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 […]
Arrowcut Slab (colliding not thriving) is a new temporary public artwork by Rosie Grace Ward consisting of two new site specific works for the annual railway bridge commission on Southend High Street. Drawing inspiration from Southend’s Anglo Saxon history, each panel – one decorative, one figurative, depict both sides of an intricately carved slab of stone. Digitalised […]
‘Of Course You Are’ the title of Diane Dal-Pra’s exhibition, is the response to a preceding question, the demand for approval and the response an affirmation to the subject delivered despite the masking of each large scale portrait. Dal-Pra’s principal concern is that of identity, the choices we make in the presentation of our bodies to […]
In Touch, the third exhibition in the gallery’s virtual space, presents work of multiple processes: painting; drawing; batik; photography; video; lithography are explored in the works’ subjects and their conception. Sola Olulode, Alix Marie, Jane Hayes Greenwood, Patricia & Marie-France Martin, Mandy Franca, Paulette Phillips and Charlotte Edey
This exhibition celebrates the remarkable influence of women gallerists in post-war Paris. At a time when it was still confoundingly hard for women artists to get established, in 1951 one in three galleries in Paris were actually run by women. Often referred to as the “Papesses de l’art abstrait”, loosely translated into "high priestesses of […]
The exhibition, The Abstract Truth of Things features drawings by Charmaine Watkiss and paintings by Andrew Pierre Hart, plus the feature of a soundscape. The lockdown in the UK created an opportunity for the artists to meet and engage on social media platforms where they conducted a series of discussions to develop the meeting point of […]
This exhibition reflects on a key area of history and reviews one hundred and twenty-five years of exhibiting women artists. It continues the spirit of our Modern Masters series and allows for the celebration of the pioneering, persistent, creative women artists at the end of the 19th century, and all the curators, gallerists and individual talents who […]
‘In My Room’, is Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings’ exhibition, which brings together film, fresco painting and works on paper. As a new body of work, ‘In My Room’ develops the artists’ enquiry into the politics, histories and aesthetics of queer spaces and culture. This enquiry builds on their travels across the UK whilst making ‘UK […]