Lucy Unwin @ Messum's
Messums, WiltshireLucy Unwin is one of the artists exhibiting at this years Sculpture Weekend at Lord's Wood. Her obvious love for the countryside, an upbringing on a farm and family holidays by […]
Lucy Unwin is one of the artists exhibiting at this years Sculpture Weekend at Lord's Wood. Her obvious love for the countryside, an upbringing on a farm and family holidays by […]
An exhibition of photographs by Australian artist Leila Jeffreys. Her new series is dedicated to the modest Pigeons species, Ornithurae. Comprising over fifteen new portraits of rarely seen and unique […]
An enlightening and unmissable exhibition shows major new works by nationally acclaimed artist and contemporary sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld. This is one of her largest exhibitions in Europe and has been curated […]
Rainbow Tribe: Affectionate Movement R&R is a collaborative project led by visual artist Jade Montserrat and curator Chris Rawcliffe as an active, ongoing, collective artist-lab. Within this framework, several artists and […]
Harriet Bowman works with sculpture and writing. For her solo exhibition, All Round-er (sad sale), Bowman presents a new body of ceramic, leather, metal and sound works based on an ongoing narrative. […]
Danish artist Nina Beier works with an array of objects that carry particular social histories, from human hair wigs to mechanical rodeo bulls and cigars to soap in European Interiors. […]
American artist Jenny Holzer presents statements that can provoke strong responses. Whether encountered on city streets or in art galleries, Holzer's work asks us to consider the words and messages that surround […]
In this final exhibition, Kierkegaardashian, of the Lodger series, the British artist Natalie Dray created a new series of sculptures, which flicker between rigidity and suppleness, the inorganic and the organic, geometric order […]
In 2013, renowned artist Barbara Rae began a series of journeys of discovery into the Arctic, following in the footsteps of Dr John Rae. The result, Any Ordinary Journey is a body of new paintings and original prints from an artist with a deep-rooted fascination with the topography and history of place.
Discover the eclectic collection of art formed by Miss Ellen Tanner following her journey to the Middle East in the 1890s. From sumptuous textiles to delicate carved woodwork and lacquer and elaborately decorated metalwork, this collection, Bath to Baghdad, is on display for the first time following a major conservation project generously funded through the Big […]
Amongst the most distinctive voices in contemporary painting, Amy Sillman has interrogated the language and practice of painting, re-evaluating its history and extending its reach into emergent mechanical and digital processes. Working in New York, Sillman’s wayward form of abstraction has pushed defiantly at the process-oriented approaches typically associated with the traditions of post-war painting, […]
Thread Bearing Witness, is a major new series of monumental textiles by renowned artist Alice Kettle, which recounts the stories of cultural heritage, displacement and the global refugee crisis and forms an immersive installation in the gallery.
Ash to Ash by internationally recognised artists Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey is a major new environmental artwork commissioned by The Ash Project. As part of their process the artists have undertaken a substantial research and development project, creating a work that responds to the loss of ash across the globe.
‘Ukraine’s Myth & Magic’, is a new exhibition featuring two young Ukrainian artists - Natalia Naida & Ivan Ribarchuk – who are introducing their work to Britain for the first time. This exhibition celebrates the myths and magic of Ukraine which inspire contemporary artists like Natalia and Ivan to capture both the beauty and unique spirit of […]
In this exhibition, Grande Calme, a screen holds a virtual reality avatar of the artist, Martine Syms, programmed with her physical tics and way of talking. We’re meant to interact, via that means with which we interact with most people in our lives: our phones. It might sound borderline cringe, but Syms’s often deft negotiation of […]
Discover how Handel’s music was created by female singers in this Handel Gallery display. In the eighteenth century, music performance was always a live event, and singers could build both their reputation and that of the composer through their performances. Composers depended on the competence of the performers – in particular the soloists – to […]
An exhibition of Jennifer Anderson's portraits.
Artist and illustrator Lucinda Rogers exhibit drawings of familiar and hidden scenes of Snape Maltings and Aldeburgh, centred around the original drawings she made for the Snape Maltings seasonal brochures over the last year. Working in ink, gouache and watercolour on paper, Rogers is well known for drawing directly from life in the tradition of the […]
This is the first UK solo exhibition by Franco-Brazilian artist Ana Vaz, presents a new iteration of her ongoing project The Voyage Out, which takes the toxic disaster in Fukushima as a synecdoche of the impending ecological disaster and the possibility of renewal. It is an account of an ethnography of the future. Ana Vaz's films […]
An exhibition of new works by Olga Mikh Fedorova, to mark the artist’s second solo presentation with the gallery. Short Term Memories features three large scale prints on glass, a video on a new type of transparent glass screen that the artist has developed, and three granite sculptures. Implicit in the show is the idea of […]