This exhibition celebrates the remarkable influence of women gallerists in post-war Paris. At a time when it was still confoundingly hard for women artists to get established, in 1951 one in three galleries in Paris were actually run by women. Often referred to as the “Papesses de l’art abstrait”, loosely translated into "high priestesses of […]
The exhibition, The Abstract Truth of Things features drawings by Charmaine Watkiss and paintings by Andrew Pierre Hart, plus the feature of a soundscape. The lockdown in the UK created an opportunity for the artists to meet and engage on social media platforms where they conducted a series of discussions to develop the meeting point of […]
This exhibition reflects on a key area of history and reviews one hundred and twenty-five years of exhibiting women artists. It continues the spirit of our Modern Masters series and allows for the celebration of the pioneering, persistent, creative women artists at the end of the 19th century, and all the curators, gallerists and individual talents who […]
‘In My Room’, is Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings’ exhibition, which brings together film, fresco painting and works on paper. As a new body of work, ‘In My Room’ develops the artists’ enquiry into the politics, histories and aesthetics of queer spaces and culture. This enquiry builds on their travels across the UK whilst making ‘UK […]
This exhibition, Blueprints, brings together new and existing works in an immersive, site-specific installation, expanding the themes of automation, virtuality and technology that Cao Fei continuously draws upon.
Aimée Parrott's practice encompasses painting, printing, sculpture, artist books, murals and installation. The artist's understanding of painting, her primary medium, informs the ideas expressed throughout her practice as a whole. Approaching the canvas as a fragile and permeable boundary - a metaphorical skin or body that holds the trace of time, thought and gesture - […]
'I Saw the World End’ created by Es Devlin and Machiko Weston, and Voices of War form part of an IWM programme to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Victory 75 invites reflection on the momentous events that led to the culmination of the conflict and questions the fundamental […]
An online exhibition of Antonia Showering's work
Evelyn and William De Morgan have been described as ‘two of the rarest spirits of the age’. Evelyn’s paintings bear the influence of early Italian Renaissance art as well as that of her Pre-Raphaelite contemporaries, yet have a distinctive style. In addition, her paintings projected her political concerns, and she created many pictures in response […]
Tools for Life is the first UK solo exhibition of Chilean artist Johanna Unzueta. It features a large-scale felt installation, a collection of garments, a film shot at a textile factory in Chile, a wall mural and a selection of freestanding geometric drawings inspired by natural patterns. The exhibition reflects Unzueta’s interest in shared histories of […]
Toyin Ojih Odutola proposes speculative fictions, inviting the viewer to enter her vision of an uncannily familiar yet fantastical world. Working like an author or poet, she often spends months creating extensive imaginary narratives, which play out through a series of works to suggest a structure of episodes or chapters. Drawing on an eclectic range […]
Tamar Mason’s practice encompasses textiles, sculpture, ceramics and architecture. The artist’s choice of media, traditionally associated with women's work, ornament, and domesticity, confronts perceived divisions between art and craft, and allows Mason to integrate artistic practices more closely into daily life. Her work further explores the intersections of male and female, urban and rural, Western and African, […]
A pioneer of 1970s Feminist Art, Su Richardson played a key role in revalidating craft as a fine art form and its potential as a means of disrupting the white cube aesthetic. Simultaneously celebrating, exploiting and subverting feminine craft skills such as crocheting and embroidery, Richardson's home-made objects stir the unconscious of domesticity and femininity and their […]
From our celebrated collection of some of Britain’s most recognised fine art painters and printmakers, this body of work, State of Being, captures and interprets the human form. Each of our artists brings a different perspective, and include Henrietta Dubrey, Sara Hayward, Míla Fürstová, Chris Orr. For some, the subtlety of expression can only be deciphered with […]
In her distinctive approach to painting, Aileen Murphy generates imagery through a combination of slow layering and fast applications of oil paint, animating a delicate urgency and sparking sensations of both epiphany and discomfort. Fictive characters are the focal points of Murphy’s paintings. The figures fluctuate under the viewer’s eye, revealing and concealing themselves behind and via the […]
The exhibition Two Views from the Same Window, by Malgorzata Polonczyk reunites several works that reinterpret different sections of the same contemporary piece.
The centrepiece of this exhibition reimagines the ‘Five Senses’ collaboration between Rubens and Brueghel, which Olivia Kemp’s new paintings reinterpret. Each painting presents one of the five senses as a figure, surrounded by imagery that illustrates the theme. Olivia’s uses these compositions as templates to bring together a stream of both art historical and personal associations. […]
Chantal Joffe: For Esme – with Love and Squalor, explores the intimate act of painting and portraiture. Taking its name from J.D. Salinger’s short story For Esmé – with Love and Squalor (1950) in which time hangs as heavy as the protagonist’s ‘enormous-faced chronographic-looking wristwatch’, the exhibition captures the changing faces across the years of Chantal and […]
Elizabeth Price’s trilogy of new multi-channel video works, SLOW DANS, includes KOHL, FELT TIP and THE TEACHERS. These present a fictional past, parallel present and imagined future, interweaving compact narratives that explore social and sexual histories and our changing relationship between the material and the digital. It is a large-scale installation conceived by the artist for a repurposed 19th century assembly […]
Jo Spence (1934-1992) emerged as a key figure in British photography in the mid-1970s. Engaging with a range of photographic genres, from commercial to documentary and photo therapy, Spence took a unique approach to the camera, swerving academic theories and embracing a model based on experimentation and personal experience. Photo Therapy features work from the artist’s series […]