Exhibition

Place, Space and Who is a new artwork by Barbara Walker, created over a four-month residency at Turner Contemporary. It explores identity and belonging, featuring sound and portraits of five women and girls from the African Diaspora living in Margate and Kent.

An exhibition of the work of Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer , which brings together some 35 works, revealing the diversity of her output, including graphic works, photographs, films and paintings. Spanning more than five decades, the show highlights the playful conceptual approach that she brings to her experiments across all media.

A fascinating selection from Lessing’s extensive personal archive, is displayed for the first time, giving unprecedented insight into Doris Lessing’s life. The exhibition uses visual art and objects, alongside private correspondence and working papers, to explore the unfamiliar or forgotten aspects of Lessing’s life as well as iconic works that shaped her legacy.  This exhibition […]

Beast Type Song is a new film exploring the erasure and revision of identities and histories past and future. The work features performances by Yumna Marwan, Elizabeth Peace and boychild, and by Al-Maria herself. Each one is cast against the science fiction backdrop of a solar battle, as evoked by Etel Adnan in her 1989 war poem, The […]

Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Rather than a celebration of the British Empire, Kara Walker’s fountain explores the interconnected histories of Africa, America and Europe. She uses water as a key theme, referring to the transatlantic slave trade and the ambitions, fates […]

This Centenary exhibition 1919 – 1999 traces Prunella Clough’s work from her early figurative depictions of dockworkers, fishermen, a lorry driver, as it evolves towards abstraction. The figures slowly disappear but Clough’s close observation of colour, texture and form remain constant throughout, as does her fascination with the human impact on landscape. It was this […]

Joy Labinjo's paintings depict intimate scenes of contemporary family life, capturing the everyday and the domestic. She creates her compositions by fusing different photographs together, instinctively collaging interiors and figures.

A Long Memory brings together many new and acclaimed works - including drawings, sculpture and video. This exhibition engages with Elizabeth Price’s pre-occupations of technology, history, politics and pop music.

More than 70 outfits are on display in this new exhibition, which explores shopping and style in Liverpool during the interwar years. An English lady’s wardrobe offers new insight into Liverpool’s wealthy Tinne family, showcasing clothing and accessories purchased by Mrs Emily Margaret Tinne (1886-1966). The Tinne Collection is the largest collection of a single person’s clothing […]

This exhibition in the  NOW series highlights the work of Scottish artist Katie Paterson, considered to be a leading artist of her generation. Her works are the result of long periods of research and involve collaboration with specialists in scientific and other fields in order to translate complex ideas into physical, often poetic works of art.

The exhibition Radical Women explores how Jessica Dismorr and her female contemporaries engaged with modernist literature and radical politics through their art, including their contributions to campaigns for women’s suffrage and the anti-fascist organisations of the 1930s. 80 works including paintings, sculptures, graphic art and archival materials, some of which have never been exhibited before, are […]

An exhibition celebrating the life and career of pioneering Edinburgh-born artist Mary Cameron (1865-1921). The exhibition Life in Paint places this forgotten artist back in the spotlight. It explores the fascinating story of Cameron’s life and career, charting her creative journey from elegant family portraits to breathtaking Spanish scenes. The exhibition features over forty rarely-seen […]

An exploration of the role of art in community, identity and protest.  The first chance in the UK to see American Pop artist Jann Haworth and Liberty Blake’s mural, Work in Progress. The 28ft mural is the result of a collaborative community project and celebrates women who were catalysts for change in the arts, sciences and […]

This major exhibition, Life? or Theatre? features over 200 small gouaches on paper, which Charlotte Salomon created as part of a larger body of work in the early 1940s when in hiding from Nazi oppressors. These remarkable gouaches unveil a vivid self-portrait spanning across all facets of Salomon’s existence: from a complicated family life, growing up […]

Including new and recent works, Chiara Camoni's exhibition, About this and that.  The Self and the other.  Like everything, includes a collaborative piece made specifically for this space. Working primarily across drawing, sculpture and installation, Camoni creates spaces imbued with poetic sensibility.  Her work is the result of a process which she calls ‘deviations’ where […]

This major retrospective highlights the abstract sculptures of Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová. The exhibition starts in the 1960s, when Bartuszová created her own experimental method of casting plaster by hand. Inspired by playing with her young daughter, she found she could create pure abstract forms by pouring plaster into rubber balloons. She would shape the sculpture […]

Vivian Suter’s work is inspired by the tropical landscape of Panajachel in Guatemala, where she lives and works. The environment plays an important role in the making and development of her work. She leaves her artwork outdoors to be exposed to the elements so that natural substances, such as volcanic and botanical matter, are incorporated […]

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 made a major contribution to the subsequent development of abstract painting with works acclaimed for their bold forms and colours.

An innovative exhibition mixing historic objects with new work by artist Charlotte Hodes and poet Deryn Rees-Jones. In a set of three interlinked spaces, the exhibition interprets the lives and works of women writers and their ‘errant’ voices across three centuries.  Relieved of the narratives of genre and time; text, image, and animation explore aspects […]

The exhibition spans Judy Chicago's fifty-year career, from her early actions in the desert in the 1970s, to her most recent series, The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction (2013–16), which has not been previously shown outside of the US. Judy Chicago explores her work from the perspective of the human condition, connecting birth and death with the emotional […]

The Archive hosts a display of materials from, and relating to, the Her Noise Archive. Her Noise was initiated by Lina Džuverović and Anne Hilde Neset in 2001, with an ambition to investigate music and sound histories in relation to gender, and to create a lasting resource and a starting point for new investigations. In […]

Lindsey Mendick was selected through an open call for a commissioned solo exhibition, Regrets, I've had a few that launches SPACE’s new gallery. As part of the commission, she will lead a series of ceramic workshops for Ilford’s +65s . Lindsey creates installations centred on her skilled work in ceramics and includes banner painting, sewing, metalwork, furniture […]

“I look at the street and at people walking on foot with different appearances advancing at different speeds. I think of the invisible threads which manipulate them... I try and see the machinery which organises them. I think this is in a way what I attempt to paint.” This is a travelling exhibition of works […]

In Lubaina Himid's paintings you discover the intimate portrayal of women.   Her characters are often presented in close pairs, quietly involved in interactions that the artist describes as both complex and ordinary. This display features Freedom and Change 1984, Himid’s earliest work to depict this subject, alongside more recent work. It traces the way her paintings have […]

This installation emerged from Heather Ross's 2014-17 project entitled On Being Out of Touch which explored the gaps between information, knowledge and experience, specifically considered in relation to learning about the birds. In All The Better To Hear You With Ross combines these concerns with her research into Kurt Schwitters' experimental approaches to the written and spoken word, exploring the discrepancies between […]

This exhibition, Origins and Endings brings together the work of an artist and a musician who  collaborated with The Policy, Ethics & Life Sciences Research Centre (PEALS), at Newcastle University. The exhibition highlights partnerships that have culminated in creative works in response to the academic research carried out, and ranges across the broad themes of being human, […]

Sheila Chukwulozie explores the politics of “behaving oneself” in a Catholic-colonial body through juxtaposing local rituals, modern technology, traditional myths, and movement styles. She is drawn to exposing internal and consistent dialogues — coded through discipline and punishment and language like “conscience”, “moral compass” or even “The Holy Spirit”.  During her residency, Sheila plans to focus […]

Vibeke Mascini researches cases in which cultural systems falter and regularities shake.   She is currently undertaking long-term research in which she navigates through a variety of prehistoric and futuristic notions regarding the perception of (animal) electricity as a speculative agent of life.  During her time at Delfina she will continue this research by experimenting with […]

‘The Four Ages of Woman’ highlights a diversity of artistic observations on the lived experiences of women from childhood to old age, including but by no means restricted to experiences of mental distress. It includes work by artists who deserve to be better known – Marion Patrick, Elise Warriner Pacquette, Charlotte Johnson, Lisa Biles, Bibi […]

Sena Başöz is an artist and filmmaker based in Istanbul. Her work investigates healing processes after cases of trauma, and recently she has been focusing on subjects such as death, regeneration, renewal and liberation. During her residency at Delfina Foundation, Sena intends to work on a new performance piece that will activate an archive.

Maternality’ is the second instalment of the two-part show on maternal politics and embodiment, which focuses on reproduction and the materiality of maternal bodies. Curated by Catherine McCormack, the exhibition finds its starting point in the etymological root of the word “mother” as synonymous of matter (mater/materia in Latin) in a group show exploring female […]

This exhibition, Great Minds, displays a selection of portrait photographs of leading artists, writers and scientists from the archive of Anne-Katrin Purkiss.   It is dedicated to women working in creative professions, defined broadly to encompass scientific as well as artistic production. The images are brought together in order to challenge our unconscious bias of a […]

Peggy Franck's exhibition, ‘You Begin’ is taken from Margaret Atwood’s poem ‘You Begin’ in the volume ‘Two Headed’ Poems.

Plates is based on field work undertaken in Ethiopia and Northern Ireland by artist Rachel Pimm  with a soundtrack by Lori E. Allen. For this commission, the artists create a visual and sonic topography with words, images and sounds that have been collected from an archive of self-similar images of biological, geological and physical matter. The space […]

Lesley Foxcroft uses simple and everyday materials such as MDF, rubber, paper and card to make works that are sculptural in nature, yet often are wall mounted and very much rooted in their surroundings; responding to the corner of a room, ceiling or floor. Utilitarian and minimal in appearance, the artist’s use of simple materials […]

The exhibition, 9th St. Club features works from Elaine de Kooning, Perle Fine, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan,  Lee Krasner, Mercedes Matter, Joan Mitchell, and is inspired in part by Mary Gabriel’s acclaimed book ‘Ninth Street Women’, which is about the work, lives and spirit of this group. 

Vivian Suter, lives beside the volcanic lake Atitlán, in Guatemala, and draws her inspiration from the lush plants, vibrant flowers, birds and constantly changing weather of this tropical habitat.  Her mixed media abstract paintings evoke the living energy of the forest: large, unstretched canvases are swathed in colour, gestural brushstrokes and organic motifs.

Alice Kettle works with marginalised communities and individuals, and collaborates with expert stitchers from around the world. Individuals from Syria, Iran and Uganda contribute to the hand stitching found on these drawn portraits by Alice. She wishes to acknowledge the importance of their input. This new series of portraits can be seen in the context of […]

Christine Rebet's exhibition Time Levitation, comprises six hand-drawn animated films that address the traumas of personal and collective histories, illusion and the destruction of our shared history and environment.  Drawing is at the heart of Rebet’s practice, which she often develops into animated films, sculpture, installations or performance art

C I T H R A is the first solo exhibition in London by Lauren Gault. Experimenting with unorthodox techniques and manufacturing processes, her work explores the often imperceptible changes that occur all around us.  From microscopic events to geological time-scales, her works confront the ethical, political and emotional implications of human interactions with the […]

Little is Enough For Those in Love, is Cassi Namoda’s first European solo exhibition, which takes its title from an East African proverb.  The exhibition features new paintings that explore life and love in the city of Maputo, the artist’s birthplace and home for several years. Veering between the polarities of joy and pain, Namoda foregrounds […]

France-Lise McGurn works with painting to create layered installations that incorporate gallery walls, floors and ceilings. "In Emotia" is a derivative term which suggests a state of being, simultaneously emotional and in motion. Mcgurn’s figurative painting and wall drawings evoke bodies and limbs overlapping and interacting in ambivalent spaces, at parties, in night clubs, on streets […]

Illuminating the Self is an exhibition of new work by Susan Aldworth and Andrew Carnie in response to groundbreaking research led by Newcastle University into developing a new treatment for epilepsy. The exhibition, which includes further work at Vane Gallery, explores different aspects of the University's CANDO project (Controlling Abnormal Network Dynamics using Optogenetics). Optogenetics is […]