In the early 1980s, Anita Corbin represented young women in a photographic genre that was almost entirely dominated by men. Mods, punks, skinheads, rastas, lesbians, rockers – young women defying the mainstream, showing their individuality in tribes characterised by music, fashion, geography and sexual orientation. 36 years later, Corbin has called those original girls back together […]
This exhibition, The World as yet Unseen, reveals a world both intimate and outward looking, seen through the eyes of women artists based in Cornwall and internationally. At the centre is the visionary work of the artist and writer Partou Zia (1958-2008) who was born in Iran but came to England in 1970, settling in Newlyn in […]
Mr & Mrs Ravilious, is the Gallery's main exhibition for 2019, which will be devoted to the work of Eric Ravilious and his wife Tirzah Garwood, two artists whose lives were both prematurely cut short. Eric died in 1942, aged 39, while serving as a war artist; Tirzah (née Garwood) died in 1951, aged 42. […]
Janice Thurston has a deep love for nature and in particular the rolling hills of the South Downs; this is apparent in her distinctive, undulating paintings in Sussex Landscapes and more. They are restful yet evocative, and her paintings draw you into those parts of Sussex that are truly hidden gems. Her work is influenced […]
Cecilia Buchanan mainly sculpts in clay, preferring to work quickly, keeping a free texture, aiming to retain the energy and freshness of the piece. Her early career was as a ballet dancer so poise and line are important to her, but with a sense of humour or quirkiness.
Scenes of dramatic coastlines painted by Vanessa Gardiner.
The work of Olivia Bax is often characterised by familiar elements such as a hook, handle or vessel presented in unconventional, coloured forms. However, it is the texture of the surface which offers the viewer the most immediate insight. Bax generates her own paper pulp to cover and form a mantle over linear armatures. Moulding […]
Chloe Wise’s practice spans diverse media, including painting, sculpture, video and installation. With an interest in the history of portraiture, Wise examines the multiple channels that lead to the construction of a Self, paying particular attention to the interweaving of consumption and image making in Not that we don't.
An exhibition of Elaine Pamphillon's paintings.
Heidi Koenig returns to the gallery for this Easter exhibition, with a series of new monotypes and paintings.
An exhibition of Sarah Gillespie’s paintings: her silverpoint drawings and mezzotints of moths. Gillespie’s art is full of precise choices, care and immense efforts, but its quietness allows us sometimes to overlook the wonderfully dynamic processes at work below the surface. Nowhere is it more evident than in her choice of places or moments to […]
Bea Bonafini’s exhibition is entitled Talk to the Hand, and presents two new tapestries, shown as wall-hangings, and a series of ceramic tools and masks. The exhibition is a material and narrative reformatting of memory and fantasy: an elaboration of loss, a falling apart.
A Failed Play is Anna-Sophie Berger’s first solo exhibition in London. The new installation includes wall mounted prints drawn from archival material documenting the production of the artist’s 2013 project 'fashion is fast' (a 36 piece fashion collection) as well as two new individual sculptures.
Mandy El-Sayegh’s large-scale paintings, works on paper and object-based installations move between linguistic, material and corporeal registers, often creating double meanings that signal a breakdown in everyday systems and orders. The exhibition brings together principle elements from an ongoing series of works to explore themes relating to representation, abstraction and subjectivity. Comprising painting, drawing, print […]
Two new bodies of work will be shown for the first time. Picasso and Sylvia Plath. PICASSO, HIS MUSES, MODELS AND MISTRESSES: In this series, Irene Lees directs her considerable mastery with a pen towards exploring the social and cultural imbalances between the sexes. Through her method of creating hand drawn rhythmic loops or layers of […]
During a six-month residency, YiMiao Shih wove a parallel universe in which the UK voted not for Brexit but 'Rabbrexit': the expulsion of rabbits from the country. For Rabbrexit Means Rabbrexit, Shih created a series of ‘relics’ from the UK’s imaginary rabbit population, including large-scale embroidered epics, newly minted 52p and 48p coins and aeroplane landing […]
This exhibition, Machines do not make us into Machines, by Sarah Morris features paintings, films, a site-specific wall painting as well as the artist’s first sculptural work. The exhibition reflects Morris's interest in networks, typologies, architecture and the city, articulated through colour and geometric abstraction.
The title of the exhibition, ‘Original State of Mind’, relates to the unique position that Zhou Li occupies when making art. Throughout her practice, she seeks to question the relationship between herself and her surroundings, explaining: ‘The way people normally view the world is as through a window, from inside out or outside in, but […]
Lili Dujourie is a Flemish artist whose work traverses sculpture, painting and video. Described as an ‘Old Master in Postmodern Garb,' Dujourie operates at the intersection of minimalism and conceptualism, consistently and systematically challenging the subject position of the viewer through clever experimentation with material and form.
Charlotte Ager is a freelance illustrator who uses drawing and poetry within everyday experience to record and question the world. This exhibition, From Madness and Back, combines personal collage works that explore the conflicting relationships we have with one another alongside a collection of smaller paintings that consider how our place in a space, both […]