The techniques and materials that Carey Mortimer uses are quintessential to her work. The paintings’ beginnings go far beyond the first brush strokes, with pigments being ground from collected rocks, coral and burnt vines, ink taken from local cuttlefish, an awareness of the origins of all the material aspects of the final piece. Carey is […]

Refracting Light is an exciting exhibition of new works by Sophie Layton. Using traditional Japanese printmaking techniques and inspired by blown glass and the Japanese art of Ikebana flower arranging, these exhibits display a gorgeous delicacy and translucence whilst remaining typically bold and striking images. Many of the works in the show are one-off monotypes […]

Alice Butler is researching and writing feminist approaches to kleptomania in collaboration with the Museum.  She will also give a reading from her recent work.   There will be women in négligés; there will be birds with silk culottes in their beak . There will be all the latest news of the material of lingerie, a feminine […]

A selection of small and exquisite colour prints, many of them images never seen in public before, by doyenne of British photography Dorothy Bohm.  Intimate in scale and mainly domestic in subject-matter (still life predominate), in lyrical and poetic images that delight the eye. 

The exhibition Earthly Delights: Landscapes and Still Life celebrates the wonderful month of May with new work by four inspiring women artists - painters Teresa Pemberton, Joanna Vollers and Sue Luxton and sculptor Sally Derrick. This new collection brings together Teresa's bold and colourful impressonist landscapes, Joanna's striking yet delicate still lifes, Sue's quirky and […]

This work, Composition, by Rachel Ann Grigor deals with the harmony of art, including musical extracts from Isaac Short.

Three striking sculptures by Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) - These three “Beasts” (Crouching Beast II, Lion I and Beast Alerted I) are monumental animals captured in various states of action, made of welded stainless-steel sheets.

Unconscious Landscape, is a collection of  works from Ursula Hauser Collection that focusses entirely on female artists. The exhibition covers four decades of works that brings together a remarkable overview of late 20th century modern masters in dialogue with contemporary artists. The exhibition, which is curated by Ursula Hauser’s daughter Manuela Wirth, together with Laura […]

Kate Nicholson's exhibition covers the breadth of her creativity.  It includes examples of early landscapes (Cumberland, Isle of Skye and St Ives), the still life's she made in St Ives working alongside her father Ben Nicholson, the Greek abstracts from the 1960s made while she was travelling with her mother Winifred Nicholson, and a selection […]

Pakistani visual artist Sara Shakeel presents a new sculptural work ‘The Great Supper’. Traces of an intimate family meal are concealed at the centre of the gallery, inviting the viewer in to be part of a conversation.  The stage is constructed from unassuming objects which have been carefully placed together; a table, dining chairs and […]

Die Wässer und Libellenlust, is a solo exhibition of works by Heidi Bucher. The show focusses on water and the symbol of the dragonfly, two major aspects of her practice that resonated throughout the late ‘70s and ‘80s. These elements highlight Heidi’s fascination with the processes of shedding, transformation and renewal. Bucher’s employment of water, […]

This major centre-wide ‘festival-style’ exhibition explores creative and scientific developments in AI, demonstrating its potential to revolutionise our lives. Bringing together artists, scientists and researchers, this interactive exhibition offers an unprecedented survey of AI with which you are invited to engage head-on.  

‘A Lot or Knot’ is an exhibition of new sculptures and works on paper by Martina von Meyenburg.  The histories of found objects and materials form the basis of von Meyenburg’s sculptural investigation. As a collector and curator of “traces”, the visceral and associative evidence of the previous lives of things, she is interested in […]

On display is a special Billboard Commission, which is a work by Nora Berman, entitled Piped Woman.

This exhibition presents the largest solo display of Pearl Alcock’s drawings and paintings to date – all from the Whitworth Collection.  Following the Brixton riots in the early 1980s, trade in the café ceased and Alcock was forced onto the dole. Unable to afford a birthday card for a friend, she made one instead. This […]

In Sara Lee’s ‘Beckoning Lines’ she produces intense pastel drawings of landscapes that have no bearing on distance.  Each is a desert of infinity where one is pulled into the nuance of surface.   

‘My Kind of Protest’, is an exhibition of works by Emma Amos, Vivian Browne and Chemu Ng’ok. Working across different time periods, each of these artists creates psychologically charged portraits addressing what it means to be a black woman in a society ruled by men. While some of these works date back 60 years, they […]

Lucy Jones’s paintings conduct a journey through both interior landscapes and the external world beyond.  Landscapes and Inscapes, an exhibition of new landscape and portrait paintings includes a portrait of artist Grayson Perry, commissioned by the Attenborough Arts Centre (University of Leicester) which will be displayed for the first time.