“I look at the street and at people walking on foot with different appearances advancing at different speeds. I think of the invisible threads which manipulate them... I try and see the machinery which organises them. I think this is in a way what I attempt to paint.” This is a travelling exhibition of works […]
In Lubaina Himid's paintings you discover the intimate portrayal of women. Her characters are often presented in close pairs, quietly involved in interactions that the artist describes as both complex and ordinary. This display features Freedom and Change 1984, Himid’s earliest work to depict this subject, alongside more recent work. It traces the way her paintings have […]
In this exhibition, Pathways, here is what Sara Armstrong-Jones says of her work: “A particular quality of light or the natural shapes and patterns formed by stones and leaves scattered on the path often catch my eye whilst out walking. A few quick informative marks in my drawing book and gathered pieces of rock, fallen leaves or lichen hold […]
A submission by, Julie Ann Steward to the Gallery's Open Call 2019 – Change: For better or worse. For richer or poorer. The resulting exhibition, Timespan St Pancras (from gasometer to champagne bar) 2014-2019, (charcoal on paper), is an effort to convey in a single work the sense of dramatic transformation that began over twenty years ago. Timespan Liverpool […]
Territories of Print 1994 – 2019, Emma Stibbon is ‘artist as witness’ to our landscape and environment on the cusp of change: polar regions; volcanoes; deserts; coastal and urban. Through the alchemy of printmaking Stibbon envelops us in her experiences with monumental woodcuts and tactile intaglio prints, where volcanic ash is embedded into the printing plate. […]
This installation emerged from Heather Ross's 2014-17 project entitled On Being Out of Touch which explored the gaps between information, knowledge and experience, specifically considered in relation to learning about the birds. In All The Better To Hear You With Ross combines these concerns with her research into Kurt Schwitters' experimental approaches to the written and spoken word, exploring the discrepancies between […]
‘Resurrect’, is a monumental new installation by Rachael Louise Bailey and Johnny Woodford. The collaborative work shows a large section of a fallen oak tree resurrected in the gallery.
The Future Is Here! is a new commission from artist and researcher Mimi Onuoha which examines the process of dataset creation. In order to extract value from information, tech companies and researchers increasingly employ machine learning. This process requires huge quantities of data which have been labelled and tagged according to specific criteria, by ‘human work’ that […]
This exhibition, Origins and Endings brings together the work of an artist and a musician who collaborated with The Policy, Ethics & Life Sciences Research Centre (PEALS), at Newcastle University. The exhibition highlights partnerships that have culminated in creative works in response to the academic research carried out, and ranges across the broad themes of being human, […]
Sheila Chukwulozie explores the politics of “behaving oneself” in a Catholic-colonial body through juxtaposing local rituals, modern technology, traditional myths, and movement styles. She is drawn to exposing internal and consistent dialogues — coded through discipline and punishment and language like “conscience”, “moral compass” or even “The Holy Spirit”. During her residency, Sheila plans to focus […]
Vibeke Mascini researches cases in which cultural systems falter and regularities shake. She is currently undertaking long-term research in which she navigates through a variety of prehistoric and futuristic notions regarding the perception of (animal) electricity as a speculative agent of life. During her time at Delfina she will continue this research by experimenting with […]
‘The Four Ages of Woman’ highlights a diversity of artistic observations on the lived experiences of women from childhood to old age, including but by no means restricted to experiences of mental distress. It includes work by artists who deserve to be better known – Marion Patrick, Elise Warriner Pacquette, Charlotte Johnson, Lisa Biles, Bibi […]
Gill Button is well-known for paintings that use images found in the media as their subject. In recreating these as gestural, intimate portraits, Button turns the mass-produced into something deeply personal and specific. It is a practice that looks at how we identify with the media landscape, and how we constitute ourselves in relation to […]
Sena Başöz is an artist and filmmaker based in Istanbul. Her work investigates healing processes after cases of trauma, and recently she has been focusing on subjects such as death, regeneration, renewal and liberation. During her residency at Delfina Foundation, Sena intends to work on a new performance piece that will activate an archive.
Maternality’ is the second instalment of the two-part show on maternal politics and embodiment, which focuses on reproduction and the materiality of maternal bodies. Curated by Catherine McCormack, the exhibition finds its starting point in the etymological root of the word “mother” as synonymous of matter (mater/materia in Latin) in a group show exploring female […]
This exhibition, Great Minds, displays a selection of portrait photographs of leading artists, writers and scientists from the archive of Anne-Katrin Purkiss. It is dedicated to women working in creative professions, defined broadly to encompass scientific as well as artistic production. The images are brought together in order to challenge our unconscious bias of a […]
Peggy Franck's exhibition, ‘You Begin’ is taken from Margaret Atwood’s poem ‘You Begin’ in the volume ‘Two Headed’ Poems.
Lesley Foxcroft uses simple and everyday materials such as MDF, rubber, paper and card to make works that are sculptural in nature, yet often are wall mounted and very much rooted in their surroundings; responding to the corner of a room, ceiling or floor. Utilitarian and minimal in appearance, the artist’s use of simple materials […]
The exhibition, 9th St. Club features works from Elaine de Kooning, Perle Fine, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Mercedes Matter, Joan Mitchell, and is inspired in part by Mary Gabriel’s acclaimed book ‘Ninth Street Women’, which is about the work, lives and spirit of this group.
Vivian Suter, lives beside the volcanic lake Atitlán, in Guatemala, and draws her inspiration from the lush plants, vibrant flowers, birds and constantly changing weather of this tropical habitat. Her mixed media abstract paintings evoke the living energy of the forest: large, unstretched canvases are swathed in colour, gestural brushstrokes and organic motifs.