A retrospective of Dame Mary Quant, the celebrated fashion designer. The exhibition, Fashion Revolutionary, features over 100 garments, accessories, cosmetics and photographs drawn from the V&A’s extensive collections, Dame Mary Quant’s archive and, following a public appeal, many private collections.
Watch, explore and get creative in Valerie Asiimwe Amani’s space of care using poetic prompts. Reminisce about our collective story so far through a new commission by Deborah Pill, and an archive exploring our history of working with local communities and partners in Boundary Encounters. Share in our future by exploring prototypes of exciting upcoming improvements […]
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Laura Knight was commissioned by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee to go to Nuremberg, to record the trials of Nazi war crimes, which she did between January and April 1946. We explore this period of her career through two major preparatory studies for the painting, on permanent […]
Proximity, is a two-person exhibition that brings together the work of Annie Trevorah and Liberty Quinn to explore the transformative effects of closeness, both physical and metaphorical. While Trevorah and Quinn use distinct aesthetics and materials, creating both unity and dissonance, their practices share a mutual fascination with proximising the Anthropocene.
This exhibition spans the last 10 years of Ellie Davies' photographic work in woodlands around the UK, and most excitingly her new Chalk Streams series, and a brand new triptych.
The presentation of a major retrospective exhibition of Dame Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021). The exhibition covers the full spectrum of Blackadder’s career with works in oil, watercolour, print and tapestry, plus a new tapestry by Dovecot Studios, Flowers and Black Cat. Also, there is a commissioned short film, and the launch of a new monograph The […]
This exhibition celebrates the 80th year of the internationally acclaimed ceramicist Bodil Manz. She is known for her ultra-thin, distinctive porcelain cylindrical forms, anchored by bold, geometric abstractions in a style evocative of Russian Suprematism. The artist has created a new series for The Gallery, which also includes five mixed media wall pieces.
Under a Lilac-bleeding Star, is the title of the exhibition by Larissa Lockshin. Shifting between painting, drawing and sculpture, Larissa Lockshin’s recent practice centres around her abstracted mixed media paintings on unprimed satin. Gestural motifs such as flowers, stars and leaves are created in confectionary like bursts of abstracted colour, and often completed with details […]
The Pavilion, by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, is an exhibition inspired by the history of the site. She explores how the public engages with archives and artefacts, and their presentation in museum spaces. The Pavilion is a wooden structure comprising a promenade of interrelated viewing booths reminiscent of Victorian ‘cabinets of curiosities’, often considered precursors to museums. […]
Ana Barriga’s paintings are considered to be “pretty and raffish,” containing “bits of reality that no longer mean anything,” such as plastic figurines, tchotchkes, porcelain doo-dads and bits of bric-a-brac. Items she encounters on regular visits to flea markets, souks, bazaars, rastros and marchés au puces. These she “sources,” “breaks,” “paints,” “manipulates” and otherwise “transforms” […]
Jacqueline Stanley ARCA HRHA (1928-2022), 'A Retrospective', which includes new works from the estate covering Jackie’s entire career. Along-side the focus is on women artists connected with the history of Rye Art Gallery, and contemporary responses to the archives and collection by Geraldine Swayne.
This exhibition, Scottish Women Artists: 250 years of Challenging Perception, celebrates the work of women artists who challenged and shaped the contemporary art scene in Scotland. In an era when women lead Scotland’s government, galleries and art schools, it is easy to forget the prejudices and barriers their predecessors faced. These latest tapestries are shown […]
Interflow, is a group exhibition of new and recent works by Koo Jeong A, Ragna Bley, Peppi Bottrop, Lubna Chowdhary, Hanako Murakami, Mary Ramsden, Rachel Rose, Joan Snyder and Jeff Wall. It brings together a range of work in different mediums, including photography, painting and ceramic installation, proposing a conversation between form and formlessness, abstraction […]
"Adam, and by extension all men, were made from clay. They were therefore hard and strong. Eve, because she was made from Adam’s body, was weaker and softer, but that meant her mind was sharper. She was defined less by what her body could do than what her mind was free to achieve without the […]
This landmark exhibition features the work of Diane Arbus, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. The exhibition includes many of the artist's most iconic portraits, and features more than 30 black and white photographs spanning her career from the mid-1950s until her death in 1971. During this time she produced a […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal film, the psychological thriller Vertigo, was released on 9th May 1958. 65 years later, Vertigo is widely regarded as Hitchcock’s greatest achievement, its reputation and significance only building as the time passes. To celebrate the 65th Anniversary of one of the top films of all time as voted by American Film Institute, The British Film Institute, and Sight […]
An exhibition of new sculptures by Letha Wilson, in which she explores the boundaries, intersections and potential of photography and sculpture, synthesizing the seemingly contradictory elements of each medium through material experimentation. By printing directly onto surfaces such as copper, steel, and brass, Wilson introduces a third dimension to the photographic image, often bending, welding […]
This group presentation titled, Entwined, in tandem with sepiaEYE, showcases the work of Serena Chopra, Pamela Singh, Qiana Mestrich and Gayatri Ganju. Each artist explores the intersections among nature, philosophy, spirituality and the natural sciences. Defying distinctions between the internal and external, material and nonmaterial, living or dead, their photographs reveal the artists’ fascination with […]
Mandy El-Sayegh transforms the spaces of the gallery with her exhibition Interiors. She intervenes with the walls and floors to create an enveloping environment within which ideas of bodily, psychological and spatial interiors play out. Featuring new large-scale paintings and installations, as well as a collaborative performance, the exhibition layers diverse materials and modes of […]
Nges’rhodlweni: A Portal for Black Joy, is the title of the exhibition, by Zana Masombuka, also known as ‘Ndebele Superhero’. In this exhibition, Masombuka explores the intersection of identity and culture in a mix of mediums that include photography, film, sculpture and performance. From these diverse materials, she weaves inspiring visual narratives of arresting aesthetic […]