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Suffrage Centenary

February 2018 marks the centenary of the Representation of the People Act of 1918, which gave some women over the age of 30 the right to vote in the UK and catalysed the continuing fight for gender parity. While not a UK Friends of NMWA event, the breadth of activity across the UK merits our listings. […]

Jasmina Cibic @ BALTIC

Baltic, Gateshead

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 @ BALTIC

Baltic, Gateshead

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 @ River & Rowing Museum

River & Rowing Museum, Henley on Thames

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 […]

Virginia Woolf @ Tate St Ives

Tate, St Ives

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 […]

Rachel Megawatt & Others @ Herrick Gallery

Herrick Gallery

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 @ Amanda Wilkinson Gallery

Amanda Wilkinson Gallery

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 […]

Wendy Shaw @ Norwich Cathedral

Norwich Cathedral

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.

Magdalene Drwiega @ ASC Gallery

ASC Gallery

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 @ Domobaal

Domo Baal Gallery

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 @ Kate Macgarry

Kate Macgarry

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, […]

Sophie von Hellerman @ Pillar Corrias

Pillar Corrias Gallery

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.

Andrea G Artz @ Art-CP Galleria

Art-CP Galleria

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 @ Nottingham Contemporary

Nottingham Contemporary

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 […]

Lubaina Himid @ Hollybush Gardens

Hollybush Gardens , United Kingdom

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 […]

Caroline Cole & Sophie Arup @ Herrick Gallery

Herrick Gallery

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 […]

Valerie Belin @ Huxley Parlour Gallery

Huxley Parlour Gallery

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 […]

Sheila Bownas @ Pallant House Gallery

Pallant House Gallery 9 North Pallant , Chichester West Sussex

A Life in Pattern, is an exhibition of original designs by the mid-century textile designer Sheila Bownas (1925—2007), a supplier to Liberty London and Marks & Spencer who remained relatively unknown […]