Ndidi Emefiele's work gravitates around theatrical mixed media large-scale compositions, Pets, Parties and a Cuddle features a number of mid-size portraits and a selection of works on paper. Drawing on her rich visual lexicon, Emefiele’s new body of works further challenges the historically held vision of women as figures of beauty encapsulating a standardized male […]
Over the course of her short career the Brazilian-born, London-based artist Lucia Nogueira (1950-98) was recognised as an intelligent and instinctive maker of meaning through objects; a reputation that has only grown since her death. This exhibition presents rarely seen sculptures and works on paper from the Leeds Sculpture Collections alongside a number of loans.
Commissioned for the Venice Biennale in 2017, Rachel Maclean’s critically-acclaimed ‘Spite Your Face’ travels to Cardiff to present her first solo exhibition in Wales. It references the Italian folk-tale 'The Adventures of Pinocchio, ‘Spite Your Face’ (2017) advances a powerful social critique, exploring underlying fears and desires that characterise the contemporary zeitgeist. Set across two […]
Curator Fatoş Üstek will be in conversation with artist Mary Kelly as we explore Frieze's special section Social Work dedicated to women who challenged the art market. This year the section will feature eight monographic presentations by women artists whose work emerged in response to the global social and political schisms of the 1980s and ’90s. Social […]
A new exhibition of work by Glasgow based artist Rachel Adams titled Lowlight. Exploring the creative, menial, domestic and administrative, the installation for Bloc Projects looks at the linked systems that govern both the natural and manmade world and the possibilities where the two intersect. Rachel is interested in the collapse of boundaries between the natural […]
An exhibition of two works by the contemporary textile artist Alice Kettle. Depicting scenes from Homer’s Odyssey these large scale canvases hang alongside the remaining four Perseus series studies, providing a visual contrast in mythological storytelling.
This is part of a series of solo exhibitions celebrating contemporary printmaking that continues with printmaker Ruth Thomas. Using her late mothers' notebooks which documented her daily walks in the country side, writing about the passing of the seasons, the sky, the weather, plants and all the wildlife she saw. Ruth has used fragments of […]
Scrapbook is a collection of paintings, drawings, print-works, collage, sculpture, and mixed media that explore the ongoing experience of life, past and present along with inspired possibilities for the future. To quote Caroline Gowdy “Life is an adventure . . . life is a gift”.
Explore modern art and modern love; Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde, reveals how relationships can become a playground for creativity. Featuring the biggest names in Modern Art, Modern Couples explores creative relationships, across painting, sculpture, photography, design and literature. Meet the artist couples that forged new ways of making art and of living and loving. The exhibition illuminates […]
Mika Rottenberg presents new and existing work in an exhibition featuring two new films that respond to the building, and incorporates purpose-built installations alongside sculptural objects. Mika Rottenberg is known for her ability to highlight themes such as the inequalities of our global economy and the fragility of the human body, spun through a lens of […]
We See You, We Hear You, is an exhibition of 15 women artists. The idea behind this exhibition is simple: we want to say "this is what women can do", […]
A solo exhibition that coincides with the major thematic exhibition of Elisabeth Frink at Sainsburys Centre, bringing together the largest and most significant presentation of her work since her death […]
Love me or Leave me Alone is a carefully crafted sculpture, as well as the artists’ first permanent building in the United Kingdom. The artists Heather Peak and Ivan Morison […]
The exhibition, A Shadow on the Blind includes new work representing a significant new development in Alison Watt's practice, alongside a selection of key earlier pieces. Watt's extraordinary paintings take the […]
Bulaubulau is Charwei Tsai's first solo exhibition in the UK, which demonstrates her interest in spiritual traditions and research in indigenous tribes in Taiwan. Bulaubulau presents installation, film, photography and […]
Humans and Other Animals is a major new exhibition of Suffolk-born artist Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993). The exhibition features over 130 works by the artist; this is the largest showing of Frink’s […]
An exhibition of paintings, drawings and autobiographical ephemera paired with in-depth psychoanalytic interpretation, by Grace Pailthorpe (1883 – 1971) and Reuben Mednikoff ( 1906 – 1972). The work of Pailthorpe […]
An exhibition of Helen Simmonds' new paintings.
An exhibition of Patricia Shone's ceramics.
Melanie Wickham is a lino printer, who trained as an illustrator. She has been carving out lino hares, cats, spiders and otters ever since. She is currently working on progressively larger flocks of birds. Melanie has exhibited regularly in galleries and exhibitions around the UK and has printed on many things – from lovely printmaking […]