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 […]
Start the new year with a curator-led tour of this highly acclaimed exhibition that explores how relationships can set a path for artistic output. The comprehensive show looks at the work of 40 artist couples active in the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition illuminates these creative and personal relationships, from the obsessional and […]
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 […]
Anna Chrystal Stephens works with photography, sculpture and action to explore living strategies, sustainability and societies’ changing relationship to the natural environment. She is interested in prehistoric archaeology, ecology and collaboration. Her practice includes the gathering and dispersal of survival skills and craft processes through walks, discussions and workshops. The exhibition, Anorak, is made in reaction […]
Crone Music presents two new, interconnected films by British artist Beatrice Gibson, alongside an expanded events programme featuring artists, poets, musicians and wider community with whom the films have been made. It borrows its title from American composer Pauline Oliveros’ 1990 album of the same name, the exhibition seeks out an explicitly feminist lineage through which […]
An exhibition of new works by British artist Catherine Goodman, who is known for her portraits Her practice includes expressionistic landscapes, vigorous sketches and experimental collages. Central to her process is the act of drawing from observation, whether from life, objects or the great masters and their works.
The exhibition consists of multi-sensory installation by fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner broadly based around a series of 'shrines' created by Kapwani Kiwanga, Eric N. Mack, Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Wales Bonner herself. Along with the physical objects, the Serpentine will also host a series of meditation workshops by the musician Laraaji throughout the course of the exhibition. Mysticism, spirituality, […]
Gladys Hynes, "Penny for the Guy – the thought that all war is caused by the faceless money men of the City," 1940Oil on boardImage Courtesy of the Liss Llewellyn Gallery Curator Sasha Llewellyn will guide us through an exhibit that attempts to answer Linda Nochlin's question, "Why have there been no great women artists?" […]
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was born in Paris and lived and worked in New York from 1938. She is widely recognised as one of the most important figures of modern and contemporary art. Often biographical, Bourgeois’ work explores themes including childhood, family, motherhood and gender identity. The selection of work at Kettle’s Yard includes sculptures, prints […]
For this exhibition, Julie Mehretu made a new installation of richly layered drawings and monotypes, extending her dynamic exploration of the potential of drawing and mark making, which are fundamental to her artistic practice. Inspired by current world issues, her personal biography, and the history of abstraction, Mehretu’s powerful works interrogate the present with urgency and lyricism. […]
The work of fashion designer Molly Goddard is presented in a collaborative project with photographer Sarah Edwards. Working together to create a series of images of key pieces from past collections, Dress Portrait displays their shared interest in photography, light and texture. The way Edwards' photographs are displayed reflects the part photography plays in Goddard's thought process and the multidisciplinary […]
Korean shamanism and intense emotions of rage, sorrow and anguish inspire the artworks of Hyon Gyon. The artist's fascinating practice includes using a soldering iron on lengths of traditional Korean satin. The fabric slowly melts and liquifies in the heat, creating an intoxicating result somewhere between beauty and violence. This is the first time a European […]
In the photographic self-portraits of Mari Katayama, the artist’s body features prominently, surrounded by painstakingly arranged objects, both in intimate settings or set against vast landscapes. The recipient of the Grand prize at Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2012, Katayama was born with various developmental challenges, and had both legs amputated at age nine and has since […]
This exhibition explores the work of female artists in the Collection and includes paintings and drawings by Gwen John, Mary Fedden, Gillian Ayres, Nicola Tyson and Sylvia Gosse. The exhibition features portraits, landscapes and abstracts, looking at both female artists who broke through the restrictions of the early 20th century art world, and contemporary artists who […]
Quantum Ghost, the first UK solo exhibition and a major commission by Libita Clayton. Consisting of an immersive sound installation, a series of large-scale photograms and a programme of live performances, Quantum Ghost maps a journey through archives and territories related to the artist’s heritage. Clayton digs deep into personal documents and oral histories tracing her family […]
Internationally celebrated artist Yinka Shonibare has created a series of new quilt artworks for Hereford Cathedral, commissioned by Meadow Arts. Creatures of the Mappa Mundi is inspired by the Mappa Mundi (the largest medieval map of the world to survive to the present day). Shonibare invited diverse Herefordshire groups of people to contribute to the project […]