Working primarily with photography and performance, Jessa Fairbrother’s interest is in an inner, emotional landscape and her practice utilises the external body as a site for artist enquiry and self-expression. This most often takes the form of highly individualised photographic self-portraits of her naked body, painstakingly embellished with minuscule needle perforations or hand embroidered so that […]

Renee So makes ceramic sculptures and machine-knitted textiles. The exhibition, Bellarmines and Bootlegs includes works from 2012 to the present. So’s extensive research into the histories of European and Assyrian sculpture, along with an enthusiasm for theatre costume, cartoons, advertising design and popular souvenirs, has resulted in a unique take on portraiture. Her trans-historical points of […]

Joanna Piotrowska has an interest in domestic spaces and man-made environments.  Her photographs and films in All our false devices, relate to self-protection, psychophysical relationships and the power dynamics underlying how we relate to each other.  

 The works of Celia Cook are routes without roadmaps that move from start to destination without a plan. They capture the journey of comprehension, the strain of trying to move forward. In doing so, the paintings stage the rupture between plasticity and sensibility; the tension between the world you see on the canvas and the […]

Barbara Zelecki is known for her etching prints of cats, the designs in her work encompass a variety of subject matter including, architecture, sumo wrestlers, landscapes & flowers. Barbara also makes tiffany-style mirrors and fan-style lamps.  

Body Disruptions, is a solo exhibition of works by London-based performer and artist Alice Anderson. It brings together sculptures and drawings from solo and collective performances, and includes regular performances of Anderson’s new and unseen work, Transitional Dances (2019), for which she is joined by performers and drummers. In Body Disruptions, Anderson takes as a starting point the […]

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.