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Lydia Corbett @ Mall Galleries

Mall Galleries

Lydia Corbett (nickname) Sylvette was Picasso’s muse, and he turned her radiant beauty into art, making some of his finest paintings. Later, he created an entirely new art form for her; Sylvettes in sheet metal, and later monumental Sylvette sculptures. Their meeting altered Sylvette’s life although she already had artistic aspirations for herself, as art was […]

Tatiana Trouve @ Kamel Mennour

Kamel Mennour

Italian-born, Paris-based Tatiana Trouvé is known for her sculptures, installations and drawings often brought together in precisely-scaled architectural installations which suggest the possibility of underlying narratives. Frequently using cast materials, such as concrete, marble, copper and bronze, she transforms everyday objects into poetic architectural sculptural forms. This exhibition is that of a Navigation Map.

Jacqueline Humphries @ Modern Art

Modern Art

For three decades, Jacqueline Humphries’ work has grappled with critical questions about contemporary abstract painting in a visual culture that is increasingly influenced by screens and technology. Testing the limits of her medium, her work frequently turns in on its own making; scraping back to reveal alternative roads of enquiry. The tension between erasing all […]

Lucy Dodd @ Spreuth Magers

Spreuth Magers

‘Miss Mars’, is a solo exhibition of new paintings by the American artist Lucy Dodd.   Her work includes large canvases using pigments incorporating organic matter, such as berries, nettles and tea.

Sue Williams @ Skarstedt

Skarstedt Gallery

Following her acclaimed exhibition of historical works from 1997-1998 in New York, Sue Williams' New Paintings demonstrate a continuing interest in exploring the fluid boundary between figuration and abstraction and her pursuance of the transformation of one into the other. In this body of work, the paintings have an increasing ethereality. They utilise the lightness […]

Tania Brugera @ Tate Modern

Tate Modern Bankside, London, United Kingdom

Tania Bruguera's work is a community-driven response to the global migration crisis that engages with 'the role of emotions in politics'. Her main concerns are institutional power, borders and migration. Her work spans performance, events, action, film, installation, sculpture, writing and teaching alongside site-specific works. Often, she sets out to cause change through her work. […]

Yinka Shonibare @ Stephen Friedman Gallery

Stephen Friedman Gallery @ Frieze London Stand D3, Regents Park, London, United Kingdom

The exhibition is a solo presentation of hand-painted sculptures by Yinka Shonibare MBE in the exquisite and intimate setting of Grade II* listed Fitzrovia Chapel, London. In the central nave stand three unique sculptures in which Shonibare reinterprets masterpieces of Greek and Roman antiquity. In each work, Shonibare's figures are transformed by the artist's uniquely […]

Gabrielle Ruffle @ Tobacco Factory

Tobacco Factory

Gabrielle Ruffle's focus is on landscape painting using oils on canvas and chalk drawings. Her landscapes are based on snapshots of places she has visited such as London, New York, Manchester and Hong Kong as well as her home towns of Merseyside and Bristol. The common theme of the paintings is an abundance of colour […]

Faye Wei Wei @ Cob Gallery

Cob Gallery

Faye Wei Wei's bold, poetic works quiver with a lively, lyrical motion, combining classical poise with vibrant immediacy. Working on a large scale, Wei Wei conceives of the painting process as an intimate choreography between actual and pictorial space. Often revolving around spiritual iconography and classical myth, love rituals and the theatricality of gender, her works […]

Nina Mae Fowler @ Cob Gallery

Cob Gallery

Known for her sumptuously detailed large-scale drawings and installations, Nina Mae Fowler’s work interrogates themes of celebrity, beauty, power and sexuality. Preoccupied with Hollywood’s ‘Golden Age’, Fowler treats the period as a crucible of our own, revelling in its sheer visual richness at the same time as it critiques our culture’s obsession with stardom, as […]

Yayoi Kusama @ Victoria Miro

Victoria Miro

This major exhibition of new work by Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirror Room, takes place across the Wharf Road galleries and waterside garden.  The exhibition will feature new paintings, including works from the iconic My Eternal Soul series, painted bronze pumpkin and flower sculptures, and a large - scale Infinity Mirror Room, created for this presentation. Throughout her career, Yayoi […]

Paula Rego @ Marlborough Fine Art

Marlborough Fine Arts

From Mind to Hand: Drawings from 1980 - 2001, is an exhibition devoted to Paula Rego’s preparatory sketches demonstrating how essential drawing is to an understanding of her work. Fundamental to Rego’s practice is her need to draw.  It underlies her method and remains at the core of all aspects of her work: paintings, pastels and prints. […]

Barbara Hepworth & others @ TJ. Boulting

TJ Boulting

In The Company Of, is an exhibition exploring the relationship between historic and contemporary women artists, curated by Katy Hessel.  It is a showcase for three historic female artists, Barbara Hepworth, Lee Miller, and Alice Neel, alongside twelve dynamic contemporary female artists. The exhibition aims to highlight the legacy of Hepworth, Miller, and Neel and […]

Ndidi Emefiele @ Rosenfeld Porcini

Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery

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 […]

Lucia Nogueira @ Henry Moore Institute

Henry Moore Institute

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.

Rachel Maclean @ Chapter Gallery

Chapter, Bristol

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 […]

Mary Kelly & Fatoş Üstek at Frieze's "Social Work"

Frieze Art Fair Regents Park, London

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 […]

Rachel Adams @ Bloc Projects Sheffield

Bloc Projects, Sheffield

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 […]

Alice Kettle @ Southampton City Art Gallery

Southampton City Art Gallery

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.