An exhibition celebrating the love of landscape. Four Strings’ showcases how 4 different artistic voices Sarah Manolescue, Alex McIntyre, Judith Brenner, and Sarah Ollerenshaw transcribe and respond to how the lavers and chords of landscape are seen and experienced.
In her current collection, Shapeshifters, P J Crook explores several conjoined themes around physical transformations, merging classical literature and modern contexts to produce a feast of colour, form and narrative.
Rose Hilton is a singular painter of sensuous, vividly coloured and exotically exquisite images, who spent a lifetime challenging herself. A major collection of her LateWorks are on display, showing all aspects of Rose's output from her intimate studio studies to monumental oil paintings.
Aida Tomescu is an abstract painter, whose career spans over 40 years. Her works combine a vital physical presence with a powerful handling of scale, to create what she describes as "living structures", self-forming from within. The title of this exhibition, With the Crimson Word, is a quotation from a poem by Paul Celan. Tomescu […]
Abort, Retry Fail, is an exhibition by Farah Al Qasimi, based between Brooklyn and Abu Dhabi. Al Qasimi’s still and moving image works vibrantly capture glimpses of everyday life and […]
‘Echo’, is a new installation of ceramic work by Alma Berrow. With playfulness and humour at the heart of her practice, Berrow’s meticulously hand-moulded ceramic objects transport us to moments of nostalgic familiarity, creating vignettes inspired by everyday life, human interaction, and shared experience.
The exhibition, Whispers from the South, aims to explore how contemporary Brazilian artists rethink visual culture through a critical examination of their own history and confront the notion of subalternity.
An exhibition of textile art by Claudia Alarcón and Silät, who are part of a collective of artists from the Wichí communities of Santa Victoria Este, Salta, Argentina. This exhibition constitutes a radical recasting of Wichí textile traditions, inherited methods of production translated only in recent years into large-scale artworks, which have provided a means […]
A selection of 1940s paintings by Janet Sobel (1893-1968) is presented. Short-lived but meteoric, her career began in 1943, when leading New York dealers, collectors, and other artists took up her work, culminating in a solo show at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century Gallery in 1946.
In this show, I See You in the Clouds, You Move with the Wind, Baker creates a conversation between Titian’s painting ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’ (1520-23) and Peter Weir’s movie ‘The Truman Show’ (1998). She simultaneously explores temporality in art history and our relationship with the media in contemporary society. With this parallelism, Baker further investigates […]
Maelstrom comprises a new series of paintings by Maggi Hambling, made on her return to the studio following a near-fatal heart attack, and a six-week stay in hospital. The resulting paintings […]
A major group exhibition, which explores the relationship between gender and ecology, highlighting the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet. The exhibition features […]
Ten Poems of Kindness, a themed selection of verse, is the key touchstone for Alberta Whittle's exhibition. The collection emerges from a tragedy, and from there sets out to map a territory – to emphasise the importance of a quality both vital but ever hard to define. In this presentation, connections across time and space […]
‘Sheila Hicks: Infinite Potential’, is chosen as the inaugural exhibition for our new gallery. Hicks exhibits different series of new work which make up her extensive vocabulary, and creates an installation of Talking Sticks, wall based batons made from bamboo and multicoloured pigmented fibre placed as if in conversation with each other.
Anna Uddenberg creates sculptures that question and distort traditional narratives of femininity, creating an exaggerated representation of contemporary womanhood. The exhibition, Home Wreckers, is about female identity as a consumable […]
Focused on earthworm ecology, 'Green in the Grooves' draws our attention to the often-unappreciated earth beneath our feet, the grounding of life on this planet. The exhibition speaks to the […]
Public Domain by Marina Xenofontos is an ambitious new commission conceived as a series of gestures that involve architectural interventions and sculpture. Xenofontos’ work examines the way ideology and cultural […]
Bringing together more than 120 artworks spanning painting, photography, sculpture and film, Real Families: Stories of Change asks us to consider what makes a family today, and the impact our families have […]
Josephine Baker's new sculpture incorporates the contorted aluminium skeleton of a water wheel against tiles broken up into the forms of sea stacks. Prime Mover: Stack 1, reflects on the role of water in commercial energy production, and reclaims the narrative function of materials in an industrial and post-industrial world.
Wangari Mathenge’s exhibition is from her new series, A Day of Rest. Prompted by media depictions of the plight of domestic workers in Kenya. She conceived of this body of work as a socially engaged project aimed at shifting the narrative around a workforce of over two million people across the country. In A Day of […]