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, as well as fashion and design. The exhibition highlights themes that have interested the artist throughout her career such as the iconography of international sport, […]
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 architect’s photographer” by many, because of her ability to interpret their work. In this intimate exhibition of around 90 photographs, spanning projects from across Binet’s career, […]
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. Christopher's handprinted and tinted images reflect how the camera participated in the performance of queer identities and feminist politics in the club and in the […]
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 practice surrounds the female figure. Artists in this exhibition come from varied technical and experiential backgrounds, but the overriding concept is that the works should […]
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 drawings of objects or in drawings in sculptural form. Every element sits together to create a walk-through still life of Richardson’s making.
A major new body of work Wish You Were Here, by Christiane Baumgartner, concerns the movement and play of light across the horizons of land and sea, The centrepiece of the exhibition, unveils the largest and most ambitious work ever made by Baumgartner; sequential views of a cascading waterfall, measuring over nine metres in width. Baumgartner, […]
Chioma Ebinama is an artist who is interested in how animism, mythology, and precolonial philosophies present a space to articulate a vision of freedom outside of Western social and political paradigms. Her work also reflects on gender and queer identities through a figurative language that is informed by surrealism and Igbo culture among other sources.
Plan B – série b, is Joëlle Tuerlinckx’s exhibition, in which she cites the conventions of how archive material is presented, while continually rearranging and re-articulating her work(s) into new forms and constellations. The exhibition’s title wryly refers both to a ‘logical’ method of classifying the thought of a work – infinite, rhizomatic, unfixed, and on going […]
Ethel Walker paints landscapes of the West Coast of Scotland where she lives. She is inspired by the transient and permanence of the world around her and uses light, form and colour to interpret what she sees on to her canvas.
Flux is a show of vital new work by Kate Giles following the passage of the seasons over the last year; a searching and vigorous response to the restless light and weathering over field angles, tree, orchard and hedgerow, alert to the legacy of Constable, Crome and Ruisdael.
Anne Krinsky's latest project is an outdoor print exhibition, Shifting Shorelines, which investigates vulnerable South Coast wetlands, and is installed on the seafront in Worthing. Anne photographed South Coast wetlands in 2020 […]