This major exhibition celebrates one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, offering a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902–1995) ground-breaking practice. The first survey of her pottery in the UK in over 20 years, Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery features more than 100 works, including bowls, vases, tableware and buttons.
Aviv Benn’s paintings are illusory and delusive, with their imagery echoing a familiar yet alienating feeling. The exhibition’s title, ‘And the Sky Cast an Eye on This Marvellous Meat’, is a line borrowed from poet Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil collection. The poem describes the perplexity of nature, as well as the human body and life; as they […]
This exhibition explores Halima Cassell's evolving practice over the past 25 years and includes a piece specially commissioned by the Gallery, made with local Compton clay. The artwork takes inspiration from the work of both G F and Mary Watts and is the first acquisition by a living artist to join the Watts Gallery Trust […]
The Perfect Error, celebrates the misalignments and glitches which make AI art even more human. The exhibition harks back to the spirit of exploration as shown by the artists working with AI since DeepDream and throughout the GAN era. Artists featured include Daniel Ambrosi, Memo Atken, Tom White, Mario Klingeman, Scott Eaton, Helena Sarin, Alexander […]
Full of days, is an investigation into the relationship between art, life and mortality through the paintings and writings of Hermione Burton, a self-taught artist whose works were uncovered by Andy Holden in a local charity shop in Bedford in 2017. Upstairs in the gallery space, Holden curates Hermione's personal opus drawn from her imagined […]
Escape the Flames, by Dolly Verity explores the devastating ways rainforests in Indonesia are being cleared for palm oil plantations. There is a worldwide awareness of deforestation, but do we really know the magnitude of what is going on? The collective works aim to bring awareness as well as expose the effects deforestation is having […]
Photographers Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron are two of the most influential women in the history of photography, who lived a century apart. Both women explored portraiture beyond its ability to record appearance, by using their own creativity and imagination to suggest notions of beauty, symbolism, transformation and storytelling. Showcasing more than 150 rare […]
Do not think at all about good and bad, is a new ceramic sculpture comprising twelve scattered apples, by Mai-Thu Perret. Do not think at all about good and bad forms part of Perret’s research into the treatment of women, in this instance through a lens of witchcraft.
The work of Juliette Sturlèse deftly manipulates colour and light to channel subconscious sensory experience. In A little mouse was running through the grass, viewers find themselves gently enveloped by ten luminous works that behave like portals between inner and outer worlds.
Marjan Moghaddam has developed #Arthacks, a mixed-reality series expanding on the power and poetics of the glitch within the global art economy. Building on the artist’s decades-long practice that integrates world-building and digital embodiment, #Arthacks takes aim at the financial heart of the art world: its fairs. Devised in real time within the three-day framework of each fair, […]
An exhibition of works by Poppy Jones, who is internationally recognised for her sensitive and intimate paintings depicting a range of recognisable phenomena: jackets, lamps, water glasses, flowers, candles, curtains, and plants, among them. Developed during the lockdown, her characteristic process brings together oil lithographic printing techniques with carefully applied watercolour painting to create unique […]
Angela Heisch’s exhibition, Low Speed Highs, comprises a new body of paintings and works on paper. Working on her grandest scale to date, Heisch brings together the lavish quality and elaborate style of the Baroque with the creativity of the unconscious mind as espoused by the Surrealists. In these new works, movement is the subject […]
Featuring large-scale installations of textiles, ceramics and drawings, the work of Polly Apfelbaum is framed by wider political contexts and the legacy of post-war American art. The artist combines a variety of media with eye-catching colours and patterns to blur the lines between painting, sculpture and installation while also exploring the boundaries between art and […]
Carey Young explores relations between women, the camera and systems of power. The show centres on a series of three video works with interrelated themes. Young’s new commission Appearance (2023) is a silent video portrait of fifteen female judges, diverse in seniority, age and ethnicity, which explores their individuality and nuanced differences, as well as the […]
This exhibition, A riot of colour, celebrates the work of the ceramic artist Betty Woodman (1930–2018), and painter and photographer George Woodman (1932–2017). Betty and George bring together the artists’ vibrant ceramics, vivid abstract paintings, radical assemblages, photographs and an early collaboration. Side by side, kindred palettes and patterns emerge, evidence of the couple’s continuous […]
Note to Self , is a selling exhibition of works by rising female painters who are breathing new life into a traditional art form "Singing and songwriting are my first love — those are the art forms that come naturally — but I’ve always gravitated towards paint, canvas, photography and sculpture," says Mashonda Tifrere, who […]
The Fair is a celebration of printmaking in all its forms, spanning six centuries from the 15th century works of Dürer and his contemporaries to that of emerging contemporary artists. […]
This presentation by Lisa Sanditz is titled Evergreen, in reference to the monumental container ship that became wedged in the Suez Canal for six days in 2021, Sanditz’ exhibition explores […]
Inspired by feminist and performance art history, Gabby Laurent's practice unites photography and performance, investigating notions of aggression, control, vulnerability, motherhood and domesticity.
Shaping Impressonism; this exhibition brings together around 30 of Morisot’s masterpieces from international collections to reveal the artist as a trailblazer of the movement. Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was known for […]