A pioneer of 1970s Feminist Art, Su Richardson played a key role in revalidating craft as a fine art form and its potential as a means of disrupting the white cube aesthetic. Simultaneously celebrating, exploiting and subverting feminine craft skills such as crocheting and embroidery, Richardson's home-made objects stir the unconscious of domesticity and femininity and their […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sophie Barber's exhibition The Greatest Song and Songbird Ever Sung is part of a new series of large-scale paintings for the Episodes series at Goldmiths. Barber’s painterly practice revolves around her interest in the […]
Miho Sato uses acrylic and board to display the work in her current exhibition Freedom.
Mud Season, is an exhibition of new works by Lisa Sanditz. One of the most celebrated landscape painters working in America today, Sanditz’s richly coloured works explore humanity’s impact on the natural world. She depicts the landscape as a reflection of contemporary cultural values. The eighteen works, made during lockdown in the United States in the […]
Impromptu(s), is an exhibition by Juliette Dominati and Clare Burnett — two artists that share an understanding of the everyday sublime, conjuring practices from observing the immediate, adapting, altering contexts, shifting perspectives. Both artists find themselves struck by a material or an object that sets them on a journey; these spontaneous improvisations shed light on our habits, our history and […]
Renate Bertlmann's Magic Carpet paintings and sculptures are, in the artist's words, a “courageous feminist act.” Embodying a sense of feminine erotica and magical optimism, the works explicitly manifest Bertlmann’s exploration of ‘kitsch’ in the provocative trilogy that defines her practice: 'Pornography', 'Utopia' and 'Irony'. The gallery’s presentation for Frieze Masters features some works from the series […]
Marinella Senatore’s artistic practice is inclusive and relational; her works are manifestos of militancy and resistance that combine political protest with theatre, music and film. Her performances, paintings, collages, light installations, videos and photographs focus on such social themes and urban issues as emancipation, empowerment, equality, systems of aggregation and working conditions. Senatore's presentation for […]