Ketty La Rocca was associated with the poesia visiva (visual poetry) movement and the avant-garde activities of the Florentine Gruppo 70 and began making subversive visual-verbal collages in the 1960s, cutting and pasting images together with short text clippings. Her early collage works mimic and undermine the commercial imagery of the day. She presents texts […]
Jonkonnu Masquerade, is an exhibition of new works by Sokari Douglas Camp CBE that explores the masquerade of ‘Jonkonnu’ both within its Caribbean context and that of the broader African diaspora. The sculptures are a heady mix of outlandish characters who trace the overlapping links between still-surviving African masquerades, Caribbean carnival traditions and their most recent incarnation on the […]
‘Shapeshifters’, is an exhibition of Orlanda Broom’s abstract works which burst with explosive movement, fluid shapes, and a playful colour palette in a riotous celebration of colour, form, and technique. The title of the exhibition evokes the idea of transience and the chimeric nature of what it means to be human, animal, or even an inanimate […]
An exhibition of Lakwena Maciver’s Jump Paintings, with abstract portraits of some of the most inspiring Basketball Players, both past and present. The origins of these ‘Jump paintings’ stem from two full-size courts painted in 2020 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to honour Senator Flowers, whose impassioned 2019 speech against proposed ‘Stand Your Ground’ legislation went […]
The exhibition, In the Air, explores the relationship between the air and earth, from 3.5-billion-year-old fossilised bacteria that first introduced oxygen into the atmosphere to delicate porcelain sculptures of the glaciers that provide a record of the air and our impact on it. It charts the history of activism against pollution from 17th-century accounts of coal […]
Three major sculptures by Sophia Vari are installed on the Smithson Plaza, which continuies an established legacy of showcasing significant works of modern and contemporary art in this important location. Vari's Le Roi et La Reine (2000), is in two parts, and Trouble Essentiel (1993) are black and white polychrome bronze sculptures which encapsulate the […]
Eileen Cooper presents 11 new works on canvas for her exhibition: Somewhere or Other. Whilst encompassing enduring themes of sexuality, creativity, fertility, and relationships, the works in 'Somewhere or Other' recognise a darker side of Cooper’s remit by considering desire and isolation, mortality and conflict
Araminta Blue’s exhibition ‘Silt’ is a selection of works on paper that features a large-scale diptych of over 3m that testifies to her increasing ambition. Blue’s paintings represent a significant and bold development in her work; no longer are the paintings so centred around the human figure although they are still very present. Instead, abstraction […]
In Body Vessel Clay, the artists explore race, gender, colonialism, the body, and the vessel, as well as how their work with clay challenges the perceptions of clay as a medium. The aim of this exhibition is to shine new light on under-profiled collections and the contributions made by Black women artists and ceramists at […]
Mónica de Miranda's research-led practice is grounded in postcolonial politics in relation to Africa and its diaspora. Her most recent project The Island contemplates the complex experiences of Afrodiasporic lives and Europe’s colonial past. Fusing fact and fiction, The Island explores a long trajectory of black presences in Portugal by bringing together intertwined narratives – drawing on African liberation movements, […]
Uncertain Futures is a new collaborative artwork highlighting intersectional issues around work for women over 50 focusing on gender, age, race, disability and class. Developed by Suzanne Lacy with an advisory group.
This exhibition by Elsa James, is her most ambitious work to date, ‘Othered in a region that has been historically Othered’ premieres in her home of Southend and is part of her ongoing enquiry into what it means to be black in Essex. The exhibition includes a major three-part film installation and original sound works, alongside […]
And Everything Changed, an exhibition of new work by Catherine Goodman that examines and positions human physicality into an intense relationship with the natural environment. Created during London’s Covid-19 lockdown and whilst Catherine took on a new responsibility of caring for her elderly mother with advanced Alzheimer’s, this new series of paintings showcases an emergent female form in dialogue […]
For her winning Max Mara Art Prize for Women commission, Emma Talbot questions deeply rooted positions of power, governance, attitudes to nature and representations of women through an acutely personal lens in The Age/L'Eta.
Rite of Passage: Lina Iris Viktor with César, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, and Yves Klein is a presentation of works by Lina Iris Viktor and historic artists whose work finds echoes in her practice Revealing connections across colour, process, and material, this dialogue complements Viktor’s recent shift toward a more intuitive, abstract, and visceral mode of […]
Howardena Pindell's exhibition, A New Language, brings together work from Pindell’s six decade long career including paintings, works on paper and video. The exhibition tracks the development of Pindell’s artistic language, and examines her work as exemplary in articulating empowerment.
A continuation of Lisa Traxler's sculpture, ‘Time Traveller – Voyager’ which was inspired by a painting from Southampton’s Maritime and Local History Collection ‘Approach to the New World (Olympic)’ by artist Norman Wilkinson. With this as a reference point, history and architecture collide in her current exhibition to create an immersive landscape within the gallery setting. Alongside dazzle […]
Part One: El Umbral – The Threshold, is the first exhibition and events of The Portals Project. In this context, the installed paintings, drawings, works in embroidery thread, and video artworks establish a scene in which the fictional characters of the pieces begin to exist, and where worlds are formed.
The exhibition, Born from Earth, is an all-woman group show bringing together ceramics by 11 contemporary artists, from pioneers of the medium to young artists who keep pushing it forward. The exhibition features a bespoke display designed by Lisa Chan, founder of London-based creative studio. It is a Local Collective, which transforms the gallery into an earthen […]
In these works, Breath, Zarah Hussain explores the principles of geometry and mathematics, to guide the viewer into a moment of deep contemplation and stillness. In their pairs, the paintings represent inhalation […]