Ima-Abasi Okon works with sculpture, sound and video to produce installations that explore the historical and political charge of materials. Previous works have included the artist's own jewellery, used as a filter between […]
From research in the “special collections” of medical history and the modern labour suite, Anne Bevan and Janice Galloway have put together the words and sculptures of Rosengarten, taking the tools […]
Chilean artist Patricia Domínguez explores rituals and healing practices emerging in the contact zones between multiple cultures, worldviews and livelihoods. Informed by the study of ethnobotany in South America, her first UK […]
An exhibition to celebrate the American artist Elizabeth Murray (1940 – 2007. The exhibition highlights a dramatic decade that saw Murray’s work dominate the art scene of 1980s New York. […]
Group Hat is inspired by Lauren Godfrey’s impression of the De La Warr Pavilion and the town of Bexhill as a ‘porous chorus’ of people, organisations, buildings, pieces of furniture, steps […]
The Potter's Space is an exhibition of the renowned ceramicist, Jennifer Lee. It includes 40 works made from different periods throughout Lee’s entire career as well as new pots which have been especially made for the exhibition at Kettle’s Yard. Jennifer Lee is a major presence to have emerged from studio ceramics of the 1970s, whose practitioners dismantled […]
The Bird in Borrowed Feathers’, is a solo exhibition by the Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene. Her work is renowned worldwide for its distinctive photographic approach. Working in analogue and principally in small format, she focuses on the experiences of young people at the stage between adolescence and adulthood.
Join us to explore the group show Where Were You at Night, a second in a trilogy of group shows at the S|2 gallery where a work of literature forms a conceptual framework for an exhibition and is accompanied by a new edition and reprinting of a story. The first group show, House of the Sleeping Beauties, took […]
The exhibition Her Ground: Women Photograph the Landscape highlights the contributions made by women to contemporary photography, and address ideas of how landscape can be viewed through the female gaze. The exhibition sets out to raise questions around how we define our landscape today, and touches on notions of visibility, ownership, identity, and social or political agency. Artists exhibiting include: Lisa Barnard, Maja Daniels, […]
Motherline, is a group exhibition of ceramics, tapestry and printmaking, Glenys Barton and others. The exhibition explores the emergent expression of identity and memory, visibility and the unconscious, fantasy, myth and the uncanny within the sphere of female experience.
It may be summer, but we can't let this fabulous retrospective go without a visit. If you are free on 18th July to join us for a wonderful visit to the Barbican with an introduction to the exhibition from the curator Eleanor Nairne please RSVP now. This event will proceed only if we get a […]
Marie Neurath and her team at the Isotype Institute produced over 80 illustrated children’s books from 1944-1971 in a pioneering collaboration between researchers, artists and writers. Using infographics and illustrated diagrams to explain scientific concepts, Neurath’s books mark a defining moment in information design for children. The exhibition includes spreads and working materials from book […]
From her early naturalistic style – honed during her studies in France – to her highly abstracted self-portraits, this exhibition will present Schjerfbeck for the first time to UK audiences.
Awkward Beauty is a Lucy Jones retrospective, spanning 25 years of work. For the first time her self-portraits, landscapes, and works on paper are exhibited together, offering a deep insight into Jones’ prolific and varied practice. Expressive colour, painterly brush work and bold simplicity distinguish her as one of the most significant British painters working today. Often […]
An exhibition of the work of Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer , which brings together some 35 works, revealing the diversity of her output, including graphic works, photographs, films and paintings. Spanning more than five decades, the show highlights the playful conceptual approach that she brings to her experiments across all media.
Moyra Davey is always aware of the inevitable end, she constructs a practice conscious of its own past and reliant on radical self-doubt. Her photographs, films, and essays cross-reference and depend on one another as she makes a subject of her own process and its intentions, fears, and failures.
"A Mind For Moonlight", is an exhibition of new work by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The exhibition features a new group of paintings, including portraits and figures in landscapes. Her subjects, black men and women, are bold, often confronting the viewer; the works evoke a narrative that is up to the viewer to reconstruct.
The Ballroom table’s Perspex box has been transformed by Candace Bahouth into a creative hot house - Box of Delights! A riot of colour, pattern and mosaic, Candace takes the ordinary and reimagines it to create bizarre, surreal and fanciful objects.
Above the Eye Level is an exhibition of works in textile by Leonor Serrano Rivas.
In the nineteenth century, long before the current era of fake news, Emily Dickinson wrote a meditation on truth in her poem Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant. With a title alluding to the poem, this exhibition, Telling it Slant, of Julie Cockburn’s latest work similarly excavates authentic stories by circuitous means. Using a rich material language, […]