Exhibition

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.  

The fourth exhibition inspired by the political philosopher  Hannah Arendt is a solo presentation by the Israeli artist, feminist theorist, psychoanalyst and philosopher BRACHA. Through recent paintings that deal with wounds, trauma, healing and compassion, Ettinger puts us in relation to Arendt's question 'What is Freedom?' as set out in the philosopher's 1968 publication Between Past […]

Taking its title from the grid reference for the Gallery, SP010986, the residency sees Daniella Turbin embarking on walks across Walsall and its surrounding areas using Ordnance Survey’s Explorer paper map series. The artist records each journey through analogue photography and by collecting natural materials such as rocks and soil. From these Daniella creates a […]