The exhibition, Faces of Sculpture: portrait of a profession celebrates the release of Anne Purkiss’ new book Sculptor: 1986 – 2016 featuring members of the Society and Royal Academicians and forms part of RA250:UK exhibitions and events around the UK to celebrate 250 years of the Royal Academy of Arts. As a personal interest, she documents […]
This year the winner of the BJP International Award ‘Series’ is Juno Calypso, and this exhibition illustrates her beguiling commentary on beauty and femininity told through self-portraiture and her fictional character ‘Joyce’. Joyce was first created in 2011 and consolidated her use of self-portraiture for over twenty years. Last year Calypso took Joyce to a couples-only resort […]
An exhibition of new work by British figurative painter Claerwen James. Quietly enigmatic, James’ paintings of youthful female subjects are not portraits in the usual sense of the word. Painting from photographs, she frequently works with anonymous images, scouring car boot sales and junk shops for magazines and film stills, alongside her own photographed images […]
A Forest presents a collection of works by Caroline Achaintre, Anna Barham, Chiara Camoni, Sarah Chilvers, Peggy Franck, Anne Hardy - a group of artists represented by the gallery alongside those from the Gallery's wider community of friends and peers. The exhibition follows a similar logic - with an idea that these works spoke to each other, and to me […]
A presentation of Meriem Bennani’s immersive video installation Siham & Hafida, which was shot by the artist on handheld camera. Siham & Hafida juxtaposes the raw essence of docu-style TV with surreal digital animations to narrate the intergenerational complexities of evolving cultural forms, embodied by two popular Moroccan chikha singers of different ages. Its presentation in the Gallery takes the […]
Breathe presents two thought-provoking contemporary artists, Fay Ballard and Judy Goldhill, who both explore the central theme of parental loss throughout their practice. Breath and the act of breathing, permeate the work of both artists, consciously and unconsciously, referencing not only personal loss, but also life as a creative force – Fay through drawing; Judy […]
In Prototypes of Imagination, Katharina Grosse reveals the ways in which painting catalyzes the unfolding of multiple dimensions on a single surface. At the centre of the exhibition is a single painting of oceanic scale on loose cloth. Working on huge expanses of flat cloth enables Grosse to execute very large-scale works in the studio in response […]
A Woman’s Place highlights the evolution of equality through the stories of women who have contributed to Knole’s spirit and history. Six women artists interpret these themes and give a voice to some of Knole’s fascinating women through different media. The contemporary art installations will include sculpture, film, sound, performance, a website and interventions across this historic […]
Join us at London's major photo event of the year. This fair has over 100 galleries and publishers showing photography from around the world. We will highlight some of the fabulous female photographers exhibiting in the fair with curator, editor, lecturer and consultant Zelda Cheatle. Meeting place to be determined. Contribution: Patrons free, £15 Friends, £25 […]
Landed is a two-person show by Danielle Dean and Jeanine Oleson. Showing together for the first time, the exhibition presents a video and installation from each artist: True Red Ruin (Elmina Castle), 2017 by Danielle Dean, and Crossed Wires, 2017 by Jeanine Oleson.
Field is a comprehensive presentation of American artist Allyson Strafella’s work, showcasing drawings made over the past two decades. The densely arranged installation exposes the artist’s refined minimalist language that relies both on audacious mark-making and a striking use of colour.
This exhibition, A Year on Dartmoor shows an exciting selection of large-scale works by Anita Reynolds, including printmaking, painting and installation, supported by sketchbooks, on-site monoprints, photography and film. The Devon Guild printmaker is visiting all 365 square miles of Dartmoor National Park and representing her journey with artworks, created mainly on-site, responding to Dartmoor in […]
Tacit Dean has a wide interest in landscape phenomena: from the unspoilt landscape of Bodmin Moor in England to the open rangelands of Wyoming in the American West to film a rare solar eclipse. Dean is a champion of photochemical film, yet her wide-ranging practice extends across a multitude of mediums. In the newly opened […]
As part of this Festival series, Chantal Joffe's fearless paintings confront the physicality of the human body and the complexities of human emotions in a remarkable combination of detachment, humour and intimacy in Personal Feeling is the Main Thing. Joffe is regarded as one of the most distinctive and uncompromising figurative artists working today. Her fearless […]
Rana Begum explores 'colour, light and form' and the way in which these interact. Blurring the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture, her work ranges from drawings, paintings and wall-based sculptures to large-scale public art projects. Begum is influenced by the geometric abstraction of minimalism and constructivism and the work of artists such as Agnes Martin, […]
Still is Still Moving is an exhibition of more than 20 new works on paper by celebrated British artist Tarka Kings. Kings work has been exhibited to international acclaim at venues including the Royal Academy and Chatsworth House and is held in many private collections including Paul Allen, the Duke of Devonshire, Susanne Kapoor, Jacob […]
Sussex Days, is an exhibition of black and white photographs of Sussex life during the 1960s and 70s by celebrated photographer Dorothy Bohm (b.1924), providing a candid and often humorous window on a bygone era. Renowned for her portraiture and street photography of London, Paris and Moscow, this group of photographs – never before shown as […]
In ‘Casting off’, Gina Parr leaves behind the world of film and brings soul searching paintings to the gallery walls.
A Thousand Realities from an Original Work, is an exhibition of works by Portuguese artist Leonor Antunes, whose practice provides a unique contemplation on modern art, architecture and design through a reinterpretation of sculpture in a given space. Inspired by important figures in the realm of creation in the 20th century, and often influenced by female protagonists such as […]
A Gustav Klimt exhibition held 10 years ago is the forerunner of the works of his radical protégé, Egon Schiele, alongside the sublime photography of Francesca Woodman, in Life in Motion. Both artists are known for their intimate and unapologetic portraits, which look beneath the surface to capture their subjects’ emotions. Schiele’s (1890–1918) drawings are strikingly raw and […]