Angelica Kauffman RA was one of the most celebrated artists of the 18th century. In this major exhibition, her trajectory is traced from child prodigy to one of Europe's most sought-after painters. This exhibition covers Kauffman’s life and work: her rise to fame in London, her role as a founding member of the Royal Academy […]
In No Time, this small work evokes the presence of water without dictating its terms, creating an image of either scarcity or excess. The exhibition contemplates repetition – physical, visual, and even emotional – as a mechanism of growth or reduction, understood ultimately as transformation. Liliana Moro’s incessant drops of water paint the sonic landscape […]
Maiko Tsutsumi’s creative practice explores the potential of inherent material qualities; the power and nature of human skills and ingenuity that reconfigure such qualities to create affective quality. In her exhibition, Meditations, she is inspired by the power of ethnological objects, folk objects, folk tales, and ancient architectural details that speak of the nature of […]
Surface Tension, is a joint exhibition of Selome Muleta and Youssra Raouchi. Together, the artists explore the bodies and spaces we inhabit. They take on what it means to feel at home, the ways in which we curate our interior worlds, and the mythical and ephemeral nature of our identities.
In this exhibition, Through the Grid, Lucienne O'Mara, navigates the realm of Modernist aesthetics and theories. The artist challenges the historical narrative that has predominantly attributed Modern Abstract art to male painters. In the context of Contemporary Art, O'Mara's work becomes a poignant re-evaluation of Abstraction, and sheds light on the long-awaited rise and recognition of […]
In her exhibition, Silent Alarm, Tomashi Jackson debuts a body of work that traces a constellation of historic events that took place in Los Angeles and London over nearly a century. She examines the underlying connections between riots, patterns of systemic oppression, and community sound systems in her work.
The exhibition, Herd, sees Kat Lyons bringing together a range of cultural, art historical and ecological references as part of her long-term artistic enquiry into the ways in which animals are recast as cultural phenomena.
Thoughts Are Things, is an exhibition of new textile works, sculptures, paintings and films by Ulla von Brandenburg. Drawing upon enduring influences in the histories of abstraction and modernism, such as occultism, synaesthesia and surrealism, the artist leads the viewer through a dreamlike, playful maze. Ceramic sculptures, vibrant quilts and three films inspired by Sonia […]
Soft Knock, is an exhibition of new works on paper by Clare Woods, who utilises the genre of still life and the classical trope of memento mori to explore the vulnerability of life, its fragile boundaries and co-existing tensions.
This group exhibition, Acts of Resistance Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest, brings together works by international artists and collectives who are using the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional protest photography. Artists include: Laia Abril, Hoda Afshar, Poulomi Basu, Nan Goldin, Guerrilla Girls, Sofia Karim, Mari Katayama, Teresa Margolles, Sethembile Msezane, Zanele Muholi, Wendy Red Star, Tabita Rezaire, Raphaela Rosella, Aida Silvestri, Sheida Soleanimi, Hannah Starkey, […]
This group exhibition, The Goddess, the Deity and the Cyborg, explores how artists have conjured, revered and reimagined the goddess figure. Drawing from works in The Women’s Art Collection, as well […]
A major group exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day. The exhibition addresses diverse experiences of motherhood across three themes: Creation, which looks at conception, pregnancy, birth and nursing; Maintenance which […]
In their exhibition, The Fine Line, artists Macarena Rojas Osterling and Lizi Sanchez examine the relationship between writing and drawing. They intricately explore the gestures and bodily expressions underlying mark-making, observing our connection with language beyond mere communication. The artists focus on the movement inherent in the act of writing, questioning its essence and its […]
In celebration of Women’s History Month and the arrival of spring, the exhibition, The Three Graces, is a contemporary re-examination of this timeless mythological theme. The exhibition demonstrates the enduring relevance of a timeless mythological image and the persistent need to reevaluate themes from the past. The artists from The Three Graces approach an age-old trope in innovative […]
Jess Allen’s exhibition considers space, time and the inevitable transformation of present into past. This Is Now captures a series of fleeting moments in which shadows and figures overlap to represent the ephemeral and indistinct.
After the Rain, an exhibition comprising new works including paintings, sculptures and a site-specific installation by Yuki Nakayama. The exhibition explores the dynamic relationship between space, play and decision-making in emphasising how spatial elements influence our actions and outcomes.
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 […]
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, […]