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.
The exhibition, Dialectics of Silence, features a selection of Nancy Haynes’s book-sized paintings from the series – library, dedicated to a pantheon of writers, important to the artist. In this series of works, Haynes approaches each intimately scaled linen canvas with painterly and meticulous manipulation of depth, light, and gradation, inviting viewers on an introspective […]
Sensation of Colour, is a selection of prints and drawings by Bridget Riley (b. 1931) and Shizuko Yoshikawa (1934 - 2019). At a time when Modernist abstract art was still a largely male-dominated field, both artists engaged with its traditional principles to create new and highly contemporary perspectives on avant-garde abstraction. Combining geometrical precision with […]
Survival Spell, an exhibition by Anne Hardy, is a new group of floor and wall sculptures. The works in the exhibition, begun during Anne's residency at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, display the earthy, weather-worn tones of a desert or an archaeological site. The materials found there, in the street outside her London studio and […]
An exhibition of vivid, colour-filled textiles by post-war designer Shirley Craven. The exhibits are displayed together for the first time in over 60 years alongside newly acquired unique works from her days as a Student at the RCA.
Vivienne Williams paints pots, jugs and bowls, flowers and fruit, that are represented in her exhibition.
Zarah Hussain's exhibition Super Symmetry features new paintings from Zarah's 'Breath' series, examples of her wall sculptures and a new limited-edition print, published specially for the exhibition. Spiritual traditions around the world have long used the breath as a tool for transformation and awakening. In this body of work Zarah Hussain explores the universal sanctity and necessity […]
Alexandra Zarins’ work is rooted in an almost dreamlike realm. Entering her world, we are invited into stories inspired by her own life, observations, and imagination. Caught in the act of being ourselves, brings together five new works and a selection of drawings to mark the artist’s first solo show. In Zarins’ pictorial vocabulary, drawings play a […]
The razor-sharp, witty and unmistakable work of Barbara Kruger explores the power of image and word and touches on the dynamics of control, class, corruption and consumerism.