The World at Our Command illustrates the importance of intimacy within platonic relationships. Defined by overlapping compositions that echo surrealist photomontages, Bobbie Essers’ fragmented canvases are full of limbs, bodies, clothes and accessories taken from candid photographs of her friends. The exhibition demonstrates the maturity with which the artist is developing her contemporary portraiture.
Anya Gallaccio: Preserve is an exhibition spanning three decades of Gallaccio’s radical practice, it restages several iconic sculptures in addition to a new site-specific commission. The exhibition reveals the artist’s consistent rethinking of the relationship between art and the environment, by presenting works that connect with Kent’s natural heritage.
‘A Portrait of Stockport’, is a retrospective exhibition of work by Helen Clapcott. There are over 100 of Helen’s artworks on display including flagship pieces: The Power Station, The Last Carnival, Brinksway 1979, and Before The Motorway. Helen has an impressive career spanning several decades and is renowned for her depictions of the post-industrial landscape […]
In this exhibition, A Reflective Journey From Earth to Universe, Corinne Corbett-Thompson explores the beauty, preciousness, and fragility of our planet.
‘Abort, Retry, Fail’ takes its title from the computer error message that flashes up on Farah Al Qasimi’s now defunct family computer. It connected her to the outside world and was a portal to escape from reality through gaming – as a pirate, a gun slinging biker, or a tiny ball bouncing off the edges […]
Enchanted Alchemies, an exhibition exploring themes of magic, mysticism, and the occult in art. Historical figures such as Gertrude Abercrombie, Eileen Agar, Leonora Carrington, Elda Cerrato, Ithell Colquhoun, Leonor Fini, and Monica Sjöö are placed in dialogue with contemporary practitioners. The exhibition features paintings, sculptures, ceramics, watercolours, and collages.
Adeela Suleman is known for the social and political commentary underlying her sculptures, which are created out of everyday objects. The recurring motifs in Suleman’s work - organic subjects such as birds and flowers - form detailed, repetitive patterns, which are replete with symbolic meaning. In Exit the Tiger: Symbols of Valour in Tipu's India, […]
This exhibition by Susan Hefuna, Liaten to: The Sound of Earth, Sun, Water and Air, showcases her latest series of textile works, in which she presents her most recent body of textile works; a series which reflects on the fragility of life, nature and humankind. Reminding viewers of the cycle of time, LISTEN TO: The […]
The exhibition Cipher, presents the work of two female painters Pouran Jinchi, and Ruba Salameh. The artists come from different generations, but share an innovative and emotionally affecting use of abstraction and pattern. Their paintings are deeply connected to traditions of Islamic calligraphy and geometric design, while also in dialogue with multiple moments and styles from […]
Flat Earth, Vivien Zhang’s exhibition, marks a new development in the artist’s ongoing exploration of the flawed linguistic, visual and taxonomic systems that shape our view of a hyper-saturated world. In her new series of paintings, Zhang abstracts visual devices from a breadth of disciplines – cartography, physics, and botany, to the study of butterflies. Producing […]
Emma Prempeh’s paintings depict events, people, interiors, places and still life from past and recent memories. Wandering Under A Shifting Sun invites us to observe Prempeh's poetics of relation, manifest as a visual magic realist interpretation of the events and vistas shaping her life in this new series of paintings and installation.
Aida Mahmudova’s The Window, is an evolving exploration of emotional landscapes, creating a compelling narrative that examines the interplay of personal, social, and artistic freedom. She delves into her personal archive, revealing a domestic world that mirrors broader themes of confinement and self-limitation.
Alice Baber is best known for her long-life dedication to study biomorphic forms, and the infinite possibilities of light and colour through painting. The exhibition showcases a selection of significant achievements from her career, with works spanning from 1964 - 1981, which chronicle her experimentation between different mediums, intensities of colour, saturation, composition, and forms.
This exhibition, I am the Last Woman Object, by Nicola L. encompasses sculpture, performance, painting, collage and film—all of which carry an air of wit, playfulness, and radical subversion. The show is an opportunity to experience all aspects of Nicola L.’s multidisciplinary practice.
Centred on concepts of visibility and erasure, the exhibition brings together paintings, prints and drawings from across Barbara Walker’s career, including her most recent Turner Prize nominated series Burden of Proof (2022-23),. The exhibition includes a commission focusing on the Windrush generation and in response to the Whitworth’s collection of historic drawings and wallpaper.
'The Archipelago on Fire' of Delaine Le Bas is dedicated to sharing and spreading the notion of the decaying of our planet. Le Bas reminds us of awe and mysticism humans felt and continue to feel for the Mother Earth and how our acts are threatening it.
Anna Perlin is an established painter and print-maker whose distinctive work is inspired by a love of the British countryside. In her paintings, fabric and paper collage add texture and depth alongside paint, oil pastel and charcoal. Sarah Jenkins creates hand-built stoneware ceramics.
Kapwani Kiwanga exhibition, ‘Rudiments’, follows themes related to transcultural exchanges, material histories and world-making, delving into how diverse cultures construct and interpret their origins while also drawing attention to how conditions of trade and exchange affect realities.
Studio Jumps is composed of a group of intimately scaled paintings, which at first glimpse recall Lucy Otter’s established practice. However, while the palette of these works is redolent of the artist’s pre-existing aesthetic, the medium of poured industrial paint on linen engenders a more controlled surface quality. Otter describes this body of work as […]
Anna Boghiguian’s work Living Amidst the Death, is a eulogy to a place soon to become past. Living in the City of the Dead, shows a seated figure to the right, contemplating its existence. A telephone in the middle of the canvas, and the writing ‘IF HE/SHE CALLS…SILENCE’ runs like a frieze or a modern LED […]