Jyll Bradley’s exhibition, Within a Budding Grove, takes its title from the second volume of Proust’s, 'In Search of Lost Time, which follows the protagonist’s adolescence and his increasing sense of self-awareness. As a teenager, Jyll Bradley spent a lot of time sitting in her family’s greenhouse in rural Kent observing the play between sunlight […]
Identities, is an exhibition of photographic work by Lisetta Carmi (1924-2022), whose imagery is currently receiving renewed attention. Motivated by a profoundly humanistic spirit, Carmi focused on marginalised sectors of […]
This retrospective explores the possibilities of Mali Morris' abstract paintings over 50 years. Her recent paintings create visual arenas, where colour moves through space and space moves through colour. Glowing […]
Stories and intimations are at the heart of The Cultivation of Things, an exhibition of work by Chris Christophorou, Gwenyth Fugard and Nicky Hodge. While each artist’s practice, through time, […]
Linnea Skoglösa’s installation HYPER FLESH, a Glasshouse Project, elaborates upon the artist’s investigations into the compulsive pursuit of self-optimisation, which lies at the core of technology-driven consumer culture. Skoglösa uses her distinctive visual language to explore the psychic effects of ‘hyper-wellness’; a sprawling set of practices that broadly share an algorithmic approach to physical and […]
The exhibition presents the vibrant Pop Art paintings from the 60s and 70s by Sue Dunkley (1942 - 2022). On view are several paintings and intimate pastel drawings produced between 1968 and 1975. They are an extraordinary series, deeply immersed in the culture and politics of the time, now startlingly fresh and contemporary.
Busy Signal, is an exhibition of new work by Eleanor Swordy, whose confident brushwork offers resolution, while each work’s mise-en-scène tells another, more complicated story. In each painted tableau a figure […]
In Limestone Memories – un maquis sous les étoiles , Josèfa Ntjam continues her exploration of outer space and the abyss as spaces of resistance. Evoking the atmosphere of a cavern with black walls and floor. The exhibition centres around Dislocations (2022), a 17 min film, which tells the story of Persona, a fictional character.
The exhibition Victorian Art, Fashion & Design, includes fashion pieces – from Queen Victoria’s monotone mourning dress to the most daringly vivid clothing and accessories – and works by artists including Millais, Ruskin, Rossetti, Turner and Whistler, as well as objects from around the world and some of the earliest colour 'photograms'. It reveals the vital role that colour […]
A String of Signs, is an exhibition by Kate Gottgens. Her work focusses on the suburban domestic, and explores nostalgia, entropy and the ephemeral. Her work is, in part, inspired by writings of Roland Barthes, for whom all images carry the possibility of multiple meanings: a ‘floating chain of signifieds.’ The exhibition consists of imagined […]
Sylvie Fleury’s practice produces enticing works which let art, consumerism and life collide. Speaking to contemporary conditions, her sculptures, paintings, neon pieces and videos continue to defy expectations and definitions […]
Letting Loose, is an exhibition of works by Paula Rego from the 1980s, a period of liberation and self-discovery that led to great breakthroughs for the artist and saw her […]
An enigmatic, multi-layered installation, and set in a once busy fashion store, DISARM is infused with a contradictory sense of desire, conflict and lost aspiration, wittily referencing the ‘runway’ as a […]
Voyages is an exhibition of Hélène Amouzou's evocative self-portraits. These hand printed photographs are a crucial document of a migrant who has grappled with notions of freedom, exclusion, and bureaucracy – an attempt to recapture her identity and sense of belonging. Voyages raises important questions: What does it mean to seek refuge? What does belonging feel […]
The Mother & The Weaver takes the unseen mother, a central part of the Foundling Museum’s story, as a point of departure to explore complex ideas around motherhood, childhood, love, loss, sexuality and identity. This landmark exhibition shows over 40 works from the Ursula Hauser Collection, all by women artists, in conversation with historic objects […]
Elaine Bolt is a ceramic artist, who works with clay and mixed media, creating works and compositions guided by a sense of narrative and steeped in the context of her local surroundings. Her work includes sculptural work, hand-built wall pieces and thrown vessels, made in porcelain and stoneware and mixed-media.
Marina Abramović Hon RA, has earned worldwide acclaim as a performance artist. She has consistently tested the limits of her own physical and mental endurance in her work, subjecting herself to exhaustion, pain and even the possibility of death. This major exhibition presents key moments from Abramović’s career through sculpture, video, installation and performance. Works such […]
Rubens & Women, this major exhibition of the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), unites a diverse range of paintings and drawings from throughout the artist's career. The exhibition challenges […]
A Spirit Inside brings together work of a selection of women artists from The Ingram Collection and The Women’s Art Collection in Cambridge; to showcase artworks borne out of a strength of spirit and touch upon the elemental, fantastical, spiritual and political. The exhibition's title is lifted from a letter written by Carrington explaining why […]
Passage is an exhibition by Merve İşeri, whose work process begins by putting small circular stickers on the canvas to mark points of star constellations. In this exhibition they are, aries, taurus and ursa minor that are not necessarily in direct correlation with the paintings' context but they provide a structure for Iseri to build her […]