Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was born in Paris and lived and worked in New York from 1938. She is widely recognised as one of the most important figures of modern and contemporary art. Often biographical, Bourgeois’ work explores themes including childhood, family, motherhood and gender identity. The selection of work at Kettle’s Yard includes sculptures, prints […]
For this exhibition, Julie Mehretu made a new installation of richly layered drawings and monotypes, extending her dynamic exploration of the potential of drawing and mark making, which are fundamental to her artistic practice. Inspired by current world issues, her personal biography, and the history of abstraction, Mehretu’s powerful works interrogate the present with urgency and lyricism. […]
The work of fashion designer Molly Goddard is presented in a collaborative project with photographer Sarah Edwards. Working together to create a series of images of key pieces from past collections, Dress Portrait displays their shared interest in photography, light and texture. The way Edwards' photographs are displayed reflects the part photography plays in Goddard's thought process and the multidisciplinary […]
Korean shamanism and intense emotions of rage, sorrow and anguish inspire the artworks of Hyon Gyon. The artist's fascinating practice includes using a soldering iron on lengths of traditional Korean satin. The fabric slowly melts and liquifies in the heat, creating an intoxicating result somewhere between beauty and violence. This is the first time a European […]
In the photographic self-portraits of Mari Katayama, the artist’s body features prominently, surrounded by painstakingly arranged objects, both in intimate settings or set against vast landscapes. The recipient of the Grand prize at Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2012, Katayama was born with various developmental challenges, and had both legs amputated at age nine and has since […]
This exhibition explores the work of female artists in the Collection and includes paintings and drawings by Gwen John, Mary Fedden, Gillian Ayres, Nicola Tyson and Sylvia Gosse. The exhibition features portraits, landscapes and abstracts, looking at both female artists who broke through the restrictions of the early 20th century art world, and contemporary artists who […]
Quantum Ghost, the first UK solo exhibition and a major commission by Libita Clayton. Consisting of an immersive sound installation, a series of large-scale photograms and a programme of live performances, Quantum Ghost maps a journey through archives and territories related to the artist’s heritage. Clayton digs deep into personal documents and oral histories tracing her family […]
Internationally celebrated artist Yinka Shonibare has created a series of new quilt artworks for Hereford Cathedral, commissioned by Meadow Arts. Creatures of the Mappa Mundi is inspired by the Mappa Mundi (the largest medieval map of the world to survive to the present day). Shonibare invited diverse Herefordshire groups of people to contribute to the project […]
The artist, Sofia Stevi shows new paintings and sculpture, in an exhibition entitled We don't have to learn something new. It is taken from a line describing the Lithuanian-American archaeologist, Marija Gimbutas (1921-94), that reads, ‘her work gives us hope because she shows that we don't have to learn something new, we only need to remember […]
CONSTITUTION, is a new commission by Ghislaine Leung. Situated within the discourses of both artists’ moving image and institutional critique, Leung’s work is foregrounded by questions of agency, circulation and distribution. Working with sound, light, scale and temperature this exhibition builds on Leung’s ongoing enquiry into withdrawal and dependency. Taking active cancellation in sound as an initial structure, […]
Doreen Fletcher's works reveal the drastic changes of east London’s streets across just three decades, remembering businesses long forgotten and buildings that have since been knocked down. A superb colourist, she applies her rigorous technique to recording the drama of the city in compelling and authoritative images.
Speaking Through Walls, is Sethembile Msezane’s first UK solo exhibition. Using interdisciplinary practice encompassing performance, photography, film, sculpture and installation, Msezane creates commanding works laden with spiritual and political symbolism. The artist explores issues around spirituality, commemoration and African knowledge systems. She processes her dreams as a medium through a lens of the plurality of […]
An exhibition of work by fashion photographers Hanna Moon and Joyce Ng. The London-based duo present a series of snaps questioning buzzword du jour 'diversity' and what 'otherness' means to two women using models, props and imagery connected to their Asian heritage. This photography exhibition, English as a Second Language showcases the work of two of […]
Anna Franceschini looks at the heterogeneity and wide-ranging relationships between phenomena, discourses and techniques emerging from Italian architect, photographer and artist Carlo Mollino’s work, which spans across furniture design, architecture, photography and ski studies. Looking at identity politics, the representation of the body and its performativity as mise en scène, Franceschini presents a new video installation […]
An exhibition of Scottish artist Katie Paterson work, paired with a group of works by JMW Turner. This exhibition will include the majority of Paterson’s existing works, which explore our relationship as humans with the vastness and wonder of the universe; our desire to see the un-seeable, to know the un-knowable. Like Paterson, JMW Turner […]
Artist and filmmaker Rachel Maclean examines the world of cuteness by curating works from the Arts Council Collection and Birmingham’s collection to reveal how objects and images can have the unique ability to be simultaneously sweet and yet sinister in an exhibition entitled, Too Cute: sweet is about to get sinister.
Eleonora Sher’s artistic practice predominantly explores themes surrounding identity. Her latest project, Landscape and Memory, explores the common link in human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. Her scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.
Moarg Kiel is the first major solo exhibition in the UK by Scottish artist, Morag Keil, featuring new and reconceived works that span the last eight years of her career. Together, these works offer insight into Keil’s investigations surrounding the impact of data-capitalism and digital technologies on contemporary subjectivities, while acknowledging how these are affected by […]
Folds is a new series by Nicole Farhi in which she explores the beauty of the human figure, focusing on the shapes and curves formed by folds of flesh on parts of the female body.
Tonight the World is a new installation by video artist Daria Martin. It is inspired by dream diaries kept by the artist's grandmother, a survivor of the Holocaust. Drawing upon dream diaries kept by her grandmother over a 35 year period, London-based artist Daria Martin creates a new installation for The Curve. Through atmospheric film and gaming […]