The first retrospective for nearly a century of the Manchester born painter Annie Swynnerton, a pioneering professional artist who challenged convention in art and life. Painting Light and Hope features 36 paintings from across Swynnerton’s career, including 13 from Manchester Art Gallery’s collection with further loans from public galleries including the Royal Academy Collection, Tate […]
The Machine Stops is a group exhibition by artists Adam Hogarth, Clare Mitten, Gabriela Schutz and composer Martin Ward. It takes as its starting point E.M. Forster’s 1909 science fiction […]
Carla Kranendonk creates large-scale collages that are informed by both her experience of the African diaspora in her native Amsterdam and her travels to West Africa and the Caribbean. Paper painted with bright patterns is combined with embroidery and beadwork, as well as photographs of figures from African culture and Kranendonk’s own family. The resulting works, […]
Another Kind of Life follows the lives of individuals and communities operating on the fringes of society from America to India, Chile to Nigeria. The exhibition reflects a more diverse, complex […]
A solos exhibition by Myra Greene of her Inkjet prints.
Undertones, is a a solo exhibition of American artist Myra Greene, her first outside the US. The exhibition will include work from 2002 to the present day, offering an overview of the artist’s output to date.
Laniakea (Hawaiian for ‘immeasurable heaven’), is a class XVI celestial painter, whose nefarious extra-dimensional practice spans both time and space. For this, her first exhibition on Earth, she will open […]
Hazel Brill presents a new spring-themed video installation featuring an animated narcissus, a Heston Blumenthal lookalike, tulip bulbs and recurring covers of Wuthering Heights. Inside the Invites room a theatrical […]
Laura Simpson's inaugural exhibition, ‘Unanswerable’, features new and recent work across three different media: painting, photographic collage and sculpture. Simpson came to prominence in the 1980s through her pioneering approach to conceptual photography, which featured striking juxtapositions of text and staged images and raised questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race and history. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 is largely unrecognised today. She disregarded fashion photography’s formal conventions, using unusual, often incongruous backdrops for her shoots. Known professionally as ‘Jay’, she worked as […]
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 master boat builders to replicate shipbuilding methods, the artist has constructed three imposing bowed beams carved from a single oak tree, echoing the arches of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]