What would it feel like to share the world with machines that could live in the wild and evolve on their own? Anicka Yi offers a vision of a new ecosystem in her exhibition In Love with the World.
Barbara LEVITTOUX-ŚWIDERSKA was one of the most important yet often overlooked textile artists who transformed tapestry from flat decorations to avant-garde installations. Levittoux-Świderska came to prominence in the 1960s when textile entered into mainstream contemporary art. Her work is on display at Frieze Masters, Booth G10.
One of the strongest feminist voices to emerge from Africa in the past 30 years, Everlyn NICODEMUS is an artist, writer and curator. As an artist, she produces powerful works centred on personal and cultural trauma as well as the role art can play in healing, while her research and curatorial interests focus on the […]
For Frieze London 2021, Booth C19, the Gallery presents an all-female booth. New works by Jadé Fadojutimi, Angela Heisch, Wangari Mathenge, and Zoë Buckman will be on view alongside previously unseen works by Jacqueline de Jong and Ming Smith.
This presentation Spotlight, at Frieze Masters explores Nancy Holt’s use of photography in the late 1960s. The presentation focusses in particular on works made during a trip to England and Wales with Robert Smithson in 1969, and includes the major 20-part work Trail Markers (1969).
This exhibition presents a broad selection of Helen Levitt’s colour photographs, showcasing the development of a new pictorial language in her work. Also showing as part of the exhibition is In the Street, the experimental documentary Levitt made with filmmaker Janice Loeb and the writer James Agee which focused on street life in Spanish Harlem.
Continuing a practice which harnesses film, photography, print, text, song and performance to explore social histories and interrogate mainstream historical narratives, Helen Cammock brings together residents and community groups of Rochdale, Greater Manchester to articulate both individual and collective experiences as a way of considering what it means to exist as part of a community […]
Sumuyya Khader’s paintings and illustrations in Always Black Never Blue, capture fleeting moments and snapshots of daily life, originally captured by the artist photographing the world around her. She transforms these snapshots into her compositions, by flattening images and mixing in abstract shapes, colours and rhythms. Her work often feature restorative green spaces, relaxed interiors […]
Deborah Roberts works on paper and on canvas combine found images, sourced from the internet, with hand-painted details in striking compositions that invite viewers to look closely, to see through the layers. In addition to representational imagery, the artist also makes text works in which she juxtaposes words in ways that expose racism and racial biases […]
Practice Makes Perfect is focused on the timely subject of childhood education in Britain. Rosa-Johan Uddoh looks at how schooling forms an early understanding of what it means to be British, but also at what within this is marginalised or left out. Responding to current debates about Black history within the National Curriculum, Uddoh approached the […]
The show Lumen demonstrates Sutapa Biswas’ vital contributions to the Black Arts Movement in Britain and to the shifting understanding of post-war British art. Biswas’ works visually disrupt, challenge and reimagine our present time: visual theorist Griselda Pollock said that it was Biswas who "forced us all to acknowledge the Eurocentric limits of the discourses within which we […]
This exhibition draws from Margaret Mellis’ extensive repertoire of work, spanning her career and illuminating the breadth of her practice and underlying narratives. The strength of Mellis’ work lies in her confident and relentless exploration of colour and form both on canvas and through her re-appropriation of objects. Modernist Constructs introduces and reveals Mellis’ artistic […]
Melissa Gordon is an artist, curator, and writer, whose practice is concerned with the body, gesture, and painting, through the lens of feminism. Liquid Gestures is a solo exhibition featuring large-scale paintings that further her examination of modern art histories, ideas of authorship, and the appropriation of certain ‘gestures’.
An In Focus series of objects at the House, celebrates works created by Horace Walpole’s beloved goddaughter, sculptress Anne Seymour Damer (1748 – 1828), who inherited the House upon his death in 1797. Central to the new display is Damer’s marble bust of her mother, Caroline Campbell, Lady Ailesbury, thought to be made in the […]
An exhibition that juxtaposes works by Lucinda Burgess and Frank Gerritz.
The first UK retrospective of Glasgow-born, Lucy McKenzie. The exhibition brings together over 80 works dating from 1997 to the present. Visitors can enjoy large-scale architectural paintings, illusionistic trompe l’oeil works, […]
Over the past 30 years, Hélène Binet has travelled the world to photograph historic and contemporary buildings, as well as projects in the making. She is considered to be “the […]
Contacts is an intimate glimpse at a lesbian community in San Francisco in the '90s through the archive of photographer Phyllis Christopher, who belongs to a politicised tradition of documentary photography. […]
WÜNDER WOMXN: The Female Figurative is our first (and only) group exhibition of 2021. We are thrilled to bring together such a stellar roster of exclusively female painters whose predominant painting […]
If I Measure It Must Exist, an exhibition of new work by Frances Richardson. Central to the exhibition are themes of balance and counterbalance, real and phantom, be it through intricate ink […]