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.
To See Beyond Seeing, is an exhibition of new paintings on canvas, paper and copper exploring unconscious fate in everyday reality by Helena Foster. The dream-like characters and scenes in […]
This dual presentation With Tenderness, features the work of Emma Prempeh and Abigail Lucien. The exhibition probes how, in painting and sculptural installations, both artists render compelling explorations of time, […]
This exhibition, Scandal '63 revisited: Reframing the Profumo Affair via Art and Artefact, marks the sixtieth anniversary of an infamous scandal that involved politics, espionage, sex, class, race, royalty, and […]
Throughout her career spanning more than 50 years, Lynda Benglis has had an incomparable ability to connect places, people, sensations, memories and emotions with her revolutionary approach to material. The […]
Nalini Malani, presents new ways of seeing well-known works of art. Taking her inspiration from paintings in the National Gallery and Bath’s Holburne Museum, Malani has created striking new video […]
Form: (Women) Makers explores and reimagines the ways that pottery by female makers is currently being presented and narrated in the UK and internationally. Highlights include works by Dame Magdalene Odundo […]