Peggy Franck @ Arcade Art
Arcade ArtPeggy Franck's exhibition, ‘You Begin’ is taken from Margaret Atwood’s poem ‘You Begin’ in the volume ‘Two Headed’ Poems.
Peggy Franck's exhibition, ‘You Begin’ is taken from Margaret Atwood’s poem ‘You Begin’ in the volume ‘Two Headed’ Poems.
Plates is based on field work undertaken in Ethiopia and Northern Ireland by artist Rachel Pimm with a soundtrack by Lori E. Allen. For this commission, the artists create a visual and […]
Lesley Foxcroft uses simple and everyday materials such as MDF, rubber, paper and card to make works that are sculptural in nature, yet often are wall mounted and very much […]
The exhibition, 9th St. Club features works from Elaine de Kooning, Perle Fine, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Mercedes Matter, Joan Mitchell, and is inspired in part by Mary […]
Vivian Suter, lives beside the volcanic lake Atitlán, in Guatemala, and draws her inspiration from the lush plants, vibrant flowers, birds and constantly changing weather of this tropical habitat. Her […]
Just Glass Group show, Recollection, focuses on memories in glass: everything from personal reminiscences to nostalgia, from the science of memory to the commemoration of moments in history. Each piece in the show has been inspired by memories and created in glass. The show features work from internationally renowned glass-makers as well as from emerging artists, […]
Alice Kettle works with marginalised communities and individuals, and collaborates with expert stitchers from around the world. Individuals from Syria, Iran and Uganda contribute to the hand stitching found on these drawn portraits by Alice. She wishes to acknowledge the importance of their input. This new series of portraits can be seen in the context of […]
C I T H R A is the first solo exhibition in London by Lauren Gault. Experimenting with unorthodox techniques and manufacturing processes, her work explores the often imperceptible changes that occur all around us. From microscopic events to geological time-scales, her works confront the ethical, political and emotional implications of human interactions with the […]
Christine Rebet's exhibition Time Levitation, comprises six hand-drawn animated films that address the traumas of personal and collective histories, illusion and the destruction of our shared history and environment. Drawing is at the heart of Rebet’s practice, which she often develops into animated films, sculpture, installations or performance art
Little is Enough For Those in Love, is Cassi Namoda’s first European solo exhibition, which takes its title from an East African proverb. The exhibition features new paintings that explore life and love in the city of Maputo, the artist’s birthplace and home for several years. Veering between the polarities of joy and pain, Namoda foregrounds […]
Until the 20th C, many women spent most of their adult years pregnant, but pregnancies are seldom apparent in surviving portraits. Portraying Pregnancy brings together images of women – mainly British – who were depicted at a time when they were pregnant (whether visibly so or not). Through paintings, prints, photographs, objects and clothing from the […]
France-Lise McGurn works with painting to create layered installations that incorporate gallery walls, floors and ceilings. "In Emotia" is a derivative term which suggests a state of being, simultaneously emotional and in motion. Mcgurn’s figurative painting and wall drawings evoke bodies and limbs overlapping and interacting in ambivalent spaces, at parties, in night clubs, on streets […]
Illuminating the Self is an exhibition of new work by Susan Aldworth and Andrew Carnie in response to groundbreaking research led by Newcastle University into developing a new treatment for epilepsy. The exhibition, which includes further work at Vane Gallery, explores different aspects of the University's CANDO project (Controlling Abnormal Network Dynamics using Optogenetics). Optogenetics is […]
This is the first UK solo exhibition of works by Hedda Sterne (1910–2011). She was an active member of the New York School, and was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1910 and fled to the US in 1941. Sterne created an extensive body of work that intersected with some of the most important movements and […]
Penelope Haralambidou's project 'City of Ladies' studies 'The Book of the City of Ladies', 1405, by Italian/French medieval author Christine de Pizan (1364 – c.1430). The text is part of […]
Laws of Ordered Form is a new commission by Anna Ridler for Data / Set / Match, a programme exploring how digital technology and new categorisations increasingly influence the way humans and machines see and understand the world today. The project creates a “historic” ImageNet using labels and photographs from Victorian and Edwardian encyclopaedias to show how the echoes of historic […]
The End of the Sentence presents artist Judy Price’s research into the history of Holloway Women’s Prison. The exhibition reflects on the impact of the criminal justice system on women, and features new work by Price, other artists whom she invited and archival material.
This selection of works demonstrates the genius in Marie Laurencin’s vision of a self-sufficient world of female affection and creativity. This exhibition seeks to celebrate Laurencin’s qualities as a great modernist painter, her instrumental role in defining the Art Deco style, and her influence on a generation of the Parisian intellectual elite.
‘Window’ is an exhibition by Isa Genzken featuring a new and unseen body of work. Genzken’s immersive environment expands on the themes of travel, through elements of an aircraft cabin, and the window as a juncture between interior and exterior spaces. In this respect, it reveals the artist’s interest in architecture and light. Genzken is […]
In a brief but explosively inventive career, Alina Szapocznikow (1926 – 1973) radically re-conceptualised sculpture as a vehicle for exploring, liberating and declaring bodily experience. In the exhibtion, ‘To Exalt the Ephemeral: Alina reveals the full expressive potential of her work through the material innovations she made during the last decade of her life. […]