Helen Cammock explores social histories through film, photography, print, text, song and performance. She is motivated by her commitment to questioning mainstream historical narratives around blackness, womanhood, wealth, power, poverty and vulnerability. Mining her own biography in addition to the histories of oppression and resistance, multiple and layered narratives reveal the cyclical construct of histories. […]
An exhibition of new paintings created during a residency with the gallery in Venice by Flora Yukhnovich. Her sources include the music of Vivaldi and the memoirs of Casanova, in addition to one of her key influences, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, whose works include ceiling frescoes in the Ca’ Rezzonico museum and the Chiesa Santa Maria della Visitazione, […]
Violet Costello's work is inspired by the complexities of the human condition: our quirks and familiarities, our moments of loneliness and moments of joy, the ways in which we identify and represent ourselves in and to the world. With a practice incorporating painting, sculpture and installation, Costello explores the home, familial relations and society's ability […]
This exhibition, Textures of Understanding, creates a dialogue between suffragette embroideries created in Holloway Prison and Denise Jones' contemporary work. Between 1911 and 1912 hundreds of suffragettes were sent to Holloway Prison for smashing windows. Whilst incarcerated, some of the women worked on small embroideries. Jones uses cloth, thread and material objects to create responses to […]
Ndakavata pasi ndikamutswa nekuti anonditsigira, is an exhibition of new paintings by the Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera. The title translates from Shona to English as ‘I took my rest in sleep and then I awoke for He sustained me.’ In her paintings, Zvavahera gives form to emotions that manifest from other realms and dimensions beyond […]
For her new commission Rabiya Choudhry has created a mural, Big Broon Stressed Oot Eyes, in response to the current collective moment. With characteristic Glaswegian humour Choudhry has created a playful image of two large eyes which peer anxiously from Tramway's two front gallery windows.
Gillian Wearing continues her exploration of identity, fiction, reality and the mask presenting a series of new works on paper, board, sculpture and film. Conceived over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition Lockdown, focusses mainly on works made during the lockdown. Her new watercolour portraits have all been created in this time of self-reflection […]
The title of the exhibition, Jesture, touches on a sense of the absurd, responding to the disruption of daily rhythms arising from forced isolation during lockdown. Central to Jade Fadojutimi’s practice is a repeated questioning of identity, its fluid nature and how the understanding of notions of pleasure, desire and choice are integral to a […]
A selection of new works by British sculptor Holly Hendry, whose large site-responsive sculptures and installations are concerned with what lies beneath the surface and the idiosyncrasies of the human body in all its lived, material and messy forms. Casting is central to the artist’s process, using an array of materials including steel, jesmonite, silicone, ash, […]
Alison Britton’s is one of the most important and influential ceramic artists working in Britain today, and her practice has remained focussed on the vessel, exploring its features both formal and conceptual. This exhibition is entitled Heat Work.
Monster/Beauty: An Exploration of the Female/Femme Gaze, is a group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph featuring the artwork, ephemera and archival photographs of nineteen female-identifying or queer femme artists who portray the feminine body in its sexed or sexual state, empowering the womxn artist as both subject and object as well as image and image-maker.
This exhibition is comprised of new work created by Cicely Brown in response to Blenheim's Palace’s history as an English country estate, and as the home to successive generations of the Spencer-Churchill family and their collection of paintings, tapestries and decorative arts. Rendered in her emotive, frenetic brushstrokes, Brown’s new series visually references masterpieces by Sir […]
Sophie Barber's exhibition The Greatest Song and Songbird Ever Sung is part of a new series of large-scale paintings for the Episodes series at Goldmiths. Barber’s painterly practice revolves around her interest in the natural world, and life on the Sussex coast. Often humorous and tender these heavily impastoed canvases of significant scale, simultaneously dictate an intimacy and architectural […]
Miho Sato uses acrylic and board to display the work in her current exhibition Freedom.
Train Yards, is an exhibition of paintings by Mary Weatherford. She roots abstract painting in subjective experience, evoking urban and rural environments while experimenting with internal painterly dynamics around light, color, and gesture, as well as the relationship between a painted surface and various three-dimensional addenda. Weatherford prepares each canvas with a mixture of gesso and […]
Mud Season, is an exhibition of new works by Lisa Sanditz. One of the most celebrated landscape painters working in America today, Sanditz’s richly coloured works explore humanity’s impact on the natural world. She depicts the landscape as a reflection of contemporary cultural values. The eighteen works, made during lockdown in the United States in the […]
This exhibition explores Nancy Holt’s use of language in her ground-breaking work of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the video installation Points of View and a selection of early concrete poems. Points of View was made for the Clocktower Gallery in New York, where each of the four monitors is set to the circular windows of this […]
Colour, Carmen Herrera says, is always about “a dialogue”, as she has always been “curious about two colours reacting or dancing with each other”. Thus, paintings in her exhibition “Colour Me” testify to her words in a trio of panels — “Blues” (1991), “Two Yellows” (1992) and “Horizontal” (1992). Herrera paints the surface in one […]
This exhibition spans Marina Abramovic’s work – including live re-performances of iconic works, as well as brand new works. It brings together works spanning her 50-year career, along with new works conceived especially for this exhibition. As Abramović approaches her mid-70s, her new work reflects on changes to the artist’s body, and explores her perception […]
Most well known for her photomontage, this exhibition displays the diverse range of Linder Sterling's practice. It explores Linder as performance artist, zine-maker, musician, documentary-photographer, collaborator, muse, guru, medium and body-builder. Linder was an active figure in the punk and post-punk music scenes, and is probably best known for the album covers which she created, […]