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 […]
Showcasing the diverse range of artistic talent displayed by women in contact with the Criminal Justice System across the county, the exhibition consists of work submitted to the Women’s Support Centre, which is open to all women in Surrey prisons or those in contact with the Criminal Justice System. Participation and achievement in the arts […]
The winner of THG OPEN 2016, Frances Hatch presents a new body of work ‘Red Earth Under My Nails’ for her solo show. Created outside these paintings were produced using and integrating earth and found materials in selected locations predominantly across Devon including Sidmouth. Describing her work Frances explains ‘Geology becomes my pigment.’
The starting-point for The Place is Here is the 1980s: a pivotal decade for British culture and politics. Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, film and archives, the exhibition brings together works by 25 artists and collectives across two venues: the South London Gallery and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. The questions it raises about identity, representation and the purpose […]
Coinciding with the release of Eileen Agar's latest publication 'Dreaming Oneself Awake' the exhibition presents a selection of the artist's paintings, objects, and works on paper; tracing a distinctive style and influence in Surrealism, which is based on the title of the book.
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) was one of the leading artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, notable for the emotional power of her drawing, printmaking and sculpture. She lived an intensely examined life, expressed in her numerous self-portraits, diaries and correspondence; at the core of this existence was her work as an artist and […]
Here’s the Answer, What’s the Question? a selection of sculptures, installations and films in the most comprehensive exhibition to date of work by Berlin-based artist Sofia Hultén. Conveying an ongoing preoccupation with the nature of the material world and the way we navigate it. Hultén’s engaging thoughtfulness suggests that things do not have to be as […]
Polish artist, Anna Molska, explores modernist and socialist utopias through her work, and uses them as a pretext for the analysis of contemporary reality. Molska’s 12 minute film The Weavers (2009) is based on Gerhart Hauptmann’s 1892 play inspired by the 1844 rebellion of Silesian weavers against the poverty of their lives and harsh working conditions. The […]
Contact Zone brings together a series of glass works by Marie Jeschke and Anja Langer, created as a collaborative practice, and István Szabo’s ceramic series of works, Hybrids. The works by Jeschke and Langer fuse sculpture and painting, that mark the artists’ respective disciplines. The glass plates have been enriched on both sides with paint, […]
Jessica Warboys is well-known for her exhibitions in the UK, for their grand institutional displays so what she has achieved in the narrow shop-front space at French Riviera is remarkable. Outside the wide window of the gallery, market traders set up their stalls with viscose dresses, arrange fruit and veg, pile plastic buckets and bowls. Inside, […]
This exhibition highlights the diverse skills of the women artists and designers associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement. It recognises works by women artists whose contributions have often been overlooked, or wrongly attributed in favour of a more prominent male family member. Textiles, jewellery, bookbinding, enamels and illustrations by May Morris, Margaret Macdonald, Ann […]
Avant Tanya trained as a visual artist and communication designer. Her interests lie in how the collective human experience can be interpreted through stories embedded in found objects and artefacts. Her past projects involve themes of collecting and documenting memories from displaced communities, particularly those on perilous journeys during times of unrest. This Open Studio […]