Join our 2010 "Woman to Watch", Rose Wylie, as she leads us around her acclaimed exhibition Quack, Quack at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. “The freedom and courage of Rose Wylie shows a way forward for painting in this century.” The Guardian Rose Wylie finds inspiration for her visually compelling paintings through her daily encounters and a […]
Announcing the launch of three public sculptures by acclaimed sculptor Kalliopi Lemos on Greenwich Peninsula. It is a triptych of sculptures that form part of an ongoing series ‘Tools of Endearment’ - Bra, Stiletto […]
This is the first UK exhibition of American artist Ena Swansea, whose work has been widely exhibited in the United States and abroad. The exhibition is comprised of nine mesmerizing […]
"Letting rip" is how Wilhelmina Barns-Graham described making her late work, with colour defining these energetic paintings and prints. Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a master of her craft, an artist perfectly attuned to every nuance of each hue and tone. Furthermore, she had the unusual gift of synaesthesia. This meant that sensations she experienced were translated […]
Fragments is a solo exhibition of new photographic and video work by Turkish artist Guler Ates, while an artist in residence at Eton College in 2015. Ates in her signature style, […]
Angela Sweet is exhibiting a new series of paper cuts in Sweet Cuts, all of which are based on light hearted word play. Sweet has refined her practice and describes papercutting as “…fun, it focuses the mind and the imagination”.
A group showing, featuring works by Matilde Damele, Silvia Lerin, Ruth Solomons and Joella Wheatley, contemplating the idea of liminal space. “Does the angle between two walls have a happy ending?” JG Ballard The notion of "the inner construct" immediately conjures references to frameworks, pathways and codes resulting from our external experiences. The writings of […]
An exhibition of works by Zona Maco.
“Turning Time,” is an exhibition of eight new photographs by Vera Lutter. Lutter has created pinhole-camera photographs of architecture, landscapes, cityscapes, and industrial sites since the early 1990s. “Turning Time” comprises two series, one depicting ancient temples in the southern Italian town of Paestum, the other the Effelsberg Radio Telescope at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomiey in […]
"Diversifolia,” is an exhibition of new sculpture and drawings by Nancy Rubins, and her first solo exhibition in London. Rubins transforms found objects and industrial refuse into expertly orchestrated abstractions that are fluid and rhizomatic in nature. She employs a structural property called “tensegrity,” wherein individual parts are arranged in balanced compression and secured with tensile cables. Clusters […]
For her first major London commission, Yto Barrada weaves together personal narratives and political ideals to create a complex portrait of a city and its people in a state of […]
Sketchbooks – Revelation, is an exhibition by Elisa Alaluusua, who explores and presents sketchbooks by four diverse artists: Nigel Hall, Eileen Hogan, Dale Inglis and Michael Sandle. The exhibition is based on in-depth interviews conducted over several years during Alaluusua’s PhD research on sketchbooks. The sketchbook has been at the heart of the creative process […]
Amanda Meström expects people to play, and she expects people to be playful, curious and conscientious in their play. So, can we play freely and democratically? How do we interact, […]
In this remarkable compilation of photographs, Susan Barnett views her subjects through a single article of dress: the T-shirt. By excluding faces from her portraits, Barnett allows individuals to project their identity solely through the slogans on their backs and to soundlessly express passionate messages on sexuality, race, spirituality, consumerism, violence, pleasure, history, narcissism and […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]