The exhibition, Visions of English Literature, casts a spotlight on Paula Rego's remarkable practice as a graphic artist, and in particular the British literary influences that inspired her most ambitious bodies of works in printmaking: Nursery Rhymes, Peter Pan and Jane Eyre. Showcasing each series of prints combined with unseen preparatory sketches, etching plates and other […]
For her debut exhibition, Daria Blum's, Drip Drip Point Warp Spin Buckle Rot, transforms the space into an enveloping, multimedia installation. Immersive video and sound pieces spark an evocative dialogue with the architecture of the gallery itself. Blum’s artistic practice draws on movement, choreography, and staging. Regular live performances are complemented by photographs.
Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition premieres a new Infinity Mirror Room and introduces works from a new series of paintings, entitled Every Day I Pray for Love. Created in a more intimate format, these paintings continue the artist's singular explorations of line and form. Often minutely detailed, with characteristically bold accents of colour, they evoke both microscopic and macroscopic […]
This exhibition interrogates Friendship as a fundamental human relationship that is essential to individual well-being and society. Taking place in the partner cities of Birmingham and Lyon, Friends in Love and War – L’Éloge des meilleur·es ennemi·es also reflects on diplomatic friendships, and how regional capitals and cultural organisations can create new ways of living […]
Exploring states of psychological transition, Anna Blom’s exhibition, Transference, is conceived as an exploration of variance. It responds to contextual change and liminality, as well as the changes in oneself. The works are a series of articulations: poetic verbiage taking on a diaristic methodology.
The exhibition, La Perez es el Milagros de dies (Idleness is the Misrule of God) presents eleven new works on canvas made by the artist this year. Torres practice is deeply rooted in her upbringing and the culture of Colombia’s Caribbean coast, in this body of work the artist explores notions of the absurd, miracles and […]
Yuko Shiraishi's exhibition, Through, presents a series of exquisite recent paintings and a major new architectural installation; ‘Bunk Bed Odyssey - Parallel Lullaby’. Paintings in this exhibition reference Shiraishi’s long-standing fascination with dreams, which spans the scientific and the poetic and goes beyond the dreams we remember.
Under Construction, the exhibition by Geumhyung Jeong, features a newly commissioned installation of sculpture, video, and a series of live performances. Working from her background in choreography and a studied interest in the role of objects and technology in our lives, Jeong uses her body and animatronic figures built from DIY parts to parse the […]
Yu Hong presents a series of large-scale new acrylic-on-canvas paintings in her exhibition Islands of the Mind. Described as one of the most important voices of her generation, she unveils a selection of poignant and poetic paintings that each explore a distinctive state of mind or consciousness.
The exhibition, Uncanny Visions, presents Francisco de Goya’s Los Disparates (The Follies) (1815-1824), alongside Paula Rego’s complete Nursery Rhymes, a series of over 30 etchings and aquatints. Exploring how two artists living a century apart resorted to similar visual motifs and narrative devices, the exhibition examines how Goya’s influence on Rego is apparent through the media […]
Sikelela Owen RA, in her exhibition, Where My Gaze Falls pays attention to the nature and spirit of communion, particularly the familial and socio-cultural events that underpin and shape our everyday encounters.
Nairy Baghramian makes sculptures that ask you to reconsider your sense of self, space and relation to the object. Made from materials such as marble, wood, metal and resin, her sculptures often respond to the surrounding environment, engaging with architecture and people. Using a wide range of techniques, they subtly explore connections between art and […]
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 […]