Margaret Tait @ Gallery of Modern Art
Stalking the Image is a celebration of the life, work and legacy of the pioneering Orcadian filmmaker, painter and poet, Margaret Tait (1918–99). Tait is one of the most visionary and […]
Stalking the Image is a celebration of the life, work and legacy of the pioneering Orcadian filmmaker, painter and poet, Margaret Tait (1918–99). Tait is one of the most visionary and […]
Featuring large-scale dynamic sound sculpture, film and wall-based works and a specially commissioned performance, GUSH is a candid and personal exploration of mental and emotional health in our contemporary, hyper-networked society by British artist Hannah Perry in her first major solo exhibition in the UK outside London. Central to the exhibition is an immersive 360° film experienced […]
Marking a century since the first women won the right to vote, 'Women Power Protest' brings together modern and contemporary artworks from the Arts Council Collection and Birmingham’s, to celebrate […]
In an exploration of the celebrated Victorian poet's significant connection with visual art, Christina Rossetti: Vision & Verse 1830-1894 brings together paintings, illustrations, works on paper and photography. Presenting portraits of […]
The Bravest Little Street in England is a solo exhibition by Altrincham artist Carole Evans. It features two new bodies of work which memorialize the brave men from Chapel Street, who failed to return home after the First World War 100 years ago.
But what might be forwards for Jess Fuller is usually backwards for others in her unique, invented process of painting. It’s a physical, performative painting in several acts – tearing, […]
Katja Seib’s new paintings form an interconnected group throughout which lucid figuration blurs into dreamlike symbolism. Alternately, time-intensive and rapid, her works share a quality of psychological depth and atmospheric […]
A new exhibition by Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer, her sixth with the gallery since her last exhibition in 1997. Over 20 years on, Floyer has lost none of her defiant […]
In Fiona Tan’s work explorations of memory, time, history and the role of visual images are key. She often deals with notions of representation: how we represent ourselves and the mechanisms that determine how we interpret the representation of others. Photography and film – made by herself, by others, or a combination of both – […]
A formidable artist, Josephine Meckseper melds the aesthetic language of modernism with the formal language of commercial display, combining them with her own images and film footage of historical undercurrents and political protest movements. Throughout her installations and vitrines, by simultaneously exposing and encasing common signifiers, such as advertisements and everyday objects, next to abstract […]
Presenting both new and existing works, this exhibition, Under the Weather places a spotlight on the defining factors of Louise Gagliardi’s practice, which has also turned to the location of the gallery for inspiration. In various ways, the works explore the urban environment and the countryside, and the conflict that can arise between the two. Dissatisfaction […]
“It’s so much more interesting and life affirming to know people form very different backgrounds and cultures.” – Penny Woolcock Fantastic Cities is the first major art exhibition of Buenos Aires artist and director Penny Woolcock, an unparalleled pioneer in contemporary visual culture, in the UK. Fantastic Cities presents ‘parallel worlds’ through intimate accounts of real urban experiences that often go […]
Maria Pergay established her characteristic style and became an icon of taste by daring to work beyond accepted fashion. A woman who thrives when experimenting with material, Pergay foraged a place in a world of design where trends did not reflect her instincts. Drawing from a multitude of influences, Pergay links the natural and fantastical […]
This show is a survey of Kelly Reemtsen’s prints and works on paper spanning the past five years. She is best known for her works depicting beautifully dressed women wielding […]
Sabine Moritz’s explorations into abstraction grew through the development of her use of colour and the exaggeration of her brushstrokes, eventually progressing into this autonomous new series. These new large […]
Victoria Sin is a Toronto-born artist using speculative fiction within drag performance, moving image, writing and print to refigure attitudes towards gender, sexuality and historical discourses of identity. Sin’s drag practice emerged from her interest in male drag performance, and subsequent desire to explore exaggerated femininity as a drag queen born female. Her use of […]
Sexual Warfare presents key work by Alexis Hunter (1948 – 2014) made between 1968–86. The first solo presentation of Hunter’s work in the UK since 2006, and in London since […]
For this special exhibition, works are selected for their particular vigour and inventiveness from a small batch forced to the surface during a recent move by the artist’s brother. The […]
Caroline Achaintre’s watercolours and prints sit at the heart of a multi-disciplinary practice, which also traverses textiles and ceramics. Renowned for working in vibrant colour and potent imagery, Achaintre’s work […]
An exhibition of new works by Indonesian artist Christine Ay Tjoe. Titled ‘Black, kcalB, Black, kcalB’, it explores the idea of darkness and features large-scale oil paintings and drawings on […]