Paintings by Helen Johnson that represent contemporary issues, based on the spasming of stock market graphs; fragments of texts from bygone days of pre-mechanical mining and logging; desert islands; and the layout of the Australian Parliament House.
'After Euphoria', is an exhibition by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, which reflects on subjectivity and individual identity as forms of self-determination. Through painting, she explores how selfhood and personal experience – especially love and loss – marks of existence – constitute a vital and highly personal process of self-historicization vis-à-vis identity formation. 'After Euphoria' draws heavily on the vicissitudes of […]
In her exhibition P E R I O D, Fiona Banner Aka the Vanity Press reflects on three years of uncertainty and suspended animation for the British Isles. The central concern of her practice is the exploration of language and communication, with the focus on its breakdown. In this exhibition she uses figurative painting, and presents […]
Jacqueline de Jong’s exhibition Resilience(s) focusses on paintings made in the 1980s and early 1990s, and brings together key works from her Upstairs Downstairs and Paysages Dramatiques series. Exuberant, sensual, violent and contradictory, Resilience(s) manifests the defiance and adaptability inherent in de Jong’s practice.
Showing and Seeing is an exhibition of select works that presents Candida Höfer's iconic images of libraries and theatres, from locations in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico and Russia. They have been brought together to exemplify the artist’s mastery in depicting sublime, grand spaces with inimitable technical virtuosity.
Lindsey Mendick was selected through an open call for a commissioned solo exhibition, Regrets, I've had a few that launches SPACE’s new gallery. As part of the commission, she will lead a series of ceramic workshops for Ilford’s +65s . Lindsey creates installations centred on her skilled work in ceramics and includes banner painting, sewing, metalwork, furniture […]
Marion Fink's, monotype* figures find themselves in surreal scenarios, sublimely interacting with rudimentary features of our world, like rocks, water concrete or steel constructions. Their motives or supposed ruminations (or perhaps those are meditations belonging to the artist) are scrawled, like ‘automatic writing’* across the painted surface. Fink’s works are personalized studies on her perception of […]
Anne Hardy is internationally recognised for her large-scale sculptural installations: immersive, sensual works that combine physical materials with lighting and surround sound. For the 2019 Commission, Hardy transforms Tate Britain’s iconic facade into a marooned temple in an exploration of the natural rhythms of the earth, tides, and the winter solstice.
“I look at the street and at people walking on foot with different appearances advancing at different speeds. I think of the invisible threads which manipulate them... I try and see the machinery which organises them. I think this is in a way what I attempt to paint.” This is a travelling exhibition of works […]
In this exhibition, Pathways, here is what Sara Armstrong-Jones says of her work: “A particular quality of light or the natural shapes and patterns formed by stones and leaves scattered on the path often catch my eye whilst out walking. A few quick informative marks in my drawing book and gathered pieces of rock, fallen leaves or lichen hold […]
A submission by, Julie Ann Steward to the Gallery's Open Call 2019 – Change: For better or worse. For richer or poorer. The resulting exhibition, Timespan St Pancras (from gasometer to champagne bar) 2014-2019, (charcoal on paper), is an effort to convey in a single work the sense of dramatic transformation that began over twenty years ago. Timespan Liverpool […]
Territories of Print 1994 – 2019, Emma Stibbon is ‘artist as witness’ to our landscape and environment on the cusp of change: polar regions; volcanoes; deserts; coastal and urban. Through the alchemy of printmaking Stibbon envelops us in her experiences with monumental woodcuts and tactile intaglio prints, where volcanic ash is embedded into the printing plate. […]
This installation emerged from Heather Ross's 2014-17 project entitled On Being Out of Touch which explored the gaps between information, knowledge and experience, specifically considered in relation to learning about the birds. In All The Better To Hear You With Ross combines these concerns with her research into Kurt Schwitters' experimental approaches to the written and spoken word, exploring the discrepancies between […]
‘Resurrect’, is a monumental new installation by Rachael Louise Bailey and Johnny Woodford. The collaborative work shows a large section of a fallen oak tree resurrected in the gallery.
The Future Is Here! is a new commission from artist and researcher Mimi Onuoha which examines the process of dataset creation. In order to extract value from information, tech companies and researchers increasingly employ machine learning. This process requires huge quantities of data which have been labelled and tagged according to specific criteria, by ‘human work’ that […]
This exhibition, Origins and Endings brings together the work of an artist and a musician who collaborated with The Policy, Ethics & Life Sciences Research Centre (PEALS), at Newcastle University. The exhibition highlights partnerships that have culminated in creative works in response to the academic research carried out, and ranges across the broad themes of being human, […]
Sheila Chukwulozie explores the politics of “behaving oneself” in a Catholic-colonial body through juxtaposing local rituals, modern technology, traditional myths, and movement styles. She is drawn to exposing internal and consistent dialogues — coded through discipline and punishment and language like “conscience”, “moral compass” or even “The Holy Spirit”. During her residency, Sheila plans to focus […]
Vibeke Mascini researches cases in which cultural systems falter and regularities shake. She is currently undertaking long-term research in which she navigates through a variety of prehistoric and futuristic notions regarding the perception of (animal) electricity as a speculative agent of life. During her time at Delfina she will continue this research by experimenting with […]
Gill Button is well-known for paintings that use images found in the media as their subject. In recreating these as gestural, intimate portraits, Button turns the mass-produced into something deeply personal and specific. It is a practice that looks at how we identify with the media landscape, and how we constitute ourselves in relation to […]
Sena Başöz is an artist and filmmaker based in Istanbul. Her work investigates healing processes after cases of trauma, and recently she has been focusing on subjects such as death, regeneration, renewal and liberation. During her residency at Delfina Foundation, Sena intends to work on a new performance piece that will activate an archive.