An Idea of a Life, responds to everyday histories of the women-led community who lived in Barking Abbey from c.666AD through to the early 16th Century. This exhibition tells stories that are both imagined and informed by archaeological finds, records and ongoing research emerging from the site of the former Abbey. The exhibition holds newly […]
In Mirror, Mirror, Renata de Bonis explores the veiled passageways between life's sunlit moments and the shadowy depths of sorrow. Her paintings evoke a delicate dance between the outside and the in, where draped curtains transcend their material form to become sacred veils, revealing the intertwined nature of human existence and domestic comfort.
Pretend You Are an American Cowgirl and You Love Me, explores conceptions of fantasy, care, and authenticity. Across her multidisciplinary practice, which includes sculpture, print, sound, and film, Darya Diamond conceives of the body as a ‘primordial workplace’, often through the prism of sex work and other forms of invisible labour.
The exhibition draws its title from a poem by Henry David Thoreau, Low Anchored Cloud. The connection with the natural environment is a primary concern of Lydia Gifford's most recent body of work while maintaining a critical engagement with paintings, which verge into three-dimensional forms. These sculptural and fragile objects, respond to gestures woven through layers, […]
700 Nights of Winter. In her new paintings, Li Hei Di explores primal, sexual urges with her signature fluid application of paint. Balanced on a knife edge between abstraction and representation, her paintings feature figures that swim in and out of view beneath diaphanous veils of paint; each layer offers a different world, or a […]
We do not Sleep, is the title of an exhibition by artists: Layla Andrews, Elissa Cray, Tracey Emin, Laura Footes, Joline Kwakkenbos, Gabriela Max, Lindsey Mendick, Vanessa Raw, and Mercedes Workman.
Polly Braden: Leaving Ukraine is an intimate portrait of women, forced to leave their homes following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. In this new series of work we see the extraordinary journeys undertaken by mothers, daughters, teenagers and babies in arms.
Sylvia Snowden: Painting Humanity, presents a selection of work from a career that spans six decades, the exhibition includes large early paintings through to more recent works. Snowden works with oil paint and pastels as well as acrylic and collage to create her expressionist, distorted, monumental figures, capturing the psychological essence of her subjects – […]
Manual Labour is an immersive environment, comprising film, sculpture, print and sound, the exhibition explores the process of becoming a mother, and its creative and destructive power. The exhibition includes a choreographed mechanical sculpture which considers the physical act of labour. The work captures the beauty and struggle of the transition in the sculpture’s brutal, […]
This exhibition showcases over thirty years of Parsons’ practice, including paintings on canvas and paper and sculptures dating from 1950 to 1980, marking the first time an overview of the breadth of Parsons’ practice is shown in London. The exhibition presents Parsons first and foremost as an artist, rather than contextualising her legacy based on […]
Showcasing more than 150 rare vintage prints, Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In, spans the career of both artists – and suggests new ways to look at their work, and the way photographic portraiture was created in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Wayfinding, is an exhibition by Amelia Bowles, which sits between sculpture, painting and architecture. Making use of the activity of light, colour and form, she claims the void and what is immaterial to facilitate the conditions for a series of physiological, cognitive and perceptual encounters.
In 1963, fashion illustrator Barbara Hulanicki established a mail-order company selling affordable fashion appealing to a new generation of young women, which she named Biba. The Biba Story explores how it became the world’s first lifestyle label, sparking a revolution in how people shopped, and how Biba earned its spot as the fashion brand of […]
Leilah Babirye’s exhibition Obumu (Unity) features new sculptures made at YSP specifically for this exhibition, largely from materials found onsite. The seven sculptures were carved using a chainsaw and chisels from trees that had reached the end of their life on site.
Vanessa Garwood uses acrylic for her paintings as it seems to provide a purer process and a greater sense of immediacy to her work. Her interest involves humans and human activity, and for over twenty years she painted portraits, nudes and dancers. Now she draws more from fantasy, infusing unbounded imagination with figures from real […]
In Repetitive, Ana Viktoria Dzinic presents a series of photographic prints and sculptural installations, in which she uses repetition as a tool to investigate contemporary methods of communication and image production. She analyses the relationship between processes of subjectivity formation and current modes of fabrication, circulation and consumption of technical images.
Discover the extraordinary story of Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece – a duo whose secret artistic collaboration and lifelong romantic partnership remained hidden for decades. In this exhibition, The untold story, explores their life through paintings and drawings works, which were created by Hepworth, but exhibited under the signature of her lifelong partner, Preece. Here, the […]
Discover a new group exhibition showcasing shared canvases, dynamic working practices and collaborative identities that celebrate the creative force of collaboration. Featuring work from Rottingdean Bazaar, The White Pube, Bob and Roberta Smith, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, join us to celebrate the power of creative partnerships and discover the diverse […]
The exhibition, Life Boat, explores precarious conditions as a site of dynamic transition. We each take an investigative approach to the environmental, social, and historical themes evoked by the lifeboat, as a means of addressing ecological crisis, close and distant horizons, liminal landscapes, boundaries and displacement, lines of rescue, navigation and transformation.
The exhibition, Possible Progression, features Shizuko Yoshikawa’s s signature relief sculptures, paintings, drawings and conceptual colour studies spanning four decades of the artist’s career. Her innovative work has recently received new recognition.