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 […]
LCD takes shape around an ambitious new commission by artist Anna Barham, titled Crystal Fabric Field. Based on the fundamental geometric form of naturally growing crystals, the sculpture operates as a cabinet of curiosities, housing artworks by 16 other artists, all exploring the material possibilities of crystals. The works examine and observe liquid crystal phenomena, […]
Collections: Prints 1963 - 1984, is a major retrospective of Anni Albers’ prints. The exhibition, including archival material, coincides with the Tate Modern’s first survey of Albers’ textiles; together these shows will shed light on an often-overlooked artist.
An exhibition of new works called In the Trees II, by Joan Jonas.
Lucy Beech’s solo exhibition Hyperstimulation presents a new film accompanied by a text by Naomi Pearce. The looping film, entitled Reproductive Exile, follows the fictional story of a woman undertaking cross-border fertility treatment. The film is set in private international clinic in the Czech Republic, where lack of legislation associated with reproductive rights sustains a booming fertility industry. […]
Stand, is a site-specific work by Jodie Carey reconfigured for a four-day exhibition over the course of Frieze Art Fair. The spectacular Victorian church provides an evocative new context for one of Carey’s most ambitious installations to be restaged. Fifty vertical earth-cast sculptures populate the church’s transept, at once industrial and abstract, whilst also organic […]
An exhibition of Clare Inskip’s new paintings.
Lydia Corbett (nickname) Sylvette was Picasso’s muse, and he turned her radiant beauty into art, making some of his finest paintings. Later, he created an entirely new art form for her; Sylvettes in sheet metal, and later monumental Sylvette sculptures. Their meeting altered Sylvette’s life although she already had artistic aspirations for herself, as art was […]