Working in photography, video and installation, Bridget Smith’s practice interrogates the relationships we have with our environment, exploring the spaces in which we seek connection and transportation. For her new […]
The exhibition, Below a Waxing Moon, the Dance Claims us for Release, Alberta Whittle’s first in a public museum, continues themes known in her practice including post-colonial healing, pleasure, and […]
Atiena R Kilfa uses photography, sculpture, video and installation to explore personal and cultural memories that conflict and overlap. Her most recent work draws on her interest in the composition of models, dioramas, still lives, and tableaux vivants, which she reinterprets as sites loaded with inherited narratives and social codes.
SLOW DANS is a cycle of three 10-screen videos – KOHL, FELT TIP, and THE TEACHERS. These three works present a fictional past, parallel present, and imagined future, interweaving compact […]
‘The New Bend’ is an exhibition that brings together 12 contemporary artists working in the race, class and gender traditions of quilting and textile practice. The exhibition features: Anthony Akinbola, […]
Antigone: Women in Fibre Art, a group show celebrating the rich Eastern European textile art tradition. It focusses on Jagoda Buić – who recently passed away - and Barbara Levittoux-Świderska. The exhibition positions their pivotal fibre sculptures alongside rare works by two other pioneers, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Ewa Pachucka, and new work by a younger generation, Anna […]
‘Posadila sam kost u zimskom vrtu’, is the exhibition by artist duo TARWUK (Bruno Pogačnik Tremow and Ivana Vukšić, ). Working as a single entity, TARWUK have created an installation […]
Moving freely between performance, sculpture and video, Ingela Ihrman's work, Nocturne, evokes the interconnected coexistence of seemingly humble life-forms such as invasive weeds, intestinal flora, extinct amphibians and nocturnal birds. […]
Presentation of a two-person exhibition pairing, Linder with Hannah Wilke. Both artists are recognised as pioneers, provocateurs and radical feminists with work spanning photography, performance, photomontage. In Wilke’s case, sculpture and […]
An exhibition of new work by Alison Watt. The exhibition, A Kind of Longing, continues her engagement with the practice of the celebrated eighteenth-century Scottish portrait painter Allan Ramsay (1713-84). Watt’s new paintings originate in the artist’s continuing fascination with Ramsay’s portraits and the drawings and sketchbooks from his extensive archive held by the National […]
For centuries Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn have been pitted against each other as love rivals with their differences celebrated. This exhibition, Queens, Rivals, Mothers, showcases the similarities between […]
Liza Giles’ large-scale abstract paintings combine a hard-edge approach to line and composition with intuitive mark-making, incorporating expressive gestures amid rigorous formal structures. Her painting style developed from making smaller […]
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 […]