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 […]
Within + Without brings together 12 contemporary artists working within the historically gendered mediums of textiles and ceramics, and exploring powerful representations of our inner and outer worlds. The works of […]
One soul, one memory, is an exhibition by Grada Kilomba, in which she presents a series of new works, using the boat as a metaphor to explore cyclical violence and the […]
Joy Yamusangie is a visual artist, specialising in illustration. Joy experiments with a range of traditional processes such as drawing, film, painting and collaging to produce mixed media pieces. In […]
Can we Have a Moment? Three Decades of Photographs in Britain, is a selling exhibition of photographs by Mary McCartney. Featuring over thirty works spanning the artist's 30-year career, this […]
Amie Barouh's installations of several new short video works and paintings on paper comprise the show for her exhibition, Bethania. She is noted for her videos between documentary and fiction, […]
An Invites exhibition by Catinca Malaimare, who performs alongside anthropomorphised technologies. Malaimare’s choreography manifests our intimate relationship with photographic tools and screens, and her work is presented as both live […]
Marking her first major print project, Lubaina Himid made twenty-four hand-painted screenprints, working with master printer Magda Stawarska. Each work on paper, in Alla Prima/Cross Hatch is characterised by Himid’s distinctive bold patterns and vibrant colours, featuring enlarged details from engravings by the eighteenth-century British satirical artist, William Hogarth.
Sensing Abstraction, is an exhibition of works on paper by five female abstract artists, each of whose practice revolves around varying approaches to abstraction. Abstract drawings and prints by Christiane Baumgartner, the making of which the artist likens to the process of handwriting, are shown together with a selection of the final prints made by the […]
In Present Continuous, Barbara Kasten presents works from four distinct recent series, each exploring the language of geometry and grids. Grids that delineate space, create barriers or describe surfaces, but are seemingly without mass or density.
The exhibition, Evelyn De Morgan: The Gold Drawings, explores De Morgan’s unique practice of making gold drawings, showcasing 13 artworks loaned by the Trustees of the De Morgan Foundation and Victoria Dolorosa from the Leighton House collection. In addition, preparatory drawings for the figure of St. Francis made in pastel on paper are included to […]
This major exhibition celebrates one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, offering a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902–1995) ground-breaking practice. The first survey of her pottery in the UK in over 20 years, Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery features more than 100 works, including bowls, vases, tableware and buttons.
Aviv Benn’s paintings are illusory and delusive, with their imagery echoing a familiar yet alienating feeling. The exhibition’s title, ‘And the Sky Cast an Eye on This Marvellous Meat’, is a line borrowed from poet Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil collection. The poem describes the perplexity of nature, as well as the human body and life; as they […]
This exhibition explores Halima Cassell's evolving practice over the past 25 years and includes a piece specially commissioned by the Gallery, made with local Compton clay. The artwork takes inspiration from the work of both G F and Mary Watts and is the first acquisition by a living artist to join the Watts Gallery Trust […]
The Perfect Error, celebrates the misalignments and glitches which make AI art even more human. The exhibition harks back to the spirit of exploration as shown by the artists working with AI since DeepDream and throughout the GAN era. Artists featured include Daniel Ambrosi, Memo Atken, Tom White, Mario Klingeman, Scott Eaton, Helena Sarin, Alexander […]
Full of days, is an investigation into the relationship between art, life and mortality through the paintings and writings of Hermione Burton, a self-taught artist whose works were uncovered by Andy Holden in a local charity shop in Bedford in 2017. Upstairs in the gallery space, Holden curates Hermione's personal opus drawn from her imagined […]
Escape the Flames, by Dolly Verity explores the devastating ways rainforests in Indonesia are being cleared for palm oil plantations. There is a worldwide awareness of deforestation, but do we really know the magnitude of what is going on? The collective works aim to bring awareness as well as expose the effects deforestation is having […]