This landmark exhibition explores the life and work of May Morris, the younger daughter of William Morris and one of the most significant artists of the British Arts and Crafts movement. May Morris: Art & Life is the most comprehensive survey of May’s work to date, bringing together over 80 works from collections around the UK, many […]
An exhibition of Annabel McCourt’s bold, visceral installation Electric Fence. Created in collaboration with interactive audio and technology specialists Interact and Connect, this thought-provoking and confrontational piece encourages viewers to examine the perceptions, challenges and preconceptions that impact us all in modern life, and compels us to turn to face them. Inspired by homophobic hate speech and resonating […]
A collection of paintings 2015-2017, by Emily Patrick.
Beth Carter’s world of sculpture and drawing features a cornucopia of dream-like, circus, or half man-half beast shape-shifters who at their core embody the contrasts characterised in Robert Browning’s ‘dangerous edge of things’- honest thieves, tender murderers, superstitious atheists. A wolf appears to contemplate his kill pityingly, while a fox steals into the night with a pheasant, which on closer inspection he holds delicately, in human hands, the bird appearing potentially injured rather than ripe […]
Based on the art work ‘Verb List’ created bythe artist Richard Serra, artists in Make_Shift, manipulate and modify different mediums ansd processes, assembling, layering and collaging both literally and conceptually to disrupt our expectations of objects and images. Works in the exhibition contain a range of diverse thematics, such as landscape and architectural projections, maquettes […]
Shouting in Whispers is a solo exhibition by Helen Cammock. Based on research, found materials and conversations she creates intersectional dialogues that look at individual and collective power, questioning the role of the individual, asking us to consider where we sit within the political and social spaces we inhabit: “I have a role in this, as […]
Tracey Emin’s iconic and controversial installation My Bed will be on display alongside a collection of JMW Turner's seascapes and stormy skies, loaned from Tate’s collection and chosen by the artist. My Bed famously features Emin’s own bed and gives a snapshot of her life after a traumatic relationship breakdown. It offers ‘an unconventional and uncompromising self-portrait through objects’, […]
A significant British artist, Rebecca Warren’s exuberant, roughly-worked sculptures and neon vitrines engage with the canon of art history. Warren first came to prominence in the 1990s and exhibits widely in Europe and the United States. This new exhibition, All that Heaven Allows will draw connections between her practice to date and the geographical context and […]
Larissa Sansour is an interdisciplinary artist, working in video, photography, installation and sculpture to create overtly political works that explore and approximate the realities of life in Palestine. References and details ranging from sci-fi and spaghetti westerns to horror films converge with Middle East politics and social issues to create intricate parallel worlds in which […]
Most Loved Most Far is an exhibition of new watercolours by Penzance based artist Kate Walters and a delicate multi-media installation by London based artist Julia Maddison. The exhibition is accompanied by especially commissioned texts by the Revd. Dr. Richard Davey, Professor Penny Florence, and Julian Firth.
Linda Kitson’s vibrant new show, iPad Pictures of the Scalpel & The City at The Framers Gallery is in marked contrast to her formative reportage and landscape work and role as the UK’s only ever female war artist, capturing the danger and destruction of the Falklands conflict in 1982. Linda Kitson’s body of new work created […]
As part of Broadgate's 'Shaped by Design' autumn season, developer British Land has commissioned Helen Brough to create an enriching visual piece of work for Broadgate Exchange House, London - Dahlia Cuore Sculpture and Works on Paper. Throughout history, flowers have symbolised extreme human emotion from birth and death to love and war and finally joy. Hovering in the atrium […]
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are amongst the most celebrated artists of their generation, widely known for their large-scale installations and use of fictional personas. Critiquing the conventions of art history and drawing upon the visual culture of the former Soviet Union – from dreary communal apartments to propaganda art and its highly optimistic depictions of […]
Indeterminate Objects (Classrooms) is a work by award winning Scottish photographer Wendy McMurdo. The project continues her investigation into the relationship between children and computers, and is inspired by young people’s fascination with immersive digital environments such as Minecraft. For this project McMurdo photographed a series of Victorian classroom interiors at a school near her home […]
Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895–1989) is one of the most important women fashion photographers of the first part of the 20th century. This is the first major retrospective of her work in the UK, and a key focus of the exhibition, A Style of her own is Dahl-Wolfe’s 22 years as leading contributor to Harper’s Bazaar. Considered a pioneer of […]
For this exhibition Susan Philipsz is staging the presentation of her new work, A Single Voice 2017. It is an adaptation of Karl-Birger Blomdahl's opera Aniara 1959. The narrative follows a group of colonists who leave a doomed planet Earth behind to set up a new life on Mars. An accident occurs during their journey and the passengers of […]
Susan Philipsz is staging the presentation of a new work, A Single Voice 2017, which is an adaptation of Karl-Birger Blomdahl’s opera Aniara 1959. The narrative follows a group of colonists who leave a doomed planet Earth behind to set up a new life on Mars. An accident occurs during their journey and the passengers […]
The Boy Who Loved the Sea and Other Stories has at its heart a body of new paintings, drawings and sculptures, inspired by a 2005 story by Hélia Correia called The Boy Who Loved the Sea. It provides the starting point for this exhibition that will also investigate both Paula Rego's genius for story-telling and her […]
This is the first major UK retrospective of Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973), one of the most important, yet for many years, overlooked artists of the 20th century. The exhibition, Human Landscapes will bring together works spanning Szapocznikow’s career, including a selection of her drawings, which have rarely been publicly displayed. Szapocznikow’s career was cut short […]
A new exhibition, There's a Time for Everything by Nnenna Okore. is her third solo exhibition at the gallery. The proverbial Igbo axiom Ụkwa Ruo Oge Ya Ọ Daa, references the theatrical falling of breadfruit from the mother tree. The plummet of this tropical fruit, known in Igbo as Ukwa, not only indicates the height of its ripening phase, […]