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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Ann Van den Broek’s practice forensically explores human behavioural patterns, states of mind and feelings through observing, isolating and analysing emotions over a concentrated period of time. Using her most recent work Accusations (2017) as a starting point, the installation focuses on the exploration of emotional behaviours and how they translate into movement. Once a day, five performers […]
Pale Coil Cold Angel, is a solo exhibition by Petra Cortright. The exhibition features works in 2D, 3D, and video. The artist presents stone sculptures for the first time in the form of three works carved from white Carrara marble, and a six-metre wide quadriptych - the largest painting by the artist to date. A video installation […]
Kathryn MacNaughton begins her artistic process by creating digital compositions that are afterwards meticulously recreated in paint, creating crisp lines and boldly coloured shapes reminiscent of the hard-edge graphic painting style popularised in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacNaughton's main concerns revolve around the employment of illusion, abstraction and optical effect, evoking the work of […]
A presentation of two new site-specific works by US artist Sarah Sze: Images in Debris, an installation of images, light, sound, film, and objects, that seeks to transform the visitor’s perception and experience of the first-floor gallery; and Afterimage, an environment of wall-based works that replicates aspects of the artist’s studio and includes elements made […]
An exhibition of new sculptures by Carol Bove, which features new sculptures that expand on her investigations of materiality and form. Characterised by compositions of various types of steel, Bove’s ongoing series of "collage sculptures," begun in 2016, amalgamates theoretical and art-historical influences across time periods and disciplines,
I must create a Master Piece to pay the Rent is the first survey exhibition devoted to the work of the late Julie Becker (1972–2016). Embedded in the psychological, cinematic and material geographies of Los Angeles, her home city, Becker produced a legendary, yet underrepresented body of installations, sculpture, drawings, photographs and video. These works speak to […]