This exhibition, Another View: Landscapes by Women Artists, examines women artists’ place in the history of British landscape art, a story traditionally dominated by male artists. Starting with early depictions by female amateur artists, the exhibition moves through the 19th and 20th centuries, presenting the changing ways women have looked at the outside world, and how […]
Hayal Pozanti's primary subject is the natural world and our relationship to it. In her daily life, she opens herself up to communing with and closely observing the environment: the texture of lichen, a stream of water, a glimmer of moths, or the old-growth maple trees that grow beside her Vermont home. With a remarkable […]
“All things are full of gods.”, an exhibition by Jana Emburey, borrows its title from a quote attributed to Thales of Miletus, an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and one of the earliest proponents of unity of substance. The exhibition celebrates life, renewal and the unbreakable link between nature, humanity and the cosmos.
Liminal Spaces, is an exhibition of new works by Siji Krishnan, who presents a group of large-scale paintings and works on rice paper. The exhibition offers a continuation of Krishnan’s work in the spirit of the Perennial Upanishadic dictum, vasudhaiva kutumbakam: “the world is one family.” The artist builds her own sense of familial identity as […]
Pseudopodia, is an exhibition of new works by Molly Greene. The exhibition presents a suite of eight paintings that continue the artist’s investigation of amorphous forms, the internal and corporeality. The works depict forms which proliferate across the canvas with a fluidity of line, reproducing themselves through uncanny replications that playfully negotiate naturalness and […]
Watching the Perseids, is a new solo exhibition of work by Iris Schomaker. The exhibition presents new small-scale works on panel and paper, made over the past year, which continue Schomaker’s exploration of the generative tension between figuration and abstraction.
The exhibition takes its title, The Middle Voice, from a grammatical term and mode of speech which exists beyond a familiar distinction between the active and passive voices. It brings together works by Caroline Achaintre, Anna Higgins, Niamh O’Malley, Aimée Parrott, Stephen Polatch, and explores the possibility of expressing a middle-voiced view in visual terms – […]
Anne Rothenstein’s work transports viewers into a space where colour and form intertwine with everyday objects and landscapes to create profound emotional scenes. Using delicate layers of oil paint washes, Rothenstein builds a distinctive palette, layering her compositions with a luminous quality of depth and texture. Drawing inspiration from found imagery, personal experiences, and memories
‘Portals to The Past’, is an exhibition by Qian Qian. The exhibition advances Qian’s artistic explorations over the past five years, intertwining the realms of technology with mythology, the material with the spiritual, and the tangible with the transcendent. In addition to her latest watercolours on paper, the exhibition also features her first attempt at […]
Sat in the intersection between photography and painting, Alina Frieske’s solo exhibition Nightly Newsfeed explores how accustomed we are to unsorted visual information held close to our bodies. Her tangible approach to photography speaks to the physicality of touch in relation to digital media and devices.
Show me the World Mister, is an exhibition by Ayo Akingbade comprising two new film commissions. Shot in location in Nigeria, The Fist and Faluyi are Akingbade's most ambitious productions to date, building upon her continued interest in history, place-making, legacy and power.
The exhibition, In the Perpetual Back and Forth, centres around 26,778,780 minutes, a new paper and text-based installation and accompanying sound piece which explores the dialogue between paper and writing. Featuring over 1000 sheets of laser-etched handmade abaca fibre paper, the work evokes a sense of absence and longing, considering the nuanced meanings of the […]
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.
In Knots and Videotapes, two seminal groups of works by Lynda Benglis are exhibited together here, decades after they were first seen in the U.S. Benglis’s knotted sculptures and videos from 1972 to 1976 show more unaltered exuberance and enduring adventure than ever. The first half of the seventies saw Benglis wrestle with the hard-edge […]
Fascinated by Gentileschi’s decision to title her work Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Jesse Jones explores the performative relationship between the artist and the medium of self-portraiture. Jones presents a new 16mm film Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon (2024), a cartographic operatic work based on the landscape of Mount Sinai, where the body of St Catherine […]
Isa Genzken explores the relationships between different media, plus social, political and urban spaces, with references to everyday lived experience intruding on her formal experiments. From the late 1990s on, the artist’s sculptural works moved towards assembled installations that borrowed their aesthetic from collages, combining objects with variations in scale. The work on view, Wasserspeler […]
The exhibition, Melting Ice/Rising Tides, looks at the warming environment of the polar regions and the impact this is ultimately having on the changing UK coastline, focussing on the Sussex shoreline local to Towner.
Laura Aldridge’s extraordinary installation LAWNMOWER creates a space “Where materiality might absorb or encourage certain feelings.” The work combines luscious colour and sensual texture with handmade and collaged qualities. Richly glazed ceramics, elements sculpted in modroc and fishing floats are illuminated among soft folds of fabric. Aldridge creates a “Push and pull between dualities, such as […]
Dame Magdalene Odundo's artistry is renowned for its fusion of historical and contemporary influences, exploring themes of diasporic identity and the symbolic significance of objects. Throughout the exhibition, Odundo's handcrafted sculptures, often evocative of the human form, are strategically placed to accentuate their diverse cultural references. A centrepiece of the display is a monumental ceramic […]
An exhibition of photographs by Nan Goldin showing some of her earliest work. These photographs date from 1972 to 1974 and inspired the direction of her work for the subsequent fifty years. The black-and-white images commemorate Goldin’s closest friends, members of Boston’s transgender community, with whom she shared an apartment. Conveying the beauty, glamour, vulnerability, […]