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 […]
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 recipe books next to 20th century oral histories, visitors will be able to find out more about individual women doctors and the attitudes towards them […]
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. Reisch questions the value and validity of European cultural heritage as she reassembles historical moments and figures into jumbled compositions, much like a musical medley. […]
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. (The show’s title refers to rag rugs made by Berber women from discarded clothing.) To achieve this look, DiMattio said, “I put the porcelain through […]
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 declining presence of sporting goods manufacture in the region and the story of Klaus Fuchs, a theoretical physicist (atomic spy) incarcerated in HMP Wakefield during […]
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 the capacity of drawing to convey the complexity and diversity of female experience. These artists utilise the immediacy and directness of the drawn line to […]
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 […]