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 abstract painting. Surface Work takes its title from a quote by the Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, who said: ‘Abstract is not a style. I […]
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 Art, her work brings together seemingly disconnected objects and ideas to revel in the inherent strangeness of the everyday. This exhibition, Down the Rabbit Hole, addresses the recurring […]
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 new works.
Notations is an exhibition of new works by Mequitta Ahuja. Her work explores the currency of the figure of the artist at work in the history of European and American figurative painting. Merging the roles of artist-maker and subject, her monumental paintings depict the artist engrossed in various stages of her artistic process, often within […]
Close Quarters is a new body of work by London based artist Hanae Wilke. Informed by her surroundings and starting with an observation, Wilke constructs sculptures and installations from industrial materials such as metal, pipes, brackets, fibreglass and resin. These works borrow qualities from existing and familiar objects, structures, forms, and systems that are often […]
Cornelia Baltes’ brightly coloured paintings combine simplicity with humour and playfulness. Real-world observations are stripped back to their simplest form; creating new abstract patterns and rhythms. Their bold graphic qualities often spilling out, over the surface and on to the walls and surrounding architecture in which they inhabit. Lightbox, is a a new site specific work […]
Visible Women brings together work from Norwich Castle’s modern and contemporary collection made by women in order to celebrate their work and open up conversations about the under-representation of female artists in public collections. The title of the exhibition was adapted from the seminal book 50% Visible Women created by the radical feminist artist Penny Slinger (b.1947) while […]
The Gallery in collaboration with the Birgit Jürgenssen Estate, Vienna, presents Nocturnal Light, a solo exhibition of work by the Austrian artist Birgit Jürgenssen (b.1949, Vienna). Whereas Jürgenssen's 2013 solo show at the gallery focused on works from the 1970s, the current exhibition presents later work, made between 1987 - 1996. Jürgenssen, who died in 2003 […]
Join us for a fabulous evening and a glass of bubbly at the glamorous 45 Park Lane with authors Liz Rideal and Kathleen Soriano as they discuss their "hot off the press" book, Madam & Eve: Women Portraying Women. Their timely book explores the specifically female development of artistic practice since the 1970s, and the impact that various feminist movements […]
Wild Flower, is a solo exhibition of new works by LA-based artist Sarah Cain. A self-proclaimed “renegade”, Sarah pushes the limits of the language of abstraction, and challenges the established conventions of painting by incorporating quotidian and poetic ephemera into her paintings. Her paintings extend into three dimensional space through the addition of sea shells, chains, […]
Rio Azul, is an exhibition of works by Beatriz Milhazes that are explorations in a variety of media including painting, installation, sculpture and collage and her first ever tapestry: a unique, major work created especially for the show. Milhazes said: ‘I want to have optical movements, disturbing things; such visions that your eyes would be disturbed […]
Julie Oldfield says "I started experimenting with weathering process on my work when I was using canvass as the base material, by leaving them in my garden for weeks or months, sometimes dipping the work in the sea as well. More recently I have been working on metal sheets such as copper and brass. I incorporate […]
For this exhibition, Sleep Rock, New-York based artist Sadie Benning has created over 20 new wall-based works that occupy a hybrid space between painting, photography and sculptural relief. Benning’s work illustrates how even familiar images are subject to constantly fluctuating interpretations based on context, scale and resolution. Within the work, fragments are enlarged or brought closer, photographs dissolve […]
CLARE LEIGHTON (1898-1989) Wood-engravings from the Collection of Hilaire Belloc The proofs were given by the artist to Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) whose 'Woodcuts – examples of the work of Clare Leighton …’ was published by Longmans, Green and Co, in London, New York and Toronto in 1930 and was instrumental in the international spread of […]
“Somewhere within the terrain of these coupled quotes is where these works inhabit. Elementals are visually paired images. They started life elsewhere, from another source. They are second hand, borrowed from magazines and books. The found images are my medium and once removed from their original context they become forms and colours to work with. […]
This Constant State, is an exhibition of new paintings by Shani Rhys James, which challenges the cyclical and relentless passage of life. In this latest body of work Rhys James continues to explore the transience of being; contrasting her early iconic painting of a child’s cot (for which she earned the Jerwood Prize in 2003) with […]