In her distinctive approach to painting, Aileen Murphy generates imagery through a combination of slow layering and fast applications of oil paint, animating a delicate urgency and sparking sensations of both epiphany and discomfort. Fictive characters are the focal points of Murphy’s paintings. The figures fluctuate under the viewer’s eye, revealing and concealing themselves behind and via the […]
The exhibition Two Views from the Same Window, by Malgorzata Polonczyk reunites several works that reinterpret different sections of the same contemporary piece.
The centrepiece of this exhibition reimagines the ‘Five Senses’ collaboration between Rubens and Brueghel, which Olivia Kemp’s new paintings reinterpret. Each painting presents one of the five senses as a figure, surrounded by imagery that illustrates the theme. Olivia’s uses these compositions as templates to bring together a stream of both art historical and personal associations. […]
Chantal Joffe: For Esme – with Love and Squalor, explores the intimate act of painting and portraiture. Taking its name from J.D. Salinger’s short story For Esmé – with Love and Squalor (1950) in which time hangs as heavy as the protagonist’s ‘enormous-faced chronographic-looking wristwatch’, the exhibition captures the changing faces across the years of Chantal and […]
Elizabeth Price’s trilogy of new multi-channel video works, SLOW DANS, includes KOHL, FELT TIP and THE TEACHERS. These present a fictional past, parallel present and imagined future, interweaving compact narratives that explore social and sexual histories and our changing relationship between the material and the digital. It is a large-scale installation conceived by the artist for a repurposed 19th century assembly […]
Jo Spence (1934-1992) emerged as a key figure in British photography in the mid-1970s. Engaging with a range of photographic genres, from commercial to documentary and photo therapy, Spence took a unique approach to the camera, swerving academic theories and embracing a model based on experimentation and personal experience. Photo Therapy features work from the artist’s series […]
Christine McArthur's early work was primarily in oil and she became well known for her large-scale still life paintings on canvas. In the late 1980s she began to work in oil pastel and watercolour but more recently she has reverted to oil, as well as acrylic and collage.
In the artist's own words "My interest in painting lies with non-representation and abstraction. I have no desire to make obvious comment or narrative about external worldly matters when painting. My focus resides in the process and construction of the work, allowing unplanned outcomes to emerge. I prefer to leave the painting where something is […]
Helen Cammock explores social histories through film, photography, print, text, song and performance. She is motivated by her commitment to questioning mainstream historical narratives around blackness, womanhood, wealth, power, poverty and vulnerability. Mining her own biography in addition to the histories of oppression and resistance, multiple and layered narratives reveal the cyclical construct of histories. […]
An exhibition of new paintings created during a residency with the gallery in Venice by Flora Yukhnovich. Her sources include the music of Vivaldi and the memoirs of Casanova, in addition to one of her key influences, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, whose works include ceiling frescoes in the Ca’ Rezzonico museum and the Chiesa Santa Maria della Visitazione, […]
Violet Costello's work is inspired by the complexities of the human condition: our quirks and familiarities, our moments of loneliness and moments of joy, the ways in which we identify and represent ourselves in and to the world. With a practice incorporating painting, sculpture and installation, Costello explores the home, familial relations and society's ability […]
This exhibition, Textures of Understanding, creates a dialogue between suffragette embroideries created in Holloway Prison and Denise Jones' contemporary work. Between 1911 and 1912 hundreds of suffragettes were sent to Holloway Prison for smashing windows. Whilst incarcerated, some of the women worked on small embroideries. Jones uses cloth, thread and material objects to create responses to […]
Ndakavata pasi ndikamutswa nekuti anonditsigira, is an exhibition of new paintings by the Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera. The title translates from Shona to English as ‘I took my rest in sleep and then I awoke for He sustained me.’ In her paintings, Zvavahera gives form to emotions that manifest from other realms and dimensions beyond […]
For her new commission Rabiya Choudhry has created a mural, Big Broon Stressed Oot Eyes, in response to the current collective moment. With characteristic Glaswegian humour Choudhry has created a playful image of two large eyes which peer anxiously from Tramway's two front gallery windows.
Gillian Wearing continues her exploration of identity, fiction, reality and the mask presenting a series of new works on paper, board, sculpture and film. Conceived over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition Lockdown, focusses mainly on works made during the lockdown. Her new watercolour portraits have all been created in this time of self-reflection […]
The title of the exhibition, Jesture, touches on a sense of the absurd, responding to the disruption of daily rhythms arising from forced isolation during lockdown. Central to Jade Fadojutimi’s practice is a repeated questioning of identity, its fluid nature and how the understanding of notions of pleasure, desire and choice are integral to a […]
A selection of new works by British sculptor Holly Hendry, whose large site-responsive sculptures and installations are concerned with what lies beneath the surface and the idiosyncrasies of the human body in all its lived, material and messy forms. Casting is central to the artist’s process, using an array of materials including steel, jesmonite, silicone, ash, […]
Alison Britton’s is one of the most important and influential ceramic artists working in Britain today, and her practice has remained focussed on the vessel, exploring its features both formal and conceptual. This exhibition is entitled Heat Work.
Monster/Beauty: An Exploration of the Female/Femme Gaze, is a group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph featuring the artwork, ephemera and archival photographs of nineteen female-identifying or queer femme artists who portray the feminine body in its sexed or sexual state, empowering the womxn artist as both subject and object as well as image and image-maker.
This exhibition is comprised of new work created by Cicely Brown in response to Blenheim's Palace’s history as an English country estate, and as the home to successive generations of the Spencer-Churchill family and their collection of paintings, tapestries and decorative arts. Rendered in her emotive, frenetic brushstrokes, Brown’s new series visually references masterpieces by Sir […]