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 as ‘quarantine’ (so-called because of its original forty-day timeframe). Over the course of multiple chapters, it follows the story of two new recruits to a […]
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 of blackness in the public imagination’. Presented in the form of a giant widescreen projection encompassing one wall of Tramway’s largest gallery, the work follows […]
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 an assemblage of objects, videos, and works on paper, which addresses the poignancy as well as the mundanity of everyday domestic life. The scenes are […]
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 on film. The exhibition features more than 200 extraordinary images that reveal what a prolific photographer Linda was, and how her love for the natural […]
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 exhibition includes paintings and ceramics incorporating natural pigments and precious metals.
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 range of individual wheel-thrown vessels – bowls, bottles and jars that are decorated with brush marks and poured slips and glazes, taking on intriguing depth […]
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 pastel and watercolour but more recently she has reverted to oil, as well as acrylic and collage.
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 never before seen archival prints. Photographs were taken in the New York neighbourhoods of Coney Island and Harlem, to the cities of Abidjan, Ivory Coast […]
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 design, and their shifting values for people across place and time. They explore the ways which certain textile producing technologies are still in effect, while […]
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 takes the form of a continuous collage in two parts across both gallery spaces. Each includes a profusion of works on canvas, egg tempera panels […]
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 covering female faces and displaying their transfiguration, Juszkiewicz revitalizes Art History through a unique language. In her paintings, the sitter’s poses are familiar, but the […]
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 physical references to tradition and memory, which underlines that Mayan culture, community and practice exist today. Dyed in Wool showcases her recent work in textiles, focusing […]
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 within immersive installations comprising a diverse array of props, materials and studio furniture. Her site responsive installations are balanced ambivalently between chaos and precision and […]
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 very heart of Paul’s enquiry into the complexities of interior and exterior life, constancy and change. Subjects include its familiar fixtures and sparse furnishings, transfigured […]
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 effects that deforestation is having on the environment.
Angela Heisch’s paintings are composed of repeated motifs, curving forms, and delicate dark lines that draw inspiration from organic bodies, patterns in nature, and architecture. The artist’s abstract language seeks to capture the sensation of her observations, and her enigmatic forms encounter one another on the canvas, creating tension or waves of energy though interlocking […]
‘Into the Wild' reflects three quite different, intense experiences of the High Arctic and various rewilding locations in the UK. West Coast Greenland in Autumn and Svalbard, mid-summer, 600 miles from the North Pole. Paintings by Claire Harkess offer a window into our world; fleeting glimpses through a porthole, her watercolours offer a clarity which is […]
Joanne Thompson presents a new collection celebrating 25 years as a practising jeweller. The focus is on her iconic chain mail technique. She experiments with scale, weight, form and texture of the chains, making sculptural forms, necklaces, bracelets and earrings which are voluminous yet light, tactile and extremely durable. She is fascinated by unit construction techniques […]
This digital presentation, ‘Louise Bourgeois, Self Portrait,’ invites visitors to explore ‘Self Portrait’ (2009) in great depth through a series of archival images and films, expanding and deepening our understanding of Bourgeois’s significance in 20th century art.