The My Eternal Soul paintings on view in this exhibition introduce new and recent examples drawn from Yayoi Kusama’s highly celebrated, ongoing series, which she commenced in 2009. These works, at once bold and intensely detailed, and conveying extraordinary vitality, are joyfully improvisatory, fluid and highly instinctual. They abound with imagery including eyes, faces in profile, […]
The exhibition includes a number of new paintings of the artist’s mother, Daryll, part of an ongoing series that Chantal Joffe began some three decades ago. These works, some painted from family photographs, others from life, range back and forth in time. The Story of the title refers to a painting depicting the artist and […]
The exhibition, African Spirits of Modernism, comprises quilts, sculptures and a series of African masks that engage with Yinka Shonibare's own identity as a ‘post-colonial hybrid’. The works are accompanied by archival material that captures the burgeoning interest in African art in Paris in the 1920s. Playfully described by the artist as “Picasso in reverse”, this body […]
This much anticipated show brings together large-scale ceramic works, wooden sculptures, masks and vibrant paintings on paper. The exhibition, Kuchui Clans of Buganda, includes the largest ceramic sculpture that the artist has ever created which is presented for the first time in the gallery’s private garden. Leilah Babirye’s powerful works are a testament to her […]
‘Music to My Eyes’ responds to Hicks’s lifelong relationship with colour and thread. Throughout her 70-year career, which continues to flourish, the Nebraska-born, Paris-based artist has endeavoured to bestow upon fibre an independent voice, allowing form, colour and texture to dictate its own progression through space.
With There is a Volcano Behind My House, Ilana Halperin creates works inspired by the geology of the Island of Bute where she now spends much of her time. Situated throughout the house, four distinct yet contiguous series of sculptures, works on paper and textile reference ‘immigrant’ minerals embedded in the fabric of the building, as […]
Taken from a line in a Charlotte Brontë's poem, Evening Solace, the title of Iris Schomaker's exhibition, ‘in secret kept/ in silence sealed’, reflects on interiority, solitude and the nature of time.
Painting provides a platform where time, space, gravity and perspective can be shifting and unstable. Within this malleable construct, Anj Smith is endlessly inventive and creative, bringing together diverse and disparate objects and environments. The familiar and the unfamiliar, the contemporary and the archaic; all interweave to create intense and often psychologically charged works. Rich […]
'Britainton’, is an exhibition of new sculptures by Claire Partington, which interweaves art history, feminism and fairytale to create a surreal and riotous vision of Britain in 2021. Claire works principally in ceramics, and for her large figures she uses imagery from the past to reinterpret the present. The works in ‘Britainton’ tap sources ranging from […]
An exhibition of works on paper by Gwen John (1876-1939). The lover of Auguste Rodin and sister of the flamboyant artist Augustus John. Her work was often overlooked, yet she was amongst the first female students to study at the Slade School of Art, and exhibited with major galleries and at important exhibitions, including the […]
Everything is a Bird is a new exhibition by Sophy Rickett and Bettina von Zwehl, which features photography, 3d works, moving image and text. Everything is a Bird represents the joyful interaction between the work of two artists and their practices. Both have a background in photography, and the works in this exhibition reflect the fascination […]
"I had the landscape in my arms when I painted it. I had the landscapes in my mind and shoulder and wrist." —Helen Frankenthaler Imagining Landscapes,paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952–1976, is an exhibition of fourteen paintings from the collection of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, several of which have never been exhibited before. The references to […]
The Yanomami Struggle, is an exhibition devoted to the life and work of Claudia Andujar and her collaboration with the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous peoples, who she has spent her life documenting and defending. Over 200 photographs, an audio-visual installation and a series of drawings by the Yanomami are brought together for the […]
DATES TBA In the 1960s and 70s, the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz created radical sculptures from woven fibre. They were soft not hard; ambiguous and organic; towering works that hung from the ceiling and pioneered a new form of installation. They became known as The Abakans. This exhibition presents a rare opportunity to explore this extraordinary body of work. […]
This exhibition by Josèfa Ntjam comprises a series of ceramic sculpture, photomontage, film and sound. ‘Molecular Genealogies’ explores the history and future of emancipatory movements by weaving multiple narratives drawn from African mythology, ancestral rituals, the wars of independence in Cameroon, Algeria and Burkina-Faso, anti-racist activism in the US, as well as Ntjam’s personal and […]
Christina Quarles creates surreal and deliberately ambiguous images of bodies that seem barely contained by the frame of the canvas. This display, In Likeness, brings together Quarles’s vibrant and textured paintings, as well as works on paper. The figures in Quarles’s expressive, large-scale paintings are an embodiment of her own perspective on the world and she […]
Enter the world of Charlotte Perriand, whose pioneering designs shaped the 20th century. Her modern ideas can be found in the way we live today, from the use of materials to her belief that good design is for everyone. Step inside recreations of some of her most famous interiors, including the apartment designed for the Salon […]
Bhangra Lexicon is the world’s first ‘visual dictionary’ of movements found within this beautiful artform, carefully compiled by Hardeep Sahota. Bhangra is an energetic form of dance and music originated in the Panjab by farming communities during the spring harvest festival of Vaisakhi. Sahota has explored, documented and catalogued over 300 dance movements and gestures from […]
Shirazeh Houshiary presents a new body of work: the first presentation in 15 years to focus exclusively on her paintings. The five new paintings – Pneuma (2020), Forgetting the Word (2020), Enigma (2020), Pieta (2021) and Loci (2021) – manifest an abstraction that is at once haptic and optic; their surfaces taut with a connective energy that holds pigment and fine skeins of pencil-work in […]
Strange Days, Tursic & Mille’s exhibition, features twelve paintings and two sculptures, each of the works represents one month out of the past twelve. Serving as a kind of calendar, the exhibition emphasises that painting is always about time, and its absurdity.