Three striking sculptures by Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) - These three “Beasts” (Crouching Beast II, Lion I and Beast Alerted I) are monumental animals captured in various states of action, made of welded stainless-steel sheets.

Unconscious Landscape, is a collection of  works from Ursula Hauser Collection that focusses entirely on female artists. The exhibition covers four decades of works that brings together a remarkable overview of late 20th century modern masters in dialogue with contemporary artists. The exhibition, which is curated by Ursula Hauser’s daughter Manuela Wirth, together with Laura […]

Kate Nicholson's exhibition covers the breadth of her creativity.  It includes examples of early landscapes (Cumberland, Isle of Skye and St Ives), the still life's she made in St Ives working alongside her father Ben Nicholson, the Greek abstracts from the 1960s made while she was travelling with her mother Winifred Nicholson, and a selection […]

Pakistani visual artist Sara Shakeel presents a new sculptural work ‘The Great Supper’. Traces of an intimate family meal are concealed at the centre of the gallery, inviting the viewer in to be part of a conversation.  The stage is constructed from unassuming objects which have been carefully placed together; a table, dining chairs and […]

Die Wässer und Libellenlust, is a solo exhibition of works by Heidi Bucher. The show focusses on water and the symbol of the dragonfly, two major aspects of her practice that resonated throughout the late ‘70s and ‘80s. These elements highlight Heidi’s fascination with the processes of shedding, transformation and renewal. Bucher’s employment of water, […]

This major centre-wide ‘festival-style’ exhibition explores creative and scientific developments in AI, demonstrating its potential to revolutionise our lives. Bringing together artists, scientists and researchers, this interactive exhibition offers an unprecedented survey of AI with which you are invited to engage head-on.  

‘A Lot or Knot’ is an exhibition of new sculptures and works on paper by Martina von Meyenburg.  The histories of found objects and materials form the basis of von Meyenburg’s sculptural investigation. As a collector and curator of “traces”, the visceral and associative evidence of the previous lives of things, she is interested in […]

On display is a special Billboard Commission, which is a work by Nora Berman, entitled Piped Woman.

This exhibition presents the largest solo display of Pearl Alcock’s drawings and paintings to date – all from the Whitworth Collection.  Following the Brixton riots in the early 1980s, trade […]

In Sara Lee’s ‘Beckoning Lines’ she produces intense pastel drawings of landscapes that have no bearing on distance.  Each is a desert of infinity where one is pulled into the nuance of surface.   

‘My Kind of Protest’, is an exhibition of works by Emma Amos, Vivian Browne and Chemu Ng’ok. Working across different time periods, each of these artists creates psychologically charged portraits addressing what it means to be a black woman in a society ruled by men. While some of these works date back 60 years, they […]

Lucy Jones’s paintings conduct a journey through both interior landscapes and the external world beyond.  Landscapes and Inscapes, an exhibition of new landscape and portrait paintings includes a portrait of artist Grayson Perry, commissioned by the Attenborough Arts Centre (University of Leicester) which will be displayed for the first time. 

An exhibition in Paris by Annette Messager with new works and a set of new drawings, including her first video installation, Lost in Limbos (2019). The exhibition opens with a series of mural sculptures titled Sleeping Songs. To create them, Annette Messager worked with coloured sleeping bags, quilts and hooded puffer jackets. Emphasising their tremendous versatility and rich […]

After moving to Paris from Beirut in 1970, Huguette Caland achieved artistic recognition with her exuberant and erotically charged paintings that challenged traditional conventions of beauty and desire. The female physique is a recurrent motif in her work, often painted like landscapes with voids and mountain-like forms. Shifting between figuration and abstraction, large, colourful canvasses and detailed drawings […]

Posy Simmonds’ sharp satire and progressive female characters have defined a career spanning 50 years. This retrospective will feature her early-career pastiches, iconic cartoon strips for The Guardian and children’s books such as Fred, which became an Oscar-nominated film. It will also include the first ever British graphic novel, True Love, unseen pages from Tamara Drewe and drawings […]

A solo exhibition and premiere of Zoe Williams’s new moving image work, Sunday Fantasy. The work uses the language of fantasy to play with and subvert dominant power structures, dissecting and interrogating current representations of the erotic and viewing them through an importantly female and queered lens.

Business As Usual, is a solo exhibition by Alberta Whittle, a multi-faceted artist whose practice includes film, performance, and various forms of collage and assemblage, Whittle is known for work which uses the body as a site of potential for transformation and resistance. Creating space to acknowledge the effects of history on the present, she […]