Through a collage-like installation featuring pottery, photography and textiles, Mariana Castillo Deball works to uncover stories and individuals often hidden in traditional museum displays. While the gallery is temporarily closed, you can still enter Mariana Castillo Deball: Between Making and Knowing Something online to discover new insights into the exhibition.
“In September 2019 I spent some time drawing at Wildegoose Nursery, South Shropshire, an exquisite garden surrounded by a high, red brick wall. This experience became unexpectedly rich with metaphor during Lockdown when I was barred from the hills I love and felt cut off from the horizon. I dug into my walled garden memories […]
Artemisia Gentileschi challenged conventions and defied expectations to become a successful artist and one of the greatest storytellers of her time. She painted subjects that were traditionally the preserve of male artists and for the male gaze; transforming meek maidservants into courageous conspirators and victims into survivors. In this first major exhibition of Artemisia’s work in […]
Nicole Eisenman brings together a diverse multidisciplinary language through mixed media works on paper, sculpture and painting. This exhibition, Where I Was, It Shall Be, presents the fluid transition and interchangeable approach Eisenman takes to sculptural image making, painting and larger-scale outdoor installations. Her oeuvre is distinctive in its emphasis upon the allegorical and its confident combination […]
Renate Bertlmann's Magic Carpet paintings and sculptures are, in the artist's words, a “courageous feminist act.” Embodying a sense of feminine erotica and magical optimism, the works explicitly manifest Bertlmann’s exploration of ‘kitsch’ in the provocative trilogy that defines her practice: 'Pornography', 'Utopia' and 'Irony'. The gallery’s presentation for Frieze Masters features some works from the series […]
Marinella Senatore’s artistic practice is inclusive and relational; her works are manifestos of militancy and resistance that combine political protest with theatre, music and film. Her performances, paintings, collages, light installations, videos and photographs focus on such social themes and urban issues as emancipation, empowerment, equality, systems of aggregation and working conditions. Senatore's presentation for […]
Mary Corse's exhibition, Variations, serves as a timely reflection on our current period in history. The show is a marker of Corse’s practice to date, with a collection of new works directly referencing different series developed throughout her career. In the presentation, the language that threads through all of the artist’s work can be viewed in […]
Laure Prouvost’s exhibition, Love, repurposes the gallery spaces as an educational environment of sorts, offering willing visitors the opportunity to de-learn or un-learn what they have forgotten they already know, and to newly acquire – or re-learn – a language of her own devising. After navigating a bureaucratic entry point, consisting of the now familiar rituals […]
Flowered Songs and Broken Currents is an exhibition of new work by María Berrío that shows her large-scale works, which are meticulously crafted from layers of Japanese paper. They often reflect on cross-cultural connections and global migration seen through the prism of her own history. The central theme of this exhibition is the quiet of catastrophe’s aftermath, […]
Erika Verzutti is an artist concerned with the abundance of the world: its shapes, colours and complexities; its existential anxieties and increasingly infrequent moments of respite. Working with freestanding sculptures and tactile clay reliefs, the artist gathers together an assortment of visual fragments—from politics, art history, nature and digital culture—in order to create sculptural collages […]
Sophie Bouvier Ausländer’s past years has been dedicated to words, culminating in her doctoral thesis on the notion of tangibility, contemporary reliefs and continuous dimensions. The topic for her thesis ties in with Bouvier’s preeminent, multi-faceted interest in our planet as a sculpture. It is present in all her bodies of work, and underlines the […]
A group exhibition featuring 19 short-listed artists of the Mother Art Prize 2020, the only international prize for self-identifying women and non-binary visual artists with caring responsibilities. Their work raise questions around the representation and construction of the body, religious identities, sexualities and gender, as well as reproductive technologies.
Cecilia Charlton creates technicolour, highly-patterned textile works that reference personal and cultural histories while questioning notions of medium by bringing together traditions of painting, craft, abstraction, and folk art in her exhibition Aurora.
A collection of work by Helen Simmonds, that feature selections from the artist’s collection of small ceramics, bottles and enamelled vessels. The jug and ladle are recognisably Victorian; other preferred objects are the oriental porcelain cups and vases, their surfaces decorated with musicians, dancers and temple visitors. These various objects are beloved, imbued with significance as […]
An exhibition of Patricia Shone's recently created ceramics.
Pioneers: 500 Years of Women in British Art explores the history of female artists in Britain who defied the status-quo. This multidisciplinary exhibition progresses from 16th century portraitists, to painters working at the forefront of the British avant-garde in the early 20thcentury. This active and constantly developing area of art history examines the historical significance of female artists, […]
'How to Behave at Home', is a new exhibition by sculptor and taxidermist Polly Morgan. Social media and the COVID pandemic provide the context for new abstract sculptures that use highly decorative hides of snakes and the trompe l'oeil designs in nail artistry to comment on the disparity between surface and reality. In an age where […]
Rebecca Allen is an artist inspired by the aesthetics of motion, the study of human perception and behaviour, and the potential of advanced technologies. Her early interest in utilising the computer as an artistic tool led to her pioneering art involving human motion simulation, artificial life algorithms and other generative techniques for art creation. Throughout […]
Mainly focusing on the figure, Huma Bhabha’s work addresses themes of colonialism, war, displacement and memories of home. Her influences are wide ranging, from ancient Egyptian statuary, African art, Classicism, Cubism and German Expressionism to science fiction and horror films. This exhibition spans the last two decades of Bhabha’s work, bringing together an impressive cast […]
Cornelia Parker, who transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, uses printmaking to produce something elusive and ephemeral. Director Alan Cristea comments; “Parker’s new body of work, on which she has been working through the pandemic, is aptly called Through a Glass Darkly, the words of St Paul which suggest an obscure vision of reality. What we […]