Rita Keegan’s exhibition Somewhere Between Here and There, features artworks that reflect the intersection of new media experimentation, feminist practice and the Black Arts Movement of the 1980s. The exhibition combines digital animation, textiles, painting and copy art with experiential media such as scent. Keegan’s tactile practice grapples with the elusive and enduring powers of memory,
Electric Bloom is a series of scenes that take place in domestic interiors, revealing how at the core of Coady Brown's work is a question of vulnerability, as well as of self-presentation in both public and private spaces.
“Maybe this is a dream version of a world where branches are loops, skies are bright blue, and leaves are untethered,” Nadia Ayari deliberates about the paintings in We Saw Stars. Here, she allows herself to restructure her rules and process of painting.
In Finding a Way, Simone Fattal leads us on a journey of transformation. Imagining the large, brick-lined gallery to be a giant kiln, Fattal fills the space with a procession of her characteristic […]
Lubna Chowdhary is highly acclaimed for her ceramic works, which subvert the traditional context and utility of the medium to address a longstanding preoccupation with urbanisation and material culture. Her sculptural practice has evolved from a sustained fascination with the fusion of binary cultural and artistic influences. Her newly produced work includes wall-, floor- and plinth-based […]
Tania Kovats exhibition ‘Oceanic’ references the artist’s ongoing fascination with the sea, water and the environment, but also invokes heightened emotional states and a profound feeling of interconnectedness with nature. The exhibition includes two major sculptural works, Bleached (2017), and Divers (2018) not previously exhibited in London, alongside new sculptural pieces and works on paper.
The exhibition, Vision Machines, by artist and filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh, is curated in collaboration with London-based scholar and critic Erika Balsom. The exhibition includes single-channel films and video installations made between 1993 […]
Wet Room, is a new commission by Lucy Stein, which comprises a new series of coffin-scale paintings, deities carved from soap, and a fully functioning, hand-painted wet room. Building on a lasting engagement with […]
Known for her work examining the relationship between the body and architecture, Emily Speed develops a new commission for Tate Liverpool in 2021. Speed’s practice considers how a person is shaped […]
‘Ongoing Work’, is an exhibition by Susan Morris, which is a snapshot of the artist’s overall practice. The exhibition focuses on two recently completed projects: Silence (Project for a Library), is a set of six Jacquard tapestries woven directly from ambient sound recordings taken in the garden outside a library. They are configured to the 'score' for John Cage's […]
Kaye Donachie’s paintings pay tribute to a cast of historical female figures. Modernist performers, futurist actresses and non-conformist poets become protagonists connected by their unconventional beliefs and preferences. The paintings recognise the allure of these individuals and the extent to which they have stimulated Donachie to illuminate their specific histories, posing questions such as what […]
Hannah Arendt in her essay The Crisis in Culture, considers the social and political implications of what she understands as a crisis in culture. The idea is represented by Pamela ROSENKRANZ in her sculpture Pour Yourself , which functions like a catchy advertising slogan promoting bottled water as a lifestyle accessory for the health conscious. The drawings of […]
This exhibition, Uncommon Power, explores the life, art and feminist legacies of Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown.
The work of Julie Béna, The Den, is made up of an eclectic set of references, often drawing motifs from theatre, literature and mythology to create enigmatic environments that redistribute the coordinates of class and gender relationships. Spanning sculpture, installation, film and performance, Béna’s artistic practice navigates a territory at the confluence of illusion and reality, […]
Mickalene Thomas’ Beyond the Pleasure Principle is the second chapter of a multipart exhibition that will unfold across four international cities during fall 2021 to present interconnected bodies of new work, ranging from painting and collage to installation and video. Over the past 20 years, Thomas has cultivated a distinctive vocabulary of black erotica, black female sexuality, […]
Gala Porras-Kim's, work traces the global circulation of ancient precolonial artefacts extracted from their original sites and stored in museums and private collections. It examines how the definitions and possibilities of these objects change in response to each context. Departing from official replicas of the monoliths recently found inside the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, […]
Making It, is a group exhibition dedicated to a generation of pioneering women sculptors who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Taking an unexpected approach to their chosen media: fusing gold leaf with linen for instance, folding metal or hand-knotting rope, these artists challenged modernist conventions and expanded conceptions of the […]
You Have a New Memory, Rachel Howard’s inaugural exhibition brings together a new body of work that continues Howard’s pursuit of the possibilities of painting through experimentation. For the past 25 years, Howard explored and challenged the capacities of paint, creating works that grapple with notions of uncertainty, fragility, beauty, and pain. Revelling in the […]
Janet Sobel's exhibition 20th Century Women is a unique presentation of paintings and drawings, which opened at Frieze Masters and continued after to show the work of sixteen artists and makers from a range of disciplines. They are linked by a common commitment to their craft and a categoric refusal to adapt to normative requirements of the […]
Anne-Marie Butlin plaints flowers from still life, photographs, gardens and hedgerows in vivid colours.