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 […]
Join us and learn about and becoming a human hologram. On the 17th September we will meet Rachel Ara, artist-in-residence at the V&A. A former computer systems designer, Ms. Ara graduated from Goldsmith's College, winning the prestigious Burston Award, and turned her attention to creating art with a feminist edge. Recipient of the 2016 International […]
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 […]
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 new exhibition explores the histories of well-known pioneers uncovering previously hidden medical women. It features RCP president Professor Dame Jane Dacre's newly-commissioned portrait alongside Elizabeth Garrett's qualifying certificate, and 17th century handwritten […]
Josefine Reisch’s works seduce the viewer with haunted textures of the already seen. Working through traditional mediums such as tromp l'oeil painting, portraiture and textile, she creates moments of recognition. […]
In Burst, Francesca DiMattio has three new sculptures and paintings that are completely mad, and towering, animal and humanoid figures, which are dazzling for their colour, scale and feathered effects. […]
Her Name is Prometheus, is a solo exhibition of Yelena Popova’s latest work, developed during her residency at Art House in Wakefield earlier this year. Popova was moved by the […]
From the Inside Out is a group exhibition of female artists who employ expanded forms of drawing to navigate a passage from personal experience to the outside world. The exhibition explores […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]