The exhibition Troupe, refers to a group of amateurs or community theatre players. "The stage is a simplistic metaphor for life," writes Christina Zimpel, where the private moments of doubt, anxiety or confidence are of particular interest to the painter. Implied in the definition of 'troupe' is also the notion of movement, of travelling, which is […]
In Eva Rothschild’s exhibition her visual vocabulary nods to enduring forms of classical architecture whilst also engaging with the haphazard and aggressive realities of the built environment. They can be approached as contemporary ruins, reflecting on the human traces within the monumental.
The 1932 French drama Dainah La Métisse serves as the jumping-off point for the body of work in Agbo Godeau’s solo show, What Have You Done with Her? (Part 2), follows a longstanding interest of the French-born artist in drawing from film and photography in her oeuvre to explore questions around identity.
Ice Moon Fire Land, an exhibition by Victoria Crowe, runs concurrently with the artist's show at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney. The works in this exhibition take inspiration from nature and its transformations during the white nights of the summer solstice and the dark splendor of midwinter. Exploring the ephemerality and fragility of the […]
A wake is staged - the Irish kind. Biogal is its gogo banshee - keening in transsexual exile. Wake for the Worm, begins with a private extended performance that haunts the installation thereafter. Extending her efforts of attempted interspecies prayer, Biogal weaves sericulture and silkworm lamentation into a trap-filled tapestry of multifaceted grief-work.
‘The Botanical World of Mary Delany’ explores the pioneering technique of the eighteenth-century artist Mary Delany. Through her scientifically accurate botanical works – created with paper, paint and scissors – Delany transformed ordinary materials into extraordinary, inspirational artworks. This exhibition of almost fifty artworks celebrates is presented in partnership with the British Museum. Beningbrough is […]
Losing The Image, is an exhibition of works by, Karolina Albricht. Taking its title from Phyllida Barlow's words, Albricht’s exhibition encourages its audience to consider paintings as spatial environments, which both evade definition and illicit novel interpretations on each viewing. In Barlow’s case, the phrase, 'losing the image', refers to the particular way in which […]
In The Romance of a Rose, Ella Walker weaves imagery from broad swathes of history and popular culture – medieval manuscripts to modern ballet, the cinema of Fellini and Pasolini to fetish-wear magazines – to produce emotive, stage-like scenes. Interrogating traditional depictions of women throughout art history, Walker’s paintings offer a counterpoint to the traditional […]
Yi Liu is known for her unique blend of Eastern and Western painting techniques. Her latest series, Searching the Mountains, continues her exploration of traditional oriental imagery while incorporating Western artistic methods.
This Place, is an exhibition that explores Caroline Jackson's intuition and investigation of paint, soaking, dripping and blurring through many forms. The nature of the paintings allow for a subject to emerge only to submerge again, in an entrancing connection between surface, colour, scale and instinct. This Place refers to the sensation of being taken to […]
SPIT, is a duo exhibition of painting, sculpture, sound and film by artists Emmanuel Awuni and Divine Southgate-Smith. Conceived together over a year-long research driven collaboration, SPIT explores the untethered rhythms of abstraction, architecture, poetry and song.
Rana Begum’s new Louvre series explores how different materials interact with light and considers texture, density, reflection and transparency. Uniform panels of glass, stone and metal are tilted and repeated to create suspended and wall-based works. Begum’s exhibition demonstrates a move towards a more meditative practice that seeks to distil and simplify, creating a space for […]
Neon Dreams, is an installation by Chila Kumari Singh Burman, a contemporary artist with a widely recognised practice shaped by popular media, history and punjabi cultural identity. The Glowing Canopies (2023) – the artist’s largest individual neon work to date – lights up the facade of the museum. The multi-coloured neon work presents delicate creations in […]
A Study of Saint Francis, is an exhibition by Ellie Cotton. In this presentation Cotton explores Saint Francis, the 13th century ascetic preacher and founder of the Franciscan order, through a series of paintings set in contemporary and surreal contexts. A son of a rich merchant, Saint Francis renounced his wealth and his family ties, devoting […]
Libby Heaney’s Ent- (non-earthly delights) is a new installation that merges large-scale sculpture with augmented reality (AR) to explore the transformative potentials and pitfalls of quantum computing. This latest iteration of Heaney’s Ent- project (2022–ongoing) continues her exploration of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, reflecting on both the promise and perils of our quantum future. […]
Enter a world of Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s creation in ‘It Will End in Tears’. The exhibition is presented in a series of life-size dioramas; viewing paintings in a narrative sequence, as a story unfurls of a ‘femme fatale’ film noir character living in an imagined colonial outpost. You discover what happens when the main character […]
Tracing Time, is a new exhibition of paintings by Rebecca Salter PRA that presents works made over the last six years. The exhibition traces the artist’s preoccupation with line and materials, which have been a continued territory of exploration throughout her career. Presenting both small and large scale works, the exhibition showcases the breadth of […]
Nymphidia, is a presentation on Vortic by Konstantina Krikzoni. Groups of female figures inhabit Krikzoni’s fluid and painterly underwater scenes, which blend ancient and contemporary approaches to storytelling, shaped by her upbringing by the Aegean Sea. In this new body of work, Krikzoni disrupts narratives within historical and classical paintings and writings to reconsider the relationship […]
The exhibition, Testing the Objects of Affection is an overview of Alison Wilding's 50-year career, spanning work from 1975 to the present day. This exhibition provides an insight into the scale at which Wilding works. Small scale-sculptures made from an array of materials including bronze, alabaster, brass, copper, Iranian string, wax, forged iron, wire and […]
Studio Origins, is an exhibition by Lygia Clark (1920 – 1988). It comprises early works, often smaller scale, which function as studies and proposals for larger paintings and sculptures; many never exhibited before.