Erika Verzutti is an artist concerned with the abundance of the world: its shapes, colours and complexities; its existential anxieties and increasingly infrequent moments of respite. Working with freestanding sculptures and tactile clay reliefs, the artist gathers together an assortment of visual fragments—from politics, art history, nature and digital culture—in order to create sculptural collages […]
Sophie Bouvier Ausländer’s past years has been dedicated to words, culminating in her doctoral thesis on the notion of tangibility, contemporary reliefs and continuous dimensions. The topic for her thesis ties in with Bouvier’s preeminent, multi-faceted interest in our planet as a sculpture. It is present in all her bodies of work, and underlines the […]
A group exhibition featuring 19 short-listed artists of the Mother Art Prize 2020, the only international prize for self-identifying women and non-binary visual artists with caring responsibilities. Their work raise questions around the representation and construction of the body, religious identities, sexualities and gender, as well as reproductive technologies.
Cecilia Charlton creates technicolour, highly-patterned textile works that reference personal and cultural histories while questioning notions of medium by bringing together traditions of painting, craft, abstraction, and folk art in her exhibition Aurora.
A collection of work by Helen Simmonds, that feature selections from the artist’s collection of small ceramics, bottles and enamelled vessels. The jug and ladle are recognisably Victorian; other preferred objects are the oriental porcelain cups and vases, their surfaces decorated with musicians, dancers and temple visitors. These various objects are beloved, imbued with significance as […]
An exhibition of Patricia Shone's recently created ceramics.
Pioneers: 500 Years of Women in British Art explores the history of female artists in Britain who defied the status-quo. This multidisciplinary exhibition progresses from 16th century portraitists, to painters working at the forefront of the British avant-garde in the early 20thcentury. This active and constantly developing area of art history examines the historical significance of female artists, […]
'How to Behave at Home', is a new exhibition by sculptor and taxidermist Polly Morgan. Social media and the COVID pandemic provide the context for new abstract sculptures that use highly decorative hides of snakes and the trompe l'oeil designs in nail artistry to comment on the disparity between surface and reality. In an age where […]
Rebecca Allen is an artist inspired by the aesthetics of motion, the study of human perception and behaviour, and the potential of advanced technologies. Her early interest in utilising the computer as an artistic tool led to her pioneering art involving human motion simulation, artificial life algorithms and other generative techniques for art creation. Throughout […]
Mainly focusing on the figure, Huma Bhabha’s work addresses themes of colonialism, war, displacement and memories of home. Her influences are wide ranging, from ancient Egyptian statuary, African art, Classicism, […]
Cornelia Parker, who transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, uses printmaking to produce something elusive and ephemeral. Director Alan Cristea comments; “Parker’s new body of work, on which she has been working through the pandemic, is aptly called Through a Glass Darkly, the words of St Paul which suggest an obscure vision of reality. What we […]
Rajni Perera’s bold and intricately crafted paintings, sculptures, textile works, and installations explore issues of ancestorship, hybridity, futurity, and identity through the lens of science fiction. Influenced by a range […]
An exhibition of works made in New York from 1979–80, focusing on a rare series of colour photographs by Francesca Woodman staged in her New York apartment. Her focus was on the relationship with her body as both the object of the gaze and the active subject behind the camera.
Sara Barker’s work blurs the lines between sculpture, painting and drawing, as well as between figuration and abstraction and between imagined and physical spaces. Not quite sculptures and not quite […]
Meryl McMaster describes her work as sculptural photography — incorporating props, constructed garments and performance to examine her sense of identity and selfhood. For her latest series, As Immense as […]
Marking Jacqueline de Jong's return to oil painting after a number of years, Catastrophes highlights Border Line, a series of work addressing the traumatic experiences of migrants across the globe and critiquing the callous indifference shown to those fleeing war. The paintings from Border Line are presented alongside two earlier series that respond to major global conflict, tracing de Jong's […]
An online exhibition of new work by Catherine Kurtz. The title of the exhibition Pinned, is taken from one of three series of paintings, also including Memento Mori and Torn. This body of work represents Kurtz’ expression of our universal vulnerability and mortal fragility. Observing and recording both subject and her own responses, rigorously attending to its every detail, Kurtz […]
Rose Finn-Kelcey is featured in Back to the Future, a curated section devoted to pioneers of contemporary art displaying works made between 1960 and 1999. The curated platform takes a multi-media approach with photographs, videos, interviews and podcasts.
Alexis Hunter worked with photography and painting to explore Feminist theory, with often provocative and radical results. Hunter was influenced by a growing move towards anti-patriarchy and used art as a tool to explore everything from capitalism, the male-dominated advertising industry, contemporary politics and feminism. Through the use of series and narrative sequences, she exposed […]
Chantal Joffe brings a combination of insight and integrity, as well as psychological and emotional force, to the genre of figurative art. Defined by its clarity, honesty and empathetic warmth it is attuned to our awareness as both observers and observed beings, apparently simple yet always questioning, complex and emotionally rich. New work includes a […]