This exhibition explores the relationship between Dame Paula Rego’s monumental painting and the 15th-century altarpiece and National Gallery staff that inspired it. Rego’s ‘Crivelli’s Garden’, took its inspiration from an […]

Angharad Pearce Jones has worked in steel for over 30 years and in this show, she re-works an installation originally constructed in her own home during Lockdown. The work, IMPACT […]

A retrospective of Dame Mary Quant, the celebrated fashion designer.   The exhibition, Fashion Revolutionary, features over 100 garments, accessories, cosmetics and photographs drawn from the V&A’s extensive collections, Dame Mary Quant’s archive and, following a public appeal, many private collections.

Watch, explore and get creative in Valerie Asiimwe Amani’s space of care using poetic prompts. Reminisce about our collective story so far through a new commission by Deborah Pill, and an archive exploring our history of working with local communities and partners in Boundary Encounters. Share in our future by exploring prototypes of exciting upcoming improvements […]

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Laura Knight was commissioned by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee to go to Nuremberg, to record the trials of Nazi war crimes, which she did between January and April 1946. We explore this period of her career through two major preparatory studies for the painting, on permanent […]

Proximity, is a two-person exhibition that brings together the work of Annie Trevorah and Liberty Quinn to explore the transformative effects of closeness, both physical and metaphorical. While Trevorah and Quinn use distinct aesthetics and materials, creating both unity and dissonance, their practices share a mutual fascination with proximising the Anthropocene.

This exhibition spans the last 10 years of Ellie Davies' photographic work in woodlands around the UK, and most excitingly her new Chalk Streams series, and a brand new triptych.

The presentation of a major retrospective exhibition of Dame Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021). The exhibition covers the full spectrum of Blackadder’s career with works in oil, watercolour, print and tapestry, plus […]

This exhibition celebrates the 80th year of the internationally acclaimed ceramicist Bodil Manz.  She is known for her ultra-thin, distinctive porcelain cylindrical forms, anchored by bold, geometric abstractions in a style evocative of Russian Suprematism. The artist has created a new series for The Gallery, which also includes five mixed media wall pieces.

Under a Lilac-bleeding Star, is the title of the exhibition by Larissa Lockshin. Shifting between painting, drawing and sculpture, Larissa Lockshin’s recent practice centres around her abstracted mixed media paintings on unprimed satin. Gestural motifs such as flowers, stars and leaves are created in confectionary like bursts of abstracted colour, and often completed with details […]

The Pavilion, by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, is an exhibition inspired by the history of the site.  She explores how the public engages with archives and artefacts, and their presentation in museum spaces. The Pavilion is a wooden structure comprising a promenade of interrelated viewing booths reminiscent of Victorian ‘cabinets of curiosities’, often considered precursors to museums.  […]

Ana Barriga’s paintings are considered to be “pretty and raffish,” containing “bits of reality that no longer mean anything,” such as plastic figurines, tchotchkes, porcelain doo-dads and bits of bric-a-brac.  Items she encounters on regular visits to flea markets, souks, bazaars, rastros and marchés au puces. These she “sources,” “breaks,” “paints,” “manipulates” and otherwise “transforms” […]

Jacqueline Stanley ARCA HRHA (1928-2022), 'A Retrospective', which includes new works from the estate covering Jackie’s entire career.  Along-side the focus is on women artists connected with the history of Rye Art Gallery, and contemporary responses to the archives and collection by Geraldine Swayne.

This exhibition, Scottish Women Artists: 250 years of Challenging Perception, celebrates the work of women artists who challenged and shaped the contemporary art scene in Scotland.   In an era when women lead Scotland’s government, galleries and art schools, it is easy to forget the prejudices and barriers their predecessors faced. These latest tapestries are shown […]

"Adam, and by extension all men, were made from clay. They were therefore hard and strong. Eve, because she was made from Adam’s body, was weaker and softer, but that […]

Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal film, the psychological thriller Vertigo, was released on 9th May 1958. 65 years later, Vertigo is widely regarded as Hitchcock’s greatest achievement, its reputation and significance only building as the time passes. To […]

An exhibition of new sculptures by Letha Wilson, in which she explores the boundaries, intersections and potential of photography and sculpture, synthesizing the seemingly contradictory elements of each medium through […]