Charlotte Hodes' newly commissioned artwork takes the form of a 12 metre long ceramic frieze consisting of 120 individual wall-mounted ceramic pieces, arranged to create a single image that combines elegant historic patterns with contemporary and digital imagery. To be read from left to right, a female figure wanders across the ware through a landscape of […]
An exhibition of Ann Oram's paintings.
Widely associated with a re-emergence of the figurative in contemporary painting, Lisa Yuskavage has developed her own genre of portraiture in which lavish, erotic, angelic and at times grotesque characters are cast within fantastical landscapes or domestic spaces. Seamlessly blending contemporary cultural imagery and classical pictorial language, Yuskavage marshals color as a conduit for complex psychological […]
Everything Flows brings together work by emerging and established Sheffield-based artists working with painting, sculpture, video, photography and sound. The works are each united, in different ways, by a sense of ‘flow’, from choreographed movement and kinetic motion, through to the fluctuations of narrative, and the movement of international finance and migration. Curated by Jeanine Griffin, the exhibition […]
Susan Aldworth’s new exhibition The Dark Self was inspired by her research into sleep during her three year residency at the University of York working with neuroscientist Professor Miles Whittington and art historian Professor Michael White.
A collaboration between Drop City and Arcade, London on CHOREOGRAPHY, an exhibition with a series of accompanying events, organised and complied by Paul Becker. The exhibition takes as its starting point the work of the French writer/director Marguerite Duras and in particular, two of her films: India Song (1975) and Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977). In both films, as in many […]
Known for her use of bright and contrasting colour, Barbara Rae’s paintings combine the influence of landscape and travel with painterly abstraction. A sense of place has always been important to Rae - in particular, the human traces and patterns of history that are left on a landscape. At the same time, the structure of […]
Come and explore this collection of sculptural works by Hannah Northam ARBSA. Her pieces are informed by the relationship between the human form and the compelling forces of the natural world.
The 2017 show of Artists of Fame & Promise, includes key works by all of these artists and many other established names such as Sir Peter Blake, Maggi Hambling, Marj Bond, […]
Kath Thompson’s bold, brightly coloured paintings take inspiration from the history of painting, modern global politics, and the world that she sees around her. When asked what inspires her paintings, Thompson said: ‘My work is about things, people and places in the world. I am influenced by painting from the ancient past as well as the […]
Celebrated as the most famous female fashion designer working in London in the 1960s, Mary Quant dressed an international clientele of the young and hip, creating her famous Chelsea look. Quant’s designs exemplified a shift in fashion’s focus and inspiration to a younger consumer and was typified by simply-styled tunics, short pleated skirts and bold […]
Discover a brand new installation, Look!Look!Look! in our Walled Garden from internationally renowned artists Heather and Ivan Morison. Taking their inspiration from how the Harley's enjoyed their garden in the Georgian era, you can see the garden in a totally new light with this brilliant piece of artwork.
An exhibition of an extensive selection of screenprints, monotypes and etchings by Barbara Rae RA throughout June - August, which have been carefully selected by the artist, and coincides with the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Fahreinissa Zeid's vibrant abstract paintings are a synthesis of Islamic, Byzantine, Arab and Persian influences fused with European approaches to abstraction. Many of her abstract works are monumental and demand attention.
Lyn Armitage's passions have centred around flowers and colour, which has informed and guided her artistic life. She is instinctively drawn to watercolour as a medium, and loves its fluid and anarchistic tendencies which challenge artistic sensibility, and bring a tension to her work. In this exhibition A Different Perspective, Lyn shows us her understanding […]
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 […]