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 and remain plural. The extensive exhibition celebrates the gallery’s longstanding relationship with the artist, and provides an insight into her spectacular and varied body of […]
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, […]
Ridykes’ Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deviant Videos, features the work of over 30 “très gay” contemporary visual artists working across film, video installation, sculpture and performance. Within this […]
A new exhibition by Fiona Tan, Footsteps (2022) is a 97-minute video installation made by Tan at the invitation of Amsterdam’s Eye Film Museum, and combines archival film footage from […]
Drawing inspiration from Umberto Eco's essay on handwriting, The Resistance of Pen and Paper brings together a group of artists from North Africa, the Middle East and Israel, who use calligraphy and written language to reflect on issues around identity, gender politics, cultural heritage and displacement. The artists included in the exhibition are: Nasrollah AFJEI, Maliheh AFNAN (1935 - […]
An exhibition with recent works by Minjung Kim , Rebecca Salter PRA, and Diogo Pimentão All three artists primarily work with paper and explore its boundaries in their idiosyncratic ways. […]
The exhibition, Africanesse, showcases Angèle Etoundi Essamba’s groundbreaking series of vintage silver gelatin prints: black and white photographs of non-professional models, who range from family members to friends and acquaintances of […]
A British artist's brash and tender exploration of what makes us human. Sarah Lucas is internationally celebrated for her bold and provocative use of materials and imagery. Using ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understanding of sex, class and gender over the last four decades. This exhibition presents her practice in […]