Techné, is a two person show by Erika Trotzig and Torgny Wilcke. Both artists in this exhibition are fascinated with material and form, often using craft-based techniques and aesthetics, they […]
Alice Neel's (1900–1984) vivid portraits capture the shifting social and political context of the American twentieth century in this retrospective. In 1960s New York, Alice Neel was crowned ‘the court […]
A group exhibition pairing nine feminist artists working at the advent of feminist theory in the 1970’s and 80’s, with a contemporary artist from a younger generation. Curated by Marcelle […]
Shiva Ahmadi’s works are inspired by the world of Persian miniatures and uphold a strong critique of the current political situation in her homeland. Her paintings denounce violence and abuses […]
The works in, eye, i, you, examine the concept of memory as an archive, a starting point, and particularly that a memory of present can be of something absent, the past. Like a palimpsest, archives are a form of storytelling which in turn link history and memory and, their common construct. Featuring artists: Camilla Bliss, […]
This exhibition showcases Sonia Boyce’s, Feeling Her Way, which won the Golden Lion Award at La Biennale di Venezia 2022. Commissioned by the British Council, the installation combines video, collage, music and sculpture to present a body of work that centres around the vocal experimentation of five Black female musicians. Featuring Jacqui Dankworth, Poppy Ajudha, Sofia Jernberg, Tanita Tikaram, […]
Liminal Space presents works by contemporary female digital artists Linda Dounia and Melissa Wiederrecht, who through generative practices explore spaces of ambiguity through blurred, amorphous shapes layered with personal experience. Liminal Space addresses the condition of being in-between, untethered to a necessary definition, and consequent assumed experiences of identity. This space straddles binaries of gendered experience, presenting […]
Sasha Holzer carefully carved wooden panels showcase a profound knowledge of the materials' properties. Light is reflected at different angles on the carvings' shallow relief, revealing the wood's multifaceted grains. Patterns emerge organically, sometimes through a domino effect. These highly geometric works are born from a very intuitive physical relationship with the material and the […]
B1NARY 0DES, by Sasha Stiles spans the gallery’s irl space, and its newly augured virtual reality gallery. Within these joint presentations, viewers encounter the multimedia array of language play that constitutes Stiles’ groundbreaking practice. Understanding poetry as a technological vessel or carrier bag for the broad spectrum of human experience across time and space. The […]
Daisy Parris is a painter of psychological space. Direct text-based works and abstract paintings are made up of a vernacular that has developed through experience, relationships and through the depths and the peaks of their human existence thus far. Parris brings intimacy, insight and integrity to their paintings with great psychological and emotional force. The […]
Polly Morgan’s new work explores appropriation in the animal world; how colour, pattern and iridescence are used to dazzle and misdirect. New painted snakeskin-textured sculptures explore the politicisation of bodily adornments by drawing parallels between military and cultural warfare. These themes are interpreted further by Leena Similu who makes anthropomorphic pots inspired by the masks […]
‘A Year Of Drawings’ shows 365 works on paper and a group of paintings by Kathryn Maple. Having drawn one work a day for the whole of 2022, the exhibition is a beautiful and poetic diary of Maple's everyday world.
To See Beyond Seeing, is an exhibition of new paintings on canvas, paper and copper exploring unconscious fate in everyday reality by Helena Foster. The dream-like characters and scenes in Foster’s paintings vary from daily life to verging on the mystical. They are concerned with psychological or spiritual states, and subjects’ agency in those circumstances. […]
This dual presentation With Tenderness, features the work of Emma Prempeh and Abigail Lucien. The exhibition probes how, in painting and sculptural installations, both artists render compelling explorations of time, in all its tenses: as archival matter, quotidian event and speculative futurity. Abigail Lucien’s abstract floor and wall-based sculptures are informed by their ongoing questioning […]
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 almost any other newsworthy ingredient that could be imagined. It sent shock waves through sixties Britain and its Establishment, bringing sexual attitudes into the spotlight […]
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 combination of works in this exhibition articulate Benglis’ fascination with using ‘things’ in ways that they are not typically used – fragile materials to express […]
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 animations in 'Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different - National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship with Art Fund'. The animations, hand-drawn using an iPad, reveal and conceal […]
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 and Dame Lucie Rie, whose genius and pioneering in their craft is being recognised on an unprecedented scale, both through their prices at auctions and […]
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 these artists contrast, complement and intersect with each other, providing opportunities to examine relationships within and without. Pieces by Vanessa Barragão and Claire Lindner evoke […]
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 relationship between narrative, power and repetition. “When history is not told properly, its barbarity repeats itself” the artist states.