Victoria Sin is a Toronto-born artist using speculative fiction within drag performance, moving image, writing and print to refigure attitudes towards gender, sexuality and historical discourses of identity. Sin’s drag practice emerged from her interest in male drag performance, and subsequent desire to explore exaggerated femininity as a drag queen born female. Her use of […]
Sexual Warfare presents key work by Alexis Hunter (1948 – 2014) made between 1968–86. The first solo presentation of Hunter’s work in the UK since 2006, and in London since 1981; the exhibition brings her acerbic critique into dialogue with the contemporary moment and reinforces her importance both as an artist and a feminist.
For this special exhibition, works are selected for their particular vigour and inventiveness from a small batch forced to the surface during a recent move by the artist’s brother. The exhibition does not pretend to be a retrospective – her output as designer and artist over 50 years was prodigious – but it does gather, […]
Caroline Achaintre’s watercolours and prints sit at the heart of a multi-disciplinary practice, which also traverses textiles and ceramics. Renowned for working in vibrant colour and potent imagery, Achaintre’s work often evokes a subversive spirit of carnival, creating an atmosphere that is simultaneously playful and absurd. While drawing on traditional European festivals, still a regular, […]
An exhibition of new works by Indonesian artist Christine Ay Tjoe. Titled ‘Black, kcalB, Black, kcalB’, it explores the idea of darkness and features large-scale oil paintings and drawings on aluminium plates. ‘The reality is that darkness is part of human nature’ Ay Tjoe has said. ‘If we create a distance between it and the […]
Join us at a talk by curator Laura Smith, speaking about Virginia Woolf, an exhibition inspired by her writings at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Thanks to the generosity of our long time supporters at Whitechapel Gallery we have a number of reserved places for the talk from 1:15 - 2 pm. Afterward, we will visit Murray Edwards […]
This exhibition, The Northwest Passage, by Barbara Rae sits alongside a selection of Inuit sculpture from the Belle Shenkman Collection. The Arctic and the history of exploration in the far north has long been a subject of fascination for renowned Scottish artist Barbara Rae. Inspired by the voyages of a namesake, Arctic explorer and fellow Scot […]
Coinciding with the exhibition Landseer’s The Monarch of the Glen, this display of Scottish artist Rachel Maclean’s 2012 film ‘The Lion and The Unicorn’ shines an irreverent light on Scottish-English relationships. One of the most sharply satirical artists in Britain today, Maclean’s caustic and darkly comical films look at how we shape collective and individual identities. […]
A joint solo show called, From the City to the Sea that combines the work of Louise Davies, Call of the Sea; and Gail Brodholt, Alice Underground.
In case my mind is changing, is an exhibition of new photography, together with some models in 3D, by Josephine Pryde. Pryde is an artist known primarily for her work with photography, though she often presents work with sculptural elements. She learns from different photographic conventions, for example from publicity or advertising images, where seductive […]
Mai-Thu Perret is known for her multi-disciplinary practice that engages installation, performance, sculpture, textile, and the written word, Perret derives inspiration from such avant-garde art movements of the twentieth-century as Dada, Constructivism and Bauhaus design, exploring the ways in which modernist form and artisanal genres, including craft, fashion and theatre, collide.
This exhibition, Aerials is Zoe Leonard's first at the gallery, and focuses on a series of aerial photographs created in the mid to late 1980s.
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 men. Taking an Eileen Agar painting, ‘The Sower’ as inspiration, Anna has produced a series of paintings demonstrating the artists’ shared interests in natural forms, […]
‘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, Worshipful Company of Mercers (City of London). Through a heterogeneous collection of painting and sculpture by fifty artists, the exhibition pays tribute to the extraordinary […]
To mark the centenary since women first voted in the UK, Libby Sellers and the Design Museum host a two-day series of talks on women in design. The workshop commemorates the suffragettes’ ultimate victory, and provide a stark reminder of the need to improve gender equality in the industry, By exploring historical injustices, and analysing contemporary […]
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? Teach us about love? Express love? How can a lens invoke these very personal, subjective experiences? These are some of the questions posed by Margaret […]
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 a form for a composition or providing the impetus behind her choice of materials. This exhibition, Pieces of you are here, marks Macintyre's first solo exhibition in […]
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. Selected works include Eileen Agar, Henry Moore, Paula Rego, Victor Willing, and a series of Lord Snowdon’s arresting portraits of women artists that form an […]
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 travelling with him to Africa, the Mediterranean and beyond. This display Colour and Simplicity,explores how her style was influenced by their 35 year partnership.
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”.