Flora Yukhnovich’s paintings trace connections between a visual language originating in the Rococo with contemporary popular culture, examining and questioning how notions of femininity, taste and beauty have been encoded and restated throughout art history before becoming entrenched within the contemporary aesthetic. The diverse sources for her work are drawn from art history — specifically […]
This is the first retrospective in the UK of the Egyptian-Canadian artist of Armenian origin, Anna Boghiguian. She is informed by her interest in philosophy and her continuous travels, Boghiguian's work comments on the human condition through the perspectives of global trade, mass migration, colonialism and war. The exhibition, The Personal and the Political, features large-scale […]
Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance, Act II explores the history of resistance and alternative forms of living from the perspective of gender from the late 19th century to the present and beyond. The exhibition presents ways in which resistance has been approached by visual artists, writers, architects, designers, activists, working as individuals or in groups. Grounded […]
An exhibition of late works by British abstract painter Sandra Blow. Blow was a leading figure of the abstract movement in Britain in the second half of the twentieth-century. The exhibition features eleven large-scale works, made in paint and collage, which testify to her masterful use of colour and material. Throughout her career, Blow’s works […]
Lily Myers produces communities of handmade objects, prints, drawings, and text that are used to explore an ongoing interest in underlying social conventions. Cups, bags, and forks have become strong symbols in her work, referencing ideas surrounding domesticity, play, labour and consumption.
Jacqui Hallum’s paintings, Berber Carpet, draw on imagery ranging from medieval woodcuts and leaded glass windows to tarot cards and Art Nouveau children’s book illustrations. She works across a number of loose cotton sheets, staining and dying them with drawing ink, graffiti ink and squid ink. The sheets move between Hallum’s studio and garden throughout this […]
The Journey of Things, brings together more than 50 of Magdalene Odundo’s vessels alongside a large selection of historic and contemporary objects which she has curated to reveal the vast range of references from around the globe that have informed the development of her unique work.
An exhibition of Carey Young’s, Palais de Justice (2017) which was filmed surreptitiously at the Palais de Justice in Brussels, an enormous and ornate 19th Century courthouse designed to depict law in terms of the sublime. The film contradicts the familiar patriarchal culture of law, as Young’s camera depicts female judges and lawyers at court. Sitting […]
British artist Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection in Towner’s eighth and final exhibition as part of the Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme 2016-19. Anne's work derives from places she calls ‘pockets of wild space’ – gaps in the urban space where materials, atmospheres, and emotions gather – using what she finds there to […]
Discover the childhood sketches of Beatrix Potter. As a young girl Beatrix Potter showed keen design skills. This display tracks the development of Potter's artistry by showcasing examples of her childhood sketches and domestic projects alongside her adored, famous illustrations that came later.
A survey of new work by Georgie Hopton, who treats her garden as a palette, growing abundant produce on the Upstate New York farm she shares with her husband, the painter Gary Hume. She uses the fruits of her labour to create extraordinary monoprints and collages. By disrupting the traditional notion of the still-life, she […]
Janice Kerbal is interested in how fights can both erupt and dissipate, unannounced, regardless of context or setting. For Fight (2018), a series of silkscreen posters, she choreographed an unarmed fight for a group of 12 individuals. Every action of the fight was recorded on life size sheets of paper using text.
On the face of it, Phyllida Barlow’s vibrant, large-scale sculptures are always at the point of tipping off an edge, becoming too heavy and unbalanced to stand freely, or overrunning the places she builds them in. But this is all a brilliant illusion. This spring, Barlow is creating entirely new, site-specific work in our day-lit Gabrielle […]
Juliette Paull’s most recent body of work, Profile & Paintings, explores a continuously unfolding visual connection to the landscape within Baroque painting. The notion of romanticism and the sublime is of particular significance in the 18th century frescoes by Tiepolo. Drawing inspiration from these has opened up a personal dialogue with the historical aesthetic and with […]
Julia Patience uses watercolour and inks on paper, which enables her to paint fine detail, while being botanically correct. She aims to inspire rather than merely inform.
This exhibition, Interval, showcases a collection of oil paintings depicting the Suffolk Coast, by Rachel Arif. Her semi-abstract works are almost Turner-esque in style – reflecting the dramatic and changeable landscape of heaths, marshes and the North Sea, while perfectly capturing the unique Suffolk light. For this exhibition, Rachel created paintings on a larger scale than previously shown […]
Eileen Cooper has had an illustrious career and is well known for her strong, bold and passionate figuration as a painter and printmaker. She was the first woman to have been elected as Keeper of the Royal Academy of the Arts, London (2010-2017) and to have held this post since the Academy’s foundation in 1768. […]
The elegant Art Deco design of this gallery inspires six major new paintings by Tess Jaray, RA. One of Britain’s most distinguished and influential painters and printmakers, Jaray works in the abstract tradition, and her contemplations on form and colour have been inspired by architecture for more than 50 years. These meditative yet monumental canvases – […]
This is the first large-scale exhibition of Dorothea Tanning’s work for 25 years. It brings together 100 works from her seven-decade career – from enigmatic paintings to uncanny sculptures. Tanning wanted to depict ‘unknown but knowable states’: to suggest there was more to life than meets the eye. She first encountered Surrealism in New York in the […]
Protest and Remembrance brings together four artists, Miriam de Búrca, Joy Gerrard, Mary Griffiths and Barbara Walker, who use drawing to examine elements of protest and/or remembrance through a range of subjects that include war, political demonstration, burial sites and lost industry, set in both the urban and the rural, past and present. Miriam de Búrca focuses […]