An exhibition of Carey Young’s, Palais de Justice (2017) which was filmed surreptitiously at the Palais de Justice in Brussels, an enormous and ornate 19th Century courthouse designed to depict law in terms of the sublime. The film contradicts the familiar patriarchal culture of law, as Young’s camera depicts female judges and lawyers at court. Sitting […]
British artist Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection in Towner’s eighth and final exhibition as part of the Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme 2016-19. Anne's work derives from places she calls ‘pockets of wild space’ – gaps in the urban space where materials, atmospheres, and emotions gather – using what she finds there to […]
Discover the childhood sketches of Beatrix Potter. As a young girl Beatrix Potter showed keen design skills. This display tracks the development of Potter's artistry by showcasing examples of her childhood sketches and domestic projects alongside her adored, famous illustrations that came later.
A survey of new work by Georgie Hopton, who treats her garden as a palette, growing abundant produce on the Upstate New York farm she shares with her husband, the […]
Janice Kerbal is interested in how fights can both erupt and dissipate, unannounced, regardless of context or setting. For Fight (2018), a series of silkscreen posters, she choreographed an unarmed fight for a group of 12 individuals. Every action of the fight was recorded on life size sheets of paper using text.
On the face of it, Phyllida Barlow’s vibrant, large-scale sculptures are always at the point of tipping off an edge, becoming too heavy and unbalanced to stand freely, or overrunning the […]
Juliette Paull’s most recent body of work, Profile & Paintings, explores a continuously unfolding visual connection to the landscape within Baroque painting. The notion of romanticism and the sublime is of […]
Julia Patience uses watercolour and inks on paper, which enables her to paint fine detail, while being botanically correct. She aims to inspire rather than merely inform.
This exhibition, Interval, showcases a collection of oil paintings depicting the Suffolk Coast, by Rachel Arif. Her semi-abstract works are almost Turner-esque in style – reflecting the dramatic and changeable landscape of heaths, […]
Eileen Cooper has had an illustrious career and is well known for her strong, bold and passionate figuration as a painter and printmaker. She was the first woman to have […]
The elegant Art Deco design of this gallery inspires six major new paintings by Tess Jaray, RA. One of Britain’s most distinguished and influential painters and printmakers, Jaray works in the […]
This is the first large-scale exhibition of Dorothea Tanning’s work for 25 years. It brings together 100 works from her seven-decade career – from enigmatic paintings to uncanny sculptures. Tanning wanted […]
Protest and Remembrance brings together four artists, Miriam de Búrca, Joy Gerrard, Mary Griffiths and Barbara Walker, who use drawing to examine elements of protest and/or remembrance through a range of […]
Elsewhere features new works by Etel Adnan in the artist's first solo exhibition of prints in a London gallery. Acclaimed throughout her life for her writing, particularly her poetry, it was not until […]
The exhibition consists of twenty large-scale photogravures from three of Cornelia Parker's experimental series Fox Talbot’s Articles of Glass (2017); One Day This Glass Will Break (2015) and Thirty Pieces of […]
Neighbours, is the first solo UK exhibition by Myfanwy MacLeod, who is best known for her irreverent artworks that often explore the overlap between pop culture, folklore, traditions and histories. […]
'Form, Feminisms, Femininities' is Rose English's first solo exhibition, which shines light on two moments from the early stages of the artist's career, beginning with her experimentation with emergent processes […]
Taking mundane, prefabricated materials such as cardboard, cloth or plastic as her starting point, Vera Boele-Keimer transforms shapes and surfaces by taking these materials through semi-systematic, simple processes such as […]
As a professional painter, Jennifer Suellen Rye has exhibited her paintings at a number of venues in the UK and abroad. This exhibition is called Beyond the Clouds: Cosmos series. […]
In Nancy Delouis’s paintings and pastels we are freed from busyness, noise, bluster and bad weather. Instead, we enjoy the peaceful view from a sun-drenched garden somewhere in France, or a marketplace in Africa, or vases filled with spring flowers, or the intimate moment of a woman sleeping, or a few girl friends relaxing.