Polly Braden @ Arnolfini, Bristol
Arnolfini, BristolPolly Braden presents Holding the Baby, an exhibition of new photography that creates a powerful and moving portrait of the impact of austerity measures on families across the UK.
Polly Braden presents Holding the Baby, an exhibition of new photography that creates a powerful and moving portrait of the impact of austerity measures on families across the UK.
Picture the Others is Angharad Williams' exhibition that features new work, including a series of large-scale paintings, glass sculptures and film composed within a site responsive installation. As both an artist and […]
This exhibition, Right up to Now, speaks to the radical introspection of Ida Applebroog—now in her 90s—as a woman and as an artist, presenting life as it is and the repetitive patterns […]
Borrowing from symbolism and surrealism, the new series of works, Ode to a Minefield, create a direct dialogue between all the different genres in the practice of Zena Assi. ‘My […]
‘Of the Surface of Things’, is a four-person exhibition exploring the communicative potential of raw materials and exposed surfaces. The artists in dialogue are Maria Bartuszová (1936-1996); Sheila Hicks; Hannah […]
This is an Invites exhibition by Darya Diamond, who works across print, sculpture, audio and film. Diamond’s practice depicts the body as a site of power, pleasure and labour. The installation’s materiality […]
Gut Feelings, is an exhibition of paintings and mixed media works by Hayv Kahraman. In this new work, the artist delves into scientific research to situate the effects of trauma in […]
It’s show time; everyone’s a winner at the end, is an exhibition by Grace Metzler, whose painted worlds depict reflective spaces drawn from her own reality.
For her exhibition, In Nature's Way, Suzanne Jackson presents a new body of sculpted paintings. Her work is multifaceted; spanning five decades, during which she excelled as a painter, poet, dancer, […]
Flora Yukhnovich is acclaimed for paintings that fluctuate between abstraction and figuration, and transcend painterly traditions to fuse high art with popular culture and intellect with intuition. While in the past she has adopted the language of Rococo, dynamically reimagining aspects of works by eighteenth-century artists such as Tiepolo, Boucher, Lancret and Watteau, new paintings […]
An exhibition by Alice Anderson, Human / Non-Human Interactions, calls on the ritual of dance to generate new forms of painting and sculpture. Alice takes part in a long ancestral tradition that runs from the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia to the sources of modern and contemporary dance.
"Lounging Around", is a vibrant collection of new works by Ellie Omiya. Sunshine, blue skies and flowers in bloom; the warmth of spring is welcomed in by dazzling tones, spectacularly […]
The exhibition showcase Hilma af Klint’s, Tree of Knowledge series, created in 1913 - 1915. This series reflects her interest in distilling her iconography and in further articulating the spiritualist ideas and philosophies that she was engaged with. These complex, dynamic compositions mix biblical references to Genesis with esoteric iconography and vivid colors and motifs. The undulous, organic […]
Vessels, is a group exhibition featuring works by artists from both generationally and geographically diverse backgrounds. Working in a range of media, these artists engage in different ways with the idea that the living body is a vessel—one that contains a life force or a spirit, but one that is also subjected to social, political, […]
Harmony & Dissonance is the title of the exhibition, in which Caron Penney displays her hand woven tapestries.
In this exhibition of new paintings by Lubaina Himid, she addresses black experience in its fullness, dealing with subject matters such as desire and love, endurance and belonging, everyday exchange and transformation. Water Has a Perfect Memory traces progress, or its lack thereof, in 2021 — a year in which questions of time, as Himid expresses, […]
Dust in the Wind, is an exhibition of new work by Katja Liebmann. With this body of work, Liebmann creates “etchings of time” by revisiting negatives, made over the last twenty-five years, to condense time and memory. By bringing together yesterday and today, and using low tech photographic processes, she creates work that has a timeless […]
In her deeply emotive and powerful new series Fireflies, Poulomi Basu foregrounds the relationship between mother and daughter. Using photography, video and sound, Basu reflects on experiences of trauma – particularly patriarchal violence – navigating the claustrophobia of home, dreams of freedom, defiance, and transcendence.
Where history has often marginalised the female voice, Lumen reinstates it, not just as a mainstay of family and home but as an avatar of social conscience, and is the title of Sutapa Biswas’ acclaimed film. Biswas’ art is underpinned by an interest in colonial histories and how this relates to gender, race and class. Her newly-commissioned […]
This major new exhibition, explores the lives and works of an extraordinary group of writers, artists and thinkers, known as the Bloomsbury Group, who were active in England in the first half of the twentieth-century. Key figures include the great writer and pioneer of feminist thought Virginia Woolf, her sister the painter Vanessa Bell, and […]