In her first solo exhibition in London, South African visual activist Zanele Muholi presents her ongoing self-portrait series Somnyama Ngonyama: hail the dark lioness. In more than 60 photographs Muholi uses her body as a canvas to confront the politics of race and representation in the visual archive. Taken primarily in Europe, North America and Africa, […]
Life, Belief and Beyond is the first posthumous exhibition of works by the highly acclaimed and influential British artist Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014). The exhibition focuses on Finn-Kelcey's explorations of power, performance, political commentary and perceptions of the self, belief and spirituality. In the exhibition, there will be works from the early 1970s to 2014, plus […]
Occasional Geometries is an exhibition of works selected by the Bangladeshi-born artist and guest curator Rana Begum, from the Arts Council Collection. The selection are works by artists that share a similar viewpoint as Begum, and those from different generations. The selection creates an architectural, spatial and playful experience - one that is animated through movement and […]
Clare Grossman says, ‘My work predominantly focuses on the search for a personal narrative, an essential energy, the ‘essence’ of a chosen subject or place encapsulated in an emotional response. Working often with a combination of techniques, a final piece may have several layers of printing using an experimental approach together with traditional etching methods to […]
The exhibition features new works by Clare Grossman, Jennifer Jokhoo, Ann Burnham, Carolyn Fuller, Dina Croft and others.
Short Stories brings together the work of three painters, Sharon Beavan, Frances Edmonds and Mary Mabbutt, who explore the relationship between the private and the public. Using their own lives as the starting point for painting, they look at the world around them to create pictures that celebrate the ordinary and the intimate.
Notice What you Notice are paintings formed as physical responses to a world of sensory information through intuitive mark making and colour, Hannah Wilson. Gesamtkunstwerk (synthesis of the arts) is a recurring theme whereby the artist’s senses continually make links between sound, taste, feeling, smell and sight to subconsciously inform the painting.
Hannah Murgatroyd’s works can be seen as island spaces of the imagination; painted and drawn worlds inhabited by protagonists who spring from a history of the body, as told through high art, popular culture and personal narrative. Her images often explore a moment of desire; one that is owned equally by men and women. Any […]
The exhibition Returning brings together three connected series of paintings, sculptures and monoprints by Freya Payne. Each series explores the theme of ‘returning’ through ideas relating to the cyclical rhythms of time, memory, physical experience and healing. Intimate and intricately detailed, her work is a poetic and symbolic response to the observation of the everyday, charting the […]
Karine Laval: Reflections is a new exhibition celebrating 15 years of work by the contemporary French photographer, Karine Laval. The exhibition, organised to coincide with the publication of a major new book on her work by Steidl, charts the evolution of Laval’s images from sun-drenched, bleached-out European lidos to darker, more abstracted dystopian landscapes. The exhibition […]
This exhibition Topical Devices represents a concise moment in Jasmina Cibic’s current practice. A distillation of recent research into a specific objective arrangement, it is simultaneously a fragment of a much larger project, and yet complete as an iteration of the whole. At its centre stands that most pervasive figure in art history, the female nude. […]
The exhibition Daughters of Penelope, looks at the work of selected women weavers and artists who have contributed to Dovecot’s past and present, including work by Fiona Mathison, Maureen Hodge, Naomi Robertson, Joanne Soroka, and studio collaborations with Linder, Julie Brook and Claire Barclay. These significant Dovecot tapestry and rug pieces will be shown alongside […]
The exhibition Hands to Mouth features the works of Laura Bygrave, Rachel Jones and Ninna Bohn Pederson.
Summer Exhibition of works by, Amy Albright, Stephen Bishop, Martin Goold, Jeanette Hayes, Feona Ness, Shelley Morrow & Bill Zima.
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 […]