Christine Rebet's exhibition Time Levitation, comprises six hand-drawn animated films that address the traumas of personal and collective histories, illusion and the destruction of our shared history and environment. Drawing is at the heart of Rebet’s practice, which she often develops into animated films, sculpture, installations or performance art
Little is Enough For Those in Love, is Cassi Namoda’s first European solo exhibition, which takes its title from an East African proverb. The exhibition features new paintings that explore life and love in the city of Maputo, the artist’s birthplace and home for several years. Veering between the polarities of joy and pain, Namoda foregrounds […]
Until the 20th C, many women spent most of their adult years pregnant, but pregnancies are seldom apparent in surviving portraits. Portraying Pregnancy brings together images of women – mainly British – who were depicted at a time when they were pregnant (whether visibly so or not). Through paintings, prints, photographs, objects and clothing from the […]
France-Lise McGurn works with painting to create layered installations that incorporate gallery walls, floors and ceilings. "In Emotia" is a derivative term which suggests a state of being, simultaneously emotional and in motion. Mcgurn’s figurative painting and wall drawings evoke bodies and limbs overlapping and interacting in ambivalent spaces, at parties, in night clubs, on streets […]
Illuminating the Self is an exhibition of new work by Susan Aldworth and Andrew Carnie in response to groundbreaking research led by Newcastle University into developing a new treatment for epilepsy. The exhibition, which includes further work at Vane Gallery, explores different aspects of the University's CANDO project (Controlling Abnormal Network Dynamics using Optogenetics). Optogenetics is […]
This is the first UK solo exhibition of works by Hedda Sterne (1910–2011). She was an active member of the New York School, and was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1910 and fled to the US in 1941. Sterne created an extensive body of work that intersected with some of the most important movements and […]
Laws of Ordered Form is a new commission by Anna Ridler for Data / Set / Match, a programme exploring how digital technology and new categorisations increasingly influence the way humans and machines see and understand the world today. The project creates a “historic” ImageNet using labels and photographs from Victorian and Edwardian encyclopaedias to show how the echoes of historic […]
The End of the Sentence presents artist Judy Price’s research into the history of Holloway Women’s Prison. The exhibition reflects on the impact of the criminal justice system on women, and features new work by Price, other artists whom she invited and archival material.
This selection of works demonstrates the genius in Marie Laurencin’s vision of a self-sufficient world of female affection and creativity. This exhibition seeks to celebrate Laurencin’s qualities as a great modernist painter, her instrumental role in defining the Art Deco style, and her influence on a generation of the Parisian intellectual elite.
‘Window’ is an exhibition by Isa Genzken featuring a new and unseen body of work. Genzken’s immersive environment expands on the themes of travel, through elements of an aircraft cabin, and the window as a juncture between interior and exterior spaces. In this respect, it reveals the artist’s interest in architecture and light. Genzken is […]
In a brief but explosively inventive career, Alina Szapocznikow (1926 – 1973) radically re-conceptualised sculpture as a vehicle for exploring, liberating and declaring bodily experience. In the exhibtion, ‘To Exalt the Ephemeral: Alina reveals the full expressive potential of her work through the material innovations she made during the last decade of her life. […]
Hannah Townsend’s sculptural vessels, merge the practices of ceramics and printmaking to reveal scrupulous order behind each expressive mark. In Marking Time, Hannah slip-casts beakers and bowls in white earthenware and creates large statement vessels using a hybrid casting-throwing technique that yields pleasingly irregular contours.
Emily Myers, Anna Silverton and Ali Tomlin are linked by their exploration to form and its relationship to the surface. This exhibition, Line & Form brings their work together, which explores the relationships between surface decoration and form.⠀
Neda Dana-Haeri’s work is based on the interplay of “cultural memory” and personal memory. Her art is driven by Persian poetry and Eastern philosophy, and her works reflect images of nature carrying with them the unconscious emotions of our daily life. Neda uses layers of colours and textures to reflect and infer nature, the unconscious […]
A line drawn by hand is a fundamental act for Wendy Smith and underpins her work. This exhibition, Forms of Life, offers a selection of new and previously unseen work stretching back to the late 90s that highlights the rich and seemingly endless possibilities that emerge as Wendy explores the mysteries inherent in drawn lines on a flat […]
An exhibition of works by Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014), which focuses on key pieces from the 70’s to the 90’s, exploring a breadth of work central to Finn-Kelcey’s practice. She first came to prominence in the early 1970s as an artist central to the emerging communities of performance and Feminist art in the UK. The nature of Finn-Kelcey’s […]
Inscriptions IV, is a screening of 'Inscriptions of an Immense Theatre' at the Whitechapel Gallery, curated by Gareth Evans. Dr. Sarah Hayden (Department of English, University of Southampton) will be in conversation with Ailbhe Ní Bhriain on Thursday 5 March 7–9pm.
A new solo exhibition of work by Linder Sterling, who is well known for her photomontage. This exhibition explores the diverse range of Linder’s practice, and explores her as performance artist, zine-maker, musician, documentary-photographer, collaborator, muse, guru, medium and body-builder.
Abigail Reynolds travelled to the sites of fifteen former great libraries along the Silk Road to consider what a library means today. Her new work,Taken in a few seconds: by the reflection of light displays rare books and the oldest photograph from the Harris collection, alongside a moving image work giving voices to these objects and […]
Land of Dreams marks a pivot in Shirin Neshat’s gaze towards the “Western World” and opens the newest chapter in her practice. The exhibition comprises a portion of the 100+ photographic portraits and two video installations. For the first time, both mediums converge into one immersive experience to present a portrait of contemporary America under the […]