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 […]
Midnight Sun is an exhibition of work by Caroline Achaintre, Anna Barham, Gabrielle Cappelli, Chiara Carmoni and John Finneran.
Joanna Piotrowska presents Untitled (2017) — a situation in which men and women feed each other for the duration of the exhibition. Piotrowska’s Untitled continues with themes found in her wider practice including the examination of human condition through performative acts, and the constructing of multiple ‘social landscapes’ using photography, usually in black and white format. From family archives, self-defence manuals, […]
Before the installation of her work Timely Tale, Natasha Caruana talks to us about working with 360° film, and how her work relates to the HOUSE Biennial 2017 theme of Excess. The lens-based work, Timely Tale, is set against a backdrop of love, desire and health in the age of Excess – the theme for this year’s festival. Through the vehicle […]
Picture Lake is the first UK exhibition by American artist Cynthia Daignault, and the inaugural show in our new Vauxhall gallery. In 2015, Daignault traveled around the entire circumference of America, stopping every 25 miles to paint the scene before her. The resulting work, Light Atlas, became an epic of 360 painted scenes. Here, in her […]
This exhibition, Unfolded is the first occasion Grace Weir’s recent films and installation works are being shown in London. The filmic processes Grace Weir employs take us on journeys where we witness unfolding contingencies; how her source material leads research and the decisions ensuing from these encounters with specifics; thinkers, locations, theories, archives, and objects. As […]
‘Turning Air Blue’ extends through two galleries and doubles as an organic continuation of Somerset’s rural setting. Rita Ackerman's exhibition starts in the Rhoades gallery, which features a body of work titled The Coronation and Massacre of Love. The paintings are large-scale compositions on canvas primed with chalkboard paint, on which washes of white chalk and […]
Turning Air Blue is an exhibition of new works by Hungarian born, New York-based artist Rita Ackermann. It extends through two galleries and doubles as an organic continuation of Somerset’s rural setting. The Rhoades gallery features a body of work titled ‘The Coronation and Massacre of Love’ that are large-scale compositions on canvas primed with […]
Mehreen Murtaza will fill Manchester Art Gallery’s ground floor gallery with living plants for a new work exploring plant communication and consciousness. Through in-depth research, Murtaza has developed a unique narrative and sound installation which will blur the boundaries between plant neurobiology, science fiction, philosophy and spirituality to create a space that is neither fiction […]
Neha Choksi sets up simple yet memorable situations to create poetic, absurd and psychologically engaging works. Her new multi-channel film installation features the artist and her friends. Exploring the relationship between herself and her community, she tests her belief that to learn to be oneself, one always needs others. The film has been shot on […]
A rare opportunity to see Dame Paula Rego's preparatory drawings for her paintings, providing an insight into her remarkable draughtsmanship and the development of her ideas. The exhibition, The Sketchbooks draws largely from sketchbooks from the 1980s and 90s, including studies for some of her most famous works and provides a new understanding of the work […]
An exhibition of Jessi Reaves work at Frieze.
Explore the lives of three German princesses, whose marriage into the British royal family and wide-ranging interests placed them at the very heart of the enlightenment underway in 18th century Britain. From advocating the latest scientific and medical advancements to their involvement in charity work, each princess would subtly alter the role women played in the […]