Sarah Dwyer @ Unit 1 Gallery
Unit 1 GalleryBlack Chat, Sew Rib, is a solo residency exhibition by Sarah Dwyer, who worked in the studio space above the gallery (January—March 2020). Sarah has a clear proposition in mind, the […]
Black Chat, Sew Rib, is a solo residency exhibition by Sarah Dwyer, who worked in the studio space above the gallery (January—March 2020). Sarah has a clear proposition in mind, the […]
I See You, is an exhibition of paintings that brings together historical and contemporary works by female artists with a focus on depictions of male subjects. It ranges from portraits of family […]
Vivienne Williams is a contemplative colourist whose work concentrates more on still life painting, with her palette constantly evolving and her style becoming ever more distinctive.
Love Story is a video installation by South African artist Candice Breitz that explores how the global refugee crisis has been told. The work presents the stories of six people who fled their countries.
Quarantaine is an ambitious new film by Georgina Starr. Its title refers to the French word for ‘forty’, and also alludes to the period of enforced isolation known in English […]
S1:E4 is a new episode in Martine Syms’ project SHE MAD (2015-ongoing), in which the artist incorporates elements of the sitcom format and past TV series to explore ‘the sign […]
Daphne Wright’s work manoeuvres things into well-wrought but delicate doubt. Shifting between tautness and mess, it sets imagery, materials and language in constant metaphorical motion. A quiet mutiny – persists is […]
A major retrospective of Linda McCartney’s photography is presented. From her iconic depictions of the music scene of the 1960s, to family life with Paul, Linda captured her whole world […]
In this exhibition, The Four Elements, Nagihan Seymour explores the classical elements (earth, water, air and fire) in her designs, believed to explain the nature and complexities of all matter. The […]
Lisa Hammond is a pioneer of soda-glaze firing, which combines strong uncomplicated forms with highly tactile surfaces. Alongside her series of thrown functional ware, this influential London potter explores a […]
Christine McArthur's early work was primarily in oil and she became well known for her large-scale still life paintings on canvas. In the late 1980s she began to work in oil […]
The exhibition, Painting with Light, explores the painterly quality of Ming Smith’s photographic work. It contains works from the start of the 1970s to the present day, including a number of […]
The exhibition Common Thread brings together a group of artists: Jodie Carey, Mark Corfield-Moore, Ayan Farah, David Murphy, Isobel Napier, Amy Revier, Sophie Rowley and Katharine Swailes, each persons work focuses on the history of textile technology and […]
Alice Neel's artistic works are presented in, There’s still another I see, an exhibition that focuses for the first time on pairings of Neel’s paintings of the same sitter.
Ella Kruglyanskaya displays her deeply original streak— part-rebellious, part-classicist—and continues her focus on the gendered and expressionistic histories of painting albeit with a more personal and introspective drive. The exhibition […]
Ewa Juszkiewicz's portraits recall paintings by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Joseph Van Lerius, and Joseph Wright, sending us into a world that is both classical and surrealist. By […]
Sandra Monterosso's work brings deep-rooted indigenous culture and belief out of the margins and into the contemporary art canon. She explores her ancestry and the boundaries of her mixed identity through […]
Cathie Pilkington's work engages passionately and critically with the canonical history of figurative sculpture. Her work crosses borders of traditional, modern and contemporary idioms, and combines intensively modelled and painted sculptures […]
Celia Paul’s art is founded on deep connections, and in My Studio, paintings of the past few months, the artist focusses on her home and studio, a place that sits at the […]
Dolly Verity's exhibition, Escape the Flames, explores the devastating ways rainforests in Indonesia are being cleared for palm oil plantations. The collective works aim to bring awareness as well as expose the […]