Rachel Maclean has rapidly established herself as one of the most distinctive creative voices in the UK. Creating baroque, hyper-real worlds using green-screen video and computer animation, and playing many of the extravagantly costumed characters herself, Maclean spins razor-sharp fables that combine comedy and horror. Her work offers a powerful critique of contemporary society and […]
Five hundred children visited Whitechapel Gallery on 28 January 1973 to learn about sweets as a popular art. An enticing display of donated confectionary was part of the ‘Fanfare for Europe’ celebrations, marking Britain’s entry into the European Common Market. Billed as a ‘Sweet Feast’, children were invited to sample the candies, but the exhibition […]
An exhibition of new work by Julie Mehretu featuring large-scale paintings and etchings. The exhibition highlights Mehretu’s use of gestural abstraction as a conduit for evocative and charged emotion and intellectual enquiry. Glenn Ligon has described the artist’s work as "traversed by history grounded in urgent political and social questions while simultaneously troubling the limits of […]
The Chicago artist Senga Nengudi has been a trailblazer in sculpture for fifty years. A vital figure in the African American avant-garde scenes of Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s and 1970s, her work is characterised by a persistently radical experimentation with material and form. Building upon a legacy of abstraction, Nengudi is […]
Marking 100 years of female suffrage, Ladies of Quality & Distinction resets the focus of the Foundling Hospital story, revealing portraits and stories of the remarkable women who supported both the establishment and the running of the Hospital. Despite its male face, women permeate every aspect of the story; as mothers, supporters, wet nurses, staff, apprentice masters, […]
Kitty Clive, born Catherine Raftor, was a star of the London stage. She sang in Handel’s first London performance of Messiah in 1743, and he created the role of Dalila for her in his oratorio Samson the same year. Clive cultivated her popular image as an actress and fought public battles in the media to achieve greater rights […]
In The Ballad of Saint Jerome, Jesse Darling populates the gallery with works made from everyday objects and materials. These take on the appearance of both wounded and liberated shapes. Contorted mobility canes become animated snakes. Cabinets of curiosity try to walk away on their bent legs, and disembodied hands hold aloft ladders intended for caged […]
A retrospective of Hannah's sculptural works in an exhibition spanning three decades of the American painter, sculptor, photographer, video and performance artist Hannah Wilke (1940 - 1993), in partnership with The Hannah Wilke Collection and Archive, Los Angeles. Wilke's firm legacy as a pioneering, often controversial, feminist and conceptual artist is evident not only in […]
The entire composition of Mairead O’hEocha’s new show intriguingly, titled, Irises in the Well, is a complete composition, not just a group of paintings, nor even a mere body of work. Nothing is out of its very particular place, and is balanced, backwards, forwards, but this time between verbal articulation and abstract sensing; competing forces, internal […]
Sarah Graham presents coloured ink drawings and black and white graphites on the theme of the medinilla flower, the subject of Graham’s focus over the past year. Graham works across several sheets of handmade paper to construct these larger-than-life organic forms. The gallery has produced an exhibition catalogue with a scholarly essay to accompany the […]
The Scar, a fiction film installation by London and Istanbul based artists Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler, is in three chapters (The State of the State, The Mouth of the Shark and The Gossip), inspired by a true event with names, scenes and locations having been fictionalised through the use of Magical Realism.
This autumn, New Zealand born artist Francis Upritchard creates a new series of sculptural interventions in her exhibition, Wetwang Slack. She is known for her array of archetypal figures in varying sizes from medieval knights to meditating hippies, painted in monochromatic or distinct patterns and decorated with bespoke garments and objects, Upritchard has conceived of the […]
Working together since 1995, artist duo Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, produce beguiling spatial scenarios that explore social and sexual politics and unveil the power structures embedded in the everyday designs that surround us. In their uncanny installations, institutional spaces are transformed into metaphors for individual desires and collective identities with subversive wit and tongue-in-cheek […]
Breakfast at Marlborough, visiting exhibitions of Paula Rego RA and Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, we will be welcomed and led around the exhibitions by Frankie Rossi, Director at Marlborough Fine Art. Paula Rego (b.1935) draws widely from subjects including fairy tales, myths and folk art, her experiences growing up in Portugal under a fascist regime, and from […]
An exhibition of Doris Salcedo's artworks, and in her words: "The experience of an individual is always my point of departure. But during the process of making an artwork, I must maintain a distance in order to leave that person intact, untouched. And from there, as soon as I begin working, everything enters into the paradoxical terrain […]
The aim of Anne de Carbuccia’s ONE PLANET ONE FUTURE exhibition is to raise awareness and document human-caused threats to the planet, “what we have, what we may lose and what we have already lost”. One Planet One Future harnesses the universal language of art to inspire individual action. Through her photographs, Anne de Carbuccia […]
Melanie Manchot's works in this exhibition, White Light Black Snow includes a new body of photographic works, being shown for the first time, and the premiere of a new video work, Cadence (2018). The exhibition runs concurrently with a major survey show at MAC VAL in Paris.
This the first UK exhibition dedicated to Behjat Sadr (1924-2009), now regarded as one of Iran’s most influential and radical visual artists. The exhibition brings together a selection of masterpieces by the artist never seen before in the UK. The display reveals Sadr’s dramatic artistic journey against the backdrop of bitter political events and her struggles as a […]
Who Wants to Look at Somebody’s Face?, celebrates the role of photography in sculpture and painting, with reference to some of the greats of modern sculpture and how they used photography as an archive. Maude Maris' exhibition will feature 12 new paintings of playful compositions, titles of which relate to extracts from texts written by […]
Stages and Tales is a solo exhibition by Berlinde De Bruyckere, in which she presents two new bodies of sculptural works, selected in direct relation to the spaces they are exhibited in. The pieces presented in ‘Stages & Tales’ are a new artistic direction for De Bruyckere, moving away from the figurative work she is best known […]