“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 […]
Invites is an exhibition of paintings by Tal Regev, which primarily depicts the human figure. Regev creates luminous and ethereal spaces on the surface of her canvases. Bodies and objects oscillate in […]
An interactive VR experience, entering The Jellyfish you are plunged into a dream-like underwater scene. In this new interactive virtual reality work, glowing lifeforms invite you to sing with them and through […]
In the exhibition Thames Log, Chloe Dewe Mathews examines the ever-changing nature of our relationship to water. From the source of the river Thames to its mouth, Chloe photographed people […]
An exhibition of new collages and prints by British artist Clare Woods (b. 1972) will open at Cristea Roberts Gallery on 21 May 2021 and will remain on show until 19 June […]
Ack Ro’ by Jaki Irvine contains an ambitious 13-channel video piece, screened on monitors throughout the gallery space. They play an evocative, melodic but haunting composition: Louise Phelan’s mournful vocals blend […]
Ellen Gallagher builds intricate, multi-layered works that pivot between the natural world, mythology and history. Her process involves undoing and reforming trains of thought often over long periods of time […]
The exhibition presents an in-depth view of the Wakefield-born artist’s life, interests, work and legacy. It displays some of Barbara Hepworth’s most celebrated sculptures including the modern abstract carving that […]
The new floor-based work plays with the idea of a flat sculpture. It unfolds from a series of pixelated images of a domestic carpet, laid out in a grid-like arrangement […]
A public art commission by Mary Mattingly is announced as part of Estuary 2021. Vanishing Point, is an ambitious two part installation, comprising a learning centre located on Southend Pier, and a […]
Erika Verzutti gathers sculptures in bronze, cement and papier mâché from the past 15 years alongside a body of new work and a site-specific commission in Manipulations of the Everyday. Known […]
During the past twenty years, Alicia Henry created work that departs from Western ideas of portraiture denoted to a likeness or a construction of a subject. Instead, her figurative, mixed-media sculptural […]
Citizen of the Universe takes a unique look at the work of the visionary artist, educator and activist Ruth Asawa. The exhibition features her signature hanging sculptures in looped and tied […]
The second of Polly Hendry's artworks is titled Invertebrate, which burrows through the building's rooftop and balconies, emerging on the lawn outside. Hendry imagines the De La Warr Pavilion being […]