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 participants on a shamanic journey to discover the ‘soul’ name of their unborn child. By drawing out a new generation of creative spirits in the […]
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 drawing, photography, and performance to sound and film installation, while drawing upon historical events and semi-biographical stories in its content, form, and presentation.
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 bands that separate sea, and land and sky. It’s all one. The water reflects the sky, the hills change shape when clouds alter their contours, […]
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 backdrop of extreme social, economic and political change. Women in Revolt! will focus on a hugely diverse range of artists and a wide variety of […]
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 the culmination of these four artists’ stay at the GIRLPOWER Residency, Aquitaine region, France. The Queens of Aquitaine, highlight the varied approach to female identity […]
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 focus on lifeforms and biomorphic imagery, over the years it started to gravitate towards more vibrant hues, which define her latest paintings. New symbols – […]
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 to the conception and execution of her work. The exhibition, In View, is accompanied by the juxtaposition of works selected by the artist, to hang alongside […]
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 is deployed to explore the act of fading as part of the artist’s broader interest in what it means to belong to a place, to […]
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 explores the means by which these two artists consider the figure in relation to a larger space, and how identity is shaped and understood through […]
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 a point of departure for her artistic enquiry. Reflecting on the satirical and pungent nature of the movie, Johnson approaches profound and unsettling subjects through […]
If Not Now, When? features 29 remarkable female sculptors, celebrating their contributions to the world of art from the 1960s to now. The exhibition is divided into three chapters and explores time as an everyday lived experience marked by the evolving cycles directly affecting women. Artists include: Phyllida Barlow, Glenys Barton, Keziah Burt, Shirley Cameron, […]
'Unmasking the Soul, Revealing the Self,' is the title of Fadia Haddad's exhibition, featuring her "Masks" series developed over fifteen years. Haddad's work, characterised by a quasi-mediumistic quality, delves into the perception of unseen forms guided by metaphysical forces. Her masks, created in the 2000s on canvas and paper, serve as activators of gestures, leading […]
Paintings by Jennifer Packer.
Art in Britain in the aftermath of WWII was a space of contradictions. On the one hand, artists had to make sense of an entirely altered world, one which required a new visual lexicon. On the other, a generation scarred by the war years sought comfort in the familiar, with traditional mindsets persisting that placed […]