Hettie Inniss’s work responds to multi-sensory influences and bodily experiences, capturing and preserving a moment in time inflected by scent, light, sound and memory. Across the works on view in the exhibition is a desire for recollection, of exploring the past in order to make sense of the present. For Inniss, painting can be a […]
The exhibition, Whole Cookie, unveils a new series of figurative paintings by Ana Karkar, and an installation piece comprised of video, sculpture and literature. Composed as a temple to eroticism, it explores and universalises the many complex paradoxes of Ishtar, the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of both love and war, as well as fertility and sensuality. […]
“The Story Behind Each Word Must Be Told” focuses on one of the central threads of Nil Yalter’s practice coming from the nomadic lives and their resistance in Aşık tradition in Anatolia for centuries: the word and the utterance, its sound and its music. From Topak Ev (1973) to D’Après Stimmung (1973), Shaman (1979), Exile […]
The works Miya Jazmin Browne (aka BLCKGEEZER) has produced begin by invoking powerful themes surrounding maternal instincts to feed and nurture, fertility as well as explorations of mother-child iconography. These paintings in Black Nausea/24, go further to explore ‘Black’ not merely as a form of resistance, but as a material expression of existential persistence and do […]
The exhibition, Mythic from, the Pacific/Pissing in the Inferno, presents new works by Plum Cloutman and Naomi Workman.
La petite mort, Jacqueline de Jong’s exhibition, brings together new paintings made over the last two years with a group of rarely seen works executed sixty years ago. In her recent oeuvre de Jong comes full circle, exploring afresh the artistic lexicon of the earliest years of her career, when she first honed the vivid […]
To be Dispersed, not to Disappear, begins the philosophical conundrum in which Yi To prefigures the materiality of fragmented body, and its reappearance in the virtual as sign. Her paintings, with their shadowy forms rendered in thin washes, beget a fragility. They take on the propositional aspects of loss, an eclipse’s negative memory; as with the […]
The installation, Passages Through the Caustics, converses with the natural movement of the light that occupies the space. Activating the energies of the work’s surface, our encounters of its luminosity are guided by a sequence of movements we feel compelled to follow; becoming an accomplice in Elli Antoniou’s endeavours to activate the materials fluidity. The sculptural […]
The exhibition includes a new body of ceramic works from So’s 'Woman' stoneware series that draw upon early fertility idols and Venus figures celebrating the female form, alongside new Snuff bottle sculptures including a lemon, a nose, a poppy and a Pekingese dog. Inspired by using ceramics and glass in architecture and public spaces, she […]
“The entire world has been turned into a well-fitted mask for the human face,” reflects theorist Carl Olsson in his essay “Peak Face” (2023). “The world is a Facehugger.” From the Cambrian Explosion to deepfakes, Olson analyses the history and seeming end of the face as the ultimate interface, given the ease with which this […]
Beyond Fashion showcases the work of acclaimed fashion photographers from around the world. The works demonstrate how fashion photography has moved past the simple presentation of product lines to reflect on the reality of our lives, to explore our aspirations and to push at the boundaries of creativity. Including works by Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Viviane […]
Magda Stawarska presents one of her most ambitious presentations to date, showcasing ten new works across various media. Split across the gallery’s upper and lower floors, taking the form of two distinct installations, Drift presents viewers with a spellbinding view of the visual rhythms that constitute the ebb and flow of various cityscapes. Through painting […]
Spanning the River Lea, On WindTides is a large-scale text installation by Helen Cammock that explores movement, migration and change. It consists of a short prose, on either side of a 60-metre cable bridge just north of Cody Dock. One side of the bridge reads ‘we fold ourselves across the tides,’ whilst the other side reads ‘from […]
Heather Horton takes us into a submerged water-world of refracted light through which a young woman swims, floats and glides. Our viewpoint is also underwater; we too inhabit this amniotic space. We are invited to experience and witness the sensory perceptions of this contemporary iteration of a Naiad – the water nymph so familiar from […]
Madeleine Gross makes her singular and distinctive pictures by painting onto her own original photographs. Idyllic images of sunset Ontario lakes and gleaming Miami beaches are overlaid with expressively painted naked figures and gestural brush marks. The aesthetic contrast between the smooth, machine-made surface of the photographic background and the smears, clots and streaks of […]
Ooni, a touring exhibition unveils Ingrid Donat’s newest masterpiece, Commode Ooni. The exhibition explores Ingrid Donat’s expansive career to date and is a celebration of her practice as one of the most influential living artists in the Decorative Arts. About two years in the making, the Commode Ooni marks a continuation of Ingrid's long-term affinity with the commode and […]
Villa Venus: The Garden, is an exhibition of new paintings, sculpture and animation by Sofia Mitsola – the latest chapter in the artist’s ongoing series depicting a utopian, Cycladic Island ruled by her female characters.
Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo prompts visitors to reconsider preconceptions, explore how we can connect with the Rococo today and examine the impact of display on art interpretation and historical re-evaluation.
The exhibition ‘Red’ showcases various pieces by Jill Baroff, Stefana McClure, Giulia Ricci, Winston Roeth and Ignacio Uriarte. ‘Red’ constitutes a monochrome survey of works featuring the colour red. Associated with myriad idioms, red commands a strong call for attention by symbolising all-consuming emotions ranging from love to anger. This bold colour takes many forms […]
Rooted in the intricacies of grief, Between Two Places speaks of both personal and collective trauma. Spurred by the recent loss of a close family member, Ivy Kalungi explores what remains for those significant to us after passing and endeavours to understand how the wider black community copes with the reverberations of loss and trauma. Included in this […]