In October 2016 artist Janette Kerr RWA travelled to the High Arctic and spent three weeks on a tall ship sailing up the coast of Svalbard from Longyearbyen to Fuglefjorden. The work in this exhibition, Arctic Air - An Absolute Difficult Beauty represents initial responses to a thunder-grey and pale-blue world - encounters with icebergs and glaciers, drifting […]

An exhibition of new installation works by Indian artist Sheela Gowda in response to Ikon’s gallery space. Sheela says the works ‘anticipate, counter or are inspired by the space to begin with; the elements could take on other variants in other spaces’. The result is a dialogue between what the artist finds in the gallery, […]

Cornelia Parker has always been attracted to the backs and undersides of things. While the front presents a conscious and recognisable face to the world, the back is often disorganised, unconscious and ultimately perhaps more honest. For Verso, Cornelia Parker has photographed the backs of hand sewn button cards that are part of the Manchester […]

This exhibition 'The View from Here' is part of Jessica Cooper's ongoing current investigation into the story of the 'red threat of fate'.

Love Life is a major commission by Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart, presented as an exhibition in three acts from 2016 to 2017. The artists have radically re-imagined the traditional seaside show Punch and Judy, transforming the characters’ puppet booth living quarters into an oversized and darkly humorous place where the ever-present threat of violence […]

Jane Austen was one of the most successful writers of the early 1800s, and her novels are still enormously popular today. To mark the bicentenary of her death, a new display at the Royal Pavilion will explore Austen’s relationship with Brighton and other coastal towns. Brighton ‘walking dress’ of 1818, courtesy of University of Sussex […]

Celebrating nature in all its glory, our new artwork collections, Walking the Wild Side have evolved with endless inspiration through exploration of the natural world: its sights, sounds, scents and emotional experiences. Artwork is presented in a variety of media and styles whilst an insight into our creative process is displayed with descriptive mood boards and […]

This is a significant new exhibition of the Salford-born photographer and social documentarian Shirley Baker (1932-2014). 'On the Beach' takes a look at holiday-makers from both Blackpool and the sun-drenched Mediterranean resort of the Côte d'Azur. The two bodies of photographs, taken five years apart in the 1970s, reflect upon these two very different seaside […]

Lara Favaretto’s exhibition, Absolutely Nothing, her largest to date in the UK, will bring together pivotal pieces spanning two decades of her practice, along with recent works and a major public commission. The Italian artist’s work addresses sculpture’s mutability and monumentality, often testing its relationship to time; failure, futility and disappearance become generative processes. As Favaretto […]

Nicola Tyson’s 2017 exhibition, A Tendency to Flock features a group of seven new paintings, embracing a range of subjects and scales. Tyson, who has been based in New York since 1989, is primarily known as a painter but has also worked with photography film, performance and the written word. Her work has continued to gain recognition […]

Discover a 40 metre hand-drawn wall hanging, which explores space travel. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and the anonymous artists who depicted Halley’s Comet in 1066, Space Tapestry: Faraway Missions is a large-scale wall hanging made by artist Aleksandra Mir and 25 collaborators, aged 18–24. From the unfathomable distances between us and the planets that form our solar system, to our […]

Tapestry: Here & Now celebrates the vibrancy of tapestry-weaving today. The exhibition brings together the work of international makers to showcase the most innovative approaches to the art of contemporary tapestry. Alongside British tapestry weavers, the exhibition features artists from Australia, Norway, Latvia, Japan and the USA with over 20 artists represented, including Erin Riley, Caron […]

Sarah Spackman paints things we see everyday: flowers from the garden, pots used in the kitchen, fruit from the allotment. There are many ways of looking at things - we can see objects in the normal sense of the word, as things existing remotely from ourselves or we can experience things through sight as if […]

Cathy Miles makes quirky, three-dimensional drawings and sculptures depicting birds and everyday objects out of wire and found objects.  Cathy's work exploits the boundaries between the 2 and 3 dimensional through the use of line while she captures the essence of her subjects, as she blends fact and fiction to create pieces that encourage the […]

Margaret Foreman RBA was born in Malaya and brought up in Guyana. She trained at Goldsmiths College of Art. Her Still Life pictures are taken from an ever growing collection of household items which inspire memories both real and imagined. She is also known for her portraits which have won several prizes.

The exhibition, Liberation of Colour examines the key creative periods of this significant British artist, Winifred Nicholson with a particular emphasis on the way she treated light and colour. It brings together an important selection of works created throughout her career, including her visit to Pill creek on the Fal, and features landscapes, still life, portraits, experiments […]

‘Dreamers Awake’, is a group show at White Cube Bermondsey which explores the enduring influence of Surrealism through the work of more than fifty women artists. The exhibition brings together sculpture, painting, collage, photography and drawing from the 1930s to the present day and includes work by well-known Surrealist figures as well as contemporary and […]

To create her inspired designs, Mathilde Nivet starts with a sheet of paper, working with this everyday material to make the unending sculptural shapes and patterns that form her poetic work. The delicate results require an intense process of drawing, cutting and gluing before they are assembled and arranged. Using this method for Birds, Nivet […]