An exhibition of photographic prints from Amelia Allen’s new book NAKED BRITAIN. As a fashion photographer, Amelia Allen works in an industry obsessed with body image, one that focuses on the most flattering way of dressing oneself. It is therefore, an unusual and refreshing step for her to move into a world where the body […]
The Gallery celebrates photography, A Public Art, 1840 - 1939, with an installation dedicated to its extraordinary Photographs Collection displaying classic images and rarely seen gems of artists, writers and actors […]
This latest exhibition consists of approximately 30 new paintings, in which Mary Lloyd Jones explores the traces left by our ancestors, the fields & hillsides, and the scars left behind by the lead-mining industry. These vibrant, energetic and colourful works combine to create a luminous exhibition that shows Mary still at the height of her […]
An inaugural installation, Another View from Nowhen by Dublin-based artist Isabel Nolan, which features two ambitious works that respond to the history of the location: The Barely Perceptible Vibration of Everything, a vibrant, […]
An exhibition of works by Janet Q Treloar RWS and Alice Mumford RWA called Table Talk.
Lotte Laserstein (1898 – 1993), started her career in the Berlin of the 20s and 30s, and was one of the first women to complete her studies at the Academy of Art in Berlin, before leaving the country in 1937. She first exhibited at Agnews in 1987, where she was present and was a lively […]
Old School is a solo exhibition of new photographic and sculptural work made by Liane Lang while an artist in residence at Eton College in 2014. Lang was the first female artist to be awarded the James McLaren residency at Eton College and follows in the footsteps of other luminaries such as Hughie O’Donoghue RA and […]
A buff foolscap folder is the starting point for The Conversation, a solo show by Holly Davey. Inherited by the artist, the folder contains fragments of a lifetime – photographs, scraps of paper, postcards, a paper bag, an exhibition catalogue and other mementos. These clues have become the catalyst for over two years of research […]
Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970) was one of Scandinavia’s most outstanding artistic figures of the 20th century. In the first major presentation of the artist’s work in the UK, this exhibition surveys her career from an early painted portrait created in 1914, to the intricate tapestries that characterised her extraordinary career from the 1920s onward. Her work demonstrates her impassioned responses […]
Hattie Buckwell is an Illustrator based in Bristol. Working with watercolour & ink, she paints times of adventure, homes from around the world and lots of animals. Her playful illustrations explore simple pleasures like sleeping under the stars, feasting with friends & wild swimming.
Drawing on themes of identity, community and intimacy, Homme Libre explores ideas of masculinity seen from a female perspective. The striking and intimate portraits are of men the photographer, Carol Borel is either close friends with, very loosely knows, or met in the street or on the tube. Straight, gay, trans, and from various professions and backgrounds, the […]
Aura, is a solo exhibition of new oil paintings by South African artist, Sasha Hartslief, who produces subtle investigations into the human condition, through her atmospheric interiors, her nudes and character studies, which somehow strike a chord with us. Using brushstroke to evoke the transience of light, colour and movement, her subjects are often viewed from a philosophical, […]
In 1981, photographer Anita Corbin captured pivotal “coming of age” moments in the life of 56 young women – all members of different subcultures. The result was an extraordinary collection of portraits against a backdrop of heightened social, cultural and political change. The Skins, Mods, Punks, Rockabillies, New Romantics, Rasta’s and young lesbians that Anita […]
It’s about an excavation. Of the mind, of the self. Who is colonized and who flies freely? Fly in, fly out. We, Madeleine Stack and Pauline Batista are seeking a pattern in Fatal Softness. Pattern recognition. Data mining and mining for ore, a shared language of opacity and incoherence. Travelling at great speed above the […]
As part of a long-term research and commissioning process, artists Julia Crabtree and William Evans present their solo exhibition, Gullet. For this exhibition the artists have produced an expansive sculptural work, combining bespoke craft alongside technological processes, that are both desire driven and dismal.
Known for their stylised black-and-white videos this exhibition, We are Ghosts will be Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley’s first solo exhibition in the UK. The display will feature their new work In The Body of The Sturgeon, as well as the 2016 work, This Is Offal alongside life-size lightbox portraits of the videos’ characters. Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley work […]
This is an exhibition of a extraordinary series of drawings by Cecily Brown, of wrecked ships and their passengers. Brown’s practice of painterly interrogation of an existing image, here takes on one of the most celebrated paintings in the world; Gericault’s The Raft of the Medusa, 1819. Also taking inspiration from other Old Masters, notably Delacroix, Brown re-examines human presence, […]
This major new exhibition, Art & Identity explores the life and work of the 20th century artist Gluck (1895-1978), who is now also recognised as a trailblazer of gender fluidity. Born Hannah Gluckstein into a wealthy Jewish family, Gluck attended art school in London and ran away to Cornwall with fellow students during the First […]
Trish Morrissey works with photography, film and video. As Hestercombe’s 2017 Artist in residence, she has made a major new body of work about the lives of Miss Warre (1790 – 1872) and Mrs Portman (1854 – 1951), women who at different times in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ran the Hestercombe estate. Drawing […]
Marguerite Humeau's research led process usually takes the form of large scale installations involving sound and sculpture, in which she challenges key issues of the day using complex narratives that synthesise the past with the present. Humeau’s installation, Echoes, is conceived as a confrontation between life and death, with the gallery transformed into part temple, part […]