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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
This is part of a series of solo exhibitions celebrating contemporary printmaking that continues with printmaker Ruth Thomas. Using her late mothers' notebooks which documented her daily walks in the country side, writing about the passing of the seasons, the sky, the weather, plants and all the wildlife she saw. Ruth has used fragments of […]
Scrapbook is a collection of paintings, drawings, print-works, collage, sculpture, and mixed media that explore the ongoing experience of life, past and present along with inspired possibilities for the future. To quote Caroline Gowdy “Life is an adventure . . . life is a gift”.
Explore modern art and modern love; Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde, reveals how relationships can become a playground for creativity. Featuring the biggest names in Modern Art, Modern Couples explores creative relationships, across painting, sculpture, photography, design and literature. Meet the artist couples that forged new ways of making art and of living and loving. The exhibition illuminates […]
Mika Rottenberg presents new and existing work in an exhibition featuring two new films that respond to the building, and incorporates purpose-built installations alongside sculptural objects. Mika Rottenberg is known for her ability to highlight themes such as the inequalities of our global economy and the fragility of the human body, spun through a lens of […]
We See You, We Hear You, is an exhibition of 15 women artists. The idea behind this exhibition is simple: we want to say "this is what women can do", that gender is not a genre. Our artists come from all over the world, range in life experience from teenager to grandmother, and work in a variety […]
A solo exhibition that coincides with the major thematic exhibition of Elisabeth Frink at Sainsburys Centre, bringing together the largest and most significant presentation of her work since her death 25 years ago.
Love me or Leave me Alone is a carefully crafted sculpture, as well as the artists’ first permanent building in the United Kingdom. The artists Heather Peak and Ivan Morison were inspired by the shingled stave churches of Norway, and the ad hoc beach shacks of 1960s West Coast America to create an animal-like form […]
The exhibition, A Shadow on the Blind includes new work representing a significant new development in Alison Watt's practice, alongside a selection of key earlier pieces. Watt's extraordinary paintings take the viewer to the edge of abstraction yet still suggest a powerful human presence or absence.