An exhibition of works by Isabelle Cornaro, Giulia Piscitelli, and Jessica Warboys curated by Rita Selvaggio. It deals with the idea of landscape, which for Warboys is reclusive and visionary, for Cornaro an abstraction of reality, and for Piscitelli a journey through space and time. The “Secret of the Landscape” consists of a physical, mental, tactile […]
This is the first European solo exhibition of acclaimed African-American artist Faith Ringgold. This follows her inclusion in the recent group exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at Tate Modern, London earlier this year. The show will comprise an overview of the artist's iconic 'story quilts' from the mid-1980s […]
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 […]
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 story of the same title, which describes a future in which humans live underground, with a global, omnipresent machine fulfilling all physical and spiritual needs. […]
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 up a storm-wrapped rift to a parallel universe in GAO’s carpark. Laniakea considers probing the deep-time history of our planet to be as much of […]
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 set evokes an artificial landscape populated by props and characters that intermittently aid and guide the narrative. Brill structures her storytelling in a way she […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 interest in material and imaginative transformation, the relation between absence and presence, and how memory resides in all its complexities within the human frame.
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 […]