Ruth Beloe @ The Old Fire Engine House, Ely
The Old Fire Engine House, ElyRuth Beloe specialises in portrait and figurative drawing and sculpting using the 'sight-size' technique.
Ruth Beloe specialises in portrait and figurative drawing and sculpting using the 'sight-size' technique.
This major retrospective highlights the abstract sculptures of Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová. The exhibition starts in the 1960s, when Bartuszová created her own experimental method of casting plaster by hand. Inspired by playing with her young daughter, she found she could create pure abstract forms by pouring plaster into rubber balloons. She would shape the sculpture […]
The exhibition coincides with the publication of Celia Paul’s memoir, Self-Portrait, and the release of a documentary film about the artist by Jake Auerbach. The exhibition, focuses on the two key tenets of her work: portraiture and landscape. Alongside a body of new paintings, curated by Hilton Als. These works address the abiding themes of Paul’s […]
Annabel Pope is a leading wildlife artist who travels the world to visualize and witness wildlife in its natural environment, which is the inspiration for all her work.
Vivian Suter’s work is inspired by the tropical landscape of Panajachel in Guatemala, where she lives and works. The environment plays an important role in the making and development of her work. She leaves her artwork outdoors to be exposed to the elements so that natural substances, such as volcanic and botanical matter, are incorporated […]
This major exhibition, Sirens consists of an important range of historical works together with three new video works presented for the first time. Over the past year Nan Goldin has been working on a significant new digital slideshow titled Memory Lost (2019), recounting a life lived through a lens of drug addiction. This captivating, beautiful and haunting journey […]
Jessi Reaves, Going out in style, presents works that are contradictory, oscillating between sculpture and furniture while never quite fitting squarely into either category. A piece of fabric resembling a slipcover, typically intended as a protective sheath, is here gaping with holes and draped over a deep rust-coloured container; wooden salad bowls are placed as […]
An innovative exhibition mixing historic objects with new work by artist Charlotte Hodes and poet Deryn Rees-Jones. In a set of three interlinked spaces, the exhibition interprets the lives and works of women writers and their ‘errant’ voices across three centuries. Relieved of the narratives of genre and time; text, image, and animation explore aspects […]
The exhibition spans Judy Chicago's fifty-year career, from her early actions in the desert in the 1970s, to her most recent series, The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction (2013–16), which has not been previously shown outside of the US. Judy Chicago explores her work from the perspective of the human condition, connecting birth and death with the emotional […]
The Archive hosts a display of materials from, and relating to, the Her Noise Archive. Her Noise was initiated by Lina Džuverović and Anne Hilde Neset in 2001, with an ambition to investigate music and sound histories in relation to gender, and to create a lasting resource and a starting point for new investigations. In […]
During the 1930s, Dora Maar’s provocative photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism. Her eye for the unusual also translated to her commercial photography, including fashion and advertising, as well as to her social documentary projects. In Europe’s increasingly fraught political climate, Maar signed her name to numerous left-wing manifestos – a radical gesture for a woman at that time. In middle […]
Hilary Lloyd’s new exhibition Car Park features a body of work – spanning video, painting and installation – in which she captures the sights and sounds of an urban landscape. Most of the videos in the exhibition were shot in Thamesmead in southeast London, close to her studio. Focusing on small, seemingly incidental details (a car […]
Selma Parlour is known for her oil paintings that look as though they are drawn, dyed, or printed. Activities for the Abyss showcases the artist’s soft films of luminescent colour, her delicately-rendered pencil-like oil-made lines and sumptuously refined matt surfaces, her diagrammatic approach that stresses painting’s two-dimensionality, her units of colour inlaid as though through a […]
Nobody axed you to is an exhibition featuring series of new commissions by Jessie Makinson. The exhibition comprises large-scale oil paintings on canvas, a painted and carved Paravent, an in-situ wall-installation and […]
Paintings by Helen Johnson that represent contemporary issues, based on the spasming of stock market graphs; fragments of texts from bygone days of pre-mechanical mining and logging; desert islands; and the layout of the Australian Parliament House.
'After Euphoria', is an exhibition by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, which reflects on subjectivity and individual identity as forms of self-determination. Through painting, she explores how selfhood and personal experience – especially love and loss – marks of existence – constitute a vital and highly personal process of self-historicization vis-à-vis identity formation. 'After Euphoria' draws heavily on the vicissitudes of […]
In her exhibition P E R I O D, Fiona Banner Aka the Vanity Press reflects on three years of uncertainty and suspended animation for the British Isles. The central concern of her practice is the exploration of language and communication, with the focus on its breakdown. In this exhibition she uses figurative painting, and presents […]
Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance is an ambitious retrospective of the Portuguese artist’s work that brings politics to the fore. Spanning Rego’s career from the 1960s through to 2012, the […]
Jacqueline de Jong’s exhibition Resilience(s) focusses on paintings made in the 1980s and early 1990s, and brings together key works from her Upstairs Downstairs and Paysages Dramatiques series. Exuberant, sensual, violent […]
Showing and Seeing is an exhibition of select works that presents Candida Höfer's iconic images of libraries and theatres, from locations in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico and Russia. They have been brought together […]