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Calliope Lemos @ NOW Gallery

Greenwich Peninsula Square

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 Heel, and the yet to be unveiled Corset.  The aim of the exhibition is to readdress the balance between male and female artists, but importantly with feminine subject matter, which addresses politics, […]

Ena Swansea @ Ben Brown Fine Arts

Ben Brown Fine Arts

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 oil, acrylic and graphite paintings, monumental in size and typically void of any specific narrative. Swansea’s new paintings produced over the course of the last […]

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham @ Bohun Gallery

Bohun Gallery

"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 […]

Guler Ates @ Eton College

Marcelle Joseph Projects 68 Kinnerton Street, London

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, swathed a 21st century woman in veils of brightly coloured silk sourced from Asian markets in Slough, a city neighbouring Eton.  She documented her emotional […]

Angela Sweet @ Southampton City Art Gallery

Southampton City Art Gallery

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”.

Matilde Damele & others

The Foundry Gallery

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 […]

Zona Maco @ Arcade

Arcade Fine Arts

An exhibition of works by Zona Maco.

Vera Lutter @ Gagosian Gallery

Gagosian Gallery

“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 […]

Nancy Rubins @ Gagosian Gallery

Gagosian Gallery

"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 […]

Yto Barrada @ Barbican Art Gallery

Barbican Gallery

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 transition. The Curve is transformed with a dramatic installation – Agadir, which encompasses a mural, film commission, sculptures, and a series of live and recorded performances […]

Elisa Alaluusua @ Art Space Gallery

Art Space Gallery

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 Mestrom @ Castor Projects

Castor Projects

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, how do we share objects? And, how might an object reveal the playground, map out the public domain, and the magic of private pleasure, solitude […]

Susan Barnett @ Fashion & Textile Museum

Fashion & Textile Museum

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 […]

Taiye Idahor @ Tyburn Gallery

Tyburn Gallery

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 […]

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 […]