Fifty years after the first Arte Povera show, this exhibition looks at how it has informed the work of several British artists who graduated from art schools in the 1970s and 1980s. It traces their different affinities with a way of working that went beyond modernism in terms of its interest in the personal and […]
“Broader Implications,” features the work of artist Lucia Pizzani. The exhibition showcases two bodies of work made in response to the on-going crisis in Pizzani’s home country of Venezuela. “Inventario Personal” (Personal Inventory), inspired by Anna Atkins’ pioneering book, is installed as a mural made up of cyanotypes imprinted with scarce (or completely absent) health […]
Ciara Phillips uses the discipline of printmaking to explore social concerns and develop collaborative practices. Regularly opening up her exhibitions as working print studios, she uses them as places for investigation, social action, discussion and debate. In Plymouth Phillips has made a major new installation that takes over the multiple galleries and social spaces of […]
Some Context is structured around 20,000 copies of The Situation, a book made up of transcribed, edited and censored conversations between the artist and friends about ‘the situation’. This theme is interpreted differently in each conversation. The books provide the stuffing – in shredded form – for the ‘transitional objects’ also displayed in the space, […]
Set in a 13th Century Barn, the largest of its type in the country, the 140-foot long sculptural installation is an ode to the creative strength of a landscape that inspired Stonehenge, Salisbury Cathedral and the ancient dwellings of England. Made of wood, chalk, stones, root balls from 300-year-old Sycamore trees and found modern materials it […]
Join us at our first Salon talk of the new subscription year to learn about Women Artists of the Middle East. This engaging, topical subject will be examined by Maria Sukkar and Maryam Eisler, two art collectors and patrons who have particular insight into Middle Eastern art. The dynamic pair will present an overview of the landscape for […]
A presentation of recent video works and installations by the artist Stine Deja marks the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. The exhibition, titled There’s Life Outside, is intended as an exposé of our increasingly artificial world. For the show, the gallery space has been transformed into a fragment of a living room, with the key […]
The exhibition by Ann Veronica Janssens at Bermondsey, is the first extensive solo exhibition of Janssens’s work in the UK and includes new and recent sculpture and installation. Janssens explores spatio-temporal experience and the limits of perception through precise installation and minimal sculpture. ‘I investigate the permeability of contexts’ she has said, ‘ even as […]
This Autumn, an exhibition of work by contemporary artists, Tamsin Relly and Henry Hussey, will go on display for three months at the London-based art lighting specialists, TM Lighting. Curated by Jo Baring of the Ingram Collection, the exhibition is a collaboration with TM Lighting as part of the art lighting company’s ongoing programme of exhibitions supporting emerging […]
Join us on the evening of September 27th when we kick-off the Year of Metal with jewellery designer Cassandra Goad who will be in conversation with Melanie Grant, luxury editor for The Economist. A trained goldsmith and gemologist, Cassandra has been creating jewellery for over 30 years. Melanie Grant has worked at The Guardian, The Times, The Independent and […]
The metaphoric association between body and building is a recurring motif in Rebecca Ackroyd’s work: pipes become limbs, vents become orifices, and frames become rib cages. For her solo exhibition, titled The Root, Ackroyd has produced a sculptural installation that responds directly to the architecture of the gallery space, covering and inverting its surfaces in a […]
Private Collection: Unperformed Objects, the first UK solo exhibition by South Korean artist Geumhyung Jeong. In her practice as choreographer, dancer and performer, Jeong constantly renegotiates the relationship between the human body and the objects that surround it. She has built up a collection of plain everyday objects upon which she bestows a bizarre, disconcerting […]
Beyond the Trace, is an exhibition of works on paper by British born, New York based artist Nicola Tyson. Predominantly known as a painter, Tyson also works with photography, performance, the written word and more recently sculpture. Drawing is the foundation of all her work. Beyond the Trace is the first solo exhibition in the UK of […]
Grosse’s large scale and site-specific works engulf both interior and exterior spaces, unhindered by the traditional boundaries of the pictorial field. In the South London Gallery’s main exhibition space, Grosse has made the void the dramatic centre of her project, masking the floor with a large foam stencil, then painting over it and the surrounding […]
Explore your relationship with the microbial world, antibiotics and technology through art. This exhibition by internationally renowned artist Anna Dumitriu takes visitors on an artistic journey through infection, from the Romantic period to contemporary synthetic biology.
Lizi Sánchez's solo exhibition is, 'Maria, Rosa, Mick & John' an installation of new large format works on aluminium foil that hang loosely on the wall, their lower edges flicking up as if hastily fly–posted, overlapping and partially obscuring, while jostling each other for attention. They reflect on art exhibitions during 2016 and 2017 that were […]
If You Keep Going South You’ll Meet Yourself, is Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Born in Gutu, Zimbabwe, and currently based in the UK, Hwami has developed her own distinctive style of painting which interweaves figures, symbolic elements, and flattened fields of intense colour to create arresting, dream-like tableaux on a large scale. […]
Merike Estna's solo-exhibition, Fragments from the Shattered Toe incorporates an intricately painted stage/floor painting which, over the course of the exhibition, hosts a series of performance events from international dancers, musicians and artist, against a backdrop of Estna’s large-scale curtain painting and other new works. In her practice Estna seeks for the conceptual integration of painting and […]
Challenging modes of representation, Milan-based artist Nathalie Du Pasquier traverses boundaries between art and design. Du Pasquier became known in the early 1980s as a founding member of the Italian design collective Memphis. Since 1987 she has focused on painting, creating bold, abstract and still life compositions which play with architectural planes and perspective. In Other Rooms, Du […]
Rachel Kneebone is a British artist whose intricate works address and question the human condition. Five porcelain sculptures are display amongst the Museum's historic collection. Raft of the Medusa’s tumbling limbs and fractured swags are at once coquettish and ominous; their gleaming white surfaces and exquisite detail belie scenes of turmoil and collapse. Using porcelain, a […]