Eleonora Sher’s artistic practice predominantly explores themes surrounding identity. Her latest project, Landscape and Memory, explores the common link in human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape […]
Moarg Kiel is the first major solo exhibition in the UK by Scottish artist, Morag Keil, featuring new and reconceived works that span the last eight years of her career. Together, these works offer insight into Keil’s investigations surrounding the impact of data-capitalism and digital technologies on contemporary subjectivities, while acknowledging how these are affected by […]
Folds is a new series by Nicole Farhi in which she explores the beauty of the human figure, focusing on the shapes and curves formed by folds of flesh on parts of the female body.
Tonight the World is a new installation by video artist Daria Martin. It is inspired by dream diaries kept by the artist's grandmother, a survivor of the Holocaust. Drawing upon dream diaries kept by her grandmother over a 35 year period, London-based artist Daria Martin creates a new installation for The Curve. Through atmospheric film and gaming […]
Claudia Wieser's Shift transforms the ground floor of the three-level space with delicately crafted sculptures and collaged wallpaper, welcoming visitors to explore an ever-changing scene where the ancient and the contemporary conflate and collide. It is a visual archive of found images and times, resulting in a collage of different pasts that both cancel out and affect each […]
Epiphany of Time, is the first exhibition in the UK by the Polish artist, Bożenna Biskupska. The exhibition showcases Biskupska’s ongoing series of paintings entitled Cages, many of which are shown here for the first time. Each painting in the Cages series is created using thick layers of oil paint, confined within a rectangular border; some are ‘slashed’ through by thick […]
Around two corners built for the exhibition Join, Rosa Aiello and Patricia Boyd present new sculptural, photographic and sound works. From the air in the gallery, to the nuts and bolts of grammatical formulations, the works are conceived in relation to conditions that are already present.
The Numbing Vibrancy of Characters in Play, are new paintings by Jadé Fadojutimi in her first solo exhibition in the UK, which includes large-scale works specially created for the gallery’s street-facing space. Fadojutimi is a young artist who has developed a vibrant and distinctive language of painting that fluctuates between abstract gesture and repeated forms or […]
A fortnight of tears, is a solo exhibition by Tracey Emin of new paintings, photography, large-scale bronze sculptures and film, which will be presented across the entire Bermondsey gallery.
Out of this World, is a group exhibition of international female artists who are currently shaping the language of figuration: Heidi Hahn, Donna Huddleston, Becky Kolsrud, Naudline Pierre, Mathilde Rosierand Antonia Showering. The works in the exhibition explore how each artist taps into the ethereal realms of fantasy, dreams and the unconscious mind to challenge preconceived notions of […]
The exhibition looks at the link between Literature and Art with a focus on how the book "The Magic Lamp: Dreams of our Age" is a wonderful and creative collaboration between Art and Literature. The exhibition includes images from the book, some new paintings and some text based works. Extracts from the book guide the viewer […]
Flora Yukhnovich’s paintings trace connections between a visual language originating in the Rococo with contemporary popular culture, examining and questioning how notions of femininity, taste and beauty have been encoded and restated throughout art history before becoming entrenched within the contemporary aesthetic. The diverse sources for her work are drawn from art history — specifically […]
This is the first retrospective in the UK of the Egyptian-Canadian artist of Armenian origin, Anna Boghiguian. She is informed by her interest in philosophy and her continuous travels, Boghiguian's work comments on the human condition through the perspectives of global trade, mass migration, colonialism and war. The exhibition, The Personal and the Political, features large-scale […]
Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance, Act II explores the history of resistance and alternative forms of living from the perspective of gender from the late 19th century to the present and beyond. The exhibition presents ways in which resistance has been approached by visual artists, writers, architects, designers, activists, working as individuals or in groups. Grounded […]
An exhibition of late works by British abstract painter Sandra Blow. Blow was a leading figure of the abstract movement in Britain in the second half of the twentieth-century. The exhibition features eleven large-scale works, made in paint and collage, which testify to her masterful use of colour and material. Throughout her career, Blow’s works […]
Lily Myers produces communities of handmade objects, prints, drawings, and text that are used to explore an ongoing interest in underlying social conventions. Cups, bags, and forks have become strong symbols in her work, referencing ideas surrounding domesticity, play, labour and consumption.
Jacqui Hallum’s paintings, Berber Carpet, draw on imagery ranging from medieval woodcuts and leaded glass windows to tarot cards and Art Nouveau children’s book illustrations. She works across a number of loose cotton sheets, staining and dying them with drawing ink, graffiti ink and squid ink. The sheets move between Hallum’s studio and garden throughout this […]
The Journey of Things, brings together more than 50 of Magdalene Odundo’s vessels alongside a large selection of historic and contemporary objects which she has curated to reveal the vast range of references from around the globe that have informed the development of her unique work.
An exhibition of Carey Young’s, Palais de Justice (2017) which was filmed surreptitiously at the Palais de Justice in Brussels, an enormous and ornate 19th Century courthouse designed to depict law in terms of the sublime. The film contradicts the familiar patriarchal culture of law, as Young’s camera depicts female judges and lawyers at court. Sitting […]
British artist Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection in Towner’s eighth and final exhibition as part of the Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme 2016-19. Anne's work derives from places she calls ‘pockets of wild space’ – gaps in the urban space where materials, atmospheres, and emotions gather – using what she finds there to […]