On 1 December, UK Friends of NMWA will be breakfasting with Anna Valentine at her showroom in Marylebone. Anna will talk about her couture and ready-to-wear collections and what inspires her to create and design. Anna Valentine has been creating couture clothing with a modern twist for over 30 years. Her focus is on fabric, form […]
First Act: Smooth Operations brings together the work of Eva Fàbregas and Patricia Pisanelli, two London-based artists whose practices are predominantly concerned with the affective and the subjective in the context of the so-called ‘experience economy’. The works place the subject —the individual, the group— amidst the material culture we live in and investigate today’s […]
Dorothy Cross makes both discrete objects and large-scale works and she is well-known for using diverse media, from found and constructed items to opera, photographs and film. For this exhibition, her focus is a series of substantial new sculptures, including a large bed carved in Carrara marble. Glance, the title of the exhibition, suggests both […]
This exhibition focusses on the key themes of self, empowerment and spirituality embedded in Rose Finn-Kelcey’s work, exploring how they contribute to our own perception of identity. Her work is […]
To complement a mini-retrospective at Winchester Discovery Centre, Alice Kettle: More Threads is being held simultaneously at Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester. Here visitors can view previously unseen and recently created work, including Sunbathers (2017), made by Alice for GOOD NATURE, at the gallery earlier this year, two pieces from her Schiffili series, made in 2006 on machines that no […]
The exhibition 'Betwixt', explores organic and psychic transference between selves and species, featuring the shape-changing photography of Meryl McMaster and David Ellingsen.
We are thrilled to invite you to a reception celebrating our 10th Anniversary as a UK charity and NMWA's thirtieth anniversary. As we announced in September, UK Friends of NMWA are presenting the museum withThirty Pieces of Silver (Exhaled) by Cornelia Parker as a celebratory gift. In honour of this occasion, Cornelia Parker will be […]
This exhibition of new work by Nikki Graham is buoyed by a renewed freedom in her painting. Nikki has produced an exciting and exuberant collection of large works on paper, elevating autobiographical vignettes into grand monuments to everyday life, which is called Patchwork.
Olivia Krimpas develops her prints by combining painting, drawing and etching, using multiple plates to create layers of colour. These processes enable her to find the fluid, rhythmic quality of people and objects in action. Her preoccupation, inspired by her history in dance, is the definition of moving forms in space. She exhibits regularly and […]
Kirsten Reynolds is an English artist whose current work uses photography, painting, printmaking and sound / light installation to re-interpret classical themes relating to landscape, nature and the environment. Preferring to work off the beaten track, Reynolds chooses significant locations to make nocturnal light drawings that capture dynamic traces of the artist’s movements in response […]
In her first institutional solo show in the UK, Ilona Sagar presents Correspondence O, a multi-faceted work exploring the history of the Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham and its subsequent […]
This exhibition in partnership with Rochester Art Gallery features internationally-renowned textile artist and designer Margo Selby. We are showcasing her beautiful hand-woven framed textiles, including new pieces made especially for […]
Sofia Stevi makes paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Drawing inspiration from literature, philosophy and the everyday, her works bring together a wide range of references, from the writings of […]
Monika Sosnowska's solo exhibition features an entirely new body of work and is the artist’s inaugural exhibition in the gallery’s London space. In recent times Sosnowska has further developed her dynamic approach to materiality in which architectural and sculptural elements are hewn together in disorienting new configurations. Entitled ‘Structural Exercises’, the presentation comprises seven distinct […]
Cornelia Parker RA OBE is one of the UK’s foremost artists. Known across the world for her groundbreaking installations and sculpture, this intimate exhibition, One Day this Glass will Break, features Parker’s most recent work – a series of largescale photogravures and Fox Talbot's Articles of Glass (2017) which has never been shown outside London. This […]
A celebration of women in British art - past, present and future. In a year of national milestones, the RWA marks the impact of female artists on our country's artistic […]
From its foundation to the present day, the RWA has had women artists at its heart. This diverse exhibition takes a walk through the RWA’s fascinating history and shines a […]
Frink-Blow-Lawson brings together the work of Dame Elisabeth Frink, Sandra Blow and Sonia Lawson, and explores their profound impact, still recognisable today. The work featured in this unique exhibition reflects […]
A major new exhibition of new ceramics by Emilie Taylor, commissioned by Gallery Oldham. Taylor has a long-standing interest in representing the lives of people who exist in the gaps of society, which she describes as the Edgelands. Emilie’s latest body of work is inspired by the Greek myth of Persephone and Demeter, but in […]
Ths exhibition is a new series of raw and powerful paintings, frequently vast in scale, which were inspired by found photographic imagery the artist collects. These images often depict people […]