Cindy Sherman’s thirty-five year career in photography has established her as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. She creates photographic portraits that are predicated on themes of identity, gender and role-play. Parodying the representation of women in film and television, fashion magazines, advertising, and online, Sherman adopts limitless guises that illuminate the performative […]
With each of the artists in this show, Surface elicits as much as it demands; it holds a meaning as diverse as the specific methodology it provokes. For painter Sarah Dwyer, surface has a topographical quality; to Dominique Gerolini, surface has more to do with a totality that contains, like skin on the body; for […]
Deenagh Miller brings together a collection of her artworks that reflect the exuberance of people, places and the mind in Exuberant W. Spanning the last 28 years, this exhibition is a celebration, rejoicing in the language of bright oil paintings and vivid drawings. Travels to Italy and France and her now home city Bristol are reflected in […]
An exhibition of the work of Tomma Abts in her first solo exhibition in the UK. Abts is one of the most significant artists of her generation and the winner of the 2006 Turner Prize, she is known for her acrylic and oil paintings whose extraordinary magnetism belies their modest scale.
Ann Van den Broek’s practice forensically explores human behavioural patterns, states of mind and feelings through observing, isolating and analysing emotions over a concentrated period of time. Using her most recent work Accusations (2017) as a starting point, the installation focuses on the exploration of emotional behaviours and how they translate into movement. Once a day, five performers […]
Pale Coil Cold Angel, is a solo exhibition by Petra Cortright. The exhibition features works in 2D, 3D, and video. The artist presents stone sculptures for the first time in the form of three works carved from white Carrara marble, and a six-metre wide quadriptych - the largest painting by the artist to date. A video installation […]
Kathryn MacNaughton begins her artistic process by creating digital compositions that are afterwards meticulously recreated in paint, creating crisp lines and boldly coloured shapes reminiscent of the hard-edge graphic painting style popularised in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacNaughton's main concerns revolve around the employment of illusion, abstraction and optical effect, evoking the work of […]
A presentation of two new site-specific works by US artist Sarah Sze: Images in Debris, an installation of images, light, sound, film, and objects, that seeks to transform the visitor’s perception and experience of the first-floor gallery; and Afterimage, an environment of wall-based works that replicates aspects of the artist’s studio and includes elements made […]
An exhibition of new sculptures by Carol Bove, which features new sculptures that expand on her investigations of materiality and form. Characterised by compositions of various types of steel, Bove’s ongoing series of "collage sculptures," begun in 2016, amalgamates theoretical and art-historical influences across time periods and disciplines,
I must create a Master Piece to pay the Rent is the first survey exhibition devoted to the work of the late Julie Becker (1972–2016). Embedded in the psychological, cinematic and material geographies of Los Angeles, her home city, Becker produced a legendary, yet underrepresented body of installations, sculpture, drawings, photographs and video. These works speak to […]
Paloma Varga Weisz presents Wild Bunch, a new series of sculptures in carved limewood. These works glance back to her origins as a woodcarver in Bavaria in the late 1980s, while also reflecting the layered personal iconography – surreal, mythological and Modernist – that she has developed over her thirty-year career. At the centre of the […]
"This is the Age of Woman: An Age of strength and confidence - gentle, but with the weight of universal and personal mythologies at its heart." Mila Fürstová Join us for this beautiful and important exhibition of new work by Mila, All the Rivers that Flow through me, to coincide with a new full-length film […]
Animal Condensed >> Animal Expanded#2, Jennet Thomas’s first solo show at the gallery, presents the second of a trilogy of short films offering a comic-sardonic look at the nefarious reality of intensive farming and AI. A charged skirmish between conformity and dissent quickly escalates into exceedingly strange domestic science-fiction. A man and woman speak urgently […]
Entropic Threads, is a group exhibition curated by Rebecca Marcus Monks including artists Kate Lennard, Onome Otite, Annie Ratti, and Nadine Shaban. The exhibition focuses on the inherent feeling of movement and change,while drawing on the hard, scientific aspects as well as the softer, social science side of the artworks. ‘Entropic’ refers to the transformation of […]
Debbie Barber specialises in Raku and smoke fired ceramics and works from her home studio in rural Leicestershire. Her art and design training was in textile decoration and embroidery. After 10 years she changed course and returned to college to train as a potter having a lifelong interest in ceramics. Debbie retains her influences from […]
A group of oversized foetuses are moulded in clay, each resting with eyes closed as if dreaming. This exhibition Snakes, conceived by Manuela Gernedel as ‘psychological objects,’ their half-formed bodies are glazed in lurid fleshy tones and bear the oversized heads of old men. This community of foetuses hints towards a contradiction in collectivity, each existing […]
This exhibition, Making Herself Up, presents an extraordinary collection of personal artefacts and clothing belonging to the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Locked away for 50 years after her death, this collection has never before been exhibited outside Mexico.
Please join us for this special visit to the Foundling Museum where we will view Jodie Carey's new site-specific installations with the artist and the Director of the Museum, Caro Howell. Jodie Carey was among our shortlisted artists for Women to Watch 2015: Organic Matters. Her exhibition at the Foundling Museum, Sea consists of commissioned […]
A selection of prints and watercolours by Charlotte Verity, from her recent exhibition, In their Garden, at the Garden Museum. The watercolours depict Bottengoms, the house and garden in Suffolk of the writer Ronald Blythe. She was commissioned by the Garden Museum to record the garden which was begun by the artist and plantsman John […]
A mixed media exhibition by visiting artists Sarah Gillham, Mindy Lee, Susan Sluglett and Paul Westcombe.