-Welch, Thérèse […]
Celebrated Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos creates vibrant, often monumental sculpture, using fabric, needlework and crochet alongside everyday objects from saucepans to wheel hubs. She frequently uses items associated with domestic […]
Digging deeper into the stories told in Constance Spry and the Fashion for Flowers; this online exhibition looks at Spry’s ground-breaking career, remarkable life, and the legacy she has left in floristry […]
Arnolfini presents a major retrospective of the work of photographer Jo Spence (1934 – 1992), drawn from The Hyman Collection, one of the most comprehensive collections of Spence’s works in the world. Spence is well known for her highly politicised approach to photography and the representation of her own struggles with cancer. From Fairy Tales to Phototherapy focuses on […]
One of the great pioneers of abstraction, Sonia Delaunay was a key figure in the Parisian avant-garde, and one of the most influential female artists of her time. She is […]
Somnambulist, is an exhibition by Karin Gulbran, who initially trained as a painter, and then turned her interests towards ceramics during the early stages of her career. She shifts seamlessly […]
With a career spanning six decades, graphic designer Margaret Calvert has produced timeless work that we see everywhere — often without realising it, as her work shapes much of our national visual […]
How can we transform our relationship with nature? This group exhibition and artist led research project unearths and interrogates our connection with our habitats and ecosystems, both global and local. Artists […]
The Tourists explores themes of tourism and ecology, our relationship to images, architecture and place, destruction and loss. Working in painting, sculpture and digital media, this exhibition brings together a group of Ellen Harvey’s […]
For centuries, women’s artwork was neglected, their careers thwarted, and their achievements forgotten. Yet, despite the obstacles they faced, many persisted in making art. Drawing from our rich holdings of […]
Mercedes Azpilicueta calls herself a 'dishonest researcher', who creates work in conversation with archives and libraries, myths and legends. In pursuit of elusive historical figures, she uncovers queer, migrant and unheard voices from South America’s colonial past. Created in close collaboration with historians, dancers and craftspeople, her installations take the form of dramaturgy involving set designs, theatrical props, costumes […]
“My inclination to paint, especially from life, is a completely political one. We belong here. We deserve to be seen and acknowledged in real time. We deserve to be heard and to be imaged with shameless generosity and accuracy.” – Jennifer Packer This exhibition, The Eye is not Satisfied With Seeing, includes paintings and drawings from […]
‘Practice Makes Perfect’ is an exhibition of new work by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, which explores the relationship of childhood education with popular ideas of the British nation; how this forms British […]
Whether dancing on the rooftops in Paris, sharing ideas with Pablo Picasso, or gathering starfish on the beaches of Cornwall, Eileen Agar (b.1899 Buenos Aires – d.1991 London) transformed the everyday into the extraordinary. Her unique style nimbly spanned painting, collage, photography and sculpture, even ceremonial hats. Combining order and chaos, Agar’s work fuses vivid abstraction with imagery […]
Veronica Ryan is best known for her sculpture that is evocative of shapes, forms and objects from the natural world. Over the years, she has experimented with scale, material and […]
There are two major new projects by Holly Hendry addressing subjects that include borders, edges, bodies and machines. The first Indifferent Deep, features a host of sculptures situated within an apparently half-eaten […]
Nina Hamnett, a key figure in early 20th-century modern art; this retrospective exhibition explores her frank, intimate portraits, while also looking at the breadth of her technical skill as a […]