Noblesse Oblige features over 25 new works exploring the legacies of systems of coercion, exploitation and extraction in Europe and the US. It includes a series of new drawings about burial sites in Ireland designated for those considered ‘unsuitable’ for consecrated ground, and glass works made using an historic artform of etching into gilded gold leaf, depicting contemporary landscapes devastated by […]
This exhibition, Darker than Blue', by Claudette Johnson includes large-scale, vibrantly coloured works in oil and pastel stick, gouache and other media, often on oversized paper sheets, alongside smaller sketches that reveal the intimacy of her work. It also features an immersive soundscape by Trevor Mathison – the first collaboration between the two artists.
Times and Places delves into how Barbara Rae perceived and interpreted the land throughout her career, often revisiting specific locations frequently to view and capture the ever-evolving environment. Not only do we witness the gradual evolution of her work but also how Rae continues to record the memory of the landscape, how they themselves are […]
The title of this new exhibition refers to Alchemy – an ancient practice that included trying to change ordinary metal into gold, and Bharti Kher’s work has these ideas of magical transformation at its heart. Mythology plays an essential role and is a major source of inspiration. Stories of imagined creatures and spirits who live […]
A new immersive exhibition celebrates the universality and ingenuity of play: Francis Alÿs' Ricochets transforms the gallery into a cinematic playground. Throughout the exhibition, visitors are immersed in multi-screen film installations focussing on children’s games. Since 1999, Alÿs has recorded children at play in different contexts and environments around the globe. Alongside the first presentation […]
Corri-Lynn Tetz’s exhibition, Tender Buttons, concentrates on the female figure, with imagery taken from a collected archive of found imagery and personal photographs, to create indulgent, dream-like painted scenes that capture the vulnerabilities, enactments, and clichés of femininity.
This exhibition of new work by Lorna Robertson includes new paintings made with a combination of oil paint, watercolour, collage and linseed oil on canvas and paper. These paintings sit somewhere between abstraction and figuration, as Robertson describes, ‘a tangled game of hide-and-seek that plays with the visibility and readability of an image’.
This exhibition of work by Birgit Jürgenssen (1949-2003), examines women’s interior lives refracted in exterior systems of power. Many of Jürgenssen’s works focus on the domestic life of a mythic figure, the ‘hausfrau’: an ideal bourgeois Austrian housewife. The exhibition showcases the conceptual and material diversity of Jürgenssen’s work, including lesser-known drawings and photographs from […]
Sueño de la Madrugada (A Midnight’s Dream) is Firelei Báez’s latest exhibition. Known for her striking paintings, she also makes drawings, installations, and sculptures. Báez takes over the Gallery with new immersive installations and large abstract paintings. She uses rich colours, elements from nature, sound and light to reflect on complex colonial histories. The exhibition is a […]
This group show, In the Blood, features represented, and associate artists inspired and committed to painting. The exhibition is a review of their approaches defining their representations of life and emotions, and how those impulses and reflections are translated gesturally and materially, in figuration and abstraction. Artists participating: Rita Alaoui, Virginia Chihota, Miranda Forrester and […]
A journey into the lush landscapes of Nengi Omuku‘s exhibition The Dance of People and the Natural World, finds human figures that blend seamlessly with nature, in her exploration of the relationship between individual and collective thought, belonging, and psychological spaces that transcend traditional Western landscape painting. Omuku’s rich, dreamlike color palette is heavily influenced by […]
Emma McClure’s paintings include animals, still life and landscapes sketched from surrounding scenes in Cornwall. Many of her drawings represent the landscape around the Penwith Peninsular where the moorland, farms and fields are a constant source of inspiration. Another recurring theme are the colourful and characterful exotic birds from a nearby bird sanctuary, plus the […]
Exorcism: Inside Out, an exhibition by the feminist surrealist, Penny Slinger, which spans original photo-collage, print and video work. The exhibition coincides with the publication of Slinger's iconic book, An Exorcism: A Photo Romance (Fulgur Press, 21 June 2024).
A Commonplace Collection of Paintings, is an exhibition of new works by Lottie Cole. Cole utilises the genre of interiors and objects with meaning to explore the passing of time, personal experience and her responses to everyday life. For this exhibition, Cole introduces subjects beyond interiors, widening the visual language of her painted world, with […]
PLURIVERSE, is an exhibition of Lubna Chowdhary’s most recent work, including new drawings and sculptures developed during residencies in India and Italy earlier this year. Chowdhary examines relationships between diverse visual languages, materials and processes, to make works which encompass the disciplines of sculpture, architecture and craft.
In the spirit of Alliances – an exhibition presenting pairs of works by different gallery artists selected by members of the gallery team – this online programme brings together pairs of moving image works. Commencing 22 July, a pairing will be available to view online.
To celebrate and coincide with the display of ‘Shift’, one of the first sculptures made by Katherine Gili, to the beginning of a range of works leading up to the making of ‘Vertical IV’ for this exhibition. Catherine Lampert comments of Katherine’s work “The scale reflects her own size, but the impression is neither humanistic […]
Abigail Reynolds works across a wide range of media, including sculpture, collage and print. This exhibition celebrates her, Works in Glass, from 2018 to the present day, as well as a selection of her paper collages from the series Universal Now, in which the folding and layering of historic images brings into focus our relation […]
At Lake Gallery, Joy Labinjo presents a new body of work We are Briefly Georgeous, which celebrates our local community in her largest London institutional exhibition to date. Taking scenes from Southwark Park and the Bermondsey area as a starting point, the works flow and develop from Labinjo’s visits to the park and how she saw […]
The exhibition brings together works on paper, paintings, textile pieces and sculptures made across the artist’s seven-decade long career, from a rare early painting, made in the 1940s, to examples of her iconic bronze Spider sculptures from the 1990s, and À l’Infini, a series of monumental works on paper that envelop and immerse the viewer, made during the final […]