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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
An exhibition by Jo Barrett on Still Life.
An exhibition of New Ceramics, by Jane Muir.
Christmas Exhibition 2017 – “12 Artists in a Feast of Art”. New paintings in oil and watercolour, by Liz Balkwill, Susan Bower ROI, RBA, Holly Brodie, Elaine Fellows RMS, Pamela Kay, NEAC RWS ARCA RBA, Chris Kendrick, Peter Kuhfeld NEAC RP, Andrew Newman, Nancy Petley-Jones, Steven Outram RBA, John Stillman RSMA, Bruce Yardley.
Helen Allingham is one of the most familiar and well-loved of Victorian artists – in 1890 she became the first woman to be admitted to full membership of the Royal Watercolour Society and her work was highly acclaimed by leading contemporary critics, including John Ruskin. Despite this success there have been few exhibitions dedicated to […]
Our major event of the year: the panel will feature the Women to Watch UK: Metal artists in conversation with Caroline Douglas, director of the Contemporary Art Society (CAS.) Every two to three years NMWA invites its 21 national and international outreach committees to propose a shortlist of underrepresented women artists for a themed exhibition at NMWA. […]
A major exhibition of new works by British artist Marie Harnett, celebrating fleeting moments of drama, beauty and suspense from contemporary film is opening soon. Still includes several new series of drawings and prints by Harnett who is known for her highly detailed, meticulous drawings, derived from film stills. Harnett comments, “My interest lies in transforming a digital […]
Céline Condorelli presents her solo show, Epilogue, as the final project at the Broome Street storefront of P! Epilogue also marks the start of a collaboration between P! and Stanley […]
Kati Heck presents a group of six new paintings, alongside two smaller portraits and a video sculpture. The exhibition is Heck’s first solo presentation in London. Throughout her work, she […]