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This exhibition Still Mad, marks the culmination of Ding Hongdan’s residency as the gallery’s 2024 Artist-in-Residence and presents a new body of work developed during this period, which are rendered in bright, glossy oils and stylised strokes.  Ding’s collection of paintings en masse is a dip into image-obsessed youth.   It echoes internet culture and young people striking out who want the freedom to pose, play, dress up and come together in party and fashion subcultures.

A comprehensive presentation of Joan Snyder’s artistry over a career of six decades, shows a pioneering body of work.  It breaks down social, aesthetic and material hierarchies to assert the place of feeling and female subjectivity within contemporary abstraction.

The painting that gives the exhibition its title, Body & Soul, encapsulates an overview of the artist’s varied modes of working. Body and soul becomes a metaphor that brings into dialogue the figurative and the abstract, the painterly and the material, the gestural and the controlled – ideas that reverberate throughout the artist’s wider oeuvre.

Read-Only Memory, is a two person exhibition bringing together new and recent work by Amelia Bowles and Caroline de Lannoy. Their work references technological, societal, aesthetic and conceptual developments of the latter part of the 20th century as cornerstones of our world today.  The exhibition is centred around a hard-coded timeless language shared by the two artists across painting and sculpture.  Bowles and de Lannoy favour abstraction and geometric, almost mechanical forms, and rely on repetition, the use of line, colour, negative space as well as precise, methodical execution, to create work that acts simultaneously as a stimulus and a depository of meaning, emotion, memories and dreams.

The works on view by Carmela De Falco, Semin Hong, Magdalen Wong, and Orsola Zane share a sense of conflation between internal fears and external realities. Mobilising a search for intimacy, they trace a lost proximity against the havoc of this epoch. Background noise was born as a quest into the possibilities of sound and music to communicate what words cannot.  It is an unexpected route that unfolds through the works of these four artists, at various stages in their careers, with diverse stories and paths.

The Horizon Pulled Me Close is an exhibition by Myrna Quiñonez, which presents a series of paintings that explore the artist’s relationship to landscapes both familiar and uncanny.

Jana Schröder’s latest paintings serve, first and foremost, to explore the Metamorphosis in Generative Human Thinking (M.I.G.H.T.), an acronym she devised that also evokes ambiguity and doubt. Reflecting on the ongoing technological revolution, Schröder draws parallels between neurological communication and the overwhelming flood of information that permeates our culture today. As technology advances, the analogue world struggles to keep pace, embodying the tension between the digital landscape and our cognitive processes. This exhibition examines the impact of digital media on our neural networks, revealing how constant engagement reshapes our perceptions, attention spans, and modes of understanding.

An exhibition of works by photographer Priscilla Rattazzi, entitled Between Worlds; this exhibition offers a survey of three bodies of work from across five decades: Portraits (1975–2023), Hoodoos (natural rock formations in south-west Utah, 2009–19), and Lindens (1991–2021), bringing together twenty-four individual photographs.

This is the first time that these three distinct groups of works are shown in a single exhibition. The themes offer a reflection of the photographer’s life, with an interlinking chronology, examining human relationships, and relationships between people and their dogs, while suggesting the increasingly profound reassurance of nature as an eternal point of reference, especially in uncertain times.

Triple Threat, is an exhibition of drawings by Somaya Critchlow.  It comprises a selection of over 40 new works on paper (2023-2024).  Triple Threat is the artist’s first exhibition to focus solely on drawing. Working in graphite pencil, ink with a brush, or traditional Japanese glass dip pen, images are composed and repeated with the delicate immediacy of memoranda, yet retain their own unique sense of place and narrative. The result is a wide-ranging series of drawings that serve as both ends in themselves and living dialogues.

Earendel, is a solo exhibition of new work by Ayla Tavares.  Starting from the recent discovery of Earendel—the most distant star detected to date, a remnant from the universe’s first billion years—Tavares considers the interplay between archaeological and sacred artifacts, daily objects and cosmic events to evoke connections between past and present. In this new body of work, she presents four unique series of ceramic reliefs, graphite drawings and sculptural installations to explore how objects embody magical layers of time and memory,  much like celestial bodies that carry traces of the universe’s earliest moments.

The House of Bernarda Alba, is an exhibition featuring works by Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia and Sam Llewellyn-Jones. United by themes of place, identity, and memory, Onwochei-Garcia’s work confronts contemporary surveillance, identity politics, and post-colonial narratives. Llewellyn-Jones explores the themes of landscape and material elements; his work highlights the passage of time, revealing how landscapes carry layers of history, memory, and meaning.