Òkhùo, is a solo exhibition by Taiye Idahor, who traces her heritage to the ancient empire of Benin City, Nigeria, whose history and iconography she references in her practice. Working within media as diverse as sculpture, collage, drawing, and installation, she explores layers of themes which are simultaneously universal and intimate, expressing female and African […]

Bringing together film, sculpture, performance and installation into multi-layered projects, the core themes of Jasmina Cibic’s practice explore how art, architecture and political rhetoric are deployed and instrumentalised in the […]

Serena Korda works across performance, sound and sculpture reconsidering aspects of communion and tradition in our lives. Korda is the 2016-17 Norma Lipman & BALTIC Fellow in Ceramic Sculpture at […]

Barbara Hepworth: Finding Form celebrates the work of one of the country’s most renowned sculptors. The exhibition features a unique selection of works on display from collections around the country including […]

Discover art from 1850 to the present, inspired by the writing of this celebrated author of classic texts including 'To the Lighthouse' and the pioneering feminist text 'A Room of One’s Own', Virginia Woolf spent much of her childhood in St Ives. This exhibition is led by her writing, which will act as a prism through which to […]

Love is an exhibition of light, love, sex and flowers with exquisite photographs, enticing neons and intimate oils by Rachel Megawhat, Illuminati Neon and Geraldine Swayne. "there are in the end three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is Love." Corinthians 13:13 Rachel Megawhat’s flower pictures are described by the artist as […]

Laurie Simmons is one of the most significant artists of the past forty years and a pioneer of the critique of photographic imagery associated with the ‘Pictures Generation’ of the late 1970s and early ’80s in New York. In 2017 - the post-internet age of fake news, fabricated images and fictive identites – and Simmons’s ‘Fake […]

An installation by The Revd Wendy Shaw, made up of porcelain bones impressed with texts taken from Norfolk gravestones, is a feature in the Cathedral. The question ‘Can these bones live?’ and Wendy’s inspiration is taken from the book of Ezekial in the Old Testament.

At first glance this pairing seems a fairly disparate one but closer inspection reveals a number of shared interests and aims in Another Kind of Tension.  Paul Housley tends to stick to figuration and plays around with the traditional genres of portraiture and still life. Magdalene Drwiega works in bold colours and bold forms, often using […]

Fiona Finnegan's images in The Frog Devoured the Sun, are simultaneously familiar and enigmatic. Searching for a feeling rather than a particular subject, she carefully erases the details which locate an image in a particular time or space and creates instead a sense of surreal timelessness; something from the past but not necessarily rooted in reality. The […]

Laura Gannon’s new works are abstract drawings made with metallic ink on linen. The linen has been subjected to multiple processes to reveal its corporeality: folding, bending, wrinkling. Gannon describes these works as “sculptural drawings” or “performative drawings”, suggesting both their raw physicality and directness. Although having the bones of minimalism, Gannon circumnavigates straight lines, […]

Th paintings New Waves, recall the look of fables, legends, and traditional stories that are imbued with the workings of Sophie von Hellerman's subconscious rather than the content of existing images.

The artist has created a wall-based installation comprised of Origami foldings that meander through Crol & Co’s space. Thee foldings are made of photographic portraits from different historical epochs. Each person was once portrayed and immortalised by a photographer.   The photographs existed as a memory, but, as time passed, they ceased into oblivion and […]

Ye Funa’s practice is concerned with the boundaries between daily life and contemporary art. Her work explores the effects of new media and globalisation on cultural identity and gender. For our exhibition, Ye will produce a new episode in her online Peep-Stream series, addressing society’s current desire to display ourselves through selfies, webchats and social […]

The Tenderness Only We Can See, is a new constellation of paintings by Lubaina Himid that moves across canvas and wood, in drawers and on case - one thing speaks to the next. For Himid “The paintings in the show are speaking different languages, to me and to each other; some of them are secret. Other […]

Two solo shows from Chinese female artists are presented as part of NOW. Female artists have long been marginalised and left at the fringes of Chinese art historical debates and […]

This is the second exhibition showcasing the work of two sisters: Caroline Cole and Sophie Arup and is curated by CO (Marcus Cole and Issy Ogden). Caroline works in ceramics and Sophie with paper and collage. Their highly individual but remarkably complementary work is founded on geometry and mathematical patterns that are enhanced by a […]

An  exhibition of Tammy Mackay's work.

Valérie Belin's photographs focus on the depictions of the female form. The exhibition showcases fifteen large-scale works created between 2001 and 2017, many of which will be on display in the UK for the first time. Exploring issues of identity, surface and artificiality, Belin's work often returns to the depiction of the human form at transformative […]