The barge, Sabrina 5, was built in 1944 as part of the Ministry of War’s fleet. After a long career carrying cargo around the local waterways the 90ft long vessel came into the museum collection in 1988. Earlier this year Barbara Evripidou was invited to photograph Sabrina 5’s transformation into an education and visitor centre. […]
Jane Wormell's work encompasses small, intense studies of individual plants and large expansive canvases of hedgerows and flower borders. She is driven by her love of plants and the English landscape, and a quiet intensity and northern light infuses her work. She is interested in the structure of the plants but also the atmosphere they […]
Mandy Cheng's porcelain works are designed to look graceful and minimalist, they conjure a feeling of lightness and a sense of movement. Her signature mesmerizing patterns mimic the vivid diversity of nature, but are not painted on. Using lamination method, the patterns are meticulously prepared by repeated cutting and layering of porcelain sheets. Her hands-on […]
Anne Krinsky's Tropical Thames, is an installation of large-scale digitally-designed prints on aluminium panels, created specifically for the Crossrail Place Roof Garden. Krinsky's imagery is inspired by Thames architectural structures in southeast London – docks, piers and river walls – that were shaped by centuries of shipping and trade. Tropical Thames also responds to the Garden's dramatic […]
A new collection of abstract landscapes and travel memory paintings by Mary Price in ‘The Snug’ exhibition space, called An Intuitive Painter's Journey. “Travel is a metaphor for the way I paint as well as being an inspiration for the imagery I am drawn towards. Each painting is as much a journey in process as the […]
Joanna Irvin's colourful aquatints are often made using just one plate, inked up meticulously by hand and run through the press just once. Her landscape etchings and aquatints reflect her interest in hills situated near rivers, estuaries and the seashore. She is particularly inspired by the light in the west of Scotland. In this show she […]
As a self-taught artist, Sharon White began her career by combining pet portraiture with motherhood, opting to use pastels to eliminate the worry of wet paint and small children! Since then her style has developed, through playful experimentation, in both medium and colour. Today she is most renowned for her quirky cows, which can be found […]
Recent paintings and works on paper by Suzan Frecon in concurrent exhibitions in New York and London, marking the artist's first show in London and her fourth overall solo presentation with the gallery. For almost five decades, Frecon has created abstract paintings that address issues of horizontality and verticality, asymmetrical balances, and interacting arrangements of color. Each […]
Live at the Guildhall is a photographic exhibition by Jessica Stone that captures the bold characters that have taken to the stage at the Guildhall in the last 18 months, and features a carefully curated set of images spanning a range of genres and musical eras.
Volcano is a new body of work on paper by Emma Stibbon RA for her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Volcano will feature new drawings and an immense woodcut made in response to her recent residency in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park where she lived and worked amongst the sacred and fabled volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa, some of the […]
The first UK solo exhibition of work by Cig Harvey, 'Holding the Blue' showcases 30 photographs from Harvey's career, taken between 2003 and 2017, as a prelude to the publication of her new book 'You an Orchestra, You a Bomb' in November. Often highly orchestrated, Harvey's early works created a fantasy version of her own life experiences. […]
Diana Springall is one of Britain's most well known Textile Artists whose passion for textiles has led her to amass a unique and diverse collection of contemporary embroidery by graduate students, colleagues and peers. The exhibition is called What is Stitch.
Diana Springall is one of Britain’s most well-known textile artists whose passion for textiles has led her to amass a unique and diverse collection of contemporary embroidery by graduate students, colleagues and peers. Her collection of over 200 works (spanning forty years or more) includes hand and machine embroidery, appliqué, patchwork and loop pile techniques to name a few. Each […]
Centred around the appropriation and alteration of found images, Julie Cockburn’s work appears familiar and often nostalgic. Her source materials, such as 1940s and 50s studio portrait photographs of unknown sitters, are given new significance through the skilful manipulation of their surfaces. By reassembling, stitching into and over-painting the original photographs with geometric patterns and […]
Concentus presents new work from willow sculptor Lizzie Farey. Latin for ‘harmony’ Concentus includes intricate structures that capture a still moment; a distillation and order. Calm after a storm. Intimate forms provide a hint of the process of creation. We can see and even feel points of tension in the work. Our eye can follow the artist’s hand, the choices made in twisting and […]
Worst Gift, is a new film installation by Marianna Simnett. Comprising video, liquid, light and sound, Worst Gift continues Simnett’s ongoing exploration of female subjectivity and bodily integrity as they relate to the power dynamics of the medical profession.
Tschabalala Self’s Bodega Run, inspired by central Harlem’s shops and the artist’s own upbringing, invites the viewer to immerse themselves in a lively and colourful ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ (total work of art). At the same time, the theatrical installation cleverly pushes us to reflect on questions relating to race, gaze, sexuality and gender.
This inaugural Woman’s Hour Craft prize offers a snapshot of where contemporary craft is at, with a roster of leading artist-crafters pushing old techniques in new directions. The tension between natural materials and the manmade world is a big focus. Organised by the BBC and the Crafts Council, the Prize was launched to celebrate the […]
Marcelle Joseph’s latest exhibition shows more than 70 artists from her collection and that of the GIRLPOWER Collection - a snapshot of many of the young artists of today’s London. Artists include: Rebecca Ackroyd, Alice Anderson, Cornelia Bates, Stefania Batoeva and many others in You See me like a UFO.
This incredible exhibition runs alongside an exhibition of works chosen from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition by Norman Ackroyd CBE RA. Amelia Humber's oil paintings strive to relay the atmosphere and emotion of the landscape through a personal and momentary experience. They contain the ideas of capturing those immediate feelings of drama in a continuously […]