The Making of Husbands is a major exhibition that brings together works by Christina Ramberg (1946–1995), her contemporaries and younger artists to explore the urgency with which her work speaks to the current debate around gender and identity. Artists include: Alexandra Bircken, Gaylen Gerber, Allen Jones, Konrad Klapheck, Ghislaine Leung, Hans Christian Lotz, Senga Nengudi, Ana […]
The exhibition Common Thread brings together a group of artists: Jodie Carey, Mark Corfield-Moore, Ayan Farah, David Murphy, Isobel Napier, Amy Revier, Sophie Rowley and Katharine Swailes, each persons work focuses on the history of textile technology and design, and their shifting values for people across place and time. They explore the ways which certain textile producing technologies are still in effect, while […]
Alice Neel's artistic works are presented in, There’s still another I see, an exhibition that focuses for the first time on pairings of Neel’s paintings of the same sitter.
Ella Kruglyanskaya displays her deeply original streak— part-rebellious, part-classicist—and continues her focus on the gendered and expressionistic histories of painting albeit with a more personal and introspective drive. The exhibition takes the form of a continuous collage in two parts across both gallery spaces. Each includes a profusion of works on canvas, egg tempera panels […]
Ewa Juszkiewicz's portraits recall paintings by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Joseph Van Lerius, and Joseph Wright, sending us into a world that is both classical and surrealist. By covering female faces and displaying their transfiguration, Juszkiewicz revitalizes Art History through a unique language. In her paintings, the sitter’s poses are familiar, but the […]
Sandra Monterosso's work brings deep-rooted indigenous culture and belief out of the margins and into the contemporary art canon. She explores her ancestry and the boundaries of her mixed identity through physical references to tradition and memory, which underlines that Mayan culture, community and practice exist today. Dyed in Wool showcases her recent work in textiles, focusing […]
Cathie Pilkington's work engages passionately and critically with the canonical history of figurative sculpture. Her work crosses borders of traditional, modern and contemporary idioms, and combines intensively modelled and painted sculptures within immersive installations comprising a diverse array of props, materials and studio furniture. Her site responsive installations are balanced ambivalently between chaos and precision and […]
Celia Paul’s art is founded on deep connections, and in My Studio, paintings of the past few months, the artist focusses on her home and studio, a place that sits at the very heart of Paul’s enquiry into the complexities of interior and exterior life, constancy and change. Subjects include its familiar fixtures and sparse furnishings, transfigured […]
Dolly Verity's exhibition, Escape the Flames, explores the devastating ways rainforests in Indonesia are being cleared for palm oil plantations. The collective works aim to bring awareness as well as expose the effects that deforestation is having on the environment.
Angela Heisch’s paintings are composed of repeated motifs, curving forms, and delicate dark lines that draw inspiration from organic bodies, patterns in nature, and architecture. The artist’s abstract language seeks to capture the sensation of her observations, and her enigmatic forms encounter one another on the canvas, creating tension or waves of energy though interlocking […]
‘Into the Wild' reflects three quite different, intense experiences of the High Arctic and various rewilding locations in the UK. West Coast Greenland in Autumn and Svalbard, mid-summer, 600 miles from the North Pole. Paintings by Claire Harkess offer a window into our world; fleeting glimpses through a porthole, her watercolours offer a clarity which is […]
Joanne Thompson presents a new collection celebrating 25 years as a practising jeweller. The focus is on her iconic chain mail technique. She experiments with scale, weight, form and texture of the chains, making sculptural forms, necklaces, bracelets and earrings which are voluminous yet light, tactile and extremely durable. She is fascinated by unit construction techniques […]
This digital presentation, ‘Louise Bourgeois, Self Portrait,’ invites visitors to explore ‘Self Portrait’ (2009) in great depth through a series of archival images and films, expanding and deepening our understanding of Bourgeois’s significance in 20th century art.
This online exhibition explores the importance of our sense of place. It includes images from a project completed by the artist before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic alongside a suite of recent photographs made during the lockdown. The exhibition, Still Life, showcases Annie Leibovitz’s singular ability to combine portraiture and photojournalism with profound humanism and […]
Sophie Taeuber-Arp asserted art’s relevance to daily life, working across disciplines, from works on paper, painting, textiles, and sculpture, to design and architecture, as well as dance and performance. In 1915 she started to create colored pen drawings, gouaches and tapestries known as vertical-horizontal compositions. With these works she became a pioneer of constructivist art. […]
This online exhibition is a special selection of Maria Lassnig Me's works on paper and canvases between 1987 and 2005. It explores this preoccupation with the physical presence of the body – a concept the artist coined as ‘body awareness’. Taking its title from an eponymous self-portrait painted in the 1990s, this presentation, Encircled by a […]
An installation view by Marijke De Roover, I Hope When This Chapter is done I will be able to say I learned something.
A collection of flower paintings on canvas from Anne-Marie Butlin's own garden.
Martha Jungwirth's exhibition centres around a new body of large-scale, oil on paper paintings mounted on linen. These works continue to develop Jungwirth’s expressive language that combines the haptic physicality of brushstrokes, hand gestures, paint splashes and splatters with a sensitive restraint, often leaving large sections of her brown paper empty and allowing the residual oil of her […]
This show, Together, presents a group of Sikelela Owen's most recent paintings following her residency at the British School at Rome. Sikelela paints the people that give her a sense of belonging, ranging from family and friends to other Londoners in her community. It is a human landscape, the kind that is reproduced endlessly online to […]