This major new exhibition, Victorian Giants: the Birth of Art Photography brings together, for the first time, the works of four of the most celebrated figures in art photography, Lewis Carroll (1832–98), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79), Oscar Rejlander (1813–75) and Clementina Hawarden (1822-65). These four artists would come to embody the very best in photography of […]
Lizzie Siddal was an important and influential artist and poet. A professional member of the Pre-Raphaelite artistic circle, she is, however, remembered today mainly as the model for the iconic Millais painting, Ophelia, and as wife and muse of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. ‘Beyond Ophelia’ examines Siddal’s style; subject matter; depiction of women; […]
A retrospective of the late photographer Elsbeth Juda, a Jewish émigré who brought a new modernist artistic vision to Britain from Germany. Although a trailblazing female photographer, Juda's artistic contribution […]
Chinese-American actress Bai Ling (The Crow, Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, Entourage, Wild Wild West) is the protagonist of the new suite of works that make up ilysm. This show picks up where Sophia Al-Maria’s first solo show Virgin With a Memory* left off, taking a person’s lived experience in the entertainment business as a starting point. For Project Native […]
Alexandra Bircken presents Mammal, a new site–specific sculptural intervention. Directly responding to the gallery’s distinctive architecture, Bircken has reimagined the vaulted ceiling as a cavernous, upturned ship’s hull. Working with […]
In the 1980s Vikky Alexander played a significant role in the group of artists now known as “The Pictures Generation”, who posed a new set of questions concerning art and the nature of representation. The core of Alexander’s artistic proposition lies in the fantastic - in both the literal and figurative senses of the words. […]
Lubaina has chosen the title Hard Times for this exhibition, as it makes reference to Charles Dickens’ novel, and takes its inspiration from his visit to Preston during the workers’ Lock-out of 1853.
Still Life brings together a selection of work by Lisa Milroy and Jayne Parker in a collaborative exhibition that includes film, photography, sculpture and painting. The exhibition charts the artists’ shared interest in material and imaginative transformation, the relation between absence and presence, and how memory resides in all its complexities within the human frame.
Lydia Halcrow, Sarah Duncan and Nicolette McGuire’s work ranges from print-making and drawing to painting and installation. They have come together to share the experience of walking Porlock Bay, North Somerset over a period of months, recording the small shifts and changes in this complex place; one of the first places to be left to flood as part […]
‘I blew on Mr.Greenhill’s main joints with a very ‘hot’ breath’ presents moving image and photographic works from the last ten years, selected in response to the Pavilion’s architecture and social context. Together and separately, Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj explore the residual histories of art, design and architecture, exposing unexpected connections between states of […]
Sondra Perry constructs multifaceted narratives that explore the imagining, or imaging, of blackness throughout history in Typhoon Coming On. Often taking her own life as a point of departure, she makes works that revolve specifically around black American experiences and the ways in which technology and identities are entangled. Her use of digital tools and platforms, such […]
Arrivals is the second New York exhibition by collaborative Spanish artists Mersuka Dopazo and Teresa Calderón. The artists' chosen media are handmade papers and fabrics, which they source from craftsmen across Europe. These materials, often densely patterned, are collaged together with gestural graphite line, pigment and areas of white canvas. Generously proportioned, the collages explore the […]
This is Anna Reivilä’s first solo exhibition in the UK. The exhibition, Nomad features photographic works from her series Bond: a study of the landscape through the act of binding and associating natural elements. According to Japanese religious ceremonies, ropes and ties symbolize the connections among people and the divine: a means to identify sacred space […]
As part of the Korea/UK Season, the Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) presents the solo exhibition of Seung Ae Lee, acclaimed for her meticulously detailed pencil drawings, The exhibition focuses on Lee’s trademark drawing animations that explore the relationships between the drawn line, the imaginative transformation and the moving image. Lee’s drawing animations are a […]
Exploring viewpoints, lines of sight and orientations, Dominika Wenz's photography reveals the latent art concealed in plain sight within the urban landscape. Geometrical rhythms and patterns of light emerge from the flow of edges, curves and spaces as the photographer’s eye scans the urban skyline. Then at the moment when changing viewpoint and transient ambience […]
Visual Diary of a Mother, is an exhibition of drawings in ink made daily by mother submerged into the world of her children. Motherhood is a state of being that passes by just as childhood does, it is often taken for granted and goes by unnoticed. There are moments of magic and times of frustration in […]
For this exhibition Tanya Ling makes a group of new Line Paintings that add to the series started in 2014, and first shown at Alex Eagle’s old space, South Kensington. The works will be exclusively made in the gallery over one weekend before the show opens; sheets of paper will be hung while Ling with a […]
Mary Hurrell’s 2 (Aerial) is the second part of a project, produced in collaboration between Kunstraum and Flat Time House, which maps changes in state of an amorphous body. The trilogy is conceived as one choreography stretched over time and space. Time is used as a material in Hurrell’s work, acting as a counterbalance to […]
‘The Valley of Lost Things’ tells the story of losing and finding of a key. Through these events, three key versions existed; the original, the imagined, and the found key. It’s unclear how these three keys came into being and expired. It’s possible that they crossed paths and influenced each other’s existence. Through the losing, […]
Janette Kerr is the ultimate sea painter. Her bold, expressive, exploratory work begins outside with the salt in her paint and the sea heaving and crashing around her, the wilder the better. Not only will she be there on the rocks or in a boat painting and drawing, responding directly to the elements, she will […]