Amel Bashier's work is inspired by the wisdom and strength of her female ancestors, particularly those who struggled and fought for their rights. She uses their stories both as a source of vitality for her creative process, and as a point of comparison to the continued battle of the modern-day Sudanese women's rights movement.
This exhibition, "Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970, celebrates the practices of the numerous international women artists working with gestural abstraction in the aftermath of the Second World War. It features well-known artists associated with the Abstract Expressionism movement, including American artists Lee Krasner (1908-1984) and Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011); alongside lesser-known figures such as Mozambican-Italian artist Bertina […]
Bells for Baku, London, Louisiana, is an exhibition by Zarouhie Abdalian, is a new body of work conceived especially for this exhibition, on themes related to the conditions of modern industrial production that continue to occupy the artist. Abdalian turns her attention to heavy industry, to the massive accumulation of labour that confronts the workers […]
Andrea Heller’s work might be characterised as ‘serious play’. She works in a wide range of media, including paintings and drawings on paper and fabric, as well as sculptures in ceramic, plaster and glass, Heller embraces contradictory impulses. Her work evokes a series of dialectics: organic and geometric; inside and outside; ugly and beautiful; playful […]
A selection of works by Kathryn Maple, which showcases her painting ‘The Common’ that has become part of the permanent collection at the gallery, and offers visitors the opportunity to gain a deeper insight into her work. Also, the display shows a combination of drawings and oil paintings that explore her ongoing themes of figures […]
Two Worlds Entwined, explore the artistic practices of Annie Morris and Idris Khan within the historic and intimate setting of this Gallery. Annie Morris’s multi-disciplinary practice draws on both personal experience and the history of art to create works of art noted for their energetic, electric nature. Idris Khan, gets inspiration from the history of […]
The BIG exhibition celebrates the creative achievements of women in art! Curated by Sarah Lucas, and featuring the work of over twenty high-profile female artists, the BIG WOMEN exhibition includes a variety of works that will make you think, laugh and reflect on the role women play in the creative world. Works included range from […]
This exhibition explores the work of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, from her early work based on the Cornish landscape through to the abstract canvases she made during the 1960s and early 1970s. Highlights include Barns-Graham’s striking depictions of the Grindelwald Glacier in Switzerland. The exhibition features around seventy paintings and drawings and is organised in collaboration with […]
Techné, is a two person show by Erika Trotzig and Torgny Wilcke. Both artists in this exhibition are fascinated with material and form, often using craft-based techniques and aesthetics, they invite us to question the hierarchy of material, the traditions of painting and sculpture and how we as viewers interact with objects and the space […]
Alice Neel's (1900–1984) vivid portraits capture the shifting social and political context of the American twentieth century in this retrospective. In 1960s New York, Alice Neel was crowned ‘the court painter of the underground’, for her vibrant portraits of everyday people – including labour leaders, Greenwich Village eccentrics, civil rights activists, pregnant women and queer […]
A group exhibition pairing nine feminist artists working at the advent of feminist theory in the 1970’s and 80’s, with a contemporary artist from a younger generation. Curated by Marcelle Joseph and Becca Pelly-Fry. Artists exhibiting: Judy Chicago, Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle, Helen Chadwick, Ad Minoliti, Senga Nengudi, Tai Shani, Guerrilla Girls, Carolee […]
Shiva Ahmadi’s works are inspired by the world of Persian miniatures and uphold a strong critique of the current political situation in her homeland. Her paintings denounce violence and abuses in general but more precisely those that have been taking place in Iran for decades.
The works in, eye, i, you, examine the concept of memory as an archive, a starting point, and particularly that a memory of present can be of something absent, the past. Like a palimpsest, archives are a form of storytelling which in turn link history and memory and, their common construct. Featuring artists: Camilla Bliss, […]
This exhibition showcases Sonia Boyce’s, Feeling Her Way, which won the Golden Lion Award at La Biennale di Venezia 2022. Commissioned by the British Council, the installation combines video, collage, music and sculpture to present a body of work that centres around the vocal experimentation of five Black female musicians. Featuring Jacqui Dankworth, Poppy Ajudha, Sofia Jernberg, Tanita Tikaram, […]
Liminal Space presents works by contemporary female digital artists Linda Dounia and Melissa Wiederrecht, who through generative practices explore spaces of ambiguity through blurred, amorphous shapes layered with personal experience. Liminal Space addresses the condition of being in-between, untethered to a necessary definition, and consequent assumed experiences of identity. This space straddles binaries of gendered experience, presenting […]
Sasha Holzer carefully carved wooden panels showcase a profound knowledge of the materials' properties. Light is reflected at different angles on the carvings' shallow relief, revealing the wood's multifaceted grains. Patterns emerge organically, sometimes through a domino effect. These highly geometric works are born from a very intuitive physical relationship with the material and the […]
B1NARY 0DES, by Sasha Stiles spans the gallery’s irl space, and its newly augured virtual reality gallery. Within these joint presentations, viewers encounter the multimedia array of language play that constitutes Stiles’ groundbreaking practice. Understanding poetry as a technological vessel or carrier bag for the broad spectrum of human experience across time and space. The […]
Daisy Parris is a painter of psychological space. Direct text-based works and abstract paintings are made up of a vernacular that has developed through experience, relationships and through the depths and the peaks of their human existence thus far. Parris brings intimacy, insight and integrity to their paintings with great psychological and emotional force. The […]
Polly Morgan’s new work explores appropriation in the animal world; how colour, pattern and iridescence are used to dazzle and misdirect. New painted snakeskin-textured sculptures explore the politicisation of bodily adornments by drawing parallels between military and cultural warfare. These themes are interpreted further by Leena Similu who makes anthropomorphic pots inspired by the masks […]
‘A Year Of Drawings’ shows 365 works on paper and a group of paintings by Kathryn Maple. Having drawn one work a day for the whole of 2022, the exhibition is a beautiful and poetic diary of Maple's everyday world.