Drawn entirely from the world-class National Photography Collection, the exhibition features the Herschel Album (1864), a sequence of 94 images which Cameron considered to be her finest work to date. Compiled by Cameron as a gift for her friend and mentor, the scientist Sir John Herschel, the album is comprised of Cameron’s bold, expressive portraits […]
This exhibition explores the impact of the Second World War on women's lives through the photography of Lee Miller, one of the most important female war photographers of the twentieth century. This exhibition A Woman's War is the first to address Miller’s vision of gender and features many photographs, objects, art and personal items never before […]
Rose Wylie was UK’s representative at Women to Watch in 2012. Her pictures are bold, occasionally chaotic, often unpredictable, and always fiercely independent, without being domineering. Wylie works directly on to large unprimed, un-stretched canvases and her inspiration comes from many and varied sources, most of them popular and vernacular. The cutout techniques of collage […]
To mark International Women’s Day we have an exciting series of events highlighting the wide-ranging exceptional female talent in music today. There are 3 events: Imogen Cooper Master Class; The Albany Trio; and Women and the Saxophone.
This exhibition includes unseen prototypes, original material, photographs and experimental film directly related to the production of Mary Kelly’s iconic Post-Partum Document (1973-79), now considered to be one of the most […]
Foundling Fellow Cornelia Parker has invited over sixty outstanding artists from a range of creative disciplines to respond to the theme of ‘found’, reflecting on the Museum’s heritage. Combining new and existing work with found objects kept for their significance, this major exhibition unfolds throughout the Museum, interacting with historic works in the Collection and with each other. Parker’s inspiration […]
We are honoured to have Whitechapel Gallery Chief Curator Lydia Yee lead us on a tour of the recently opened exhibition ‘Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures’. Mary Heilmann, Crashing Wave, 2011 (detail), Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.60 cm, © Mary Heilmann, Photo: Thomas Müller, Courtesy of the artist, 303 Gallery, New York, and […]
An exhibition of work by Lygia Pape, the celebrated Brazilian artist central to the Neo-Concrete movement who pioneered a unique approach to abstraction. The show will focus on Pape’s early Desenhos, Tecelares and later, iconic Ttéia installations and marks the gallery’s first presentation of the artist since beginning work with Projeto Lygia Pape earlier this […]
Helen Marten: Drunk Brown House brings together work never before presented in London with new work in an installation that has been conceived specifically in relation to the Gallery. Combining sculpture, text and screen-printed paintings, Marten’s practice comprises images and objects, often playing with two and three-dimensionality. Her installations employ visual and linguistic ambiguity in order […]
Extraordinarily this is one of few exhibitions where no artwork is for sale. Instead, the doors are thrown open for viewing and discussion with the artist about drawing. Xersa is Australian; her name was changed from Christine Limb when her textile design business, "Xersa Designs" became popular. Xersa has exhibited internationally and in major galleries […]
Vibrant and seductive floor- and wall-based sculptural works feature in this exhibition, Sim. Displaying a characteristically dynamic approach to form, these new works expand upon the Rio de Janeiro-based artist’s methods of rope weaving and straw braiding, in which pre-existing and found elements such as branches, twigs, seed pods, playful ceramic forms and paint brushes merge […]
An all female show featuring work by Nancy Spero, Elizabeth Murray, Rachel Whiteread, Rebecca Allen and Charlotte Colbert depicting artistic heroism transcending time. Despite the influence artists had on one another, and collective responses that were made by the surrounding world, this exhibition highlights the solitude – graceful, thought-through, strategic and compassionate individuality of each […]
Intervals, is the very first solo presentation in the UK of the internationally acclaimed artist Barbara Kasten . The exhibition displays both historic and recent works that showcase the Chicago-based artist’s striking oeuvre, which spans over 40 years. Kasten herself speaks of her work as ‘Painting in motion’, as it incorporates sculpture, photography and film, all […]
Featuring works by 14 artists, the exhibition seeks to uncover and emblazon the work of both celebrated and lesser-known artists working throughout the twentieth century. With a diverse range of media, subjects and artistic styles represented, the broad scope of this exhibition provides an insight into how women artists worked throughout the century: starting and […]
The art of 1930s America tells the story of a nation in flux. Artists responded to rapid social change and economic anxiety with some of the 20th century’s most powerful […]
Phyllida Barlow has been making large-scale sculptural works for 5 decades, as well as being an inspirational teacher to many young artists at the Slade School of Art. This exhibition […]