Skip to main content

Lucy Stein @ Spike Island

Spike Island 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

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 goddess culture, witchcraft and idea of the ‘anima’, the exhibition is based on Stein’s research into the ancient, womb-like Neolithic passages unique to West Cornwall.

Emily Speed @ Tate Liverpool

Tate Liverpool

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 by the buildings they have occupied and how a person occupies their own psychological space.  

Susan Morris @ Bartha Contemporary

Bartha Contemporary

‘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 @ Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland

Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Ireland

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 […]

Renate Bertlmann & others @ Richard Saltoun Gallery

Richard Saltoun Gallery 111 Great Titchfield Street, London, United Kingdom

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 […]

Julie Bena @ Nicoletti Contemporary

Nicoletti Contemporary

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 @ Levy Gorvy

Levy Gorvy

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 @ Gasworks

Gasworks 155 Vauxhall Street, London

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, […]

Olga de Amaral & others @Waddington Custot

Waddington Custot Gallery

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 […]

Rachel Howard @ Simon Lee Gallery

Simon Lee Gallery

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 @ The Gallery of Everything

The Gallery of Everything

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 @ Thackeray Gallery

Thackeray Gallery

Anne-Marie Butlin plaints flowers from still life, photographs, gardens and hedgerows in vivid colours.  

Claudette Johnson @ Hollybush Gardens

Hollybush Gardens , United Kingdom

Still Here is an exhibition of new works on paper by Claudette Johnson. This body of work continues Johnson’s engagement with painting the Black subject, involving a considered process of live sittings to create complex paintings of imposing scale and expressive detail.

Andrea Buttner @ Hollybush Gardens

Hollybush Gardens , United Kingdom

Andrea Büttner’s exhibition Asparagus Harvest, presents three recent bodies of work: a series of etchings depicting the harvest of white asparagus, a selection of glass vases and a large-scale photograph of a former plant bed at the Dachau Concentration Camp.

Rosanne Robertson @ Maxmillian William Gallery

Maxmillian William Gallery

Subterrane, Rosanne Robertson’s exhibition brings together recent sculpture, performance, drawings and paintings which continue Robertson’s exploration of the terrain of the Queer body in the landscape – inspired by the great energy, freedom and fluidity of the sea.

Chiara Passa @ Zabludowicz Collection

Zabludowicz Collection

A virtual reality painting, Still Life, overlays image, object and landscape to generate a saturated panorama. Users explore Chiara Passa’s unique topography, which is set across two distinct worlds, by traversing various types of terrain, moving through and around structures, and interacting with ornate objects. 360 is composed using photogrammetry – the process of interpreting physical material by […]

Shilpa Gupta @ The Barbican Centre

The Curve, Barbican

Shilpa Gupta highlights the fragility of one’s right to expression whilst raising urgent questions of censorship, confinement and resistance. In her exhibition Sun at Night.  In it Gupta presents and builds on her acclaimed project "For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit" – an immersive installation and soundscape.

Bola Obatuyi @ CasildART

CasildART

SOME OF US ARE BRAVE’ platforms the work of nine emergent artists to celebrate Black women’s contributions to our visual culture. It showcases various styles of artistic production, different perspectives, and modes of storytelling, which collectively proclaim boldly and proudly that Black women will continue to take up space to foreground their lives and experiences. […]