Collections: Prints 1963 - 1984, is a major retrospective of Anni Albers’ prints. The exhibition, including archival material, coincides with the Tate Modern’s first survey of Albers’ textiles; together these shows will shed light on an often-overlooked artist.
An exhibition of new works called In the Trees II, by Joan Jonas.
Lucy Beech’s solo exhibition Hyperstimulation presents a new film accompanied by a text by Naomi Pearce. The looping film, entitled Reproductive Exile, follows the fictional story of a woman undertaking cross-border fertility treatment. The film is set in private international clinic in the Czech Republic, where lack of legislation associated with reproductive rights sustains a booming fertility industry. […]
Stand, is a site-specific work by Jodie Carey reconfigured for a four-day exhibition over the course of Frieze Art Fair. The spectacular Victorian church provides an evocative new context for one of Carey’s most ambitious installations to be restaged. Fifty vertical earth-cast sculptures populate the church’s transept, at once industrial and abstract, whilst also organic […]
An exhibition of Clare Inskip’s new paintings.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
‘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.
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 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. […]
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'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'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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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'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 […]
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.