The exhibition, Strange Clay: Ceramic in Contemporary Art, examines the plasticity and the possibilities of ceramics. Artworks on show encompass fantastical creatures and uncanny representations of the everyday, as well as ranging from small abstract works to large-scale installations that take the medium beyond the kiln. Strange Clay explores the possibilities of thinking through making. Artworks […]
There is a remarkable story of Sarah Biffin (Beffin), (1784-1850), who has been overlooked by historians. Those who have attempted to illustrate her life often perpetuated previously held misconceptions and Biffin’s artistic reputation has suffered as a result. This exhibition, established upon ground-breaking primary research, will present Biffin’s artistic achievements and represent her history.
This exhibition is a major survey of work by over 100 women artists working in the UK from 1970 to 1990. Through their creative practices, women’s liberation was forged against the backdrop of extreme social, economic and political change. Women in Revolt! focusses on a hugely diverse range of artists and a wide variety of […]
P4aM2aRF! is an exhibition by Nicole Wermers, the title of which resembles code or password, and stands for ‘Proposal for a Monument to a Reclining Female!’ It alludes to the public realm and its interactions with the (female) body. The exhibition features two main groups of work: a new series of photographs of locked bicycles […]
Iona Hutley’s practice traverses the realm of painting, from classical realism to figuration and abstraction. Her abstract works invoke the basest of emotions and harken back to the gods of old as referenced by their titles. She uses color, material, and technique to create a sensuously primal expression of universal experiences of love and life. […]
An online exhibition of works by Dyani White Hawk. As a Sičáŋğu Lakota artist, White Hawk’s practice is informed by a Lakota worldview, which places at its centre, the interrelatedness between all life and the land. Her visual language is inspired by the histories of Lakota abstract art forms such as beadwork, porcupine quillwork and parfleche painting, as […]
Fiona Connor’s work draws attention to specific objects and architectural spaces and seeks to investigate and interact with social arenas such as public parks, night clubs or exhibition venues. By utilising processes of reproduction and simulation, Connor’s sculptural language challenges how we interpret often overlooked peripheral forms and spatial details within these sites of exchange […]
Metamorphoses, is an exhibition of works by Hedda Sterne (1910–2011), who created an extensive body of work that intersected with some of the most important movements and figures of the twentieth century. A bridge between European Modernism, in particular Surrealism, and American Abstract Expressionism, Sterne’s work stands as a testament to her independence of thought, moving freely […]
Annie Montgomerie’s work explores childhood and the emotions intertwined in that precious stage of life. Combining this with a love of animals. Annie creates childlike figures with expressive faces conveying a range of magnified mental states that a child may experience in different situations.
Reincarnation is a key theme in the work of mother/son artistic duo, Xavier Spiller-Cameron + Moira Cameron, who have been working together for the past five years. They have created an oeuvre of stark, almost-brutalist, but also greatly expressive works that adhere to their own strict set of codes. Firstly, the concept of reincarnation arises metaphorically, in that […]
In Grace Weaver’s new paintings, Trash-Scapes, we see a few figures, some things scattered about the plane, minimal hints to places and locations: rubbly roadsides and barren parking garages. They are remembered places. Places, she recalls, ‘one has been to, which then go on to exist in the mind without being fully realized … memories the […]
The presentation of an Invites exhibition by Rebecca Parkin that responds to genres of fan art, horror films, and cosplay, Parkin uses traditional methods of pop culture illustration to interpret the changing landscape of fantasy, gender and sexuality. Building from her ongoing 'Green Women series', Parkin recreates depictions of women – seen throughout art history, […]
An exhibition of works by Magdalena Abakanowicz that coincides with a major retrospective opening at Tate Modern. On this occasion Marlborough celebrates over 25 years of close collaboration, during which the Gallery presented 20 solo exhibitions of the artist and produced numerous publications. While Abakanowicz is usually referred to as ‘textile artist’, her roughly-woven wall […]
Cecily Brown’s entire gamut and palette are on display in Studio Pictures. There are landscapes, interiors, hunting and battles scenes, swings and bowers, Baroque mélées and Rococo fantasies, Shipwrecks and Assemblies – a palimpsest of art historical references which becomes Brown’s own iconography.
Hungry Heart, is a two-person exhibition with new works by Darya Diamond and Hanna Stiegeler. Their work comes together in a dialogue between intimacy, desire, consumerism and reproduction. Darya Diamond approaches intimacy from a point of relational proximity. The conversations she had as a sex worker with clients in hotel rooms or in other private settings, […]
Sasha Huber explores how colonial histories are imprinted into the landscape through naming and acts of remembrance - asking what actions it might take to repair the inherited traumas of history. YOU NAME IT, brings together over a decade of Huber’s work, prompted by the campaign Demounting Louis Agassiz.
Making Modernism is an exhibition devoted to pioneering women working in Germany in the early 1900s: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kӓthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin, who were celebrated in their native homelands. This exhibition introduces their innovative paintings and works on paper, alongside key pictures by Erma Bossi, Ottilie Reylaender and Jacoba van Heemskerk. The exhibition reframes […]
Sophie von Hellermann and Anne Ryan present Sirens, a new collaborative commission that combines large-scale paintings by von Hellermann with Ryan’s three-dimensional painted ‘cutouts’. Sophie von Hellermann’s fluid and dreamlike paintings often draw on history, mythology and fable. For Sirens von Hellermann draws from the Margate coastline, reflecting the Sunley Gallery’s expansive sea view in her paintings. […]
A Green and Pleasant Land (Ha-Ha), is an exhibition of new painting and textile works by Lakwena Maciver, which combines vibrant colour and bold text in her joyful and gently subversive work. Her paintings, murals and installations often reference everyday shared experiences and popular culture, such as songs, fashion and basketball. Bringing messages of hopeful possibility, […]
Claudia de Grandi is a transnational artist concerned with how artists address identity and the modern mind. In Claudia's own words: “To me, my paintings are as though sounds and colours interconnect and occur in the space of the canvas at the same time, like a spiral of space-time happening…..“