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.
Jacki Baxter worked as a food stylist in the advertising industry, preparing, cooking and presenting food for photography in films, commercials and editorials. The composition, colours, shapes and textures and the crockery, utensils and props used in her food photography have resurfaced as a strong influence on her work. Her starting point is that everyday […]
Sarah Knight and Sara Sherwood are two artists with a shared focus on light, movement, texture and form in the art they each create. Although they work individually, Sarah and Sara are mutually inspired from nature and share a love of life to transfer these impressions and feelings onto works in various media in tranquil and joyous ways. In […]
Combining the handmade with the industrial, Beverly Fishman employs a variety of techniques to explore technological, scientific, and biological systems of perception and representation, instigating constructive conversations about the ways people see their bodies and minds, and construct their identities.
“Carve, Roll, Print” an exhibition of new lino-prints by Sangeeta Bhagawati, whose subjects are predominantly South Asian women. She tends to express feelings of rebellion, strength and communion, particularly if the subject of her print involves women and the body.
Lucy Marks is a contemporary painter working in oil and watercolour, whose dynamic compositions communicate the changing energy and movement within the landscape. Her works capture all energies of the land, sea and sky; from wild seas to quiet landscapes. She works directly in the environment and uses these sketches as her primary source back […]
French photographer Celine Bodin, presents in this exhibition two recent series: Light of Grace, and The Hunt. Re-enacting the suggestive gesture borrowed from Old Masters to 19th century paintings, the series 'Light of Grace' explores female representation’s conflict with ideals and beauty archetypes. By only suggesting identities and pictorial aesthetics, these photographs test the logic of […]
Rosebuds & Rivers, is Joan Snyder’s first solo exhibition in the UK, which comprises new and recent paintings. The exhibition includes a group of monumental triptychs and diptychs alongside smaller-scale works. It offers an insight into the experimentation and visual language for which Snyder is celebrated.
In the early 1980s, Anita Corbin represented young women in a photographic genre that was almost entirely dominated by men. Mods, punks, skinheads, rastas, lesbians, rockers – young women defying the mainstream, showing their individuality in tribes characterised by music, fashion, geography and sexual orientation. 36 years later, Corbin has called those original girls back together […]
This exhibition, The World as yet Unseen, reveals a world both intimate and outward looking, seen through the eyes of women artists based in Cornwall and internationally. At the centre is the visionary work of the artist and writer Partou Zia (1958-2008) who was born in Iran but came to England in 1970, settling in Newlyn in […]
Mr & Mrs Ravilious, is the Gallery's main exhibition for 2019, which will be devoted to the work of Eric Ravilious and his wife Tirzah Garwood, two artists whose lives were both prematurely cut short. Eric died in 1942, aged 39, while serving as a war artist; Tirzah (née Garwood) died in 1951, aged 42. […]
Janice Thurston has a deep love for nature and in particular the rolling hills of the South Downs; this is apparent in her distinctive, undulating paintings in Sussex Landscapes and more. They are restful yet evocative, and her paintings draw you into those parts of Sussex that are truly hidden gems. Her work is influenced […]
Cecilia Buchanan mainly sculpts in clay, preferring to work quickly, keeping a free texture, aiming to retain the energy and freshness of the piece. Her early career was as a ballet dancer so poise and line are important to her, but with a sense of humour or quirkiness.
Scenes of dramatic coastlines painted by Vanessa Gardiner.
The work of Olivia Bax is often characterised by familiar elements such as a hook, handle or vessel presented in unconventional, coloured forms. However, it is the texture of the surface which offers the viewer the most immediate insight. Bax generates her own paper pulp to cover and form a mantle over linear armatures. Moulding […]
Chloe Wise’s practice spans diverse media, including painting, sculpture, video and installation. With an interest in the history of portraiture, Wise examines the multiple channels that lead to the construction of a Self, paying particular attention to the interweaving of consumption and image making in Not that we don't.
An exhibition of Elaine Pamphillon's paintings.
Heidi Koenig returns to the gallery for this Easter exhibition, with a series of new monotypes and paintings.