The exhibition spans Judy Chicago's fifty-year career, from her early actions in the desert in the 1970s, to her most recent series, The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction (2013–16), which has not been previously shown outside of the US. Judy Chicago explores her work from the perspective of the human condition, connecting birth and death with the emotional […]
The Archive hosts a display of materials from, and relating to, the Her Noise Archive. Her Noise was initiated by Lina Džuverović and Anne Hilde Neset in 2001, with an ambition to investigate music and sound histories in relation to gender, and to create a lasting resource and a starting point for new investigations. In […]
During the 1930s, Dora Maar’s provocative photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism. Her eye for the unusual also translated to her commercial photography, including fashion and advertising, as well as to her social documentary projects. In Europe’s increasingly fraught political climate, Maar signed her name to numerous left-wing manifestos – a radical gesture for a woman at that time. In middle […]
Hilary Lloyd’s new exhibition Car Park features a body of work – spanning video, painting and installation – in which she captures the sights and sounds of an urban landscape. Most of the videos in the exhibition were shot in Thamesmead in southeast London, close to her studio. Focusing on small, seemingly incidental details (a car […]
Selma Parlour is known for her oil paintings that look as though they are drawn, dyed, or printed. Activities for the Abyss showcases the artist’s soft films of luminescent colour, her delicately-rendered pencil-like oil-made lines and sumptuously refined matt surfaces, her diagrammatic approach that stresses painting’s two-dimensionality, her units of colour inlaid as though through a […]
Nobody axed you to is an exhibition featuring series of new commissions by Jessie Makinson. The exhibition comprises large-scale oil paintings on canvas, a painted and carved Paravent, an in-situ wall-installation and several smaller ink and watercolour drawings, showing the variety of the artist’s practice. Through her work, Makinson creates a vivid transgressive tableaux, weaving together sources […]
Paintings by Helen Johnson that represent contemporary issues, based on the spasming of stock market graphs; fragments of texts from bygone days of pre-mechanical mining and logging; desert islands; and the layout of the Australian Parliament House.
'After Euphoria', is an exhibition by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, which reflects on subjectivity and individual identity as forms of self-determination. Through painting, she explores how selfhood and personal experience – especially love and loss – marks of existence – constitute a vital and highly personal process of self-historicization vis-à-vis identity formation. 'After Euphoria' draws heavily on the vicissitudes of […]
In her exhibition P E R I O D, Fiona Banner Aka the Vanity Press reflects on three years of uncertainty and suspended animation for the British Isles. The central concern of her practice is the exploration of language and communication, with the focus on its breakdown. In this exhibition she uses figurative painting, and presents […]
Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance is an ambitious retrospective of the Portuguese artist’s work that brings politics to the fore. Spanning Rego’s career from the 1960s through to 2012, the works in this exhibition address António de Oliveira Salazar’s fascist regime, the 1997 referendum on legalising abortion in Portugal, the invasion of Iraq in 2003 […]
Jacqueline de Jong’s exhibition Resilience(s) focusses on paintings made in the 1980s and early 1990s, and brings together key works from her Upstairs Downstairs and Paysages Dramatiques series. Exuberant, sensual, violent and contradictory, Resilience(s) manifests the defiance and adaptability inherent in de Jong’s practice.
Showing and Seeing is an exhibition of select works that presents Candida Höfer's iconic images of libraries and theatres, from locations in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico and Russia. They have been brought together to exemplify the artist’s mastery in depicting sublime, grand spaces with inimitable technical virtuosity.
Lindsey Mendick was selected through an open call for a commissioned solo exhibition, Regrets, I've had a few that launches SPACE’s new gallery. As part of the commission, she will lead a series of ceramic workshops for Ilford’s +65s . Lindsey creates installations centred on her skilled work in ceramics and includes banner painting, sewing, metalwork, furniture […]
Marion Fink's, monotype* figures find themselves in surreal scenarios, sublimely interacting with rudimentary features of our world, like rocks, water concrete or steel constructions. Their motives or supposed ruminations (or perhaps those are meditations belonging to the artist) are scrawled, like ‘automatic writing’* across the painted surface. Fink’s works are personalized studies on her perception of […]
Anne Hardy is internationally recognised for her large-scale sculptural installations: immersive, sensual works that combine physical materials with lighting and surround sound. For the 2019 Commission, Hardy transforms Tate Britain’s iconic facade into a marooned temple in an exploration of the natural rhythms of the earth, tides, and the winter solstice.
“I look at the street and at people walking on foot with different appearances advancing at different speeds. I think of the invisible threads which manipulate them... I try and see the machinery which organises them. I think this is in a way what I attempt to paint.” This is a travelling exhibition of works […]
In Lubaina Himid's paintings you discover the intimate portrayal of women. Her characters are often presented in close pairs, quietly involved in interactions that the artist describes as both complex and ordinary. This display features Freedom and Change 1984, Himid’s earliest work to depict this subject, alongside more recent work. It traces the way her paintings have […]
In this exhibition, Pathways, here is what Sara Armstrong-Jones says of her work: “A particular quality of light or the natural shapes and patterns formed by stones and leaves scattered on the path often catch my eye whilst out walking. A few quick informative marks in my drawing book and gathered pieces of rock, fallen leaves or lichen hold […]
A submission by, Julie Ann Steward to the Gallery's Open Call 2019 – Change: For better or worse. For richer or poorer. The resulting exhibition, Timespan St Pancras (from gasometer to champagne bar) 2014-2019, (charcoal on paper), is an effort to convey in a single work the sense of dramatic transformation that began over twenty years ago. Timespan Liverpool […]
Territories of Print 1994 – 2019, Emma Stibbon is ‘artist as witness’ to our landscape and environment on the cusp of change: polar regions; volcanoes; deserts; coastal and urban. Through the alchemy of printmaking Stibbon envelops us in her experiences with monumental woodcuts and tactile intaglio prints, where volcanic ash is embedded into the printing plate. […]