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 […]
Textile artist Gladys Paulus presents HINTERLAND; an installation of ancestral healing costumes dealing with identity, belonging, gender relations and grief. She works predominantly in the medium of hand-made felt textiles that explores patterns of change and transformation. Felt making is a long, physical and intimate process, during which wool fibres, water and soap are combined to transform […]
The anticipated excitement of the voyage radiates from Sadie Tierney’s new woodcuts and watercolours, in Night and Light and the Half-Light. In the gloaming a ship heading out of port reflects on the sea. A fun fair enwrought with its mantle of starry gems lights the night sky. Tierney's expressive prints and paintings spring from sketches […]
For the past four decades British artist Nicola Hicks’s practice has centred around a world of heroic sculptural figures, exploring an anthropomorphic relationship to the animal world through portraits of humanized creatures and beastlike humans. The exhibition Wabbling Back to the Fire brings together sculptures from 1999 to the present day, drawing on themes that express the […]
Fifty years after the first Arte Povera show, this exhibition looks at how it has informed the work of several British artists who graduated from art schools in the 1970s and 1980s. It traces their different affinities with a way of working that went beyond modernism in terms of its interest in the personal and […]
“Broader Implications,” features the work of artist Lucia Pizzani. The exhibition showcases two bodies of work made in response to the on-going crisis in Pizzani’s home country of Venezuela. “Inventario Personal” (Personal Inventory), inspired by Anna Atkins’ pioneering book, is installed as a mural made up of cyanotypes imprinted with scarce (or completely absent) health […]
Ciara Phillips uses the discipline of printmaking to explore social concerns and develop collaborative practices. Regularly opening up her exhibitions as working print studios, she uses them as places for investigation, social action, discussion and debate. In Plymouth Phillips has made a major new installation that takes over the multiple galleries and social spaces of […]