The title of the exhibition, ‘Original State of Mind’, relates to the unique position that Zhou Li occupies when making art. Throughout her practice, she seeks to question the relationship between herself and her surroundings, explaining: ‘The way people normally view the world is as through a window, from inside out or outside in, but […]
Lili Dujourie is a Flemish artist whose work traverses sculpture, painting and video. Described as an ‘Old Master in Postmodern Garb,' Dujourie operates at the intersection of minimalism and conceptualism, consistently and systematically challenging the subject position of the viewer through clever experimentation with material and form.
Charlotte Ager is a freelance illustrator who uses drawing and poetry within everyday experience to record and question the world. This exhibition, From Madness and Back, combines personal collage works that explore the conflicting relationships we have with one another alongside a collection of smaller paintings that consider how our place in a space, both […]
Chance Encounters, is an exhibition of the work of Ilana Manolson.
For this exhibition of her prints Aimee Birnbaum creates imaginative landscapes.
Mary Quant and models at the launch of the quantafoot collection, 1967. © PA Prints 2008 Twiggy, Carnaby Street, the mini-car. Join our favourite fashion expert, Sonnet Stanfill, for a talk about the life and work of Mary Quant before we enter the gallery space to view the fabulous work of fashion mega-star, Mary Quant. She […]
The exhibition features a new body of work continuing Prabhavathi Meppayil’s concerns with questions of Modernism and Minimalism through traditional Indian artisan practices.
Please join us for a talk with acclaimed British artist Chantal Joffe in conjunction with a new exhibition of her work at Victoria Miro. The Mayfair gallery will be presenting self-portraits from a series started in 2018. On New Year's Day, 2018, the artist set herself the challenge of working on a new self-portrait every […]
Having walked the Isle of Wight on foot in all directions Caroline Underwood began a new body of work responding to its landscape. This exhibition, ‘Bearings’, explores her connection with the Island’s land and seascapes, not just looking at it, but moving through it, and being in it.
Accumulation by Dispossession, is an exhibition by Asunción Molinos Gordo that explores inequalities in the global food system. It addresses issues of privatisation, financialisation, the management and manipulation of crisis, as well as redistribution, and is part of the new Politics of Food season.
Place, Space and Who is a new artwork by Barbara Walker, created over a four-month residency at Turner Contemporary. It explores identity and belonging, featuring sound and portraits of five women and girls from the African Diaspora living in Margate and Kent.
I will not hesitate to react spiritually is a large scale, solo installation of new work by Spanish artist Greta Alfaro.
This exhibition focuses on a film Debra Welch made in response to the closure of her old school in Portsmouth, King Richard School, previously Paulsgrove Secondary Modern Boys & Girls School. Situated on a large post-war council estate in Paulsgrove, Portsmouth, it served families who lived there for over 60 years, becoming a central pillar to […]
Katja Liebmann in her exhibition Early Work, brings together five bodies of work from the artist’s early career, which illustrate her on-going examination of the confluence of time, movement, and environment. Katja’s use of early photographic techniques—the pinhole, kallitype, and cyanotype—further reinforces the theme of time, reflecting on tools of the past to emphasise the fleeting nature of […]
I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker is an exhibition dedicated to the American writer Kathy Acker (1947–1997), her written, spoken and performed work. This polyvocal and expansive project combines an exhibition with a programme of performances, screenings and talks. The exhibition is structured around fragments of Acker’s writing, which serve as catalysts […]
Working with photography across still and moving image installations, Esther Teichmann looks at the relationships between loss, desire and the imaginary, slipping between autobiography and fiction. On Sleeping and Drowning transforms the gallery space into a layered liquid montage of photographs, painted backdrops, moving image, sound and objects. Cyanotype seaweed creatures are juxtaposed with painted photographic backdrops […]
Dorothea Tanning, painter, sculptor, poet was a leading light of women in the surrealist movement. We will be gathering at the Tate Modern to join curator and scholar Alyce Mahon for an in-depth tour of this seminal exhibition. It brings together 100 works from her seven-decade career. Contributions: Patrons free, Friends £15, Visitors £25. RSVP@UKFriendsofNMWA.org […]
‘Coraza’ by Lucía Pizzani is a new body of work developed over the last two years and from her recently completed residency at the Marso Foundation in Mexico. The title, ‘Coraza’ (translated – ‘armour’), references the ceremony to the Aztec god of rebirth, Xipe Totec. As part of the ritual to celebrate the start of the corn cropping season, […]
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 […]