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 […]
‘Resurrect’, is a monumental new installation by Rachael Louise Bailey and Johnny Woodford. The collaborative work shows a large section of a fallen oak tree resurrected in the gallery.
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 highlights partnerships that have culminated in creative works in response to the academic research carried out, and ranges across the broad themes of being human, […]
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 […]
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, renewal and liberation. During her residency at Delfina Foundation, Sena intends to work on a new performance piece that will activate an archive.
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 finds its starting point in the etymological root of the word “mother” as synonymous of matter (mater/materia in Latin) in a group show exploring female […]
Peggy Franck's exhibition, ‘You Begin’ is taken from Margaret Atwood’s poem ‘You Begin’ in the volume ‘Two Headed’ Poems.
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 rooted in their surroundings; responding to the corner of a room, ceiling or floor. Utilitarian and minimal in appearance, the artist’s use of simple materials […]
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 Gabriel’s acclaimed book ‘Ninth Street Women’, which is about the work, lives and spirit of this group.
Just Glass Group show, Recollection, focuses on memories in glass: everything from personal reminiscences to nostalgia, from the science of memory to the commemoration of moments in history. Each piece in the show has been inspired by memories and created in glass. The show features work from internationally renowned glass-makers as well as from emerging artists, […]
Alice Kettle works with marginalised communities and individuals, and collaborates with expert stitchers from around the world. Individuals from Syria, Iran and Uganda contribute to the hand stitching found on these drawn portraits by Alice. She wishes to acknowledge the importance of their input. This new series of portraits can be seen in the context of […]
C I T H R A is the first solo exhibition in London by Lauren Gault. Experimenting with unorthodox techniques and manufacturing processes, her work explores the often imperceptible changes […]
Little is Enough For Those in Love, is Cassi Namoda’s first European solo exhibition, which takes its title from an East African proverb. The exhibition features new paintings that explore life and love in the city of Maputo, the artist’s birthplace and home for several years. Veering between the polarities of joy and pain, Namoda foregrounds […]
France-Lise McGurn works with painting to create layered installations that incorporate gallery walls, floors and ceilings. "In Emotia" is a derivative term which suggests a state of being, simultaneously emotional and […]
This is the first UK solo exhibition of works by Hedda Sterne (1910–2011). She was an active member of the New York School, and was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1910 and fled to the US in 1941. Sterne created an extensive body of work that intersected with some of the most important movements and […]
Emily Myers, Anna Silverton and Ali Tomlin are linked by their exploration to form and its relationship to the surface. This exhibition, Line & Form brings their work together, which explores the relationships between surface decoration and form.⠀
Neda Dana-Haeri’s work is based on the interplay of “cultural memory” and personal memory. Her art is driven by Persian poetry and Eastern philosophy, and her works reflect images of nature carrying with them the unconscious emotions of our daily life. Neda uses layers of colours and textures to reflect and infer nature, the unconscious […]
A line drawn by hand is a fundamental act for Wendy Smith and underpins her work. This exhibition, Forms of Life, offers a selection of new and previously unseen work stretching back to the late 90s that highlights the rich and seemingly endless possibilities that emerge as Wendy explores the mysteries inherent in drawn lines on a flat […]