Thread Bearing Witness, is a major new series of monumental textiles by renowned artist Alice Kettle, which recounts the stories of cultural heritage, displacement and the global refugee crisis and forms an immersive installation in the gallery.

Ash to Ash by internationally recognised artists Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey is a major new environmental artwork commissioned by The Ash Project. As part of their process the artists have undertaken a substantial research and development project, creating a work that responds to the loss of ash across the globe.

‘Ukraine’s Myth & Magic’, is a new exhibition featuring two young Ukrainian artists - Natalia Naida & Ivan Ribarchuk – who are introducing their work to Britain for the first time. This exhibition celebrates the myths and magic of Ukraine which inspire contemporary artists like Natalia and Ivan to capture both the beauty and unique spirit of […]

In this exhibition, Grande Calme, a screen holds a virtual reality avatar of the artist, Martine Syms, programmed with her physical tics and way of talking. We’re meant to interact, via that means with which we interact with most people in our lives: our phones. It might sound borderline cringe, but Syms’s often deft negotiation of […]

Discover how Handel’s music was created by female singers in this Handel Gallery display.  In the eighteenth century, music performance was always a live event, and singers could build both their reputation and that of the composer through their performances. Composers depended on the competence of the performers – in particular the soloists – to […]

An exhibition of Jennifer Anderson's portraits.

Artist and illustrator Lucinda Rogers exhibit drawings of familiar and hidden scenes of Snape Maltings and Aldeburgh, centred around the original drawings she made for the Snape Maltings seasonal brochures over the last year. Working in ink, gouache and watercolour on paper, Rogers is well known for drawing directly from life in the tradition of the […]

This is the first UK solo exhibition by Franco-Brazilian artist Ana Vaz, presents a new iteration of her ongoing project The Voyage Out, which takes the toxic disaster in Fukushima as a synecdoche of the impending ecological disaster and the possibility of renewal. It is an account of an ethnography of the future. Ana Vaz's films […]

An exhibition of new works by Olga Mikh Fedorova, to mark the artist’s second solo presentation with the gallery.  Short Term Memories features three large scale prints on glass, a video on a new type of transparent glass screen that the artist has developed, and three granite sculptures. Implicit in the show is the idea of […]

Cicatrix: the Scar of a Healed Wound, is a centenary project which reflects the story of Wiltshire during World War I. It is an exhibition  by Prudence Maltby, Susan Francis and Henny Burnett joined by Commonwealth artists Caro Williams (New Zealand), Catherine Farish (Canada) and Sophie Cape (Australia).  Cicatrix is a collaborative exhibition incorporating painting, drawing, […]

The Turquoise Meat Inside furthers Zina Saro-Wiwa's interests in emotional landscapes, psycho-geographies and invisible ecosystems, and develops the artist's ongoing research into Niger Delta region of South-eastern Nigeria, the artist's place of birth. Drawing on Nigerian food traditions, folklore and masquerade, the exhibition brings together works which examine and reimagine notions of environment and environmentalism.

An exhibition of new paintings by New Zealand born artist Judy Millar, The View From Nowhere is her first show in London.  Pale lilac, jade green, and a bruised blue resonate against yellow and incandescent orange in Judy Millar’s new paintings. The colour palate is double-edged; reminding us of the moments when nature thrills us […]

Kiki Smith’s practice addresses the philosophical, social and spiritual aspects of human nature. By manipulating everyday materials such as glass, ceramic, fabric and paper, Smith’s work examines the dichotomy between the psychological and physiological power of the body. As a young girl, one of Smith’s first experiences with art was helping her father – American […]

Kiki Smith’s practice addresses the physical, philosophical, social and spiritual aspects of human nature. Through everyday materials such as glass, ceramic, fabric and paper, Smith’s work examines the dichotomy between the psychological and physiological power of the body. Smith’s objects and drawings based on organs, cellular forms, and the human nervous system demonstrate her deep understanding of the body’s intimate functions and how she balances […]

Reverie, is a solo exhibition of work by Mary Webb.  The exhibition features a series of paintings, prints and collages spanning two decades (1980 – 1999), united by the artist’s formal exploration of abstraction and complex interplays of colour. In the works exhibited, a myriad of influences and emotions seep into the compositions and colour […]

Perpetual Canon is an installation by Cornelia Parker RA. It is made up of sixty flattened instruments once belonging to a brass band. Cornelia Parker is known for her sculptures and installations that explore the potential of matter, often subjecting commonplace objects to processes such as crushing, wrapping, exploding or dropping. Here, a collection of compressed […]

Working within creative, menial, domestic and administrative labour Rachel Adams’s installation, with iterations in Glasgow and Sheffield, considers the linked systems that govern both the natural and manmade world and the possibilities where the two intersect. We are surrounded by incomprehensible systems, that detail not only the current shifts in society and technology, but also […]

A major exhibition of new and recent work by Polly Apfelbaum, which features large-scale colourful installations of textiles, ceramics and drawings, Apfelbaum’s artistic practice is framed within wider sociological and political contexts, and the legacy of post-war American art. The exhibition title comes from the 1970s song Waiting for the UFOs by British singer-songwriter Graham […]

A major survey exhibition of works by Swiss artist Heidi Bucher(1926–1993), showing for the first time in a UK public institution 25 years after her death.  This exhibition brings together a significant body of her enigmatic latex works made during the last two decades of her artistic life and includes screenings of films that document […]