The first in a 12-month programme dedicated to the writings of the German-born, American political philosopher Hannah Arendt, ‘The Modern Age’ extends Arendt’s examination of tradition and the modern age into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries or what she understood as “the modern world.” We are living through a very difficult period of history marked […]
Emma Cousin’s figurative paintings feature dynamic, carnivalesque scenarios that explore the space between realism and fantasy, felt experience and communication. Responding to the limitations of language when used to articulate the complexities of human experience and emotions, Cousin considers how we might interact without it, in pre- or post-linguistic states. Taking this idea of ‘the […]
Liz Fontaine works with performance, drawing, text and video. Concerned with sex, relationships, people and politics, her live performances are excruciatingly funny: filled with heartbreak, devastation and charm. In Hurt Agony Pain Love It, Fontaine's compulsive, titillating and densely detailed drawings take the viewer on a journey through her mind. Part diary, part fantasy and part […]
In ‘Mercy’, Sabine Moritz presents a selection of paintings, works on paper and, for the first time, photographs, encapsulating the full-range of the artist’s practice. Collectively, the works in the […]
An online exhibition of works by Rachel Kneebone forms a dialogue with the artist Robert Morris and the avant-garde choreography of Mary Wigman and Merce Cunningham. ‘I have always been fascinated by dance: how bodies meld and merge, how new forms are created by dancers and how dance allows us to escape to a different […]
A major new commission and solo exhibition by Candice Lin, comprising a virtual reality animation, flesh-like sculptures and a large-scale medieval trebuchet.
With a career spanning more than 50 years, Marinella Pirelli’s artistic efforts and talent are under-recognised. A leading experimental filmmaker in the 1960s and 1970s, Pirelli’s 16mm film explorations have only recently been rediscovered thanks to the retrospective that Museo del Novecento in Milan dedicated to her in 2019. This selection of works cover ideas […]
The exhibition Nomi presents a focused body of work that was born from grief and trauma. Over the past two years, Zoe Buckman has undertaken a difficult, complex and spiritual journey resulting in a tentative yet defiant proclamation of love and joy as an antidote to the darker side of life. From a real voyage in […]
Taking inspiration from Central Core Imagery, this two-part online exhibition explores the work of leading female ceramicists: Lynda Benglis, with her Bird’s Nest Series; Zoe Williams creates unwearable shoes; and Jacqueline Poncelet creates abstract forms infused with sexuality. They all use central core imagery – whether explicitly or not – through the ‘open’ form.
Jessie Homer French’s exhibition, West Coast, brings together a vast range of works that encompasses a thorough investigation of the artist’s long-time practice.
Elene Chantladze's exhibition, August War, includes a selection of both new and earlier work, showing her breadth of painterly technique and, material, exploration.
Vanessa Baird’s work is story telling of a kind that is both potently provocative and emphatically individual. Her charged creations, made in pastel and watercolour, range from room-size murals to intimate self-portraits and […]
On the deeds of many houses in Southchurch there is a covenant stating; residents are not allowed to make bricks or tiles from the clay underneath their feet, a seam […]
For Spectral Keepers, Sandra Mujinga illuminates the exhibition space with intense green lighting, immersing the viewer into an environment that feels part-nightclub, part-dimension travel dystopia. Inspired by the world-building practices found […]
Heart of the Matter features new and recent works from Tracey Emin, Bridget Riley, Chantal Joffe, Jasmine Pradissitto, Sikelela Owen, Emma Prempeh, Layla Andrews, Eleanor Johnson, Sarah Jane Moon, Sahara Longe and Cecily Brown. Each artwork offers unique visions and explorations into the artist’s contemporary practice. Through Heart of the Matter, and in support of […]
To accompany 'On Hannah Arendt: eight proposals for exhibition', Laima Leyton draws on her multifaceted identity as a producer, musician, activist, artist, mother and teacher to create eight unique sound […]
Drawn to the Line, is an online exhibition that brings together various types of drawings by Caroline McAdam Clark, Sula Rubens. Kate Scott, Jila Peacock and Jane Peacock. The drawings […]
An exhibition of landscape paintings by Yasmin David (1939-2009) Yasmin’s work explores the beauty and light of the South Devon landscape near Dartmoor. One of few women working in landscape […]
The exhibition, Natural Geometry, showcases the strong geometric sculpture of Halima Cassell and the exquisite feather constructions and installations of George Taylor, their first show together. Cassell and Taylor have a […]
Part II: Ceramics – The Central Core explores the fantastical, mythological and performative elements of the medium. The malleability of clay allows it to perform under and for an artist’s […]