Christine McArthur's early work was primarily in oil and she became well known for her large-scale still life paintings on canvas. In the late 1980s she began to work in oil pastel and watercolour but more recently she has reverted to oil, as well as acrylic and collage.
In Knots and Videotapes, two seminal groups of works by Lynda Benglis are exhibited together here, decades after they were first seen in the U.S. Benglis’s knotted sculptures and videos from 1972 to 1976 show more unaltered exuberance and enduring adventure than ever. The first half of the seventies saw Benglis wrestle with the hard-edge […]
Fascinated by Gentileschi’s decision to title her work Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Jesse Jones explores the performative relationship between the artist and the medium of self-portraiture. Jones presents […]
Isa Genzken explores the relationships between different media, plus social, political and urban spaces, with references to everyday lived experience intruding on her formal experiments. From the late 1990s on, the artist’s sculptural works moved towards assembled installations that borrowed their aesthetic from collages, combining objects with variations in scale. The work on view, Wasserspeler […]
The exhibition, Melting Ice/Rising Tides, looks at the warming environment of the polar regions and the impact this is ultimately having on the changing UK coastline, focussing on the Sussex […]
Laura Aldridge’s extraordinary installation LAWNMOWER creates a space “Where materiality might absorb or encourage certain feelings.” The work combines luscious colour and sensual texture with handmade and collaged qualities. Richly […]
Dame Magdalene Odundo's artistry is renowned for its fusion of historical and contemporary influences, exploring themes of diasporic identity and the symbolic significance of objects. Throughout the exhibition, Odundo's handcrafted […]
An exhibition of photographs by Nan Goldin showing some of her earliest work. These photographs date from 1972 to 1974 and inspired the direction of her work for the subsequent fifty years. The black-and-white images commemorate Goldin’s closest friends, members of Boston’s transgender community, with whom she shared an apartment. Conveying the beauty, glamour, vulnerability, […]
The Third Drawer, is an exhibition by the multidisciplinary photographer and filmmaker Lisa Jahovic. The exhibition incorporates all different media within the artist’s work - video, photography, and sculpture. The presentation explores the performative dimensions of photography, sculpture and film through non-linear narratives formed by everyday objects. Showcasing a series of pre-existing artworks and a […]
This major new exhibition, Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland, brings together the work of these two cultural icons for the very first time. In the exhibition fleshly excesses are explored […]
This exhibition explores the gardens of the Bloomsbury group, Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors, centres on four extraordinary women and the green spaces they surrounded themselves with: writer Virginia Woolf and […]
Spanning 400 years, this exhibition, Now You See us: Women Artists in Britain 1520 - 1921, follows women on their journeys to becoming professional artists. From Tudor times to the First […]
Through a visual language of organic shape and linear structure, Suyi Xu creates a dialogue between the built world and wonder in nature. Her paintings bridge inner and outer worlds. The devotional architecture of gates, cathedrals and cloisters holds intuitive, often mirrored, line and shade patterns of symmetry like butterflies or pine cones, shells or […]
This show by Dayanita Singh, explores in part the intersection of photography and architecture, it includes a major series of wall-based pieces as well as a structural installation.
An exhibition of innovative collage work from venerated artists Helen Frankenthaler, Nancy Grossman, Grace Hartigan, Lilly Fenichel, Perle Fine, Betty Parsons, Sonja Sekula, Yvonne Thomas, and Michael (Corinne) West in an exceptional survey of Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition, Montage, delivers a shrewd exploration of Abstract Expressionism via a curatorial focus on assemblage, collage, and non-canvas artworks, […]
Phantom, is an exhibition of recent paintings and sculptures by Raphaela Simon. Throughout her career, Simon sought to capture the ineffable on canvas. Even when painting a seemingly neutral subject, such as an abstract shape or an inanimate object, Simon is looking for the tension or “the hidden power beneath the surface.” In her recent works, […]
The Famous Women Dinner Service is a collection of 50 hand-decorated plates by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, celebrating famous women throughout history. The portraits, subdivided into Women of Letters, […]
The Shape of Things, questions the idea that still life is a lesser genre, showing how important it is to artists and society. Featuring a ‘Who’s Who’ of Modern and […]
An exhibition of recent works by Emma Haggas.
A survey of Makiko Nakamura’s most recent work completed over the last two years working from her studio in Kyoto. Richly layered with colours and pigments, Makiko's latest work, Stars are Born, continues her meticulous and rigorous process through which she uncovers the emotional content of each painting.