This exhibition represents the artist’s diverse practice and her refusal to see painting as an independent or privileged mode of production,  Allison Katz presents a trilogy of works comprising painting, sculpture and print in this first installation for the Fig-Future series.  

Christy Burdock’s work tells the complex story of the everyday; she immerses herself in microsocieties then layers her studies with metaphor and imagination. This exhibition, 'The People in the Gallery', features House of Illustration visitors, staff and artists in large-scale observations of her six months spent as Illustrator in Residence.  

The title of Phoebe Unwin’s exhibition Pregnant Landscape simultaneously invokes the traditions of portraiture and landscape painting. It also imbues the idea of a landscape with a sense of the bodily, as pregnancy suggests gestation and fecundity. Unwin does not work from pre-existing images or photographs, and the frenetic circulation of visual materials in 2.0 […]

Relative Strength, is a site specific installation of video and ceramic works by Phoebe Collings­-James. The installation presents objects as if suspended in motion, or repurposed outside their standard material form. Some of the objects hold water, others soil, plastic or cacti, listening to the cycle of degradation. Collings-James’ strategy of display is akin to that […]

Blood, Sea, is a solo exhibition of new paintings by British artist Aimée Parrott.  In this new body of work, Parrott incorporates sculptural elements within her paintings in order to explore the canvas as a type of barrier. Often puncturing the surface with stitching or padded strips of fabric, the eye teeters between physical elements attached to […]

Following in the traditions of classical fine art, and inspired by Gainsborough’s watercolour study, Kate Westbrook explores the myth of Diana and Actaeon. Written by the Roman poet Ovid and found within the collected works entitled Metamorphoses, the myth describes the fatal encounter between the hunter Actaeon and the goddess Diana. Enraged that a mortal has […]

For “Discovered in the Making” Katherine Gili presents a particularly exciting and innovative grouping of work that demonstrate a range of approaches and sensitivity in her sculptures.  ‘Katherine’s ambition for her sculpture is predicated on a search for full three dimensionality, beyond the creation of a simple shape or form, beyond rotundity or intimidating spread […]

Zoë Paul works primarily with sculpture, textile and drawing to explore the character of domestic spaces, both in architectural and social terms, and in particular, the point where the threshold between the interior and the exterior seems to disappear. Her work aims to examine our relationship with tradition, and explores shifts in perception around the […]

The ground-breaking work of Sister Corita Kent (1918-1986) comes to the Museum this summer. Corita was an artist and famously charismatic educator whose work reflected her concerns about poverty, racism and war – anxieties that continue to resonate today. A contemporary of Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha, her vibrant serigraphs, banners and posters drew on […]

Women in Focus is a year-long exhibition that explores the role of women in photography, both as producers and subjects of images. The exhibition draws on works from the permanent photographic collections at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales and comprises two parts: Part One: Women Behind the Lens celebrates the role and contribution of women throughout the history […]

Get with the Action explores the ground-breaking work of Corita Kent (1918-1986). Corita was an artist, a famously charismatic educator and a Roman Catholic nun based in Los Angeles during the 1960s. A contemporary of Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha, her vibrant screenprinted banners and posters drew on pop and modern consumer cultures and became […]

Accompanying our exhibition Corita Kent: Get With the Action, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft invited leading international designer Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan to take over the museum’s Wunderkammer in a surprise visual display. The show connects to Myerscough’s Belonging project touring Sussex and will sit alongside their interactive kinetic installation Sign Machine (2016), which will be updated for the […]

Chloe Lamb  currently lives and works in Hampshire and exhibits regularly in both the U.K and the U.S. This will be her debut exhibition with this Gallery

Me and My Gurls, is an exhibition of new and recent works by Molly Soda.  On view will be a series of aluminium and acrylic prints, videos on TV screens and iPads, printed balloons and a physical archive from a YouTube video’s comment section.

Artist and Muse, is a solo exhibition by Austrian artist Anita Witek. Showcasing her photographic series based on two paintings by Egon Schiele – a self-portrait and a portrait of his model and muse, Wally Neuzil. This presentation was first shown at the Leopold Museum in Vienna earlier this year, where its collection of modern Austrian […]

Lubaina Himid, is currently Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire. Making Histories Visible, an ongoing interdisciplinary research project based at the university, led by Himid, continues to be a sustained exploration of the contribution of black visual art to the cultural landscape. As part of her exhibition, Himid will use traditional […]

Tanya Gomez mainly works in limoges porcelain, using a range of approaches in her throwing to create forms that will capture qualities of fluidity, movement, and provide a sense of space. Gomez makes these works conscious of natural phenomena and dramatic landscapes, emphasising colour, form, and the diverse qualities of the sea.  She lives on […]

Vanessa Gardiner’s most recent paintings explore her chosen places in Portland, Cornwall and Skye with relish and confidence.   She paints in a dynamic geometric style enlivened with lyrical curving lines of hills and pathways. Her colours may be opaque and crisp or more translucent and weathered, scoured and scored, washed back and reapplied, to give […]

This is a performance by six dancers that takes place on a floor of seven tonnes of wet clay. Using materials that remain, the work will unfold into a summer-long exhibition. RITE: On this Pliant Body we slip our WOW! offers a layered reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in modernism’s history: Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of […]