Mélanie Matranga's films, installations and sculptures are at once intimate and elegiac. Her work asks fraught and timely questions about images and memory, privacy and proximity. Titled 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, the artist presents works that were made over the last year. At a time when we have become accustomed to confinement and isolation, 0, 1, 2, […]
The exhibition brings together a group of new site specific paintings and works on paper by Sara Hughes, a series of large-scale flower paintings, which hangs together in the Nave, a vast space at the heart of the Museum. For this exhibition, Hughes takes a more pointed approach to the imaginative landscapes that have defined her […]
WOW: Women Only Works on Paper, a display of over 50 watercolours and pastels complemented by etchings and screen prints. The artists Vanessa Bell, Winifred Knights, Ithell Colquhoun, Annie French, Lucy Kemp-Welch, Thérèse Lessore, Hilda Carline and Paule Vézelay are all represented, as well as other accomplished but lesser-known female artists working in the first part of the 20th century. The […]
Celebrated Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos creates vibrant, often monumental sculpture, using fabric, needlework and crochet alongside everyday objects from saucepans to wheel hubs. She frequently uses items associated with domestic work and craft to comment from a feminist perspective on national and collective identity, cultural tradition and women’s roles in society.
Digging deeper into the stories told in Constance Spry and the Fashion for Flowers; this online exhibition looks at Spry’s ground-breaking career, remarkable life, and the legacy she has left in floristry and beyond. Get to know the doyenne of flowers through films, articles and interviews with Spry experts and admirers, including memories from those who worked […]
Arnolfini presents a major retrospective of the work of photographer Jo Spence (1934 – 1992), drawn from The Hyman Collection, one of the most comprehensive collections of Spence’s works in the world. Spence is well known for her highly politicised approach to photography and the representation of her own struggles with cancer. From Fairy Tales to Phototherapy focuses on […]
One of the great pioneers of abstraction, Sonia Delaunay was a key figure in the Parisian avant-garde, and one of the most influential female artists of her time. She is known for her sense of depth and movement and her bold approach to colour. Bastian’s forthcoming exhibition brings together a number of works from her […]
Somnambulist, is an exhibition by Karin Gulbran, who initially trained as a painter, and then turned her interests towards ceramics during the early stages of her career. She shifts seamlessly from two to three dimensions, and her works reveal fantastic and figurative scenes on hand-built pots and vases, which feature wide-eyed creatures, lush nature, and […]
With a career spanning six decades, graphic designer Margaret Calvert has produced timeless work that we see everywhere — often without realising it, as her work shapes much of our national visual identity. This display marks the launch of Network Rail’s new customised typeface, Rail Alphabet 2, designed by her in close collaboration with Henrik Kubel in response to […]
How can we transform our relationship with nature? This group exhibition and artist led research project unearths and interrogates our connection with our habitats and ecosystems, both global and local. Artists including Heather Ackroyd, Dan Harvey, Nestor Pestana, Bryony Benge-Abbott, Eloise Moody and Vicky Long, with more to be announced, present work that invites us to question […]
The Tourists explores themes of tourism and ecology, our relationship to images, architecture and place, destruction and loss. Working in painting, sculpture and digital media, this exhibition brings together a group of Ellen Harvey’s large-scale installations comprised of meticulously rendered paintings and engravings. The centre-piece to the show is a new work called 'The Disappointed Tourist,' comprising over 200 paintings […]
For centuries, women’s artwork was neglected, their careers thwarted, and their achievements forgotten. Yet, despite the obstacles they faced, many persisted in making art. Drawing from our rich holdings of paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics and sculpture, this display is the first in an on-going series highlighting work by women throughout the history of art and […]
Mercedes Azpilicueta calls herself a 'dishonest researcher', who creates work in conversation with archives and libraries, myths and legends. In pursuit of elusive historical figures, she uncovers queer, migrant and unheard voices from South America’s colonial past. Created in close collaboration with historians, dancers and craftspeople, her installations take the form of dramaturgy involving set designs, theatrical props, costumes […]
“My inclination to paint, especially from life, is a completely political one. We belong here. We deserve to be seen and acknowledged in real time. We deserve to be heard and to be imaged with shameless generosity and accuracy.” – Jennifer Packer This exhibition, The Eye is not Satisfied With Seeing, includes paintings and drawings from […]
‘Practice Makes Perfect’ is an exhibition of new work by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, which explores the relationship of childhood education with popular ideas of the British nation; how this forms British […]
Whether dancing on the rooftops in Paris, sharing ideas with Pablo Picasso, or gathering starfish on the beaches of Cornwall, Eileen Agar (b.1899 Buenos Aires – d.1991 London) transformed the everyday into the extraordinary. Her unique style nimbly spanned painting, collage, photography and sculpture, even ceremonial hats. Combining order and chaos, Agar’s work fuses vivid abstraction with imagery […]
Veronica Ryan is best known for her sculpture that is evocative of shapes, forms and objects from the natural world. Over the years, she has experimented with scale, material and […]
There are two major new projects by Holly Hendry addressing subjects that include borders, edges, bodies and machines. The first Indifferent Deep, features a host of sculptures situated within an apparently half-eaten […]
Nina Hamnett, a key figure in early 20th-century modern art; this retrospective exhibition explores her frank, intimate portraits, while also looking at the breadth of her technical skill as a […]
An exhibition of recent works by Jumana Manna, which expands on the artist’s ongoing enquiries into the complex relationships between bodies and their environments. The works on view recombine archaic and […]