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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance is an ambitious retrospective of the Portuguese artist’s work that brings politics to the fore. Spanning Rego’s career from the 1960s through to 2012, the […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Until the 20th C, many women spent most of their adult years pregnant, but pregnancies are seldom apparent in surviving portraits. Portraying Pregnancy brings together images of women – mainly British – who were depicted at a time when they were pregnant (whether visibly so or not). Through paintings, prints, photographs, objects and clothing from the […]
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. […]
Penelope Haralambidou's project 'City of Ladies' studies 'The Book of the City of Ladies', 1405, by Italian/French medieval author Christine de Pizan (1364 – c.1430). The text is part of […]
The End of the Sentence presents artist Judy Price’s research into the history of Holloway Women’s Prison. The exhibition reflects on the impact of the criminal justice system on women, […]
This selection of works demonstrates the genius in Marie Laurencin’s vision of a self-sufficient world of female affection and creativity. This exhibition seeks to celebrate Laurencin’s qualities as a great […]
‘Window’ is an exhibition by Isa Genzken featuring a new and unseen body of work. Genzken’s immersive environment expands on the themes of travel, through elements of an aircraft cabin, […]
In a brief but explosively inventive career, Alina Szapocznikow (1926 – 1973) radically re-conceptualised sculpture as a vehicle for exploring, liberating and declaring bodily experience. In the exhibtion, ‘To […]
Hannah Townsend’s sculptural vessels, merge the practices of ceramics and printmaking to reveal scrupulous order behind each expressive mark. In Marking Time, Hannah slip-casts beakers and bowls in white earthenware […]
An exhibition of works by Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014), which focuses on key pieces from the 70’s to the 90’s, exploring a breadth of work central to Finn-Kelcey’s practice. She first came to […]
Inscriptions IV, is a screening of 'Inscriptions of an Immense Theatre' at the Whitechapel Gallery, curated by Gareth Evans. Dr. Sarah Hayden (Department of English, University of Southampton) will be […]
A new solo exhibition of work by Linder Sterling, who is well known for her photomontage. This exhibition explores the diverse range of Linder’s practice, and explores her as performance artist, […]
Abigail Reynolds travelled to the sites of fifteen former great libraries along the Silk Road to consider what a library means today. Her new work,Taken in a few seconds: by […]
Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles celebrates seven pioneering women who saw beyond the purely functional, to reveal the extraordinary artistic, social and cultural importance of textiles, and costume, which gives us a beautiful and intensely human insight into our history. This major collaborative project explores the innovative approaches of Edith Durham (1863 –1944), Louisa Pesel (1870 […]
Rethreading and Retracing is an exhibition by Bita Ghezelayagh, which gives us a glimpse into her practice that is influenced by her Iranian cultural heritage. She transforms old woven textiles and eastern […]
HONEY PIE, is an exhibition by Sarah Lucas featuring ten sculptures that extend her long-term Bunny series into dynamic new forms. The exhibition consists of five sculptures made from stuffed tights and found […]
Ella Walker uses a myriad of media to create imagery inspired by medieval and early modern costume and iconography. The result is a series of resplendent large-format works, rich in narrative […]
I See You, is an exhibition of paintings that brings together historical and contemporary works by female artists with a focus on depictions of male subjects. It ranges from portraits of family […]