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 […]
During the 1930s, Dora Maar’s provocative photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism. Her eye for the unusual also translated to her commercial photography, including fashion and advertising, as well as to her social documentary projects. In Europe’s increasingly fraught political climate, Maar signed her name to numerous left-wing manifestos – a radical gesture for a woman at that time. In middle […]
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 works in this exhibition address António de Oliveira Salazar’s fascist regime, the 1997 referendum on legalising abortion in Portugal, the invasion of Iraq in 2003 […]
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 […]
The Future Is Here! is a new commission from artist and researcher Mimi Onuoha which examines the process of dataset creation. In order to extract value from information, tech companies and researchers increasingly employ machine learning. This process requires huge quantities of data which have been labelled and tagged according to specific criteria, by ‘human work’ that […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
Gill Button is well-known for paintings that use images found in the media as their subject. In recreating these as gestural, intimate portraits, Button turns the mass-produced into something deeply personal and specific. It is a practice that looks at how we identify with the media landscape, and how we constitute ourselves in relation to […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]