‘New; Unknown’ is an exhibition by Melanie Miller, who makes paintings in oil on traditional gesso ground, which follow a classic tradition of still life and are inspired by her immediate environment. She also makes assemblage installations, often inside small boxes. Using collaged elements with found and cast objects from the natural world, viewers can […]
Nicole Eisenman's exhibition, What Happened, brings together over 100 works from across the artist’s three-decade career. Encompassing large-scale, monumental paintings alongside sculptures, monoprints, animation and drawings, the exhibition showcases the […]
Each Moment Presents What Happens, is a moving image work from Johanna Billing, which continues her interest in improvisation, collaboration and education. Billing’s work explores the idea of performance and […]
This archival exhibition presents a selection of Mendelssohn’s poetry and works on paper. Through the confluence of poetry and visual art, Mendelssohn explores—amongst other things—the socio-historical mechanisms which influence the […]
Angela Glajcar, sculpts in paper. By the processes of tearing, layering and puncturing, she transforms an ostensibly mundane and undifferentiated sheet material into complex structures that enclose, define and reveal hermetic and allusive three-dimensional spaces. The artist describes her method as ‘terforation’, a handmade physical interaction with her material which eschews anything but the most […]
Ikon tours Dreams of Brum, an exhibition of photographic portraits by Maryam Wahid at Handsworth Library. The portraits were taken during a series of creative community workshops with printmaker Haseebah Ali.
This exhibition examines Lee Miller’s life and work through her clothing beginning in Paris in the late 1920s and ending in Sussex in the mid-1950s. It includes outfits that represent […]
The Devil is in the Detail offers a rare opportunity to see the complete set of Albrecht Dürer’s Great Passion, one of the most important series of woodcuts in his career. […]
And She Built a Crooked House, by Gemma Anderson-Tempini is a multifaceted installation taking audiences on a journey through the fourth spatial dimension that is part-experimental, part-factual, part-autobiographical. A 19th Century […]
The exhibition Women & Water explores the relationship between women and water in the works of 17 women artists, spanning from the early twentieth century to the present day. The exhibition […]
Rosemarie Castoro (1939-2015) lived and worked in New York all her life, becoming a central figure in the city’s Minimalist and Conceptual Art scene while defying that categorization, declaring “I […]
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris, brings together paintings, watercolours, drawings and sketches, as well as previously unseen archival material and personal belongings. Chronologically tracing Gwen John’s […]
Vanessa Pooley works with bronze and ceramic to create sculpture of mostly female forms with an individual and distinctive style.
This exhibition of sculptures by Emily Young is entitled ‘Pareidolia in Stone’. In it Young reveals and enhances the perception of delicate facial features and undulating feminine curves in her heads and torsos, without detracting from the exceptional natural beauty and profound importance of the ancient stones with which she works. These include lapis lazuli, […]
Divine Narratives brings together the works of Alice Maher, and Celine Bodin. Alice Maher’s series of drawings in watercolour and pencil, Women in Ecstasy, looks at female saints in ecstasy as depicted by many painters over the centuries. Céline Bodin's series, Venus Variations, explores the diverse representations in art of Aphrodite and Venus, delving into […]
Faye Eleanor Woods sensual paintings act as a love letter to her own experience, full of life’s joy, absurdity, humour, loss and fear. Using raw pigments and acrylic ink she forces rich colour into the grain of the canvas, blurring edges with copious amounts of water or using thin layers of oil to blend the […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]