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 […]

Grounded in drawing and animation, Eline McGeorge spent two decades making work around ideas of alienation and alternative realities. On Joined Flight Lines brings together works from 2015 with new fabric pieces and a series of pencil drawings. For McGeorge a sense of care, justice, empathy and inclusion is a core concern and extends to all […]

Swedish artist Charlotte Johannesson trained as a weaver in the 60s and started to make tapestries as art in 1970. Fascinated by the relationship between computer programming and advanced pattern construction on graph paper, Johannesson used the loom to produce pixelated images referencing punk culture and the social-political climate of the time. Her method of […]

Orla Kiely is one of the UK and Ireland’s most successful designers. Her stylized graphic patterns are innovative, influential and instantly recognisable. With a global audience in thrall to the rhythms and repeats of her designs, this exhibition explores the power of decoration to transform the way we feel. Featuring over 150 patterns and products, […]

Enid Marx (1902-1998) was a textile designer, printmaker and illustrator who, alongside her contemporaries Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden, defined mid-­20th century design. The exhibition, Print, Pattern and Popular Art is the most comprehensive retrospective of Marx’s work to be mounted in the last 40 years.  It will bring together over 150 pieces from private and […]

Commissioned by the Museum, Jodie Carey created three new site-responsive installations in response to the Foundling Hospital story. Displayed within the exhibition gallery and amongst the historic Collection, these monumental pieces are imbued with a sense of remembrance and emotional trace. Drawing inspiration from the eighteenth-century fabric tokens left by mothers with their babies as a […]

Taking cues from 19th-century painting, 20th-century cinema, and 21st-century planetary research, acclaimed Vancouver Island based artist Kelly Richardson crafts prints and videos that offer imaginative glimpses into the future which prompt a careful consideration of the present. For over a decade, Richardson has made works which speculate on what lies ahead given our current trajectory, […]

Dreams of Everyday Objects, features the work of Marianne Edwards, Jane Hoodless and Mango. These artists invite you to leave reality behind as everyday objects, and let surroundings take on the surreal quality of dreams. This exhibition plays with your mind and brings nostalgic memories to the fore.

An exhibition of works by over 80 modern and contemporary artists inspired by the writings of celebrated author Virginia Woolf. Following Woolf’s notion that creative women should ‘think back through their mothers’, the exhibition will explore her relationship to feminism and will reflect her efforts to find new forms through which to share women’s creativity. […]

Delicate, hand painted ceramics, inspired by her grandmother's Willow Pattern collection, Rhian Malin continues the historic tradition of delicate porcelain decorated with stunning cobalt blue.

This mid-career survey of the work of acclaimed South Korean artist Lee Bul – the first in London – explores the artist’s extensive investigation into the body and its relationship to architectural space. Over the past 30 years, Lee Bul has explored questions of intimacy, gender, technology and class through a focus on the body. Drawing on […]

Rachel Pereira  is a prolific artist and is primarily self-taught. Her work includes portraits, illustrations, painted art-furniture, murals, backdrops and canvasses. Much of her work has been her therapy and focus during challenging experiences. Her works are full of depth and emotion as well as rich colour and dynamism. Themes include dreams, romance, travel, emotion […]

The Nature of Time, exhibition spans 50 years of Michelle Stuart’s practice.  It follows a major presentation by Stuart in Viva Arte Viva! curated by Christine Macel at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) and the acquisition by the Dia Art Foundation, New York of Stuart’s installation of 4 earth scrolls: Sayreville Strata Quartet (1976), which is currently on show at Dia:Beacon.  Stuart is […]

A celebration of the work of Alison Mandl, in a show that includes sculptures in wood, stone, bronze and silver from all periods of her œuvre. Mandl is first and foremost a carver, working in from the outer limits of a block of ornamental stone or wood to create smooth, rounded and tightly-honed animal forms. […]

Cindy Sherman’s thirty-five year career in photography has established her as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art.  She creates photographic portraits that are predicated on themes of identity, gender and role-play. Parodying the representation of women in film and television, fashion magazines, advertising, and online, Sherman adopts limitless guises that illuminate the performative […]

With each of the artists in this show, Surface elicits as much as it demands; it holds a meaning as diverse as the specific methodology it provokes. For painter Sarah Dwyer, surface has a topographical quality; to Dominique Gerolini, surface has more to do with a totality that contains, like skin on the body; for […]

Deenagh Miller brings together a collection of her artworks that reflect the exuberance of people, places and the mind in Exuberant W. Spanning the last 28 years, this exhibition is a celebration, rejoicing in the language of bright oil paintings and vivid drawings. Travels to Italy and France and her now home city Bristol are reflected in […]

An exhibition of the work of Tomma Abts in her first solo exhibition in the UK.  Abts is one of the most significant artists of her generation and the winner of the 2006 Turner Prize, she is known for her acrylic and oil paintings whose extraordinary magnetism belies their modest scale.