Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) was one of the leading artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notable for the emotional power of her drawing, printmaking and sculpture. She lived an intensely examined life, expressed in her numerous selfportraits, diaries and correspondence; at the core of this existence was her work as an artist and […]
The House of Fame is an exhibition conceived by Linder (Linda Mulvey). The presentation is a retrospective of the influential British artist and musician’s work, spanning more than 40 years of photomontage, graphics, costume and performance. Emerging from the Manchester punk and post-punk scenes in the 1970s, Linder focuses on questions of gender, commodity and display. […]
The third instalment of NOW features a major survey of works by renowned British artist Jenny Saville, spanning some 25 years of the artist’s career across five rooms. It brings together 17 works from private and public collections across the globe, is a first in Scotland, and only her third in the UK. The selection spans 26 […]
For their new exhibition, Czech artists Miroslava Večeřová and Pavel Příkaský transform the gallery space of Czech Centre London into a stage that is simultaneously both, an art installation and a site of performance. With the title of the exhibition referring to the capacity of a sign, image or word to have more than one […]
In celebrating women artists working around 1918, this exhibition, ‘The Turn of Women Artists 1837- 2018', is set against the background of a contemporary feminism that pays homage to the pioneering women who fought for equality in the hundred years before 1918, and recognises how their fight has shaped the way women artists live and […]
As part of History Painting, Rose Wylie presents a cycle of new work about the Mayflower voyage, made between 2015-2017 for this exhibition. These paintings draw on the artist's memories of first learning about the pilgrims as a young child in the 1930s, and reflect on how interpretations of history change across the ages. The works […]
This year 'Britain's greatest living stone sculptor’, Emily Young adorns the magnificent quadrangle with over 20 sculptures. This is the first occasion which the cloisters, home to sculpture and monuments dating from […]
Acclaimed installation and performance artist Chiharu Shiota creates an awe-inspiring, site-specific installation of thread within the beautiful 18th-century Chapel. Called Beyond Time, this work for YSP responds to and activates the unique architecture and heritage of the Chapel. Exemplary of her work’s resonance with memory and human relationships through the use of objects, the installation interlaces the physical […]
Elaine Duigenan is a photographic artist, whose work takes a close look at objects as in her current exhibition Blossfeldt's Apprentice. Things are never quite what they seem and her work is pared down to find singular beauty. Pale specimens glow in inky black spaces and appear to hang by a thread. There is strength and fragility, […]
From the Greenhouse is an exhibition by three Norwegian jewellers, all inspired by the natural world. Millie Behrens creates jewellery using mainly silver and other materials, such as pebbles found on beaches, and also curates the exhibition; Ingjerd Hanevoldd’s jewellery is inspired by forms of nature, personal identity and personal expression; and Åse-Morit Thorjørnsrud uses mainly precious […]
A collection of disrupted examples of tourist culture – such as souvenirs, photographs and postcards – that challenge our long-established ideals of the holiday to produce ulterior messages. The relationship between found ephemera and the narrative that is bestowed upon these items by a viewer encapsulates Molly Rooke's practice. Interested in collections of tourist culture […]
The exhibition From the Same Source I have not Taken, centres around faith, trust, coercion and the gap between real experience and artificial effect, and whether the constructed collective experience can be as meaningful as a genuine encounter.
The exhibition is a collection of works by women called Women Can't Paint.
Pregnancy is one of the most extreme states of the human condition, according to art theorist Amelia Jones, as it reveals the ‘tension between self as subject and self as object’. The final display from the ISelf Collection takes its title from Paloma Varga Weisz’s ambiguously gendered pregnant figure, Bumped Body, reflecting on shifting concepts of selfhood. 23 […]
In the second part of Actions, there is a solo project of new paintings in Gallery 2 by Caroline Walker, titled ‘Home’, of women refugees living in London. Walker met and photographed five women living in temporary accommodation, before making paintings of each in her studio. Work by the following artists continue on display until 6th […]
Sarah Naim’s first solo show, Reactions, follows on from her participation in Secular Icons in an Age of Moral Uncertainty in 2017. Naim is known primarily as a photographic artist but in fact makes much of her work using a Transmission Electronic Microscope, Scanning Electron Microscope and a high-resolution Flatbed Scanner. Using these hi-tech tools Naim creates seemingly abstract […]
The Gallery presents an international, cross-generational exhibition, which is a celebration of women artists who have shaped and transformed, and continue to influence and expand, the language and definition of […]
Sophie Sherwood is a Bristol based artist, and her latest work, developed over the last year, is about seashells from her home town of Weymouth. Using the digital darkroom, Sherwood opens up the shells’ potential to show that there’s more to these small objects than meets the eye. By using this technique she exposes the […]
American-born artist Nancy Fouts is best known for her distinctive sculptural works, which reconfigure commonplace objects and materials with a characteristically playful and provocative humour. Combining Surrealism, Dada and Pop […]
Hergest: Nant is a collaborative project by Angharad Williams and Mathis Gasser; this marks their third collaboration within the "Hergest" cycle. The exhibition will take the form of an installation with all […]