Reyes McNamara's work aims to challenge incomplete identities constructed by two-dimensional ideas of Latino culture. Her work translates the Mexican American or Chicana identity through her explorations of language as a territory and space to challenge ideas of authenticity within a diaspora. Combining sculpture, painting and video work in the exhibition 'Nowhere Else', McNamara investigates key texts […]
Romanian artist Geta Bratescu's vivid practice comprises performance, textiles, collage, print-making, installation and film. Living and working in Bucharest throughout Ceausescu's totalitarian regime, Bratescu embraced the studio as an autonomous space, free from economic or political influences. Concerned with identity and dematerialisation, Bratescu conjures questions of ethics and felinity through her longstanding curiosity in mythical and […]
Kate Evan’s work uses delicate drawings and watercolour washes with large areas of negative space. This produces compositions that reflect the richness of the subject matter. Her work creates a feeling of isolation and space, which depicts the sheer wilderness of these locations. Kate works in mixed media; using a combination of watercolour and pencil. […]
Anita Klein is now a hugely successful international artist known for her paintings and prints which celebrate the small poignant moments we all tend to overlook within our family & home.
The work of Andrea Luka Zimmerman explores the impact of globalisation, power structures, militarism and denied histories. Common Ground, Zimmerman’s first UK solo exhibition, celebrates strategies of social and cultural resistance and proposes new ways of living together in the face of a threatened idea of the ‘common good'.
This major exhibition celebrates the bold and colourful work of one of Britain’s most important and internationally renowned abstract artists. Featuring major paintings from across the artist’s career, this is the largest exhibition of Gillian Ayres’s work ever seen in the UK. In the 1950s, Ayres was a pioneer of abstract painting, making work on a […]
Jenny Pockley’s vibrant contrast of shadow and colour offers hauntingly beautiful representations, which take on a hazy dreamlike quality. Vast skies swamp architectural landmarks in shrouds of rich, luminous colour, where shimmering light or beautifully smooth pigment applied over a gesso ground evoke the weight of rich emotional metaphor. Indeed, the artist’s poignant use of […]
The exhibition Linear Edge reveals the inspiration behind Dorset artist Vanessa Gardiner's chosen subject: the coastal beauty of the British Isles.
A solo exhibtion of Christina Mackie's work.
Developed during a six week residency in Kunstraum, Swiss artist Sophie Jung's Producing My Credentials folds writing and performance within a complex environment, where precious items from her vast archive of made and found stuff, watercolour drawings of hermit crabs, papier maché tubes, collected cream jugs, left-over lamp shade carcasses, discarded building material and organic detritus sit […]
Clare Kenny works with a variety of materials such as found objects, building materials, neon and photography. Through subtle gestures and assemblages, and drawing on her own history, memories and experience, Kenny frequently adapts a personal story, proposing a new narrative and exploring the shifting line between fact and fiction. For her first institutional solo […]
A celebration of over 80 years of making Linocuts. A wonderful selection of beautiful original prints, by Anita Klein
Sarah van Niekerk RWA is an acknowledged expert in The Art of Wood Engraving. She has lived in the country for most of her life so Sarah’s work of intensely observed landscapes, rural pursuits, and flora and fauna, is continually inspired by and reflects its seasonal nature. Her style was greatly influenced by Hermes and the resulting […]
This is Annette Messager’s first solo exhibition at this London Gallery in London since her 2009 Hayward Gallery exhibition, The Messengers. Avec et sans raisons, brings together works that display a diversity of forms: small assemblages of objects, acrylic washes, textile works in the form of installations, and wallpaper. As is common in Messager’s practice, […]
This is the first solo exhibition of Harumi Yamaguchi outside of Asia. A leading name in the world of Japanese advertising, she pioneered the highly dramatic but elusively flat airbrush aesthetic closely associated with commercial illustration. Yamaguchi’s practice places her in the vanguard of new painterly practices and as a celebrated documenter of an emerging […]
Philomène Hoël's Keep It Longer is a site-specific project which will occupy Gallery S O's two spaces for two weeks with two shows. This will include two screens, two curators and two texts.
The 2016-17 winner of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, Beth Collar, opens her exhibition'Seriously' marking the end of her year long tenure of the award on 20th April 2017. Collar works in sculpture, drawing, video and text. The main method she employs is an appropriated form of experimental archaeology, a sort of role-play or drag, which […]
You don’t have to believe me is a new exhibition by Paola Pivi, in which she presents new and various kinds of works, playing with the viewer’s perception of alien and familiar, fake and factual. The Italian artist is know for her whimsical creations, that encompass different mediums, varying from large-scale installations to photography, sculpture and […]
Lain fallow for too long, is Hannah Brown’s solo exhibition gathering a new series of paintings and a large-scale sculpture. The title refers to the site depicted in Brown’s paintings, a 3.25 acre area on the outskirts of Crediton, a market town in mid Devon. The land is identified as Well Parks in official papers, […]
A solo exhibition of Jutta Koether's work.