Join us for a short talk by Mary Branson, creator of the New Dawn sculptural light installation at Parliament, followed by a 45-minute suffragette themed tour of Parliament. 'New Dawn' is located above the entrance to St Stephen’s Hall, the site of numerous demonstrations for the right to vote. Please stay for the International Women's […]
Olivia Lomenech Gill’s wonderful illustrations for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them drew great strength from her diverse array of techniques as well as her fascination with wildlife. This new body of work, A Parlement of Birds, made especially for this exhibition, sees her explore further the possibilities of printmaking techniques to portray some of her favourite creatures. […]
To celebrate her 90th birthday, the exhibition The Space Between, is a major solo show of sculpture and works on paper by Charlotte Mayer. With an array of both early and new work, the exhibition highlights Mayer’s exceptional craftsmanship and relentless dedication to making sculpture. The exhibition features a new series of delicate ‘nest’ sculptures cast in […]
Unencumbered, is a solo exhibition of work the artist Gladys Nilsson. The exhibition features recent watercolours and collages, united by the artist’s distinctive style and good-humoured view of the human condition. In Nilsson’s practice, she seeks to celebrate the small victories in life. Raised in a blue-collar family, she highlights day to day routines as important […]
Davina Jackson creates an intimate study of the family dynamic, where the relationship between husband and wife, parent and child take centre stage. Through tonality and form, she acutely conveys a subtle dialogue of care and affection, where embracing figures recline and comfort in the presence of the other. Though there is drama in these […]
Dorothy Rendell established herself in Mile End Place in the ’70s, and became in every way part of the fabric of the East End. Her wonderful account of painting in the East End – East End Vernacular – was going to press the week her work was ‘re-discovered’, and so the opportunity for her to be included there was […]
Illuminating the Wilderness is a new film production by Project Art Works, conceived and directed by Kate Adams and Tim Corrigan, filmed on location with Ben Rivers, Margaret Salmon and neurodiverse artists and makers, families and carers. This 40-minute film follows the investigation of a remote Scottish glen over several days and reveals the pleasures and challenges […]
Doris Hatt was a Somerset pioneer of British modernism. She exhibited her vibrant works over almost five decades, beginning in 1920, and contributed to many exhibitions in the South West. Doris’s painting style developed over time as she absorbed the major influences of 20th-century modernism, including cubism, purism, abstraction and the works of Cézanne, Picasso, […]
Pauline Alexander suffers from deafness and is interested in the part our senses play in creativity. She believes her deaf perspective offers a positive influence affecting colour, aesthetics and rationality enabling her to tap into her depths. Abstraction demands a lot, instead of reproducing something outside of herself, she now goes inward and use everything she […]
Inspired by the Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I; this exhibition is a new commission from photographer Susan Derges. Using both analogue and digital techniques the work, titled Mortal Moon, unpacks the Armada Portrait’s symbolism, with a particular focus on the Moon.
Lion Hunt, is Reena Spaulings' latest exhibition, which takes Eugène Delacroix’s 1854 painting The Lion Hunt (Fragment) and high-visibility yellow as points of departure to explore the idea of composition as an active clash between bodies, colours and gestures.
The three artists in this exhibition, Art, Obsession and Maturity, are united by long time obsessions with a theme. Sculptor Vanessa Pooley, photographer Julia Cameron and painter Mary Mellor all have decades of experience, a notable back catalogue of work, and lifelong creative obsessions that have led them to produce their most inspired work later in […]
This major exhibition, Artist in Society, 1948-53 explores a short, yet significant, period in the life of one of Britain’s most celebrated artists, and highlights Barbara Hepworth’s little-known connection to Hertfordshire.
‘Girl Meets Girl’ presents four artists: Rose Wylie, Katherine Bernhardt, Katherine Bradford and Caroline Wells - who have arrived over the years at distinctive languages which they employ with a freshness and panache which reads as spontaneity. They don’t worry about boundaries: between life and fiction, between sexes and sexualities, between conscious and subconscious, between first […]
The Colour of Light is a selection of works from Louise Balaam's portfolio.
Mona And A Pair of Panties is a cheeky and innocent reference to Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503) - in this case, embroidered on a pair of socks, one of which had gone missing along with a pair of underwear, thus resulting in the title of this exhibition. Teasing such threads from art history, Jesse Kase hints […]
Crashing waves, sea spray and looming snow-topped mountains, Caroline Jane Harris’ latest body of work, A Three Dimensional Sky, adopts nature’s expanse as a lens through which to explore the relationship between image-making, subject and object. Extending traditional methods of photography, printmaking and drawing, as well as digital technologies, Harris creates meticulous hybrid artworks that traverse […]
Join us for a curator-led explanation of Diane Arbus' work at the Hayward Gallery. This exhibition explores the first seven years of photographer Diane Arbus’ career, from 1956 to 1962. Arbus made most of her photographs in New York City, where she was born and died. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female […]
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder is one of our greatest artists: the first woman to be elected both to the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy, she was given the prestigious title of Her Majesty’s Painter and Limner in Scotland in 2001. She has had a long and distinguished career but her art remains quietly personal. […]
Catherine Biocca's installation, Complexity Cost, consists of a vinyl floor sticker, vinyl matt emulsion, PVC banner, video, industry marker on PVC, and a hand-carved travertine.