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This is Christiane Baumgartner’s fifth solo exhibition with the Cristea Roberts Gallery. It will present a new body of work developed by the artist over the last two years. Large-scale woodcuts of landscapes and seascapes are paired with ethereal views of sunsets and horizons as well as previously unseen oil drawings. Although these works may first appear as peaceful meditations on the natural world, they mark the tensions between nature and human conflict.

This solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures by English-Indian artist Tanya Ling debuts an  new body of work, accompanied by an illustrated publication and interview by Dr Gilda Williams. Ling has made work which responds to both her lifelong love of horses as well as the Lyndsey Ingram gallery at Number 16, a converted 19th century stable.

Nour Jaouda is a Libyan artist based between London and Cairo. This exhibition is her first institutional solo exhibition. Jaouda’s fluid, multi-layered textile works traverse the languages of painting, sculpture and installation to produce ‘landscapes of memory’. The forms, colours and motifs within her intricately textured surfaces gesture towards different encounters across time and space, drawing on the artist’s childhood in Libya and experiences of living between Cairo and London. New commissions for Spike Island’s large-scale galleries continue Jaouda’s exploration of cultural identity as an ongoing process of becoming.

Danielle Dean’s work spans video, painting, installation, social practice and performance. Drawing on archival records, film and advertising, Dean’s practice interrogates how individuals are shaped by commercial narratives and explores historical and contemporary representations of labour, racialised identity and popular culture. Her projects are often developed collaboratively with community members, whose experiences bring essential perspectives to the work.

This exhibition  centres around Hemel, a new film that serves both as a personal essay and a portrait of Hemel Hempstead, where she grew up.

Paule Vézelay (1892-1984) was a key figure of 20th-century British abstract art. Her vivid explorations of colour and line fill this retrospective exhibition at the RWA – the largest solo show of Vézelay’s work in over 40 years.

On display are more than 60 works including paintings, prints, sculptures and textiles, in addition to archive items such as photographs and personal letters. The exhibition spans Vézelay’s career, from her early interest in Bristol’s theatre scene to her breakthrough into abstract art in Paris and later success as a textile designer.

Celebrating over twenty years of extraordinary practice, this exhibition celebrates internationally acclaimed Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi’s (b. 1972), whose poetic images find beauty in the ordinary moments of everyday life.

Her first major UK exhibition since 2006 centres around the series M/E – letters which stand for both ‘Mother’ and ‘Earth’ and ‘Me’ – moving between explorations of the natural world’s fragile beauty to the gentle rhythm of domestic scenes, capturing the connections and continuity of life on this ‘planet we call home’.

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (b. 1978) creates narrative-rich works using textiles and fabric, producing vibrant large-scale panels that transform perceptions of Romany culture and history. The exhibition will offer an opportunity to consider the Whitworth’s textile collection in a new and nomadic-centric light, while honouring the lives of stateless communities. Mirga-Tas was selected to represent Poland at the 2022 Venice Biennale, the first ever Roma artist to be represented in a national pavilion in the Biennale’s history.

This exhibition surveys Liliane Lijn’s career from the late 1950s to today, spanning installation, sculpture, painting and moving image, and including her ongoing exploration and creation of new feminine forms. Lijn’s kinetic sculptures placed her at the forefront of artists exploring new ways of using technology to “see the world in terms of light and energy.” Over a six-decade career, her work has continued to blaze a trail while defying categorisation.

Renowned Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (1910-1996) created compelling, powerful works that reflect her extraordinary life as a senior Anmatyerre woman from the Utopia region of Australia. Created in collaboration with the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), this will be the first large-scale presentation of Kngwarray’s work ever held in Europe and a celebration of her astonishing career as one of Australia’s greatest artists.

One of the world’s most significant painters to emerge in the late 20th century, her lived experience and spiritual engagement with her homelands was translated into vibrant batiks and later into monumental paintings on canvas. Discover rich textiles, paintings, film and audio elements that embody the majestic scope of Kngwarray’s Country and ancestral heritage.