In this exhibition Ala Younis’s presents her major new installation Plan for Feminist Greater Baghdad (2018), co-commissioned by Delfina Foundation and Art Jameel. The new work brings to the fore the significant contribution made by female artists, architects and other influential characters to the development of Baghdad and its modernist monuments, complementing Younis’s 2015 work. […]
Eloise Hawser's exhibition, By the Deep, by the Mark, takes you on a journey through a three dimensional mind-map of sculptures, audiovisual displays, medical hardware and archival materials. Featuring maps, models and measurements of the River Thames alongside cutting-edge diagnostic ‘phantoms’ (specialist machines rarely seen outside of a hospital or laboratory which are used to calibrate medical […]
“I have been artist in residence with various dance companies since 2015". "The works on exhibition Lines of Action are poster storyboard and drawings from these experiences. In the act of drawing I try to live the force of the dancers moment. I call this 'drawing the verb, the line of action'. Only afterwards when the […]
Join our 2010 "Woman to Watch", Rose Wylie, as she leads us around her acclaimed exhibition Quack, Quack at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. “The freedom and courage of Rose Wylie shows a way forward for painting in this century.” The Guardian Rose Wylie finds inspiration for her visually compelling paintings through her daily encounters and a […]
Announcing the launch of three public sculptures by acclaimed sculptor Kalliopi Lemos on Greenwich Peninsula. It is a triptych of sculptures that form part of an ongoing series ‘Tools of Endearment’ - Bra, Stiletto Heel, and the yet to be unveiled Corset. The aim of the exhibition is to readdress the balance between male and female artists, but importantly with feminine subject matter, which addresses politics, […]
This is the first UK exhibition of American artist Ena Swansea, whose work has been widely exhibited in the United States and abroad. The exhibition is comprised of nine mesmerizing oil, acrylic and graphite paintings, monumental in size and typically void of any specific narrative. Swansea’s new paintings produced over the course of the last […]
"Letting rip" is how Wilhelmina Barns-Graham described making her late work, with colour defining these energetic paintings and prints. Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a master of her craft, an artist perfectly attuned to every nuance of each hue and tone. Furthermore, she had the unusual gift of synaesthesia. This meant that sensations she experienced were translated […]
Fragments is a solo exhibition of new photographic and video work by Turkish artist Guler Ates, while an artist in residence at Eton College in 2015. Ates in her signature style, swathed a 21st century woman in veils of brightly coloured silk sourced from Asian markets in Slough, a city neighbouring Eton. She documented her emotional […]
Angela Sweet is exhibiting a new series of paper cuts in Sweet Cuts, all of which are based on light hearted word play. Sweet has refined her practice and describes papercutting as “…fun, it focuses the mind and the imagination”.
A group showing, featuring works by Matilde Damele, Silvia Lerin, Ruth Solomons and Joella Wheatley, contemplating the idea of liminal space. “Does the angle between two walls have a happy ending?” JG Ballard The notion of "the inner construct" immediately conjures references to frameworks, pathways and codes resulting from our external experiences. The writings of […]
An exhibition of works by Zona Maco.
“Turning Time,” is an exhibition of eight new photographs by Vera Lutter. Lutter has created pinhole-camera photographs of architecture, landscapes, cityscapes, and industrial sites since the early 1990s. “Turning Time” comprises two series, one depicting ancient temples in the southern Italian town of Paestum, the other the Effelsberg Radio Telescope at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomiey in […]
"Diversifolia,” is an exhibition of new sculpture and drawings by Nancy Rubins, and her first solo exhibition in London. Rubins transforms found objects and industrial refuse into expertly orchestrated abstractions that are fluid and rhizomatic in nature. She employs a structural property called “tensegrity,” wherein individual parts are arranged in balanced compression and secured with tensile cables. Clusters […]
For her first major London commission, Yto Barrada weaves together personal narratives and political ideals to create a complex portrait of a city and its people in a state of transition. The Curve is transformed with a dramatic installation – Agadir, which encompasses a mural, film commission, sculptures, and a series of live and recorded performances […]
Sketchbooks – Revelation, is an exhibition by Elisa Alaluusua, who explores and presents sketchbooks by four diverse artists: Nigel Hall, Eileen Hogan, Dale Inglis and Michael Sandle. The exhibition is based on in-depth interviews conducted over several years during Alaluusua’s PhD research on sketchbooks. The sketchbook has been at the heart of the creative process […]
Amanda Meström expects people to play, and she expects people to be playful, curious and conscientious in their play. So, can we play freely and democratically? How do we interact, how do we share objects? And, how might an object reveal the playground, map out the public domain, and the magic of private pleasure, solitude […]
In this remarkable compilation of photographs, Susan Barnett views her subjects through a single article of dress: the T-shirt. By excluding faces from her portraits, Barnett allows individuals to project their identity solely through the slogans on their backs and to soundlessly express passionate messages on sexuality, race, spirituality, consumerism, violence, pleasure, history, narcissism and […]
Òkhùo, is a solo exhibition by Taiye Idahor, who traces her heritage to the ancient empire of Benin City, Nigeria, whose history and iconography she references in her practice. Working within media as diverse as sculpture, collage, drawing, and installation, she explores layers of themes which are simultaneously universal and intimate, expressing female and African […]
February 2018 marks the centenary of the Representation of the People Act of 1918, which gave some women over the age of 30 the right to vote in the UK and catalysed the continuing fight for gender parity. While not a UK Friends of NMWA event, the breadth of activity across the UK merits our listings. […]
Bringing together film, sculpture, performance and installation into multi-layered projects, the core themes of Jasmina Cibic’s practice explore how art, architecture and political rhetoric are deployed and instrumentalised in the name of the nation. In This Machine Builds Nations, Cibic presents a site-specific installation that showcases the three films of her latest Nada trilogy presented for the […]