Anna Liber Lewis's exhibition is part of  The Ingram Collection series. Anna’s work is often concerned with ideas around female sexuality, and challenging the depiction of woman, created historically by […]

‘Fifty Works by Fifty British Women Artists 1900 - 1950’, marks the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People’s Act. The inaugural exhibition is at the newly restored Ambulatory, […]

Might it be possible for film to transcribe something as ephemeral as human warmth? Human affection? Human presence, trust and submission? What about love? Can film bear witness to love? […]

Lorna Macintyre uses a broad spectrum of influential touchstones in her work, from poetry and literature to archaeology and symbolism. These references often create an oblique structure underlying her photographic and sculptural artworks, lending […]

Sculptor Cathie Pilkington RA explores the relationship between personal collections and public display co-opting works from the gallery’s collection to sit alongside more than 30 of her own figurative constructions. […]

Mary Fedden (1915 – 2012) is celebrated for her colourful still lifes and flower paintings. She married Julian Trevelyan in 1951, living with him at the Durham Wharf studios and […]

Gill Hickman is a textural artist based in South East London. Her work is organic in nature with flowing threads, rivers and pathways of textured gold or silver traversing the paper.  The exhibits in this showcase can be interpreted as referring to the archetypal themes of “The Journey” or “The Dance of Life”.  

Kathleen and Jennifer Dutton present ethereal and humanistic images in "Breathing Space": their final show before both artists embark on a year’s sabbatical. Kathleen's angelic images are iconic, and Jennifer's beautiful hand-cut prints evoke earlier times. Both of their works hold a mystery and warmth that makes them engaging and covetable.

In the Pre-Presidential Library, Aleksandra Mir presents a collection of US tabloid front covers dating from 1986 to 2000. Each front cover, enlarged to two metres high, features a headline that relates to Donald Trump’s business dealings, political aspirations or personal life. Mir’s selection of front covers from the New York Daily News and New York Post is part of […]

Maureen Sweeney was born in London and the city and the landscapes of her travels are a constant source of inspiration in her work. Her screenprints, carborundum prints and monotypes explore these images through line, form and vibrant colour.  

Series, is a solo exhibition by Italian artist Chiara Camoni.  Sister1, Sister3 and Sister4 are glazed clay forms with multi-coloured candles that are lit during the works’ display. On show for one month only, different individuals and groups from the community will light the candles daily. This activation of the sculptures resonates with historic and contemporary traditions […]

This retrospective brings together work from across four decades, and reflects the breadth of Caroline Broadhead’s pioneering creative output. Using jewellery design as a departure point, Broadhead’s objects were designed to be worn on the body and changed through touch and interaction. Further encompassing sculpture, installation, performance, textiles and photography, her practice is concerned with […]

Diorama, is an exhibition of new work by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, whose work is grounded in drawing, but also encompasses installation, animation and performance. For this new body of work, Sunstrum explored early 20th-century studio portraits featuring people of colour posing against contrived and hand-painted landscape backdrops.  Her ideas are developed around self-mythology, illusionism and fantasy, […]

Well-regarded for her sculptures in mild steel, this exhibition, Sparks Fly, traces Katherine Gili’s creativity and skill in using this heavy industrial material over five decades. She was a student of Sir Anthony Caro at Saint Martin’s School of Art, where he taught from 1953 to 1981, and Gili developed a highly individual way of working […]

This exhibition explores the life of the artist Christiana Herringham (1852-1929) whose collection, along with Thomas Holloway’s, forms the core of the Royal Holloway art holdings. Widely respected by contemporaries including Roger Fry and Walter Sickert, Herringham supported art causes at home and abroad, fought for women’s rights alongside her friend Millicent Fawcett, and collected […]

Once Only Only Once was made in Kyoto this year and exhibited in the Daitoku-ji complex in Obai-in temple in April 2018, as free standing Byobu screens made of cedar wood, mulberry, rice paper and silk, and combined with photographs printed on rice paper. These traditional screens were made by Heiando, in Kyoto  in collaboration with Karen Knorr.  The […]

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.  This specially curated exhibition, drawn mainly From the Artist’s Studio, shows the breadth and […]