Debbie Barber specialises in Raku and smoke fired ceramics and works from her home studio in rural Leicestershire. Her art and design training was in textile decoration and embroidery. After 10 years she changed course and returned to college to train as a potter having a lifelong interest in ceramics. Debbie retains her influences from […]
A group of oversized foetuses are moulded in clay, each resting with eyes closed as if dreaming. This exhibition Snakes, conceived by Manuela Gernedel as ‘psychological objects,’ their half-formed bodies are glazed in lurid fleshy tones and bear the oversized heads of old men. This community of foetuses hints towards a contradiction in collectivity, each existing […]
This exhibition, Making Herself Up, presents an extraordinary collection of personal artefacts and clothing belonging to the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Locked away for 50 years after her death, this collection has never before been exhibited outside Mexico.
Please join us for this special visit to the Foundling Museum where we will view Jodie Carey's new site-specific installations with the artist and the Director of the Museum, Caro Howell. Jodie Carey was among our shortlisted artists for Women to Watch 2015: Organic Matters. Her exhibition at the Foundling Museum, Sea consists of commissioned […]
A selection of prints and watercolours by Charlotte Verity, from her recent exhibition, In their Garden, at the Garden Museum. The watercolours depict Bottengoms, the house and garden in Suffolk of the writer Ronald Blythe. She was commissioned by the Garden Museum to record the garden which was begun by the artist and plantsman John […]
A mixed media exhibition by visiting artists Sarah Gillham, Mindy Lee, Susan Sluglett and Paul Westcombe.
A special exhibition entitled Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Life of Projects. The pioneering and distinctive work of contemporary environmental artists Christo (b. 1935) and his wife Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) has consistently delighted and thrilled admirers from across the world. Their innovative and ambitious work – made according to Christo entirely for pleasure - is famously monumental in […]
This exhibition, Midsummers Night encapsulates PJ Crook's unique ability to express her observations and scenes from everyday live, in such a fascinating and atmospheric yet narrative way. It is PJ’s incredibly distinctive style along with her technical artistry that result in these meticulously detailed and quite dramatic compositions. Each one is beguiling, creating a sense of […]
In Elaine Pamphilon's painting the vibrant colour, bold formal design and sensitive line gain their inspiration from the rich visual environment of her home with its collections of found objects and also from the world of music and literature. She often adds elements of collage or other media to her clear confident use of watercolour […]
Hypnagogia, is a group exhibition comprising new work by Gabriella Boyd, Jadé Fadojutimi, Maria Farrar, and Makiko Kudo. It refers to a transitional state of mind between wakefulness and sleep in which fluid, hyper-associative images are conjured. Drawing upon this type of consciousness, the Gallery brings together a group of four young female artists whose […]
The first UK retrospective of American documentary photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) and first major UK solo exhibition of British contemporary photographer Vanessa Kinship. This exhibition celebrates Dorothea Lange’s photographic vision from her early studio portraiture and iconic ‘Migrant Mother’ to the post-Pearl Harbour internment of Japanese-Americans and changing face of the social and physical American landscape after […]
Hot Mirror presents a survey of work by internationally renowned Dutch artist and photographer Viviane Sassen. Sassen is one of the most innovative photographers working today and cites Surrealism as one of her earliest artistic influences, seen in the uncanny shadows, fragmented bodies and dream-like landscapes in her work. For Hot Mirror Sassen selects individual images from her […]
Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain is be the first exhibition to explore Miller’s involvement with the surrealist circles in Britain in the late 1930s. This exhibition tells the story of Surrealism in Britain and shines a light on the little known, but exciting, cultural moment, through Miller’s lens. The show focuses on the creative […]
Deirdre McKenna spent a month on a residency exchange at this museum in September 2017. Her work is influenced by the traditions of her home in the South West of […]
This exhibition, Beyond the World, is a series of paintings existing somewhere between reality and fantasy. They are imaginary, otherworldly and mystic places, but have been inspired by the striking mountains […]
Right Here and Out There is an exhibition of new and existing works by Alison Wilding that unfolds inside and outside the gallery, with works selected in response to the […]
Trawling through the digital sphere’s ‘ocean of signs’, Katja Novitskova creates immersive environments inhabited by a luminous bestiary. She is known for her dramatic, cutout images of animals at play with representations from financial and scientific sources. Her latest installation, Invasion Curves, presents a landscape overcome by a ‘biotic crisis’, where imaging and technology are used in […]
Ingrid Berthon-Moine’s work moves between sculpture, drawing and installations in which she examines gender relations, depiction and narratives. For her solo project, You Tear Us, the London-based artist converts the project […]
The first solo exhibition and a major new commission by Istanbul-based artist Banu Cennetoğlu. Her work incorporates methods of mapping, collecting and archiving in order to question and challenge the […]
Lin May Saeed presents Biene, a new commission of sculptures that span a narrative of human–animal relationships from the prehistoric, to the present day. This is the first–ever institutional exhibition of Saeed’s […]