Intimate, casual, direct and personal, Alice Neel’s portraits exist as an unparalleled chronicle of New York personalities – both famous and unknown. A woman with a strong social conscience and equally strong left-wing beliefs, Neel moved from the relative comfort of Greenwich Village to Spanish Harlem in 1938 in pursuit of “the truth”. There she […]
Brooklyn based artist Joyce Pensato presents an ambitious new body of paintings, drawings and installations, highlighting her artistic development over the last two years. The dynamic movement of line, form […]
Jorinde Voigt fuses music and visual art in Song of the Earth, a monumental new series of drawings in eight chapters. The latest work in the series, Both Sides Now will be shown as part of Voigt’s exhibition at Lisson Gallery London, following presentations at Hamburger Bahnhofin Germany, Kunstraum Innsbruck in Austria and Manifesta 11 in […]
Ida Appleborg presents exhibits of her work that are called Mercy Hospital.
A retrospective of the work of the American artist Lee Lozano (1930-1999.)
Pioneering British photographer Shirley Baker (1932-2014) is thought to be the only woman practicing street photography in Britain during the post-war era. Baker’s humanist documentary work received little attention throughout her sixty-five years career. This exhibition Women & Children and Loitering Men, includes previously unseen colour photographs by Baker alongside black and white images and ephemera […]
Lara Favaretto’s exhibition Absolutely Nothing,is her largest to date in the UK. It brings 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 […]
“For the paintings in this exhibition I have used a combination of plants (and insects) originating from both Europe and Central America. I have dyed and mordant-printed calico for the backgrounds, and painted on top using plant pigments that I have made with both European and Mesoamerican technologies.” An exhibition of new works by Sigrid […]
An exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Prunella Clough (1919-1999). Prunella Clough is widely appreciated as one of the most significant British artists of the post-war period. Her work consists of paintings, collages, drawings and reliefs which demonstrate the characteristic development of her work through her various influences – notably cubism and European […]
Jean Cooke RA (1927-2008) was an artist with a profoundly personal view of the world who found joy and inspiration in the everyday. She has been described as having created some of the most fiercely original and moving self-portraits in Modern British Art, and is critically acclaimed as a colourist. The exhibition, Delight in the […]
This exhibition Machines Restrict their Movement, brings together drawings and sculptures made between 1951 and 1985 to explore Ghisha Koenig’s commitment to sculpting industrial labour in South-East England around St. Mary Cray, one of the first housing estates built outside of London
Catherine Farish is an award-winning artist and is known as one of Québec’s most innovative contemporary printmakers. A visit to Salisbury Plain in 1992 left an intense impression on Farish, inspiring her to create a series of prints which won critical acclaim in Canada, and have since been exhibited across the world. This Homage à Salisbury Plain […]
This exhibition focuses on the themes of Metamorphosis and transformation in Ana Mendieta's work, from her early performances at the University of Iowa in the 1970s, to her later sculptural work in the first half of the 1980s. This thematic focus includes groundbreaking work in performance and photography, drawings and leaf sculptures as well as […]
Catching Sight is a new body of work by British artist Rachel Goodyear. Goodyear is renowned for her drawing-based practice which hints at a world of the unconscious mind. Her cast of characters, sourced from old magazines, books and anyonymous photographs, oftern appear within claustrophobic spaces or are set against heavy and brooding washed of ink […]
Soheila Sokhanvari is an Iranian-born artist whose multidisciplinary work Heart of Glass weaves layers of political histories with bizarre, humorous and mysterious narratives that are then left to the viewer’s own sensitivity to complete. She is drawn to traumas that linger in the collective consciousness or cause mass amnesia, and yet resist conventional representation. Sokhanvari is also […]
Phyllida Barlow has been making large-scale sculptural works for 5 decades, as well as being an inspirational teacher to many young artists at the Slade School of Art. This exhibition brings together works from the ARTIST ROOMS collection, including untitled:upturnedhouse, 2 (2012) alongside other sculptures and a selection of drawings from throughout her career. One of the art […]
This performance by Erika Voigt is called “Noon at Weed Beach”, with Artists, Performers, and Dancers.
This exhibition demonstrates how classical and traditional figurative portraiture continues to inspire artists today, and remains relevant within contemporary artistic discourse. Reportrait, presents thirteen artists who have reimagined historical sources, altered or disrupted typical notions of how the portrait is defined, or used an image or reproduction as a starting point to create something new. Exhibiting […]
A Group show with Eileen Cooper, Nigel Hall, Chris Orr and Alison Wilding
A solo exhibition of Eileen Quinlan's work.