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 […]
Céline Condorelli’s work addresses the boundaries between public and private, art and function, work and leisure, in order to reimagine what culture and society can be, and the role of artists within them. Her exhibition Tools for Imagination explore themes of labour, play and public space, including a film made in collaboration with artist and filmmaker Ben […]
On the Line Between Earth & Sky is an extensive exhibition of work by Vivienne Schadinsky, an artist drawing attention to endangered, and already extinct, flowers and food plants as well as other crucial environmental concerns and, on the other hand, celebrating small seasonal changes.
Mo Medals No Ribbons, an exhibition by Jesse Darling, showcases influential works by the artist from the last ten years, arranging new and existing work into themes for the first time. Through installation, video, drawing, text, and sculpture, Darling works to expose how the systems of power – government, religion, ideology, technology and empire – can […]
Judith Cain brings colour, pattern & energy to her shows. Her paintings are balanced and thoughtfully considered.
An exhibition of watercolours by Lucy Willis RWA.
Fragile, is an exhibition of seven women artists: Guler Ates, Anna Kutera, Małgorzata Markiewicz, Yelena Popova, Joanna Rajkowska, Su Richardson, Anna Kutera, Anne von Freyburg. The exhibition aims to address the challenges facing women today: from societal expectations to fulfil various roles, from maternal and domestic to professional, staying beautiful and desirable, supportive and understanding. […]
Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė are naturally collaborative, and their work is engaged with feminisms and its weavings into queer and minority positions and the more-than-human. Their early interest in amalgamating the organic with technology continues in this series of new works on canvas, Counting Seasons, in which they collaborate with artificial intelligence, breeding images using Generative Adversarial Networks. These […]
IL Y AURA (There will be), is a new film installation by Alice Theobald. The film is inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s play La Leçon, 1951. In a Parisian apartment, a young woman arrives in an older man’s home for an ambiguous ritualised language lesson. She is invited to read her ‘exercises’ and begins to nervously recite a series of […]
Sarah Purvey works both in clay and on paper, an inter-related body of work in which drawing is the unifying factor, as seen in Boundaries. Throughout, the process is instinctive and organic. In clay there are vessels and deeply encrusted relief pieces, the latter roughly circular or square. The vessels are not functional but are highly […]
Returning to cliffs she has known and drawn since childhood, Vanessa Gardiner consolidates her unique and resonant voice in this exhibition, Cliffland, filled with thrilling new work.
Ingrid Pollard is one of the leading figures in contemporary British art. This first major survey of her 40-year career includes delicately hand-tinted landscape photographs, a flotilla of small ceramic […]
Although Barbara Zalecki is known for her etching prints of cats and animals, the designs in her work encompass a variety of subject matter including, architecture, sumo wrestlers, landscapes & flowers. […]
Hulda Guzmán's exhibition ‘Meet Me in The Forest’ brings together a body of vibrant new paintings centred on her immediate surroundings in Samaná. Combining modernist interiors with lush foliage, the works conjure a […]
Aly Helyer's exhibition features a series of paintings created during the last year. The artist continues her study into human connection and expression, pushing into the unconventional through a combination […]
Vanishing Point, is an exhibition of new work by Barbara Walker MBE , which confronts and readdresses the under-representation of Black figures in Western art history
A Dream Deferred, an exhibition of hand-painted photographs and rare, vintage prints by Ming Smith. Smith’s multifaceted practice celebrates her communities, and brings visibility to black culture, through its exploration […]
In the Beginning, a multi-part installation created by Kedisha Coakley for the gallery’s micro project space. Working across photography, print, and sculpture, Coakley’s multifaceted practice explores themes related to hybridity, […]
Human Conditions of Clay highlights different ways contemporary artists use clay to understand what it means to be human. The artists use clay to explore diverse themes including history, current affairs, […]