Vanessa Pooley @ Pyramid Gallery
Pyramid Gallery , United KingdomVanessa Pooley works with bronze and ceramic to create sculpture of mostly female forms with an individual and distinctive style.
Vanessa Pooley works with bronze and ceramic to create sculpture of mostly female forms with an individual and distinctive style.
This exhibition of sculptures by Emily Young is entitled ‘Pareidolia in Stone’. In it Young reveals and enhances the perception of delicate facial features and undulating feminine curves in her heads and torsos, without detracting from the exceptional natural beauty and profound importance of the ancient stones with which she works. These include lapis lazuli, […]
Divine Narratives brings together the works of Alice Maher, and Celine Bodin. Alice Maher’s series of drawings in watercolour and pencil, Women in Ecstasy, looks at female saints in ecstasy as depicted by many painters over the centuries. Céline Bodin's series, Venus Variations, explores the diverse representations in art of Aphrodite and Venus, delving into […]
Faye Eleanor Woods sensual paintings act as a love letter to her own experience, full of life’s joy, absurdity, humour, loss and fear. Using raw pigments and acrylic ink she forces rich colour into the grain of the canvas, blurring edges with copious amounts of water or using thin layers of oil to blend the […]
Zarina Bhimji makes photographs, films and installations, which engage with themes such as institutional power and subjectivity. Her work grows from observation and felt sense and is rooted in a careful use of colour and light. Embracing slippages and ambiguities, it is evocative rather than descriptive or documentary in its pace, setting and mood.
In this exhibition by Elena Garrigolas, the presentation includes 17 new works depicting an eclectic array of visceral and bewildering imagery. Taking inspiration from dreamscapes, internet culture, and personal experience, Garrigolas twists banal scenes into outlandish and confronting self-portraits.
Tasajara, is an exhibition of new works by Marine Wallon, with an accompanying booklet and an essay by Estelle Marois. Tasajera’s exploration encompasses various concepts related to images and landscapes, intriguing the viewer through the deconstruction of conventional visual representations. This comprehensive exhibition includes a diverse collection of artwork, spanning paintings, watercolors, and experimental etching […]
The art of Emily Avery Crow draws upon a myriad of traditions drawn from religious iconography, into settings that restore mythic and mystical settings. The appropriation of the sources of these traditions are not academic, nor are they exotic, but instead restore the imaginative framing of the impulses of connecting the image with the spiritual […]
Grace Ndiritu works across film, painting, textiles, performance and social practice. Her exhibition features the film Labour: Birth of a New Museum (2023). The intimate performance invites a group of pregnant […]
Otherwhere, Margarita Gluzberg’s exhibition, explores the tensions and reciprocal interplay between the past and the present, memory recall alongside recurring fiction, and the politics of desire. Gluzberg’s practice ranges from […]
A collection of powerful seascapes, huge skies, light breaking, storms brewing, and captured in Scotland, by Ethel Walker. She says, “There are moments when you don’t get those distinct horizontal […]
This exhibition is a major survey of work by over 100 women artists working in the UK from 1970 to 1990. Through their creative practices, women’s liberation was forged against […]
The Queens of Aquitaine, is a group show that brings together the works of Emily Mannion, Emily Moore, Emily Platzer and Becky Tucker. The exhibition presents new work produced at […]
Merikokeb Berhau spent years developing her work and crafting her idiosyncratic visual language that tows the line between pure abstraction and recognisable form. While her work has always had a […]
The drawings and paintings on show are the work of six women who worked as war artists during the First World War. They provide an interesting perspective on women’s roles […]
This exhibition of Rebecca’s recent work demonstrates how her artistic practice is rooted in traditional Japanese art; how it combines Eastern and Western traditions; and how print processes are central […]
QR CODES REVISITED, is an exhibition by Ghada Amer, in which the artist uses language to ask what it means to communicate across cultures and to truly understand the Other.
Marsi van de Heuvel, titles her exhibition Skoonveld - an Afrikaans word selected for its implied study of the act of disappearing. For these works, the malleable medium of paint […]
Moving Parts, is an exhibition that pairs the vibrant work of Kathryn MacNaughton with the playful sculptures of Misha Milovanovich, who are exhibiting together for the first time. The exhibition […]
Eleanor Johnson’s latest exhibition, ‘The Feast of Fools’ explores the concepts of excess, power and overindulgence in contemporary society. Here, Johnson uses Marco Ferrari’s 1973 film 'La Grande Bouffe' as […]