Chila Kumari Singh Burman creates a new work for Tate Britain’s iconic façade. Blending styles and materials, Burman's feminist practice spans printmaking, painting, installation, and film. Drawing on her Punjabi heritage and Liverpudlian working-class background, Burman’s work explores the multiplicity of South Asian identities within a British context. She reworks and weaves together her own material and found […]
In this landmark exhibition, Tracey Emin selects masterpieces by Edvard Munch to show alongside her most recent paintings. The exhibition features more than 25 of Emin’s works including paintings, some of which will be on display for the first time, plus neons and sculpture. These works, which explore The Loneliness of the Soul, were chosen by […]
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is an artist and writer acclaimed for her enigmatic portraits of fictitious people. This exhibition, Fly in League with the Night, brings together around 80 paintings and works on paper from 2003 to the present day in the most extensive survey of the artist’s career to date. The figures in Yiadom-Boakye’s paintings are not real […]
This survey exhibition includes paintings and drawings from the past decade alongside recent work. Jennifer Packer is known for painting intimate portraits of friends and family members, and flower still lifes. Working from a combination of observation, improvisation and memory, Packer’s paintings and large-scale drawings reveal an emotional and physical fragility of life. Characterised by […]
With a practice spanning ceramics, works on paper, photography and video, Karen Densham combines kitsch with satire. Her work aims to challenge assumptions about the world around us. Seemingly innocent, ornamental objects destined for the mantel soon reveal hidden meanings and greater complexity, confronting issues around sexual desire, military campaign planning, the refugee crisis and capitalism.
Judy Buxton's inspiration is drawn from the surrounding landscape of the Lizard Peninsular, Cornwall - its tracts of brown ancient earth contrasted with verdant watery passages, ribboning the landscape. Her large painterly canvasses of light and reflection evoke a strong physical sense. The paint becomes the air and light that surrounds her in a built […]
A group show with artworks by three women artists Perle Fine, Jann Haworth and Claudia Hart. Fine and Haworth’s artworks are on display in the main gallery space; Mannequin Defectors shows Jann Haworth’s works on one level and Cool Series celebrating Perle Fine’s work will be on another, while Claudia Hart’s three-channel video installation of her pivotal artwork, The Ruins, […]
This major exhibition of Linda McCartney’s photography includes more than 200 iconic images, from the music scene of the 1960s, to family life with Paul.
Works by Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly and Agnes Martin in Lines of Thought, an exhibition exploring the poetics and politics of language. Important unseen work by Kelly and new ‘text drawings’ and weavings by Davis enter into conversation with the hand-drawn lines and gridded compositions of Martin’s works on paper.
The first in a 12-month programme dedicated to the writings of the German-born, American political philosopher Hannah Arendt, ‘The Modern Age’ extends Arendt’s examination of tradition and the modern age into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries or what she understood as “the modern world.” We are living through a very difficult period of history marked […]
Emma Cousin’s figurative paintings feature dynamic, carnivalesque scenarios that explore the space between realism and fantasy, felt experience and communication. Responding to the limitations of language when used to articulate the complexities of human experience and emotions, Cousin considers how we might interact without it, in pre- or post-linguistic states. Taking this idea of ‘the […]
Liz Fontaine works with performance, drawing, text and video. Concerned with sex, relationships, people and politics, her live performances are excruciatingly funny: filled with heartbreak, devastation and charm. In Hurt Agony Pain Love It, Fontaine's compulsive, titillating and densely detailed drawings take the viewer on a journey through her mind. Part diary, part fantasy and part […]
An online exhibition of works by Rachel Kneebone forms a dialogue with the artist Robert Morris and the avant-garde choreography of Mary Wigman and Merce Cunningham. ‘I have always been fascinated by dance: how bodies meld and merge, how new forms are created by dancers and how dance allows us to escape to a different […]
With a career spanning more than 50 years, Marinella Pirelli’s artistic efforts and talent are under-recognised. A leading experimental filmmaker in the 1960s and 1970s, Pirelli’s 16mm film explorations have only recently been rediscovered thanks to the retrospective that Museo del Novecento in Milan dedicated to her in 2019. This selection of works cover ideas […]
The exhibition Nomi presents a focused body of work that was born from grief and trauma. Over the past two years, Zoe Buckman has undertaken a difficult, complex and spiritual journey resulting in a tentative yet defiant proclamation of love and joy as an antidote to the darker side of life. From a real voyage in […]
Taking inspiration from Central Core Imagery, this two-part online exhibition explores the work of leading female ceramicists: Lynda Benglis, with her Bird’s Nest Series; Zoe Williams creates unwearable shoes; and Jacqueline Poncelet creates abstract forms infused with sexuality. They all use central core imagery – whether explicitly or not – through the ‘open’ form.
Jessie Homer French’s exhibition, West Coast, brings together a vast range of works that encompasses a thorough investigation of the artist’s long-time practice.
Elene Chantladze's exhibition, August War, includes a selection of both new and earlier work, showing her breadth of painterly technique and, material, exploration.
Vanessa Baird’s work is story telling of a kind that is both potently provocative and emphatically individual. Her charged creations, made in pastel and watercolour, range from room-size murals to intimate self-portraits and draw on a wide range of references from her own lived experiences, as well as from Scandinavian folklore and literature. This exhibition, If ever there were an end to a story […]
For Spectral Keepers, Sandra Mujinga illuminates the exhibition space with intense green lighting, immersing the viewer into an environment that feels part-nightclub, part-dimension travel dystopia. Inspired by the world-building practices found within video games, science-fiction novels and Afrofuturism, the artist invites us into an ethereal and viridescent world.